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8Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America's Most Powerful Economics Program (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2011.Over the past forty years, economists associated with the University of Chicago have won more than one-third of the Nobel prizes awarded in their discipline and have been major influences on American public policy. Building Chicago Economics presents the first collective attempt by social science historians to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed the Second World War. Drawing on new research in published and archival sources, contributors examine …Read more
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85The Virtues of Scientific Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Historiography of ScienceIsis 107 (3): 499-72. 2016.“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and especially on its potential connections with ethics. In this essay, we draw on the work of the virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including allegations about the corruption of science by wealth or power; consideration of scientific ethics or “m…Read more
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24Science, Technology, and Virtues: Contemporary Perspectives (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2021.
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14The Statistical Mind in Modern Society: The Netherlands, 1850–1940. Volume 1: Official Statistics, Social Progress, and Modern Enterprise. Volume 2: Statistics and Scientific Work by Jacques G. S. J. van Maarseveen; Paul M. M. Klep; Ida H. Stamhuis
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16Shaping Knowledge about American Labor: External Advising at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Twentieth CenturyScience in Context 23 (2): 187-220. 2010.ArgumentCreated in 1884, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has been the major federal source for data in the United States on labor-related topics such as prices, unemployment, compensation, productivity, and family expenditures. This essay traces the development and transformation of formal and informal consulting relationships between the BLS and external groups over the twentieth century. Though such a history cannot, of course, provide a comprehensive analysis of how political values have …Read more
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University of Notre DameRegular Faculty
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy of Biology |