Ph.D. degree in HPSC
- 2021-2030
2024
Cade Marcotte
Current Position: Assistant Professor on Tenure Track at New Saint Andrews College, Moscow Idaho
Advisor: Amit Hagar
Dissertation Title: The Anisotropy of Time: A Logical Condition for Irreversible Processes2023
Arnet, Evan
Current Position: Associate Research Development Specialist, Proposal Development Services, Indiana University
Advisor: Jutta Schickore & Sander Gliboff
Dissertation Title: Entrenchment and Reflection in Science: Three Studies from Animal Behavior ResearchLi, Dan
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd & Alessandro Flammini
Dissertation Title: Frontiers in Climate Science: Inquiries into Methods and DataJackson, Becca
Current Position: Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany
Advisor: Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: Measuring “Well”: Clinical Measuring Practices and Philosophy of MeasurementSlattery, Justin
Advisor: Amit Hagar & Peter Todd
Dissertation Title: Minimal Models of Animal Movement and Decision-making during ForagingRuangsakul, Siwarak (Eric)
Advisor: Amit Hagar
Dissertation Title: The Quest for Autonomous Scientific Discovery with Artificial Scientists2022
Reynolds, Sarah J.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Earth-Space Science, University of Indianapolis
Advisor: Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: Engaging Experiments: U.S. Science Education Before the Laboratory MethodHu, Xiaoqian (Lara)
Current Position: Lecturer, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Advisor: Amit Hagar
Dissertation Title: The Principle of the Identity of Indiscernible (PII), Determinism, and Locality: An Example of Organizing PrinciplesO'Loughlin, Ryan
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy at Queens College (CUNY), School of Social Sciences
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: The Role of Model Intercomparisons in Climate Science2021
Allen, Meagan
Current Position: Cain Postdoctoral Fellow, Science History Institute
Advisor: William R. Newman
Dissertation Title: Roger Bacon's Medical Alchemy: Medieval Pharmacology and the Prolongatio Vitae- 2011-2020
2020
Bamballi, Nicolas
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: The Arabic Version of Galen's De elementis ex Hippocratis sententia 1-52020
Grauvogel, Kate
Current Position: Proposal Development Specialist, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, IUPUI
Advisor: Sander Gliboff, Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: A Gendered History of Pathology: Reproduction, Hormones, and Blood Clots, 1784 -19692020
Mirza, Ali
Advisor: Colin Allen, Sander Gliboff
Dissertation Title: Living in Stone: The History and Philosophy of Behavior, Morphology, and Ecology in the Fossil Record2020
Zappettini, Shane
Advisor: Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: The Ethological Constitution of The Embodied Mind2019
ChoGlueck, Chris
Current Position: Assistant Professor, New Mexico Tech
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: Drug Facts and Value-laden Labels: Science, Regulation, and Reproductive Health at the FDA2018
Best, Nicholas
Advisor: Jordi Cat
Dissertation Title: The Chemical Revolution as Scientific, Political and Semantic Revolution2017
Inglehart, Ashley
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and His Contemporaries2015
Coko, Klodian
Current Position: Professor of Philosophy at Ben Gurion University of the Negev Advisor: Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: The Structure and Epistemological Implications of Triangulations in Empirical Science2015
Hyslop, Scott
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: The Mathematics of Collision and the Collision of Mathematics in the 17th Century2014
Baker, Tawrin
Current Position: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: Color Cosmos Oculus: Vision, Color, and the Eye in Jacopo Zabarella and Hieronymus Fabricius ab Acquapendente2014
Friesen, Stephen
Advisors: Jordi Cat and Jutta Schickore
Dissertation Title: Evolution, Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology: A Study of Place2014
Klein, Joel
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: Chymical Medicine, Corpuscularism and Controversy: A Study of Daniel Sennert's Works and Letters2014
Otsuka, Jun
Current Position: Professor, Philosophy Department, Tokyo, Japan
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: The Causal Structure of Evolutionary Theory2013
Shotwell, Allen R.
