McOuat, Gordon - History/ Philosophy

Submitted by root on Fri, 2010/06/25 - 8:39am
Personal Information
First Name: 
Gordon
Last Name: 
McOuat
Department / Program: 
History of Science and Technology Programme and Contemporary Studies Programme University of King’s College/Dalhousie University
University Affiliation: 
University of King's College
Phone: 
9024221271
Extension: 
216
Email Address: 
gmcouat@dal.ca
Area of Research
Discipline: 
History/ Philosophy
Subject: 
Biology
Other
Geographical Region: 
Europe
North America
Time Period: 
19th and 20th Century
Current
Specific Area of Research: 
History and philosophy of classification systems, logic. Currently working on a revisionist history of essentialism as well as researching the Eastern order of things.
Academics
PHD Program: 
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science
PHD University: 
University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
1993
Major Publications: 
“The origins of ‘natural kinds’: keeping ‘essentialism’ at bay in the Age of Reform”. Intellectual History Review 19 (2009): 211-30. "Benthamite Logic", in J. Wood, ed. Handbook for the History of Logic (Vol. 4, Elsevier, 2008 (co-authored with C. Varma). Elsevier, 2008. "Mertonian norms, the local life of science and the long duré", in Jene Porter and Peter Phillips, eds. Public Science in Liberal Democracy. Montreal: McGills-Queens University Press, 2008, pp. 121-135. "Descartes and the Modern" (volume co-edited by G. McOuat, N. Robertson and T. Vinci, introduction by G. McOuat) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar?s Press, 2008. "The Dynamic System of Bunzo Hayata: Historicism, Japanese Imperialist Science and the Eastern Order of Things," in James C. Baxter, ed. Historical Consciousness, Historiography and Modern Japanese Values. Kyoto: Japanese International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2003, pp. 258-274. "The Logical Systematist: George Bentham?s Outline of a New System of Logic," Archives of Natural History, (2003) 30:203-223. "The Politics of ?Natural Kinds?: Practices of Classification in the Age of Reform," in Ursula Klein, ed. Spaces of Classification*. Berlin: Max Planck Insitut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Preprint Series, 2003, pp. 97-115. "The Latest Latour: Realism and Hope in Science Studies." Essay review in Canadian Journal of History 36 (2001): 305-311. "The Mistaken Gestalt of Science Studies: Steve Fuller takes on Kuhn." Essay review in Canadian Journal of History 36 (2001) 523-527. "From Cutting Nature at its Joints to Measuring it: Species, New Kinds and New Kinds of People in Biology," Special Issue on ?Measurement", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2001), 32: 613-645. "Cataloguing Power: Delineating 'Competent Naturalists' and the Meaning of Species in the British Museum," British Journal for the History of Science (2001), 34:1-28. "Networks, Hybrids and Forms of Life." Annals of Science (2000), 57:189-95. "Species, Rules and Meaning: the Politics of Language and the Ends of Definitions in Nineteenth Century Natural History." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1996, 27 (4): 473-519.
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science British Society for the History of Science History of Science Society Society for the Social Studies of Science
Courses Taught: 
"Science and Culture" -- 3rd year core seminar class on recent science studies and philosophy of science "History of Modern Science" -- 3rd year core seminar class on the history of 19th and 20th century science. "Introduction to the History of Western Science" -- team taught 1st year course on the history of Western science "The Questions concerning Technology" -- 4th year and graduate class on the philosophy of technology "Cyborgs" -- 3rd year seminar class on cyborgs "Brewing Science" -- 2nd year lecture class on the history of science through brewing. "The Darwinian Revolution" -- 2nd year lecture class on the history and philosophy of Darwinism.