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Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Current Location of Indiana HPS Ph.D.s


Date of Degree Name Current Position Advisor(s) Dissertation Title
2007 Fagan, Melinda Assistant Professor, Rice University Elisabeth Lloyd
2006 Lee, Jeongmin (Jude) Jordi Cat Bohr vs. Bohm: Interpreting Quantum Theory through the Philosophical Tradition
2005 Abidin, Zainal Assistant Professor, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia Michael Friedman Science and Metaphysics: A Methodological Investigation
2005 Schloegel, Judith Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory Sander Gliboff Intimate Biology: Herbert Spencer Jennings, Tracy Sonneborn and the Career of American Protozoan Genetics
2005 Adamson, Matthew Assistant Professor, McDaniel College, Budapest; Editorial Assistant, The Hungarian Quarterly, Budapest James Capshew Commissariat of the Atom: The Expansion of the French Nuclear Complex, 1945–1960
2004 Murray, Narisara Independent Scholar in Cambodia Thomas Gieryn Lives of the Zoo: Charismatic Animals in the Social Worlds of the Zoological Gardens of London 1850-1897
2003 Winther, Rasmus Postdoc, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Elisabeth Lloyd Formal Biology and Compositional Biology as Two Kinds of Biological Theorizing
2003 Howard, Nicole Assistant Professor, Calif. St. Univ., Hayward Domenico Bertoloni Meli Christiaan Huygens: The Construction of Texts and Audiences
2003 Domski, Mary Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico Michael Friedman Geometry and Experimental Method in Locke, Newton and Kant
2003 Daniel, Dane Assistant Professor, Wright State University William R. Newman Paracelsus' Astronomia Magna (1537/38): Bible-Based Science and the Religious Roots of the Scientific Revolution
2002 Borrello, Mark Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Frederick Churchill Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards and the History of Group Selection Theory
2002 Medynski, Thomas Assistant Professor, Ivy Tech Community College, Madison, IN Michael Friedman Zeeman Topologies and the Causal Theory of Spacetime
2002 Mylott, Anne Assistant to the Editor, New DSB, Indiana University Frederick Churchill The Roots of Cell Theory in Sap, Spores, and Schleiden
2002 Tanona, Scott Assistant Professor, Kansas State University Michael Friedman From Correspondence to Complementarity: The Emergence of Bohr's Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
2002 Rutkin, H. Darrel Visiting Scholar, Stanford University William R. Newman Astrology, Natural Philosophy and the History of Science, c. 1250-1700: Studies Toward an Interpretation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes Adversus Astrologiam Divinatricem
2002 Mattingly, James Assistant Professor, Georgetown University Michael Friedman Semiclassical Gravitation Theory: Why Transitional Scientific Theories are Theories
2001 Warwick, Walter MAAD, Boulder, CO Michael Friedman The Conceptual Development of Nondeterminism in Theoretical Computer Science
2001 Powers, John C. Visiting Professor, Sarah Lawrence College Richard Sorrenson Herman Boerhaave and the Pedagogical Reform of Eighteenth-Century Chemistry
2000 Hume, Brad D. Assistant Professor, University of Dayton James Capshew The Naturalization of Humanity In America, 1776-1861
2000 Burton, Danny E. Assistant Professor, University of Northern Alabama Edward Grant 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 Translation
2000 Pojman, Paul Assistant Professor, Towson University Michael Friedman Ernst Mach's Biological Theory of Knowledge
2000 Tuttle, Julianne Independent Scholar Richard Sorrenson Humphry Davy: A Case Study in Science and Romanticism
1999 Twardy, Charles Research Fellow, Monash University, Australia Michael Friedman Causation, Causal Perception, and Conservation Laws
1999 Musselman, Elizabeth Green Associate Professor, Southwestern University Richard Sorrenson Persistence of Sight: Problems of Idiosyncratic Vision and Knowledge in British Natural Philosophy, 1780-1860
1999 Marché, Jordan D. II Independent Scholar James Capshew Theaters of Time and Space: The American Planetarium Community, 1930-1970
1999 Winsberg, Eric Assistant Professor, University of South Florida Michael Friedman Simulation and the Philosophy of Science: Computationally Intensive Studies of Complex Physical Systems
1998 Kalthoff, Mark Alan Associate Professor, Hillsdale College Frederick Churchill The New Evangelical Engagement with Science: The American Scientific Affiliation, Origin to 1963