Current Position: Academic Dean/Professor, Ivy Tech Community College
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: The Revival of Anatomical Practices and Techniques in the Renaissance2012
Ragland, Evan
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Notre Dame
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: Experimenting with Chemical Bodies: Science, Medicine, and Philosophy in the Long History of Reinier de Graaf’s Experiments on Digestion, from Harvey to Bernard2011
Ekholm, Karin
Current Position: Assistant Professor at St. Johns, Annapolis, MD
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: Generation and its Problems: Harvey, Highmore, and their Contemporaries2011
Fiss, Andrew
Current Position: Assistant Professor at Michigan Tech
Advisor: Sander Gliboff
Dissertation Title: Professing Mathematics: Science and Education in Nineteenth-Century America2011
Glass, Larry
Current Position: Independent Scholar – Consulting on Newton Project
Advisor: Amit Hagar
Dissertation Title: Constructing the Principles: Method and Metaphysics in the Process of Theoretical Physics2011
Goodrich, Grant
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor at the Citadel
Advisor: Colin Allen
Dissertation Title: On The Attribution of Concepts to Animals2011
Pastorino, Cesare
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge
Zentrum für Wissensgeschichte, Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin
Advisor: William Newman
Dissertation Title: Weighing Experience: Francis Bacon, The Inventions Of The Mechanical Arts, and The Emergence Of Modern Experiment- 2001-2010
2010
Karaca, Koray
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Advisor: Jordi Cat
Dissertation Title: Historical and Conceptual Foundations of the Higher Dimensional Unification Program in Physics2010
Klein, Rebecca Willis
Advisor: Dror Wahrman
Dissertation Title: Amid Holy sites and Ancient Marvels: Science and Empire in the Near East, c. 1650-17902010
Valles, Sean
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: Explaining the Evolution of Common Genetic Disease2008
Hood, Brian
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of West Florida
Advisor: Colin Allen
Dissertation Title: Latent Variable Realism in Psychometrics2007
Fagan, Melinda
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Rice University
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: Objectivity in practice: integrative social epistemology of scientific inquiry2006
Lee, Jeongmin (Jude)
Current Position: Independent Scholar
Advisor: Jordi Cat
Dissertation Title: Bohr vs. Bohm: Interpreting Quantum Theory through the Philosophical Tradition2005
Abidin, Zainal
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Science and Metaphysics: A Methodological Investigation2005
Schloegel, Judith
Current Position: Independent Scholar
Advisor: Sander Gliboff
Dissertation Title: Intimate Biology: Herbert Spencer Jennings, Tracy Sonneborn and the Career of American Protozoan Genetics2005
Adamson, Matthew
Current Position: Assistant Professor, McDaniel College, Budapest; Editorial Assistant, The Hungarian Quarterly, Budapest
Advisor: James Capshew
Dissertation Title: Commissariat of the Atom: The Expansion of the French Nuclear Complex, 1945–19602004
Murray, Narisara
Current Position: Independent Scholar in Cambodia
Advisor: Thomas Gieryn
Dissertation Title: Lives of the Zoo: Charismatic Animals in the Social Worlds of the Zoological Gardens of London 1850-18972003
Winther, Rasmus
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
Dissertation Title: Formal Biology and Compositional Biology as Two Kinds of Biological Theorizing2003
Howard, Nicole
Current Position: Associate Professor, Eastern Oregon University
Advisor: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Dissertation Title: Christiaan Huygens: The Construction of Texts and Audiences2003
Domski, Mary
Current Position: Professor, University of New Mexico
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Geometry and Experimental Method in Locke, Newton and Kant2003
Daniel, Dane
Current Position: Associate Professor, Wright State University
Advisor: William R. Newman
Dissertation Title: Paracelsus' Astronomia Magna (1537/38): Bible-Based Science and the Religious Roots of the Scientific Revolution2002
Borrello, Mark
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards and the History of Group Selection Theory2002
Medynski, Thomas
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Ivy Tech Community College, Madison, IN
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Zeeman Topologies and the Causal Theory of Spacetime2002
Mylott, Anne
Current Position: Independent Scholar – Monroe Hospital. Bloomington, IN
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The Roots of Cell Theory in Sap, Spores, and Schleiden2002
Tanona, Scott
Current Position: Associate Professor, Kansas State University
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: From Correspondence to Complementarity: The Emergence of Bohr's Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics2002
Rutkin, Darrel H.
