History Unveiled Science Unfettered:
A Conference in Celebration of James
E. McGuire
Image courtesy of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress
Room 2P56, Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh,
January 19, 2002
In 2001-2002, Professor James E. McGuire celebrates his seventieth birthday and thirty one years of teaching, scholarship and service as a founding professor of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. We meet to honor our friend and celebrate his achievements.
| 9:15-9:30 | Peter K. Machamer | Opening Remarks |  |
| Morning Chair: Bernard Goldstein | |||
| The Work of Isaac Newton | |||
| 9:30-10:10 | Alan Shapiro (University of Minnesota) | "Newton's 'Experimental Philosophy'" |  |
| 10:10-10:50 | Ofer Gal (Ben Gurion University) | "The Inverse Square Law." |  |
| 10:50-11:20 | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:20-12:00 | Discussion: | The Work of Isaac Newton |  |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch Break | ||
| Afternoon Chair: Paul Griffiths | |||
| The Historiography of Science | |||
| 1:30-2:10 | Barbara Tuchanska (University of Lodz) | "Clio meets Minerva: Interrelations between History and Philosophy of Science" | |
| 2:10-2:50 | John G. McEvoy (University of Cincinnati) | "Whither the History of Science: Reflections of the Historiography of the Chemical Revolution." | |
| 2:50-3:30 | Discussion: | The Historiography of Science |  |
| 3:30-4:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00-4:40 | James J. Bono (State University of New York at Buffalo) | "The Book of Nature: Then and Now." |  |
| 4:40-5:00 | Discussion: | The Book of Nature | |
| 5:00-5:30 | Presentation |  |
 | 6.00-8:30 | Conference party | 
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For preprints, see philsci-archive.pitt.edu (Select
"Browse", then "Conferences and Volumes". ).
For abstracts.
Center for Philosophy of Science
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Office of the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Science
Office of the Provost
Organizing Committee:
James G. Lennox
Peter K. Machamer
John D. Norton