People
- IHPST Core Faculty in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
- Professors Emeriti
- Affiliates located at the IHPST
- Instructors for 2009-2010
- Visiting Research Associates and Fellows
- Administration and Contact Information
- Affiliates – Graduate Faculty Cross-Appointed to the IHPST. IHPST has a number of affiliates with research interests related to history and philosophy of science and technology; these affiliates can supervise IHPST theses and teach IHPST graduate courses.
- Associated Scholars
- Graduate Students
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Core Faculty in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Historians of Science and Technology
Lucia Dacome (History of Medicine, IHPST)
Craig Fraser (History of Mathematics, IHPST)
Bert Hall (History of Technology, IHPST)
Nikolai Krementsov (History of Biology and of Medicine, IHPST)
Janis Langins (History of Technology, IHPST)
Mark Solovey (History of Social Sciences, IHPST)
Marga Vicedo (History of Biology, IHPST)
Chen-Pang Yeang (History of Physics, IHPST)Philosophers of Science
Brian Baigrie (Philosophy of Early Modern Science (15-17 century), IHPST (on leave fall 2009)
Joseph Berkovitz (Philosophy of Physics and Social Sciences, IHPST)
Anjan Chakravartty (General Philosophy of Science, IHPST)
Yiftach J. H. Fehige (Philosophy of Science and Religion, IHPST)
Paul Thompson (Philosophy of Biology and of Medicine, IHPST) (on leave 2009-2010)
Denis Walsh (Philosophy of Biology, IHPST and Philosophy)
Professors Emeriti
Trevor Levere (History of Chemistry)
Pauline M. H. Mazumdar (History of Medicine)
Mary P. Winsor (History of Biology, especially systematics and evolution)
Affiliates located at the IHPST
Colin Howson (Philosophy of Science, Probability, Bayesian Methodology, Logic; Philosophy)
Mohan Matthen (Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy)
Instructors for 2009-2010
Christopoulos, John (Doctoral Candidate, history of late medieval and early modern medicine and natural philosophy)
Earnshaw-Whyte, Eugene (Doctoral Candidate, philosophy of biology, especially natural selection)
Gavrus, Delia (Doctoral Candidate, history of neurosurgery, neurology, and neuroscience)
Gee, Teri (Doctoral Candidate, history of astronomy/astrology from antiquity through the Middle Ages from Greece to the Islamic world to the Latin West)
Goldstick, Daniel J. (Professor Emeritus, philosophy of science)
Hamilton, Vivien (Doctoral Candidate, history and philosophy of physics, especially as it relates to medicine)
Moore, Rebecca (Doctoral Candidate, history of biology)
Munro, Andrew (Doctoral Candidate, innovation systems and knowledge flow)
Nunn, Robin (Doctoral Candidate, philosophy of medicine)
Record, Isaac (Doctoral Candidate, philosophy of science, instruments, and their effect on styles of reasoning)
Smillie, David (Doctoral Candidate, history of science communication)
Warner, Jessica (Professor, history of social sciences and medicine with particular focus on the history of addiction)
Visiting Research Associates & Fellows
Terje Brundtland (IHPST, Room 315, Victoria College)
terje.brundtland@utoronto.ca
University of Tromsø, Norway
History of Science
Sandro Caparrini (IHPST, Room 315, Victoria College)
caparrini@libero.it
University of Turin, PhD
History of Mathematics
Todd Dufresne (IHPST, Room 315, Victoria College)
Lakehead University
Philosophy
Affiliates
Edward J. Barbeau (Early History of Analysis, Infinite Series, Banach Algebras; Mathematics) [EMERITUS]
James Robert Brown (Philosophy of Physics and of Mathematics, Philosophy)
David Castle (Philosophy of the life sciences, Applied ethics, Science and technology innovation; University of Ottawa)
Michael Chazan (Paleolithic and Epipaleolithic Archaeology, Lithic Technology and the History of Archaeology; Anthropology)
Ronald B. de Sousa (Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy) [EMERITUS]
Harriet Friedmann (Globalization and food, political sociology; Sociology)
Jean Gayon (History of 19th and 20th century biology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, history of philosophy of science; Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris) [effective July 1]
