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Notes on Contributors
Peter Machamer is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University
of Pittsburgh and Associate Director of The Center for Philosophy of
Science. He edited the Cambridge Companion to Galileo (1998), and was co-editor
of Scientific Controversies (2000) and Theory and Method in Neuroscience (2001).
He is currently working on a book about interpretation in science and art and
maybe publishing a collection of his essays on the seventeenth century.
Roberta L. Millstein is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy
at California State University, Hayward. She received her A.B. from Dartmouth
College with a double major in Computer Science and Philosophy. She earned her
Ph.D. in Philosophy, with a minor in the History of Science and Technology, at
the University of Minnesota. She teaches courses in the history and philosophy
of science (including courses in science and ethics), and publishes articles in the
philosophy of biology.
Lynn Hankinson Nelson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Missouri-St. Louis. She is co-author with Jack Nelson of On Quine (2000), coeditor
with Jack Nelson of Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science (1996
and 1997), guest editor of a special issue of Synthese devoted to feminism and
science (1995), and the author of Who Knows: From Quine to Feminist Empiricism
(1990).
Laura Ruetsche is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.
Her interests include the foundations of physical theories, the epistemology
of science (including feminist approaches), and Plato.
Michael Silberstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Elizabethtown
College. He has published and delivered papers in both Philosophy of Science and
Philosophy of Mind. His primary areas of research and interest are philosophy of
physics and the philosophy of cognitive-neuroscience respectively.
Jim Woodward is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Officer for the
Humanities at the California Institute of Technology. He is completing a book on
explanation.
John Worrall is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Co-Director of the Centre
for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at the London School of Economics.
He was editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 1974
to 1982, and editor of the collected works of Imre Lakatos. He has published
widely on topics in general philosophy of science and history and philosophy of
nineteenth century physics. He is currently finishing a book on theory-change in
science and developing an interest in issues in the methodology of medicine.
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