May 2010

Curriculum Vitae

Margaret J. Osler

Department of History 403-220-6414 (office) University of Calgary 403-244-3277 (home) 2500 University Drive, N.W. FAX: 403-289-8566 Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 e-mail: [email protected] Canada

Citizenship

U. S. and Canadian

Education

Forest Park High School, Baltimore, Maryland Diploma 1959

Swarthmore College B.A. (Major: Philosophy) 1963

Indiana University, Department of History and Philosophy of Science M.A. 1966 Thesis: “Pierre Gassendi: A Study of the Philosophical Foundations of the New Science.” Supervisor: Richard S. Westfall. Ph.D. 1968 Dissertation: “John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton.” Supervisor: Richard S. Westfall.

Academic Appointments

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Assistant Professor of the History of Science and Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1968-1970) Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California Assistant Professor of History (1970-1974) Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Assistant Professor of History (1974-1975) The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Assistant Professor of History (1975-1977) Associate Professor of History (1977-1995), tenured 1980 Professor of History (1995-present) Adjunct Professor of Philosophy (1998-present) 2 The University of Alberta Adjunct Professor of History (2002-present) Honors and Prizes

Science and Religion Course Prize, The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 1999 Richard S. Westfall Lecture, Indiana University, 1999 Stillman Drake Lecture, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, 1996

Selected Fellowships and Research Grants

Izaak Walton Killam Resident Fellowship, University of Calgary, Winter 2009 University of Canterbury Visiting Erskine Fellowship, School of Philosophy and Religious Studies, College of Arts, Christchurch, New Zealand, May 1-June 14, 2008. Faculty of Social Sciences Research Fellowship, University of Calgary, 2006 Science and Religion Course Program Development Grant, The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, 2001 Templeton/American Scientific Affiliation Lecture Grant, 2000-2001, 2001-2002. Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Annual Fellowship, 1987-1988, 1997-1998, and 2007-2008. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Research Grant, 1996-1999. National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers, July 1 - December 31, 1996. Izaak Walton Killam Resident Fellowship, University of Calgary, Fall Term 1989. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Leave Fellowship, 1984 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Leave Fellowship, 1980-81 Oregon State University, Research Grant for Faculty Members, 1969-70. Research Assistantship, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, 1967-1968 National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship, 1966-1967 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Graduate Traineeship, 1963-1966

Research and Publications

Books

Reconfiguring the World: Nature, God, and Human Understanding: from the Middle Ages to Early Modern Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), in press.

Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Paperback edition, 2005. Selections reprinted in Literature Criticism From 1400 to 1800, edited by Marie Lazzari (Farmington Hills, Minn.: The Gale Group, 2000) 3 Edited Books

Margaret J. Osler (editor), Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Margaret J. Osler (editor), Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Paperback edition, 2005

Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber (editors), Religion, Science and Worldview: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). Paperback edition, 2002

Marsha P. Hanen, Margaret J. Osler, and Robert G. Weyant, (editors), Science, Pseudo- science, and Society (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980)

Edited Journals

John Hedley Brooke, Margaret J. Osler, and Jitse Van Der Meer (guest editors), Science in Theistic Contexts, Osiris, vol. 16, 2001

Articles in Books

"Edward Grant and the Destiny of Medieval Science: Aristotelianism and the Void," in Le vide et la nature, edited by Joel Biard and Sabine Rommevaux, forthcoming.

"Was There a Scientific Revolution?” in Oxford Handbook for the History of Physics, edited by Robert Fox and Jed Buchwald (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012).

“Religion and the Changing Historiography of the Scientific Revolution,” in Science and Religion: New Perspectives, edited by Thomas Dixon, Geoffrey Cantor and Stephen Pumfrey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp 71-86.

“Becoming an Outsider: Gassendi in the History of Philosophy,” in Insiders and Outsiders in the Seventeenth Century, edited by G. A. J. Rogers, Tom Sorell, and Jill Kraye (London: Routledge, 2010), pp. 23-42.

