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Biography
B.Sc. (1960) and Ph.D. (1964), Queen's University of Belfast, N.
Ireland.
Areas of Specialization:
Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy, Descartes, Spinoza, the
Cambridge Platonists, History and Philosophy of Science.
Education
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Ecole pratique des hautes études (VIe section),
Centre de recherches d'histoire des sciences et des techniques.
Elève Titulaire, 1964-65.
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Queen's University of Belfast, Department of
Philosophy. Ph.D. (1964). Dissertation:: "Descartes' dynamical
thought: a critical study of some problems, principles, and
concepts".
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Queen's University of Belfast, B.Sc., 1960.
Major: Applied Mathematics.
Teaching Positions
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Department of Philosophy, Barnard College,
Columbia University, New York, Full Professor, from July 1992. Chair
of Department, from Autumn Term, 1993.
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Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Centre Alexandre Koyré (Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques),
Paris. Visiting professorship, May 1991.
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Department of Philosophy, University of Utah,
Salt Lake City. E. E. Erickson Visiting Professor of Philosophy,
Winter Term 1991.
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Queen's University Belfast, Department of
Scholastic Philosophy. TA, Fall Semester 1990-91.
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Department of Philosophy, Washington
University, St. Louis, MO. Visiting Professor, Spring Semester,
1989.
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Institute for the History and Philosophy of
Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Victoria College,
Toronto.. Visiting Professor, Fall Semester 1988.
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Center for the Study of Science in Society,
Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Visiting
Professor, Spring Quarter 1988.
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Department of History & Philosophy of Science,
Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Reader Emeritus,
December 1987, Head of Department (1979-1987), Reader in History &
Philosophy of Science, 1985-1987, Senior Lecturer (1977-85),
Lecturer (1968-1976), Assistant Lecturer (1965-1968).
Professional Activities
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Editorial Board, Archives Internationales
d'Histoire des Idées (Kluwer Academic Publishers, incorp. Reidel,
Nijhoff, Junk, MTP Press, Dordrecht), since March 1988.
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Consulting Editor of Studies in History and
Philosophy of Science (Cambridge), 1982-1991.
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Membre effectif , International Academy of the
History of Science. Elected 1988.
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Membre correspondant , International Academy of
the History of Science. Elected 1978.
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New York Academy of Sciences, Advisory
Committee for History and Philosophy of Science Section (1995-)
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