Brendan S. Gillon (Semantics and Pragmatics, Philosophy of Language, Logic, and Metaphysics, Classical Indian Sanskrit; Linguistics)
Yves Gingras (History of Physics, Sociology of Science; History, UQAM)
Daniel J. Goldstick (Philosophy of Science; Philosophy) [EMERITUS]
Calvin C. Gotlieb (History of Computer Science; Computer Science) [EMERITUS]
Nicholas Griffin (Bertrand Russell, philosophical logic, epistemology, 19th and 20th century intellectual history; Philosophy, McMaster University)
Ingrid Hehmeyer (History of Arabic and Islamic Sciences and Technology; History, Ryerson University)
James P. Hull (History of Canadian Technology; History, University of British Columbia, Okanagan)
Philippe Huneman (Philosophy of biology, philosophy of medicine, Kantism and modern German philosophy, history of 18th-19th century biology, philosophy of science; Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, Paris) [effective July 1]
Alexander Jones (History of Exact Sciences in Antiquity, New York University)
Bernard Lightman (Science and Religion; Division of Humanities, York)
Margaret Morrison (Philosophy of Physics and of Biology, Philosophy)
Michelle Murphy (History of Medicine and the Life Sciences; History)
Steve Penfold (Social, Cultural, and Political History of 20th Century Canada/North America; History)
Jan Sapp (History of Biology, History of symbiosis and microbial evolution; Biology, York)
William Seager (Philosophy of Cognitive Sciences, Philosophy)
Edward L. Shorter (Social History of Medicine, History of Psychiatry and Neurology; History)
Susan Solomon (Sociology of Science, Philosophy of Social Science)
Ingrid Stefanovic (Philosophy of the Environment, Sustainability and Ethics; Philosophy)
Ross E.G. Upshur (Philosophy of Medicine; Medicine, Sunnbrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre)
Alasdair I.F. Urquhart (Mathematical Logic, Foundations of Mathematics, History of Modern Logic; Philosophy)
Faith Wallis (Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine; History and Department of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University)
Jessica Warner (History of the Social Sciences; History of Medicine; especially focussing on the History of Addiction; Psychiatry)
David A. Wolfe (Economics of Innovation and Technology Transfer; Political Science)
Suzanne Zeller (History of Canadian Science; History, Wilfred Laurier University)
Associated Scholars
Tara Abraham (History of the Life Sciences; History, University of Guelph)
Richard Arthur (Philosophy of Science; Philosophy, McMaster College)
Conor Burns (History of Biology; Toronto)
Scott Campbell (History of Computing Technology; Toronto)
Stephen Chrisomalis (Archaeology of Ancient Science, Mathematics and Technology; Anthropology, Wayne State University)
James Connor (History of Canadian Medicine; National Museum of Health and Medicine, Washington, DC)
John P.M. Court (History of medicine, especially psychiatry and other mental health and addiction services, along with the history of higher education for medicine, science and their sub-fields; Archivist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto)
Chadler Davis (Operators on Hilbert space, matrix theory and applications including numerical analysis; Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto)
Margaret Derry (Agriculture in Western Europe and North America; Caledon, Ontario)
Todd Raymond Dufresne (Freud and psychoanalysis; Philosophy, Lakehead University)
Philip C. Enros (History of Mathematics, Canadian Science Policy; Science Policy Branch, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario)
Marianne Fedunkiw (History of Medicine, Visiting Fellow, Oxford University, UK)
Ursula Franklin (History of metal technology, characterization of modern and ancient materials, crystallography; Professor Emeritus, Metallurgy and Materials Science, University of Toronto)
Ernst Hamm (History of Geology; York University)
Ahmad Yousif al-Hassan (Islamic Science; Professor Emeritus, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria. Resides in Toronto, Ontario)
Martin Hilbert (Religion and Science; Toronto, Ontario)
Sungook Hong (History of Physics; History and Philosophy of Science, Seoul National University)
Jennifer Hubbard (History of Biology; Toronto, Ontario)
