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Selected HPST Publications

Selected publications resulting from past sessions:

  • Blackwell, Stephen. The Quill and the Scalpel: Nabokov’s Art and Worlds of Science. Ohio State University Press.

  • Douglas, Heather. "Reintroducing Prediction to Explanation," Philosophy of Science (Forthcoming)

  • Douglas, Heather. Science, Policy, and the Value-free Ideal. University of Pittsburgh Press.

  • 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. “Hacia una revalorización del Códice de la Cruz Badiano: nuevas propuestas para el estudio de la medicina indígena en el período colonial,” Colonial Latin American Review (forthcoming 2008)

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

  • Gimmel, Millie. “Reading Medicine in the Codex de la Cruz Badiano” Accepted by Journal of the History of Ideas, 69, 169-192, (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).

  • Pagni, Richard M. "The weak nuclear force, the chirality of atoms, and the origin of optically active molecules; Foundations of Chemistry, vol. 11, pp. 105-122 (2009).

  • 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, (2007).

  • Philips, Denise. “Epistemological Distinctions and Cultural Politics: Educational Reform and the Naturwissenschaft/ Geisteswissenschaft Distinction in Mid-19th century Germany,” Historical Perspectives on “Erklären” and “Verstehen”, ed. Uljana Feest, Berlin: Springer (forthcoming).
    • A version of this article was also published in the Pre-Print series of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, (2007).

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

  • Richards, Ted. “Killing One to Save Five: A Test of Two Hartman-style Value Calculuses,” Journal of Formal Axiology, 1, 187-205 (2008).