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Advisor: William R. Newman
Dissertation Title: Astrology, Natural Philosophy and the History of Science, c. 1250-1700: Studies Toward an Interpretation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes Adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem2002
Mattingly, James
Current Position: Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Semiclassical Gravitation Theory: Why Transitional Scientific Theories are Theories2001
Warwick, Walter
Current Position: Principal Systems Analyst, Micro Analysis & Design, Alion Science and Technology, Boulder, CO
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: The Conceptual Development of Nondeterminism in Theoretical Computer Science2001
Powers, John C.
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
Advisor: Richard Sorrenson
Dissertation Title: Herman Boerhaave and the Pedagogical Reform of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry- 1991-2000
2000
Hume, Brad D.
Current Position: Adjunct Professor, Xavier University
Advisor: James Capshew
Dissertation Title: The Naturalization of Humanity In America, 1776-18612000
Burton, Dan
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Northern Alabama
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: Nicole Oresme's On Seeing the Stars (De Visione Stellarum): A Critical Edition of Oresme's Treatise on Optics and Atmospheric Refraction, with an Introduction, Commentary, and English Translation2000
Pojman, Paul
Deceased
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Ernst Mach's Biological Theory of Knowledge2000
Tuttle, Julianne
Current Position: Vice President, Wyckoff NCP Inc
Advisor: Richard Sorrenson
Dissertation Title: Humphry Davy: A Case Study in Science and Romanticism1999
Twardy, Charles
Current Position: Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Causation, Causal Perception, and Conservation Laws1999
Musselman, Elizabeth Green
Current Position: Associate Professor, Southwestern University
Advisor: Richard Sorrenson
Dissertation Title: Persistence of Sight: Problems of Idiosyncratic Vision and Knowledge in British Natural Philosophy, 1780-18601999
Marché, Jordan D. II
Current Position: Independent Scholar
Advisor: James Capshew
Dissertation Title: Theaters of Time and Space: The American Planetarium Community, 1930-19701999
Winsberg, Eric
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of South Florida
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: Simulation and the Philosophy of Science: Computationally Intensive Studies of Complex Physical Systems1998
Kalthoff, Mark Alan
Current Position: Associate Professor, Hillsdale College
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The New Evangelical Engagement with Science: The American Scientific Affiliation, Origin to 19631998
Snyder, Karen D.
Current Position: Attending Medical School in Texas
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: The Interpretation of the Factorizability Condition of Bell's Theorem: Implications for Locality and Causality in Quantum Mechanics1997
Goodrum, Matthew
Current Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, VA Polytec Inst & St Univ
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The British Sea-Side Studies, 1820–1860: Marine Invertebrates, the Practice of Natural History, and the Depiction of Life in the Sea1997
Berger, Ruth
Current Position: New York
Advisor: Michael Friedman
Dissertation Title: The Dynamics of Explanation: Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Understanding1997
Tammone, William
Current Position: Dean of Academic Services, Montcalm Comm. College
Advisor: Ann Carmichael
Dissertation Title: Science in Ferment: The Doctrine of Fermentation in Seventeenth-Century British Science and Medicine1997
Warren, Mary "Wini" Edwina
Deceased
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Hearts and Minds: Black Women Scientists in the United States, 1900-19601996
Ichiye, Keiko
Current Position: Attorney, Baker Botts, LLP, Texas
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: The Hole Argument of the Substantivalism-Relationism Debate1995
Dreger, Alice Domurat
Current Position: Professor, Northwestern University Medical School
Advisors: Churchill/Carmichael
Dissertation Title: Doubtful Sex: Cases and Concepts of Hermaphroditism in France and Britain, 1868–19151995
Rader, Karen A.
Current Position: Director, STS program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Advisor: James Capshew
Dissertation Title: Making Mice: C.C. Little, the Jackson Laboratory, and the Standardization of Mus Musculus for Research1994
Lu, Yan
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Founding of Modern Science as a Method1994
Grandy, David
Current Position: Brigham Young University
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Leo Szilard: Science as a Mode of Being1994
Voelkel, James R.