George Gheverghese Joseph (History of Indian Mathematics; Toronto, Ontario)
Galina Kichigina (History of Medicine; Toronto, Ontario)
Kenton Kroker (History of Medicine and Psychology; York University)
Richard Landon (Director, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library)
Ed Layton (History of Technology; Toronto, Ontario)
Jill Lazenby (History and Philosophy of Science; Toronto, Ontario)
Alison Li (History of Medicine; York University)
Wilfrid Lockett (History of Engineering; Toronto, Ontario)
Don H. McNally (Enlightenment, Science and Religion; St. Michael's College and Researcher, Pascall Centre, Redeemer College)
Gordon McOuat (History of Biology; History of Science and Technology Programme, University of King's College)
Daniela Monaldi (History of Physics; Toronto, Ontario)
Gregory H. Moore (History of Mathematics; Mathematics, McMaster University)
Janet Martin-Nielsen (History of Linguistics and Language; History of Cold War Human Sciences; History of Science/Technology in Canada)
Yasko Nishimura (The history of Japanese medicine during the Allied occupation of Japan (1945-52), medical censorship and Japanese-American issues; Toronto, Ontario)
Clement Oniang'o (Philosophy of Science and Ethics; Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Nairobi)
David Pantalony (History of scientific instruments; Curator, Physical Sciences and Medicine, Canada Science and Technology Museum/ Conservateur, Sciences physiques et médecine, Musée des sciences et de la technologie, Ottawa)
Matthew Price (History of ecology, history of medicine; History, University of Toronto)
Geoffrey Reaume (History of Psychiatry in Canada; York University)
Gary Rubinstein (Science Education, Ancient Philosophy and Medicine; Toronto District School Board)
Sara Scharf (History and Philosophy of Biology; Toronto, Ontario)
Ronald B. Thomson (Mediaeval Astronomy and Physical Sciences; Director of Publications, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
Leslie Tomory (History of modern technology, especially technology networks)
Thaddeus Trenn (History and philosophy of science, especially physics, religion and science; Colborne, Ontario)
Robert Tuckerman (History and philosophy of biology; Warsaw, Ontario)
Byron E. Wall (History and philosophy of mathematics and science, Foundations of probability theory; York University)
Richard White (History of Technology; Toronto, Ontario)
Graduate Students
Brooke Abounader – PHD6, philosophy of science, history of condensed-matter physics
Tasleen Adatia – MA1 (P/T)
Julia Agapitos – MA2 (P/T), the interaction between society, technology, and the environment in industrialized societies
Sebastian Assenza – MA1, the evolutionary sciences and their implications for humanity
Hakob Barseghyan – PHD2, epistemology, metaphysics, and meta-epistemology
Christopher Belanger – PHD3, philosophy of science, especially physics
Agnes Bolinska – PHD3, history of biology, philosophy of science
Elizabeth Burns – PHD6, ancient Greek sciences
Alison Campbell – SPEC1
Janet Chin Fatt – MA2 (P/T), general philosophy of science, philosophy of physics
John Christopoulos – PHD4, history of late medieval and early modern medicine and natural philosophy
Michael Cournoyea – PHD2, public trust in science & medicine; philosophy of biology
Eugene Earnshaw-Whyte – PHD4, philosophy of biology, especially natural selection
Curtis Forbes – PHD2, philosophy of science, history of philosophy of science, feminist philosophy of science, and the metaphysics and epistemology of the philosophy of science
Fermin Fulda – PHD2, philosophy of science, specially biology and cognitive science. Also the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and philosophical darwinism
A. Gwyndaf Garbutt – PHD2, the interaction between Medieval science, technology, and culture
Delia Gavrus – PHD4, history of neurosurgery, neurology, and neuroscience
Teri Gee – PHD5, history of astronomy/astrology from antiquity through the Middle Ages from Greece to the Islamic world to the Latin West
Sebastian Gil-Riano – PHD3, race and science, history and philosophy of life sciences, and bio-politics
Paul Greenham – PHD1, Medieval and Early modern Science. Interplay of Science and Religion/Theology in the rise of Early modern science.
