PHD University:
University of Western Ontario
Major Publications:
"Theory Choice in the Historical Sciences: Geology as a Philosophical Case Study," The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, ed. Gary D. Rosenberg, Geological Society of America Memoir 203 (2009), 16pp.
"Of Miracles and Evidential Probability: Hume's 'Abject Failure' Vindicated," Hume Studies 31.1 (April 2005), 37-61.
"The Methodological Value of Coincidences: Further Remarks on Dark Matter and the Astrophysical Warrant for General Relativity," Philosophy of Science 72.5 (December 2005), 1324-1335.
"The Dark Matter Double Bind: Astrophysical Aspects of the Evidential Warrant for General Relativity," Philosophy of Science 70.4 (October 2003), 812-832.
"Empirical Equivalence and Approximative Methods in the New Astronomy: A Defense of Kepler Against the Charge of Fraud," Journal for the History of Astronomy 27 (November 1997), 317-336.
Membership in Academic Societies:
Courses Taught:
Evidential Reasoning
Philosophy of Science
Science and the Modern World
Rationalism
Late Modern Philosophy
Introduction to Philosophy
Critical Thinking
Introductory Logic
Formal Logic
Bioethics
Introduction to Ethics
Metaphysics in Science Fiction
