Professor & Chair: Liberal Studies DepartmentJAMES R. HOFMANN
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André-Marie Ampère, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford and Boston,1995; reissued by Cambridge University Press as André-Marie Ampère: Enlightenment and Electrodynamics, 1996. Articles "Ampère, Electrodynamics and Experimental Evidence", OSIRIS, (1987), vol. 3, pp. 45-76. "Ampère's Invention of Equilibrium Apparatus: A Response to Experimental Anomaly", The British Journal for the History of Science, (1987) vol. 20, pp. 309-341. "Ampère's Electrodynamics and the Acceptability of Guiding Assumptions", in A. Donavan, L. Laudan and R. Laudan (eds.), Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change (1988: Dordrecht, D. Reidel Publishing Company), pp. 201-217; 1992 second edition (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Press), pp. 201-217. "Engineers under Fire: Socially Responsible Engineering at the University of El Salvador", in M. Rogers and N. Warren (eds.), A Delicate Balance: Technics, Culture and Consequences, (1990: Los Angeles: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), pp. 123-129. (coauthored with Andrea Stoutland) "How The Models of Chemistry Vie", in A. Fine, M. Forbes and L. Wessels (eds.), PSA 1990: Proceedings of the 1990 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. (1990, East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association), vol. 1, pp. 405-419. "Darcy's Law and Structural Explanation in Hydrology" in D. Hull, M. Forbes and K. Okruhlik, (eds.), PSA 1992: Proceedings of the 1992 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, volume 1. (1992, East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association) , pp. 23-35 (co-authored with Paul A. Hofmann). "Data, Theory, and Evolutionary Phenomena", Origins & Design, vol. 17, no. 2, 1996, pp. 6-9. “The Fact of Evolution: Implications for Science Education”, Science & Education, November, 2003, vol.12, pp. 729-760. (co-authored with Bruce H. Weber) Book Reviews Revolution in Science, I. Bernard Cohen, Harvard University Press, 1985; in Queen's Quarterly, vol. 93, number 2, Summer 1986, pp. 443-446. Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930's America, Peter J. Kuznick, University of Chicago Press, 1987; in Science and Nature, No. 9/10, 1989, pp. 166-169. The How and the Why: An Essay on the Origins and Development of Physical Theory, David Park, Princeton University Press, 1989; in ISIS vol.81, 1990, pp. 319-320. James Joule: A Biography, D.S.L. Cardwell, St. Martin's Press, 1989; in ISIS, vol. 82, 1991, pp. 149-150. Reading the Mind of God: In Search of the Principle of Universality, J. Trefil, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989; in ISIS, vol. 82, 1991, pp. 349-350. The Story of Physics, L. Motz and J. H. Weaver, Plenum Press, 1989; in ISIS, vol. 82, 1991, pp. 539-540. L'Invention de L'Ingenieur Moderne: L'École des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851, Antoine Picon, Presses de l'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 1992; in ISIS, vol. 85, 1994, pp. 536-537. The Physics of Chance: From Blaise Pascal to Neils Bohr, Charles Ruhla, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992; in ISIS, volume 85, 1994, pp. 680-681. Book Review Essay Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840: From the Calculus and Mechanics to Mathematical Analysis and Mathematical Physics by I. Grattan-Guinness, Boston: Birkhauser Publishers, 1990, 3 volumes, and Naissance d'un nouveau pouvoir: Science et savants en France 1793-1824 by Jean and Nicole Dhombres, Paris: Editions Payot, 1989; ISIS, volume 83, 1992, pp. 291-297. Biographical Reference Articles "Philip Anderson", "Hans Bethe", "Peter Kapitza", and "Neville Mott" in The Nobel Prize Winners: Physics, edited by Frank N. Magill, Salem Press, 1989; pp. 1133-1141, 925-934, 1145-1154, and 1121-1130. "Pierre-Simon Laplace", in Great Lives From History: Renaissance to 1900, 5 volumes, edited by Frank N. Magill, Salem Press, 1989; pp. 1252-1257. "Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa", in Great Lives From History: Twentieth Century, five volumes, edited by Frank N. Magill, Salem Press, 1990, pp. 1149-1154. "André-Marie Ampère" and "Pierre-Simon Laplace", in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics, edited by John S. Rigden, Simon & Schuster Macmillan, New York, 1996, vol. 2, pp. 38-39 and 828-829. Selected Lectures and Presentations "How the Models of Chemistry Vie", presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, October 1990, in Minneapolis. "Darcy's Law and Structural Explanation in Hydrology", presented at the1992 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association in Chicago; October 31, 1992. "Ampère's Electrodynamic Reduction of Poisson's Theory of Magnetism", presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, November, 1993 in Sante Fe. "Biography and the Resolution of the Experimenter's Regress", presented at the Third British-North American History of Science Meeting,"Crossing Boundaries", July 23, 1996, Edinburgh Scotland. “In Defense of Common Descent: A Rebuttal of Chapter 3 of Jonathan Wells' Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach about Evolution is Wrong”, presented at the Sixth International Conference of the History, Philosophy, and Science Teaching Organization, November 9, 2001 Denver, Colorado. |