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Selected HPST Publications

Selected publications resulting from past sessions:

  • Douglas, Heather. Science, Policy, and the Value-free Ideal. University of Pittsburgh Press. (Forthcoming in 2008).

  • Douglas, Heather. “Boundaries between Science and Policy:  Descriptive Difficulty and Normative Desirability,” Environmental Philosophy, vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 14-29 (Spring 2005).

  • Gimmel, Millie. “An Ecocritical Evaluation of the Florentine Codex” chapter in Early Modern Ecostudies: From Shakespeare to the Florentine Codex. Forthcoming from Palgrave, (Spring 2008).

  • Gimmel, Millie. “Reading Medicine in the Codex de la Cruz Badiano” Accepted by Journal of the History of Ideas. (Forthcoming April 2008).

  • Kovac, Jeff. “Moral Rules, Moral Ideals and Use-Inspired Research,” Science and Engineering Ethics, 13, 159-169, (2007).

  • MacLennan, B. J. “Designing the Virtual: Software Engineering,” section 5 of “Aesthetic Values in Technology and Engineering Design,” Technological Sciences, vol. 9 part VI.7 of Handbook of the Philosophy of Science (16 vols.), ed. by Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard, & John Woods, Elsevier Science, (in press).

  • MacLennan, B. J.  “Analog Computation,” Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, ed. by Robert A. Meyers et al., Springer, (in press, scheduled for 2008).

  • MacLennan, B. J. “History of AI Before Computers,” Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 2nd Ed., ed. by Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Idea Group, (submitted, 2007).

  • North, Susan.  "Finding Natures Order: Humanism, Rhetoric, and Stoicism in Francis Bacon’s Philosophy." Dissertation. University of Tennessee, (2007).

  • Phillips, Denise. "Science, Myth and Eastern Souls: J. S. C. Schweigger and the Society for the Spread of Natural Knowledge and Higher Truth," East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, (forthcoming).

  • Richards, Edward. "A Philosophical Analysis of Newton’s Arguments Against Cartesianism as Found in De Gravitatione" Dissertation, Boston University (2006).