1998 Snyder, Karen D. Attending Medical School in Texas Linda Wessels The Interpretation of the Factorizability Condition of Bell's Theorem: Implications for Locality and Causality in Quantum Mechanics
1997 Goodrum, Matthew Visiting Assistant Professor, VA Polytec Inst & St Univ Frederick Churchill The British Sea-Side Studies, 1820–1860: Marine Invertebrates, the Practice of Natural History, and the Depiction of Life in the Sea
1997 Berger, Ruth New York Michael Friedman The Dynamics of Explanation: Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Understanding
1997 Tammone, William Dean of Academic Services, Montcalm Comm. College Ann Carmichael Science in Ferment: The Doctrine of Fermentation in Seventeenth-Century British Science and Medicine
1997 Warren, Mary "Wini" Edwina SUNY, Old Westbury Noretta Koertge Hearts and Minds: Black Women Scientists in the United States, 1900-1960
1996 Ichiye, Keiko Attorney, Baker Botts, LLP, Texas John Winnie The Hole Argument of the Substantivalism-Relationism Debate
1995 Dreger, Alice Domurat Associate Professor, Northwestern University Churchill/Carmichael Doubtful Sex: Cases and Concepts of Hermaphroditism in France and Britain, 1868–1915
1995 Rader, Karen A. Professor, Sarah Lawrence College James Capshew Making Mice: C.C. Little, the Jackson Laboratory, and the Standardization of Mus Musculus for Research
1994 Lu, Yan Richard S. Westfall The Founding of Modern Science as a Method
1994 Grandy, David Brigham Young University Linda Wessels Leo Szilard: Science as a Mode of Being
1994 Voelkel, James R. Independent Scholar/Consultant Edward Grant The Development and Reception of Kepler's Physical Astronomy 1593-1609
1993 Ramberg, Peter Assistant Professor, Truman State University Noretta Koertge Theory and Methodology in the Early History of Stereochemistry, 1874-1900
1993 McKinney, William J. Professor, Slippery Rock University Noretta Koertge Plausibility and Experiment: Investigations in the Context of Pursuit
1992 Korb, Kevin B. Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia Noretta Koertge A Pragmatic Bayesian Platform for Automating Scientific Induction
1992 Hooper, Wallace Edd American Indian Studies & Research Inst., Indiana University Richard S. Westfall Galileo and the Problems of Motion
1992 Giunti, Marco Associate Professor, Italy John Winnie Computers, Dynamical Systems, Phenomena, and the Mind
1990 Barnes, Eric C Associate Professor, Southern Methodist University Noretta Koertge Beyond Truthlikeness: Toward a Linguistically Invariant Theory of Scientific Progress
1990 Pessoa, Osvaldo Jr. Professor, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil Linda Wessels Measurement in Quantum Physics: Experimental and Formal Approaches
1990 Meyer, Eric R. Boulder, CO Richard S. Westfall Quantitative Methods in the Early Scientific Revolution the Quest for Mathematical Laws of Nature C. 1600
1990 Oberdan, Thomas Clemson University Linda Wessels Protocols, Truth and Convention
1989 McMullen, Emerson T. Associate Professor, Georgia Southern University Richard S. Westfall A Barren Virgin? Teleology in the Scientific Revolution
1989 Lewis, Joia A. Minnesota Linda Wessels Positivism and Realism in the Writings of Moritz Schlick
1989 Robinson, Don St. Thomas, Canada Linda Wessels Stochastic Hidden Variables Theories
1987 Pecchioni, Frank Professor, Jefferson Community College, Kentucky Nino Cocchiarella Meta-Language and Object Calculus: A Conceptual Framework for Carnap's Logical Syntax
1987 Martinez, Sergio Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Linda Wessels The Projection Postulate in the Conceptual Structure of Quantum Mechanics
1987 Steinhoff, Gordon Associate Professor, Utah State University Ronald Giere Internal Realism and Transcendental Idealism: A Comparison of the Philosophies of Putnam and Kant
1986 Irzik, Gürol Professor, Bogazici University, Istanbul Ronald Giere Causal Modeling in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications to Philosophy
1986 Day, Carol A. Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College Edward Grant Jean Buridan on the Classification of the Sciences
1986 Richmond, Marsha L. Associate Professor, Wayne State University Frederick Churchill Richard Goldschmidt and Sex Determination: The Growth of German Genetics, 1900–1935
1985 Funk, Gerald Richard S. Westfall Newton's Clients: Patronage in Science
1985 Millen, Ronny S. University of Minnesota Richard S. Westfall The Scholastic Foundations of the Scientific Revolution
1985 Waters, C. Kenneth Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Ronald Giere Models of Natural Selection: From Darwin to Dawkins