Current Position: Curator of Rare Books, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: The Development and Reception of Kepler's Physical Astronomy 1593-16091993
Ramberg, Peter
Current Position: Professor, Truman State University
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Theory and Methodology in the Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874-19001993
McKinney, William J.
Current Position: President, Valdosta State University, Georgia
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Plausibility and Experiment: Investigations in the Context of Pursuit1992
Korb, Kevin B.
Current Position: Reader, Monash University, Australia
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: A Pragmatic Bayesian Platform for Automating Scientific Induction1992
Hooper, Wallace Edd
Current Position: American Indian Studies & Research Inst., Indiana University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Galileo and the Problems of Motion1992
Giunti, Marco
Current Position: Associate Professor, Italy
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: Computers, Dynamical Systems, Phenomena, and the Mind- 1981-1990
1990
Barnes, Eric C
Current Position: Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Beyond Truthlikeness: Toward a Linguistically Invariant Theory of Scientific Progress1990
Pessoa, Osvaldo Jr.
Current Position: Professor, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Measurement in Quantum Physics: Experimental and Formal Approaches1990
Meyer, Eric R.
Current Position: Boulder, CO
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Quantitative Methods in the Early Scientific Revolution the Quest for Mathematical Laws of Nature C. 16001990
Oberdan, Thomas
Current Position: Clemson University
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Protocols, Truth and Convention1989
McMullen, Emerson T.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: A Barren Virgin? Teleology in the Scientific Revolution1989
Lewis, Joia A.
Current Position: Minnesota
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Positivism and Realism in the Writings of Moritz Schlick1989
Robinson, Don
Current Position: St. Thomas, Canada
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: Stochastic Hidden Variables Theories1987
Pecchioni, Frank
Current Position: Professor, Jefferson Community College, Kentucky
Advisor: Nino Cocchiarella
Dissertation Title: Meta-Language and Object Calculus: A Conceptual Framework for Carnap's Logical Syntax1987
Martinez, Sergio
Current Position: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Advisor: Linda Wessels
Dissertation Title: The Projection Postulate in the Conceptual Structure of Quantum Mechanics1987
Steinhoff, Gordon
Current Position: Associate Professor, Utah State University
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Internal Realism and Transcendental Idealism: A Comparison of the Philosophies of Putnam and Kant1986
Irzik, Gürol
Current Position: Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Causal Modeling in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications to Philosophy1986
Day, Carol A.
Current Position: Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: Jean Buridan on the Classification of the Sciences1986
Richmond, Marsha L.
Current Position: Associate Professor, Wayne State University
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Richard Goldschmidt and Sex Determination: The Growth of German Genetics, 1900–19351985
Funk, Gerald
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Newton's Clients: Patronage in Science1985
Millen, Ronny S.
Current Position: University of Minnesota
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Scholastic Foundations of the Scientific Revolution1985
Waters, C. Kenneth
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Models of Natural Selection: From Darwin to Dawkins1984
Sobol, Peter G.
Current Position: Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: John Buridan on the Soul and Sensation1984
Tatarewicz, Joseph N.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of MD, Baltimore County
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: "Where are the People Who Know What They are Doing?" Space Technology and Planetary Astronomy, 1958–19751984
Davis, Edward Bradford
Current Position: Professor, Messiah College
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Creation, Contingency, and Early Modern Science: The Impact of Voluntaristic Theology on Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy1983
Guerrini, Anita
Current Position: Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Newtonian Matter Theory, Chemistry, and Medicine, 1690–17131982
Finsen, Susan Mills Isen
Current Position: California State University-San Bernadino
Advisor: J. Alberto Coffa
Dissertation Title: Rule-Governed Behavior and the Foundations of Cognitive Theories1982
Sartorelli, Linda
Current Position: Professor, University of New England
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Cause and Conditions: An Investigation into the Notion of Singular of Mathematics1981
Rainger, Ronald
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The Understanding of the Fossil Past: Paleontology and Evolution Theory 1850–19101981
Gray, Lewis
Current Position: Abelia Corporation
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: A Decision Theoretic Model of Congressional Technology Assessment: A Theoretical Examination of the Characteristics of Complete Assessment Reports, with Applications1981
Hiskes, Anne L. Deckard
Current Position: Professor, University of Connecticut
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: Relativity Principles as Symmetry Requirements- 1971-1980
1980
Ferrier, Richard Delahide
Current Position: Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Two Exegetical Treatises of François Viète, Translated, Annotated and Explained1980
Werdinger, Jeffrey
Current Position: New York
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Embryology at Woods Hole: The Emergence of a New American Biology1980
Taylor, Gladys S.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Indiana State University
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Realism, Nominalism and Conceptualism in the Foundations of Mathematics1979
Llana, James W.
