University of Pittsburgh · School
of Arts and Sciences
Department of
History and Philosophy of Science
Peter Machamer
Philosopher-in-Residence for
Attack Theatre Dance Company
Professor (Adj. Philosophy, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, The Cognitive Program in Psychology, Rhetoric of Science Program). Research Associate (Learning Research and Development Center). He has edited a number of books, including Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Science (with Michael Silberstein), Motion and Time, Space and Matter, The Cambridge Companion to Galileo, and Studies in Perception. He has written many articles on topics in the history and philosophy of science. He works primarily on 16th- and 17th-century topics, especially Galileo, Descartes and Hobbes, and in the philosophy of psychology and neuroscience, and social science, and on values and science. He also does empirical work in cognitive psychology.
On-line Works in Progress:
Interpretation
in Art and the Human and Natural Sciences (2/29/08)
Current Projects:
Descartes's Changing Mind, Peter Machamer and J.E. McGuire, Princeton University Press, August 2009.
"Explaining Mechanisms"
"Complex Persons"
"Actvities, Verbs and Reference"
"Models as Models of Mechanisms”
“The Uniquely Coherent Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes”
"Mechanical Information and Causal Continuity" (with Jim Bogen)
Cooking, Eating, and Drinking Philosophically: a cookbook and guide, with Jim Bogen.