Nasim, Omar - History/ Philosophy

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Personal Information
First Name: 
Omar
Last Name: 
Nasim
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
History of Science
University Affiliation: 
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Phone: 
+41 (0) 44 6327116
Email Address: 
omar.nasim@wiss.gess.ethz.ch
Area of Research
Discipline: 
History/ Philosophy
Subject: 
Astronomy
Mathematics
Geographical Region: 
Germany
Great Britain
Time Period: 
19th and 20th Century
Specific Area of Research: 
History of analytic philosophy: phenomenalism, representation, construction, scientific philosophy, mathematical logic, and philosophical psychology; history of 19th century astronomy: imaging making and production, observation, nebular astronomy
Academics
PHD Program: 
Philosophy
PHD University: 
University of Toronto
PHD Date: 
2007
Major Publications: 
Observing by Hand: Sketching the Nebulae in the 19th Century More (accepted by the University of Chicago Press) Bertrand Russell and the Edwardian Philosophers: Constructing the World. (Palgrave MacMillan Press, 2008). In the History of Analytic Philosophy Series, Editor M. Beaney; and Winner of the Bertrand Russell Society
Membership in Academic Societies: 
Senior Research Fellow at the Chair for Science Studies (ETH-Zurich) and Member of the NCCR Eikones (Univ. Basel)