HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PROGRAM
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS

The History and Philosophy of Science Program at the University of
California, Davis is devoted to understanding the nature, methods, and
history of science.  We invite undergraduate and graduate students to
examine historical and contemporary problems in a variety of scientific
disciplines, and to explore concepts and procedures basic to the sciences
and how they have evolved.  Graduate study in HPS may be pursued through
the Ph.D. programs in the departments of History or Philosophy, preparing
students for careers in the core disciplines or in specialized programs.
Undergraduates may minor in HPS while majoring in a core humanities
discipline or in the sciences. 

The main areas of HPS faculty specialization are: Renaissance science, the
scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, history of medicine,
history of biology, history and philosophy of natural history, science in
the American West, gender and science, philosophy of physics, and
philosophy of science. The activity of the faculty and graduate students in
HPS is organized around a very active informal reading group which meets
biweekly. HPS faculty and students also participate in Bay Area discussion
groups in biology studies and in philosophy of science. In addition, HPS
has a large number of affiliated faculty with diverse interests ranging
from anthropology to zoology. U.C. Davis offers a full range of courses in
the sciences with distinguished programs in agriculture, agricultural
economics and agricultural history, population biology (ecology, genetics,
evolution), animal behavior, veterinary and human medicine, and physics.   

Admissions:

Undergraduate students may elect History and Philosophy of Science as a
minor field. Minors need 24 units in specified courses in Philosophy,
History, and History and Philosophy of Science. The faculty advisor is
Professor Michael Dietrich, History & Philosophy of Science Program, 234
Social Sciences/Humanities Building, 916/752-3709, mrdietrich@ucdavis.edu.

Students wishing to undertake graduate studies in History and Philosophy of
Science should apply to the MA/Ph.D. programs in either the History or the
Philosophy departments. Students focusing on the history of science may
elect that as their field of specialization. Students entering the
Philosophy program may emphasize philosophy of science by selection of
courses. An interdisciplinary graduate seminar will be taught every year by
faculty on the program committee.

FACULTY:

Michael R. Dietrich (U.C. San Diego, 1991).  History and philosophy of
biology, especially genetics, evolutionary biology, molecular biology;
gender and science.
        
Paula Findlen (U.C. Berkeley, 1989).  History of medicine and natural
history, scientific revolution, patronage and institutions, gender and
science, Renaissance Italy.

James Griesemer (Chicago, 1983).  History and philosophy of modern biology,
especially evolutionary biology, ecology, genetics and paleobiology.

Michael Smith (Yale, 1983)  History of technology, America in the nuclear age.
        
Paul Teller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969).  Philosophy of
physics, interpretation of theories, methodology and explanation;
interpretation of quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and space-time
physics; philosophy of psychology.

AFFILIATED FACILITY:

Catherine J. Kudlick (History Department) Medicine, public health,
epidemics in cultural and historical context, women in modern Europe,
society and culture.

Kevin Hoover (Economics) Causality in macroeconomics, methodology, econometrics

Benjamin S. Orlove (Division of Environmental Studies) Interactions among
human populations and biological environments, structure and process of
traditional agro-eco systems, political economy of peasant agriculture in
Latin America.

Peter J. Richerson (Division of Environmental Studies) Tropical lakes,
theory of cultural evolution, history of ancient medicine.

Calvin W. Schwabe, Professor Emeritus (Veterinary Medicine:  Epidemiology
and Preventive Medicine) History of ancient medicine.

H. Bradley Shaffer (Zoology Department) Amphibian evolution biology,
systematics, functional morphology.

Arthur M. Shapiro (Zoology Department) Evolution, biogeography and
community ecology.

Morgan B. Sherwood, Professor Emeritus (History Department) American
science and technology, Environmental history, American West/Alaska.

John Stanfield II, (African and African-American Studies Program, Sociology
Department), Race and inequality in science, Sociology of scientific
knowledge

Philip M. Yager (Physics Department) Experimental high energy particle physics.




For more information, please write or call:

        Lesley Byrns, Program Coordinator
        History and Philosophy of Science
        239 Social Sciences/Humanities
        University of California
        Davis, CA 95616
        916/752-9621
        e-mail:  labyrns@ucdavis.edu

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