About the Editor-in-Chief

Noretta Koertge is Professor Emeritus of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was editor of the journal Philosophy of Science for five years and has edited four important anthologies. Her own research includes history of methodology, history of chemistry, Popper's philosophy and philosophy of science education.

Advisory Committee

William Bechtel, University of California, San Diego
James Capshew, Indiana University
David Hull, Northwestern University
Jane Maienschein, Arizona State University
John Norton, University of Pittsburgh
Eric Scerri, University of California, Los Angeles
Brian Skyrms, University of California, Irvine
Michael Sokal, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics

Subject Editors for Added Scientists

William Bechtel
Department of Philosophy
University of California, San Diego

Stephen Bocking
Environmental & Resource Studies Program
Trent University

Theodore Brown
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Richard Burkhardt
Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James Capshew
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University

Steven Dick
Chief Historian
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

James Fleming
Science, Technology, and Society
Colby College

Gregory Good
Department of History
West Virginia University

Matthew Goodrum
Science and Technology in Society
Virginia Tech

Jeremy Gray
Centre for the History of the Mathematical Sciences
Open University

Valerie Hardcastle
Department of Philosophy
Virginia Tech

Lillian Hoddeson
Department of History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ernst Homburg
Department of History
Universiteit Maastricht

David Hull
Department of Philosophy
Northwestern University

Helge Kragh
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Aarhus Universitet

Michael Mahoney
History Department
Princeton University

Jane Maienschein
Center for Biology and Society
Arizona State University

Elizabeth Paris
Independent Scholar

Carsten Reinhardt
History of Science Unit
Universität Regensburg

John S. Rigden
Department of Physics
Washington University in St. Louis

Robert Smith
Department of History and Classics
University of Alberta

Stephen Weininger
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Paul Weirich
Department of Philosophy
University of Missouri-Columbia

Subjects covered include: animal behavior, astronomy, astrophysics, biology, chemistry, cognitive science, computer science, cosmology, decision and game theory, ecology, geology and geophysics, hydrology, logic, mathematics, meteorology, oceanography, paleoanthropology, physics, psychology, and space science.

Editorial Consultants for Postscripts

Garland Allen
Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis

Domenico Bertoloni Meli
History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University

Craig G. Fraser
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
University of Toronto

Alexander Jones
Department of Classics and
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
University of Toronto

Vivian Nutton
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine
University College London

William Newman
History and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University

Lynn Nyhart
History of Science
University of Wisconsin

Jürgen Renn
Director
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Alan Rocke
Department of History
Case Western Reserve University

Kenneth L Taylor
History of Science
University of Oklahoma

Hans Thijssen
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Radboud University Nijmegan

Because of constraints on space, only a small percentage of the original articles could be updated.