Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Jutta Schickore

Jutta Schickore received her PhD from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1996. Her research interests include historical and philosophical aspects of microscopy, the problem of error in science, studies of the eye and vision, the history of philosophy of science especially from the 19th century, and the relation between history and philosophy of science. She held a Wellcome research fellowship at the at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in Cambridge, UK as well as postdoctoral fellowships at the Dibner Institute (Cambridge, Mass.) and the Max Planck Institute (Berlin, Germany).

Her recent publications include "‘Through Thousands of Errors We Reach the Truth’—But How? On the Epistemic Roles of Error in Scientific Practice," Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 36 (2005); Revisiting Discovery and Justification: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on the Context Distinction (co-edited with F. Steinle), Dordrecht: Springer (2006); and "Misperception, Illusion, and Epistemological Optimism: Vision Studies in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany," British Journal for the History of Science 39 (2006)

Her current research focuses scientists' understanding of the causes and meanings of imperfection in experimental practice.

jschicko@indiana.edu