1984 Sobol, Peter G. Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison Edward Grant John Buridan on the Soul and Sensation
1984 Tatarewicz, Joseph N. Associate Professor, University of MD, Baltimore County Victor Thoren "Where are the People Who Know What They are Doing?" Space Technology and Planetary Astronomy, 1958–1975
1984 Davis, Edward Bradford Professor, Messiah College Richard S. Westfall Creation, Contingency, and Early Modern Science: The Impact of Voluntaristic Theology on Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy
1983 Guerrini, Anita Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Richard S. Westfall Newtonian Matter Theory, Chemistry, and Medicine, 1690–1713
1982 Finsen, Susan Mills Isen California State University-San Bernadino J. Alberto Coffa Rule-Governed Behavior and the Foundations of Cognitive Theories
1982 Sartorelli, Linda Professor, University of New England Ronald Giere Cause and Conditions: An Investigation into the Notion of Singular of Mathematics
1981 Rainger, Ronald Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University Frederick Churchill The Understanding of the Fossil Past: Paleontology and Evolution Theory 1850–1910
1981 Gray, Lewis Abelia Corporation Ronald Giere A Decision Theoretic Model of Congressional Technology Assessment: A Theoretical Examination of the Characteristics of Complete Assessment Reports, with Applications
1981 Hiskes, Anne L. Deckard Professor, University of Connecticut John Winnie Relativity Principles as Symmetry Requirements
1980 Ferrier, Richard Delahide Tutor, Thomas Aquinas College Richard S. Westfall Two Exegetical Treatises of François Viète, Translated, Annotated and Explained
1980 Werdinger, Jeffrey New York Frederick Churchill Embryology at Woods Hole: The Emergence of a New American Biology
1980 Taylor, Gladys S. Professor Emeritus, Indiana State University Ronald Giere Realism, Nominalism and Conceptualism in the Foundations of Mathematics
1979 Llana, James W. SUNY, Old Westbury Richard S. Westfall Elements in Eighteenth Century French Chemistry
1979 Matthews, Geoffrey B. Professor, Western Washington University John Winnie The Arrow of Time
1979 Beatty, John Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada Ronald Giere Traditional and Semantic Accounts of Evolutionary Theory
1978 Maienschein, Jane Professor, Arizona State University Frederick Churchill Ross Harrison's Crucial Experiment as a Foundation for Modern American Experimental Embryology
1977 Dick, Steven J. Chief Historian, NASA Edward Grant Plurality of Worlds and Natural Philosophy: An Historical Study of the Origins of Belief in Other Worlds and Extraterrestrial Life
1976 Beauregard, Laurent A. Oregon John Winnie Conventionalism in the Philosophy of Space and Time: A Study of the Concepts of Congruence and Simultaneity in Physical Theory
1976 Van Egmond, Warren Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University Edward Grant The Commercial Revolution and the Beginnings of Western Mathematics in Renaissance Florence, 1300-1500
1976 Hardegree, Gary M. Associate Professor, University MA, Amherst Ronald Giere Studies in the Logic of Quantum Mechanics
1976 Van Houweling, Andrea Parks University of Michigan Victor Thoren The CMA Minipill Decision: A Problem in the Cultural Lag between Innovative Drug Technology and Society's Capacity for Drug Evaluation
1976 Paul, Erich R. Deceased Victor Thoren Seeliger, Kapteyn and the Rise of Statistical Astronomy
1975 Rogers, C. Thomas California Ronald Giere A Critique of Axiomatic Social Choice Theory: Certain Difficulties in the Semantics of Social Choice
1975 Bowman, Inci Altug Retired -- Washington, DC Frederick Churchill William Cullen (1710-90) and the Primacy of the Nervous System
1975 Tamthai, Mark G. Payap University, Thailand J. Alberto Coffa Analytic Components of Empirical Theories
1975 Jain, Chaman Lal Senior Lecturer, SPEA, Indiana University Noretta Koertge Methodology and Epistemology: An Examination of Sir John Frederick William Herschel's Philosophy of Science with Reference to His Theory of Knowledge
1975 Wessels, Linda A. Associate Professor Emeritus, Indiana University Ronald Giere Schroedinger's Interpretations of Wave Mechanics
1974 Overmann, Ronald J. NSF, Retired Richard S. Westfall Theories of Gravity in the Seventeenth Century
1974 Le Noir, Timothy Professor, Duke University Richard S. Westfall The Social and Intellectual Roots of Discovery in Seventeenth Century Mathematics
1973 Abramov, Blanche Wohl Professor Emeritus, Pace University Wesley C. Salmon Geometrical Structures in Science
1973 Jobe, Evan K. Texas Tech University, Retired Wesley C. Salmon The Nature of Time