Ari Gross – PHD3, conceptions of scientific reasoning and rationality, visual reasoning, history and philosophy of modern physics, fin de siècle science
Vivien Hamilton – PHD4, history and philosophy of physics, especially as it relates to medicine
Jenna Healey – MA1
Michelle Hoffman – PHD6, history of Canadian secondary school science education
Matt Hodgson – MA1 (P/T)
Allan Hunt – MA2 (P/T), history of medicine
Alexander Koo – PHD3, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics
and general topics in philosophy of science
Sarah Kriger – PHD2, I research technologies of illusion on the Victorian stage, including scientific demonstrations; theatrical special effects; and magicians' apparatus.
Anthony Kulic – PHD3, philosophy of science, logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language
Cory Lewis – PHD1, I study the philosophy of science, with a particular interest in issues around reduction and emergence in biology and complex non-linear dynamical systems.
Patricia Liu – PHD5, History of biology (20th century); Science controversies
Eleanor Louson – PHD1, Evolutionary biology and how it informs our conception of animal and human behaviour.
Greg Lusk – PHD1
Hanna Martinsen – PHD6,
Boaz Miller – PHD4, philosophy of science, social epistemology, and philosophy of the social sciences
Rebecca Moore – PHD2,
Andrew Munro – PHD4, innovation systems and knowledge flow
Sylvia Nickerson – PHD2, nineteenth century British history of mathematics, Bertrand Russell, W. K. Clifford, the philosophy of geometry and foundations of mathematics during this period
Robin Nunn – PHD4
Allan Olley – PHD7, history of computers in physics
Sarah-Jane Patterson – PHD1, history and philosophy of maps – their commission, their measure, their construction, and their acceptance.
Bruce J. Petrie – PHD3, history of mathematics
Brigit Ramsingh – PHD5, history of medicine, bacteriology, public health and food safety
Isaac Record – PHD4, philosophy of science, instruments, and their effect on styles of reasoning
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – PHD6
Nicolas Sanchez-Guerrero – PHD2, history of physics, especially the history of atomic and nuclear physics.
Bradley Shubert – PHD1
Eva Sham – MA4 (P/T), philosophy of science, especially biotechnology and medicine
Andre Siegel – PHD4 (P/T), history of Canadian science, chemistry, biotechnology and medicine
David Smillie – PHD3, history of science communication
Anna Stoklosa – PHD2, ethical and regulatory issues surrounding the governance of new biotechnologies
Mike Stuart – PHD1, origin and method of science, normativity in language and logic, regularities and patterns in the philosophy of biology, metaphysical implications of quantum mechanics, paraconsistent logic.
Michael Thicke – PHD2, the use of economic arguments in the philosophy of science, political philosophy of science, social epistemology, and the philosophy of economics
Jonathan Turner – PHD5, history and philosophy of modern technology and physics, Canadian history
Felix Tyndel – MA3 (P/T), history of medicine
Charissa Varma – PHD6, History and Philosophy of Biology, History and Philosophy of Logic
Jaipreet Virdi – PHD2, philosophy of evolutionary biology and genetics, social history of medicine
Erich Weidenhammer – PHD3, medical chemistry in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Enlightenment scientific culture
Aaron Sidney Wright – MA1, modern physics