EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
MA, Philosophy, Tufts University
Ph.D., Chemistry, Harvard University
B.Sc., Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

RESEARCH INTERESTS

AOS

General Philosophy of Science, Theories of Scientific Change, Science and Technology Studies

AOC

Bioethics, Logic, Philosophy of Social Science, History of Philosophy of Science, History of Science (especially chemistry and the Scientific Revolution), Marx and Marxism

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PUBLICATIONS

(Forthcoming) 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

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]

Discoverer and methodologist: Alfred O. C. Nier and the Instrumental Revolution in geochemistry (draft) [download]