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James E. McGuire, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science
17th- and 18th-century Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Thought, Ancient Philosophy
B.Phil., Oxford, 1962
James E. McGuire is professor of history and philosophy of science. Before coming to Pittsburgh he taught at the universities of Leicester, Leeds, Harvard, and Cornell. In 1970-71, he was Visiting Amundsen Professor of British History at the University of Pittsburgh, and in 1990, he was Visiting Silverman Professor at the Cohn Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv. His interests center around 17th- and 18th-century scientific, philosophical, and theological thought, the rhetoric and epistemology of the physical sciences, and ancient Greek philosophy. He is co-author (with Martin Tamny) of Certain Philosophical Questions: Newton's Trinity Notebook (1983). Also he is the co-editor (with James Bogen) of How Things Are (1985). He has recently published a book (with Barbara Tuchanska) entitled Science Unfettered: A Philosophical Study in Sociohistorical Ontology (2000).
