PHD Program:
History and Philosophy of Science
Major Publications:
The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz, (edited with J. Brown), Reidel, 1985, vii + 342 pp.
Women and Reason (edited with E. Harvey), University of Michigan Press, 1992, 294 pp.
PSA 1992, volume one (edited with D. Hull and M. Forbes), Philosophy of Science Association, 1992, xxx +552 pp.
PSA 1992, volume two (edited with D. Hull and M. Forbes), Philosophy of Science Association, 1993, xix + 496 pp.
APhilosophical Feminism: Challenges to Science@, with A. Wylie, Resources for Feminist Research, vol. 16, no. 3, 1988, pp. 379-388.
AFeminist Critiques of Science: The Epistemological and Methodological Literature@, with A. Wylie, S. Morton, and L. Thielen-Wilson, Women=s Studies International Forum, vol. 12, no. 3, 1989, pp. 97-113
AThe Foundation of All Philosophy: Newton=s Third Rule@, in J. Brown and J. Mittelstrass (eds.) An Intimate Relation: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989.
APhilosophical Feminism: A Bibliographic Guide to Critiques of Science@ (with A. Wylie, L. Thielen-Wilson, and S. Morton) Resources for Feminist Research, June 1990, pp 2-36.
ALogical Empiricism, Feminism, and Neurath=s Auxiliary Motive@. Hypatia 19.1, Winter 2004,
pp. 48-72.
Critical Notice of Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective by Bas C. van Fraassen, Canadian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming 2009).
Membre des sociétés académiques:
Canadian Philosophical Association
History of Science Society (formerly)
Leibniz Society of America
Philosophy of Science Association
Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy
North American Kant Society (formerly)
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate Courses Taught:
Biomedical Ethics
Structure of Scientific Theories
The Scientific Revolution
Ethics and Medicine
Philosophy of Science
Liberal Studies in Science
Great Philosophers: Bertrand Russell
John Stuart Mill
Symbolic Logic
Reasoning and Critical Thinking
Seminar in 20th Century Philosophy
Hilary Putnam
Philosophical Issues in Feminism
Introduction to Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Feminist Theories of Knowledge
Feminist Ethics and Social Political Philosophy
Philosophy of Physics
Science and Values
Graduate Courses Taught:
Scientific and Metaphysical Realism
Scientific Revolution: Space and Time, Matter and Method
Philosophy of Science
Space and Time
Laws of Nature
Reductionism and the Unity of Science
Feminist Theories of Knowledge
Feminist Ethics and Social Political Philosophy
Peirce on Chance and Probability (reading course)
The Human Genome Project (reading course)
Unification in the Physical Sciences (reading course)
Explanation in Molecular & Evolutionary Biology (reading course)
Representation and Realism (reading course)
Naturalized Epistemology (reading course)
Philosophical Issues in the IQ Debates (reading course)
Models, Maps, Metaphors and Pictures (prospectus course)
Peirce and Spinoza (prospectus course)
Values in Science
John Stuart Mill