Current Position: Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, SUNY, The College at Old Westbury
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Elements in Eighteenth Century French Chemistry1979
Matthews, Geoffrey B.
Current Position: Professor, Western Washington University
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: The Arrow of Time1979
Beatty, John
Current Position: Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Traditional and Semantic Accounts of Evolutionary Theory1978
Maienschein, Jane
Current Position: Professor, Arizona State University
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Ross Harrison's Crucial Experiment as a Foundation for Modern American Experimental Embryology1977
Dick, Steven J.
Current Position: Chief Historian, NASA
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: Plurality of Worlds and Natural Philosophy: An Historical Study of the Origins of Belief in Other Worlds and Extraterrestrial Life1976
Beauregard, Laurent A.
Current Position: Oregon
Advisor: John Winnie
Dissertation Title: Conventionalism in the Philosophy of Space and Time: A Study of the Concepts of Congruence and Simultaneity in Physical Theory1976
Van Egmond, Warren
Current Position: Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: The Commercial Revolution and the Beginnings of Western Mathematics in Renaissance Florence, 1300-15001976
Hardegree, Gary M.
Current Position: Associate Professor, University MA, Amherst
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Studies in the Logic of Quantum Mechanics1976
Van Houweling, Andrea Parks
Current Position: University of Michigan
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: The CMA Minipill Decision: A Problem in the Cultural Lag between Innovative Drug Technology and Society's Capacity for Drug Evaluation1976
Paul, Erich R.
Deceased
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: Seeliger, Kapteyn and the Rise of Statistical Astronomy1975
Rogers, C. Thomas
Current Position: California
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: A Critique of Axiomatic Social Choice Theory: Certain Difficulties in the Semantics of Social Choice1975
Bowman, Inci Altug
Current Position: Retired, Washington, DC
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: William Cullen (1710-90) and the Primacy of the Nervous System1975
Tamthai, Mark G.
Current Position: Payap University, Thailand
Advisor: J. Alberto Coffa
Dissertation Title: Analytic Components of Empirical Theories1975
Jain, Chaman Lal
Current Position: Senior Lecturer, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Advisor: Noretta Koertge
Dissertation Title: Methodology and Epistemology: An Examination of Sir John Frederick William Herschel's Philosophy of Science with Reference to His Theory of Knowledge1975
Wessels, Linda A.
Current Position: Associate Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Schroedinger's Interpretations of Wave Mechanics1974
Overmann, Ronald J.
Current Position: National Science Foundation, Retired
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Theories of Gravity in the Seventeenth Century1974
Le Noir, Timothy
Current Position: Professor, Duke University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Social and Intellectual Roots of Discovery in Seventeenth Century Mathematics1973
Abramov, Blanche Wohl
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Pace University
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Geometrical Structures in Science1973
Jobe, Evan K.
Current Position: Texas Tech University, Retired
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Nature of Time1973
Stewart, Robert B.
Current Position: Colorado Springs, CO
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Principle of Indifference, Paradoxes, and a Priorism in Theories of Induction1973
Nilson, Donald R.
Current Position: Akita University, Japan
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Quantum Logic, Quantum Probability, and Quantum Measurement: A Philosophical Perspective on the Quantum Theory1972
Shaw, James R.
Current Position: University of Memphis, TN
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: Early Models for Cardiac Structure and Function: The Presocratics through the Middle Ages1972
Bowman, Peter
Current Position: University of Houston, Clear Lake
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Conventionality in Distant Simultaneity1972
Moor, James H.
