The University of Texas at Austin

Program in the History and Philosophy of Science

Sahotra Sarkar, Director


Nicholas Asher
Department of Philosophy, Department of Linguistics
Interests: Asher has interests in cognitive science and formal semantics, especially the mathematical modeling of discourse interpretation. He has also worked on topics in philosophical logic: self-referential paradoxes in a doxastic setting, nonmonotonic reasoning, formal theories of belief, intention and belief revision. His work includes exploring various issues in linguistics: presupposition, ellipsis, and focus, and now plural quantification.
nasher@mail.la.utexas.edu

http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/philosophy/faculty/asher/main.html

David Braybrooke
Department of Government, Department of Philosophy
Interests: Braybrooke is interested in a wide varitey of subjects including: ethical theory, applied ethical theory, philosophy of the social sciences, and rational choice theory. He is also interested in the how models and decision theory relate to, and are used by, the social sciences.
braeburn@jeeves.la.utexas.edu

James J. Bull
School of Biological Sciences, Section of Integrative Biology

Interests: Bull's current research is oriented toward solving basic questions about evolution mechanisms. Topics include the evolutionary significance of recombination and sex, molecular genetics of adaptations, selfish genes, and cooperation. Research organisms are chiefly bacteriophage because of the ease of laboratory manipulations afforded by them. Students are encouraged to initiate their research on a well-defined model system to gain experience and then expand their research to problems of their own design.

Bull@bull.zo.utexas.edu
http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/IB/faculty/bull.htm

Robert L. Causey
Department of Philosophy
Interests: Causey is interested in logic and reasoning, including commonsense reasoning, evidential reasoning in law, and scientific explanations. He also works on the foundations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science. He is the author of Unity of Science (1977) and Logic, Sets, and Recursion (1994).
rlc@cs.utexas.edu
http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/philosophy/faculty/causey/

R. J. Hankinson
Department of Philosophy
Interests:  R. J. Hankinson's main interests are in Greek science, in particular Greek medicine, and more specifically Galen. He has also written on the Hippocratics, the Alexandrians and the Medical Empiricists, as well as on Aristotle's science and philosophy of science, and the Stoics' views on the status of divination. Hankinson is also interested in early modern science, in particular Galileo.
rjhankinson@mail.utexas.edu

Bruce Hunt
Department of History
Interests:  Bruce J. Hunt is an historian of physics and an Associate Professor in the Department of History. He is author of The Maxwellians (Cornell University Press, 1991) and of numerous articles on the development of electrical science and technology in the nineteenth century. He has also taught courses on topics in the history of science and technology ranging from the Galileo affair to the development of nuclear weapons.
bjhunt@mail.utexas.edu

Cory Juhl
Department of Philosophy
Interests: Juhl published a number of papers concerning the foundations of inductive methodology with an emphasis on the relevance of formal learning theory to such foundational issues. Currently Juhl is primarily interested in conventionalism and a priori knowledge, as well as attempts to naturalize intentional and semantic relations.
cjuhl@mail.utexas.edu

http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/philosophy/faculty/juhl/main.html

Mark Kirkpatrick
Department of Biology, Section of Integrative Biology
Interests: Research in Dr. Kirkpatrick's lab covers a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology. His own work focuses mainly on evolutionary theory. A major research interest is sexual selection. He and his collaborators are currently investigating the role that sexual selection plays in speciation. Other areas of interest include the evolution of plasticity, growth, and shape; evolution of the haploid-diploid life cycle; maternal inheritance; and the evolution of a species' range.
Kirkp@mail.utexas.edu

http://www.biosci.utexas.edu/IB/faculty/kirkpatr.htm

Fred Kronz
Department of Philosophy
kronz@mail.utexas.edu

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~kronz/

Michael Marder
Department of Physics
Interests:  As a physicist, Michael Marder has a general interest in where his strange field comes from. Of course, he doesn't want to know too much, or he may not be able to function. Linguists sometimes find difficulty speaking.
marder@chaos.ph.utexas.edu
http://chaos.ph.utexas.edu/~marder

Steven A. Moore
School of Architecture
Interests:  Scholars have debated the degree to which we can isolate the history and philosophy of science from that of technology. Steven Moore's interests are directed more at the latter because the social construction of technological systems inevitably influences the creation of places. As an architect, Moore is most interested in the relation between place-making and the technologies that we employ to realize our intentions. The history and philosophy of science informs that investigation to the degree that it helps us question our assumptions about the relation between humans and nature.
samoore@mail.utexas.edu

http://www.ar.utexas.edu/Faculty/mooref.html

Juan A. Salinas
Department of Psychology
Interests: Salinas's research focuses upon the neurobiology and neuropharmacology of emotion and the relation of emotion to learning & memory. He is also interested in the influence of hormones on: regulating behavior, emotion, and the storage of memory. His work also investigates the role of lead (Pb++) exposure as a risk factor for neurological deficits such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and related disturbances of cognition and behavior.
salinas@psy.utexas.edu

http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/FACULTY/Salinas/Salinas.html

Sahotra Sarkar
Department of Philosophy
Interests: Sarkar has interests in the philosophy and history of nineteenth and twentieth century biology and physics: theoretical population biology: conservation biology: mathematical economics: mathematical logic: philosophy of logic: history of the philosophy of science: Marxism and aesthetics.
sarkar@mail.utexas.edu
http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~philsci/sarkar/main.html

Steven Weinberg
Department of Physics
weinberg@physics.utexas.edu

http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~weintech/weinberg.html