John P. McCaskey

After spending twenty years in the computer business, I got a PhD in history of science from Stanford (with visits to Pitt HPS along the way). For ten years, I taught intellectual history at Stanford, Brown, then Columbia. I now make an academic home for myself in the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University. My primary scholarship concerns evolving conceptions of induction from the ancient world to the early twentieth century but occasionally I do still work on history of science, recently on the history of the concept of temperature. My forthcoming INDUCTION: SOCRATES TO POPPER will be published by the University of Chicago Press.