1973 Stewart, Robert B. Colorado Springs, CO Wesley C. Salmon The Principle of Indifference, Paradoxes, and a Priorism in Theories of Induction
1973 Nilson, Donald R. Akita University, Japan Wesley C. Salmon Quantum Logic, Quantum Probability, and Quantum Measurement: A Philosophical Perspective on the Quantum Theory
1972 Shaw, James R. University of Memphis, TN Edward Grant Early Models for Cardiac Structure and Function: The Presocratics through the Middle Ages
1972 Bowman, Peter University of Houston, Clear Lake Wesley C. Salmon Conventionality in Distant Simultaneity
1972 Moor, James H. Professor, Dartmouth College Wesley C. Salmon Computer Consciousness
1971 Swartz, Norman Manuel Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University, Canada Ronald Giere Contingent Identity
1971 Osorio, Alberto Cortes Ronald Giere Identity in Quantum Mechanics
1971 Harder, Allen J. Deceased Ronald Giere Scientific Methodology and the Growth of Knowledge
1971 Cadden, Joan Professor, University of California, Davis Edward Grant The Medieval Philosophy and Biology of Growth
1971 Christensen, Ferrel M. Professor, University of Alberta, Canada Ronald Giere A Defense of Temporal 'Becoming'
1971 Ringen, Jon D. Professor, University of Iowa Roger Buck Behavior Theoretic Explanation: A Study of the New Dualism in the Philosophy of Action
1971 Byrne, Rodney P. Professor Emeritus, SUNY-Oswego Ronald Giere Nomos and Cosmos: Reichenbach's Explication of Scientific Language
1971 Rogers, Benjamin Associate Professor Emeritus, Wichita State University Ronald Giere Foundational Studies in Statistical Inference
1971 Straker, Stephen Mory Deceased Richard S. Westfall Kepler's Optics: A Study in the Development of Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
1971 Grossman, Neal Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago Wesley C. Salmon The Problem of Measurement in Quantum Mechanics: A Critical Survey
1970 Farber, Paul Lawrence Professor, Oregon State University Frederick Churchill Buffon's Concept of Species
1970 Hetherington, Norris University of California, Berkeley Retired Victor Thoren The Development and Early Application of the Velocity-Distance Relation
1970 Asquith, Peter D. Professor, Michigan State University Wesley C. Salmon Alternative Mathematics and Their Status
1970 Fetzer, James H. Professor, University of Minnesota, Duluth Wesley C. Salmon The Statistician's Dilemma: A Study in the Logic of Concept Formation
1970 Farrall, Lyndsay Andrew Principal, Friends School, Australia Frederick Churchill The Origins and Growth of the English Eugenics Movement 1865-1925
1969 Glymour, Clark Noren Alumni Univ. Prof., Carnegie Mellon & Sr. Res. Sci., U of W FL Wesley C. Salmon Theories: An Examination of the Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science
1969 Wright, C. E. (Larry) University of California -- Riverside Roger Buck A Cautious Defense of Teleology
1969 Levy, Edwin Jr. Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia, Canada Wesley C. Salmon Interpretations of Quantum Theory and Soviet Thought
1968 Osler, Margaret Jo Professor, University of Calgary, Canada Richard S. Westfall John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton
1968 Zaffron, Richard Deceased Roger Buck Scientific Explanation: Explanation-Types and Explanation-Levels
1967 Child, James W. Professor, Bowling Green State University Wesley C. Salmon The Ontological Commitment of Physical Theories
1967 Snow, Robert Emerson Richard S. Westfall The Problem of Certainty: Bacon, Descartes, and Pascal
1967 Home, Roderick Weir Professor, University of Melbourne, Australia Victor Thoren The Effluvial Theory of Electricity
1967 McLaughlin, Robert Australia Wesley C. Salmon Theoretical Entities and Philosophical Dualisms A Critique of Instrumentalism
1966 Lacey, Hugh M. Professor Emeritus, Swarthmore Wesley C. Salmon Causal Order and the Topological Properties of Time
1966 Ruffner, James A. Professor, Wayne State University Richard S. Westfall The Background and Early Development of Newton's Theory of Contents
1965 Lindberg, David C. Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison Edward Grant The Perspectiva Communis of John Peckham (Edited and translated by D.C. Lindberg)
1965 Thoren, Victor Eugene Deceased -- Indiana University Richard S. Westfall Tycho Brahe on the Lunar Theory
1964 Hull, David L. Professor Emeritus, Northwestern Roger Buck The Logic of Phylogenetic Taxonomy
1964 Pav, Peter Anton Retired Eckerd College, Florida Richard S. Westfall Eighteenth-Century Optics: The Age of Unenlightenment

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