EDUCATION
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Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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MA, Philosophy, Tufts University
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Ph.D., Chemistry, Harvard University
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B.Sc., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
PUBLICATIONS
(In press) Discoverer and methodologist: Alfred O. C. Nier and the Instrumental Revolution in geochemistry [download]
(2023) Whose labor? Labor, appropriation and the very idea of full automation. Science & Society. [download]
(2020). On "the Application of Science to Science Itself:" Chemistry, Instruments and the Scientific Labor Process. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 79, 41-56. [download]
(2020). Science, labor and scientific progress. University of Pittsburgh. [download]
(2019). Discovery and Instrumentation: How surplus knowledge contributes to progress in science. Perspectives on Science, 27(6), 861-890. [download]
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
What Makes the Historical Sciences Tick? Geochronology and the Ontology of the Historical Sciences. Integrated HPS Workshop, July 2023, Durham UK. [download]
Discoverer and Methodologist: Alfred O. C. Nier and the Instrumental Revolution in Geochemistry, 1935-1948. History of Science Society, Chicago, November 2022 [download]
Discovery and instrumentation: how surplus knowledge contributes to progress in science, Edmonton, May 2021 [download]
Science, labor and scientific progress. Société de philosophie des sciences, Nantes, July 2018 [download]
Accentuating the Positive: Observation and Measurement in Kepler’s Optics. Measurement at the Crossroads, Paris, June 2018 [download]
MANUSCRIPTS
What makes the historical sciences tick? Geochronology and the ontology of scientific methods (draft) [download]