Current Position: Professor, Dartmouth College
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Computer Consciousness1971
Swartz, Norman Manuel
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Contingent Identity1971
Osorio, Alberto Cortes
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Identity in Quantum Mechanics1971
Harder, Allen J.
Deceased
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Scientific Methodology and the Growth of Knowledge1971
Cadden, Joan
Current Position: Professor, University of California, Davis
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: The Medieval Philosophy and Biology of Growth1971
Christensen, Ferrel M.
Current Position: Professor, University of Alberta, Canada
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: A Defense of Temporal 'Becoming'1971
Ringen, Jon D.
Current Position: Professor, University of Iowa
Advisor: Roger Buck
Dissertation Title: Behavior Theoretic Explanation: A Study of the New Dualism in the Philosophy of Action1971
Byrne, Rodney P.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, SUNY-Oswego
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Nomos and Cosmos: Reichenbach's Explication of Scientific Language1971
Rogers, Benjamin
Current Position: Associate Professor Emeritus, Wichita State University
Advisor: Ronald Giere
Dissertation Title: Foundational Studies in Statistical Inference1971
Straker, Stephen Mory
Deceased
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Kepler's Optics: A Study in the Development of Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy1971
Grossman, Neal
Current Position: Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Problem of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics: A Critical Survey- 1964-1970
1970
Farber, Paul Lawrence
Current Position: Professor, Oregon State University
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: Buffon's Concept of Species1970
Hetherington, Norris
Current Position: University of California, Berkeley Retired
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: The Development and Early Application of the Velocity-Distance Relation1970
Asquith, Peter D.
Current Position: Professor, Michigan State University
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Alternative Mathematics and Their Status1970
Fetzer, James H.
Current Position: Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Statistician's Dilemma: A Study in the Logic of Concept Formation1970
Farrall, Lyndsay Andrew
Current Position: Principal, Friends School, Australia
Advisor: Frederick Churchill
Dissertation Title: The Origins and Growth of the English Eugenics Movement 1865-19251969
Glymour, Clark Noren
Current Position: Alumni Univ. Prof., Carnegie Mellon & Sr. Res. Sci., U of W FL
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Theories: An Examination of the Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science1969
Wright, C. E. (Larry)
Current Position: University of California-Riverside
Advisor: Roger Buck
Dissertation Title: A Cautious Defense of Teleology1969
Levy, Edwin Jr.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Canada
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Interpretations of Quantum Theory and Soviet Thought1968
Osler, Margaret Jo
Deceased
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton1968
Zaffron, Richard
Deceased
Advisor: Roger Buck
Dissertation Title: Scientific Explanation: Explanation-Types and Explanation-Levels1967
Child, James W.
Current Position: Professor, Bowling Green State University
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: The Ontological Commitment of Physical Theories1967
Snow, Robert Emerson
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Problem of Certainty: Bacon, Descartes, and Pascal1967
Home, Roderick Weir
Current Position: Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia
Advisor: Victor Thoren
Dissertation Title: The Effluvial Theory of Electricity1967
McLaughlin, Robert
Current Position: Australia
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Theoretical Entities and Philosophical Dualisms A Critique of Instrumentalism1966
Lacey, Hugh M.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Swarthmore
Advisor: Wesley C. Salmon
Dissertation Title: Causal Order and the Topological Properties of Time1966
Ruffner, James A.
Current Position: Professor, Wayne State University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: The Background and Early Development of Newton's Theory of Contents1965
Lindberg, David C.
Current Position: Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Advisor: Edward Grant
Dissertation Title: The Perspectiva Communis of John Peckham (Edited and translated by D.C. Lindberg)1965
Thoren, Victor Eugene
Deceased, Indiana University
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Tycho Brahe on the Lunar Theory1964
Hull, David L.
Current Position: Professor Emeritus, Northwestern
Advisor: Roger Buck
Dissertation Title: The Logic of Phylogenetic Taxonomy1964
Pav, Peter Anton
Current Position: Retired Eckerd College, Florida
Advisor: Richard S. Westfall
Dissertation Title: Eighteenth-Century Optics: The Age of Unenlightenment
The College of Arts