“The Scientific Revolution Liberated Science from Religion” in Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion, edited by Ronald L. Numbers (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 90-98.

“Descartes’s Optics: Light, The Eye, and Perception,” in A Companion to Descartes, edited by Janet Broughton and John Carriero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008), pp. 124-141. “Gassendi: Résurrection et atomisme, les limites de la raison et les frontières de la mécanisation,” translated by Michel Pellissier and Sylvie Taussig, in Gassendi et 4 la Modernité, edited by Sylvie Taussig (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008), pp. 249-260.

“The Gender of Nature and the Nature of Gender in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,” in Men, Women, and the Birthing of Modern Science, edited by Judith P. Zinsser (DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), pp. 71-85.

“When Did Pierre Gassendi Become a Libertine?” in Heterodoxy in Early Modern Science and Religion, edited by John Brooke and Ian Maclean (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 169-192.

“The New Newtonian Scholarship and the Fate of the Scientific Revolution,” in Newtonianism: New Studies, edited by Sarah Hutton and James E. Force (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2004), pp. 1-13.

“Early Modern Uses of Hellenistic Philosophy: Gassendi’s Epicurean Project,” in Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Jon Miller and Brad Inwood (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 30-44.

“Pierre Gassendi,” in A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Steven Nadler (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 80-95.

“How Mechanical Was the Mechanical Philosophy? Non-Epicurean Themes in Gassendi’s Atomism,” in Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories, edited by Christoph Lüthy, John Murdoch, and William R. Newman (Leiden: Brill, 2001), pp. 423-439.

“Robert Boyle on the Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife,” in Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture: The Millenarian Turn, ed. James E. Force and Richard H. Popkin (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001), pp. 43-54

“The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution,” in Margaret J. Osler (editor), Rethinking the Scientific Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 3-22.

“Renaissance Humanism, Lingering Aristotelianism, and The New Natural Philosophy: Gassendi on Final Causes,” in Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Jill Kraye and Martin Stone, London Studies in the History of Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 193-208.

“Volonté divine et vérité mathématique: le conflit entre Descartes et Gassendi sur le statut des vérités éternelles,” Gassendi et le triomphe du cartésianisme en France et en Europe. Actes du Colloque International de Paris, “Gassendi et Sa Posterité (1592-1792)” (Sorbonne 6-10 Octobre 1992), edited by Sylvia Murr (Paris: J. Vrin, 1997), pp. 31-41. “Triangulating Divine Will: Henry More, Robert Boyle, and René Descartes on God's Relationship to the Creation,” in Stoicismo e Origenismo nella Filosofia del Seicento Inglese, edited by Marialuisa Baldi (Milano: Franco Angeli, 1996), pp. 75-87. 5

“Divine Will and Mathematical Truth: The Conflict between Descartes and Gassendi on the Status of Eternal Truths,” in Descartes and His Contemporaries: Meditations, Objections and Replies, edited by Roger Ariew and Marjorie Grene (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), pp. 145-158.

“Marsha P. Hanen, A Portrait,” in The Woman as Artist: Papers in Honour of Marsha Hanen, edited by Christine Mason Sutherland and Beverly Matson Rasporich (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1993), pp. 9-18.

“Ancients, Moderns, and the History of Philosophy: Gassendi's Epicurean Project,” in The Rise of Modern Philosophy: The Tension between the New and Traditional Philosophies from Machiavelli to Leibniz, edited by Tom Sorell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 129-143.

“The Intellectual Origins of Robert Boyle's Philosophy of Nature: Gassendi's Voluntarism and Boyle's Physico-Theological Project”, in Philosophy, Science, and Religion, 1640-1700, edited by Richard Ashcraft, Richard Kroll, and Perez Zagorin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 178-198.

“Introduction,” with Letizia Panizza, in Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought, edited by Margaret J. Osler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 1-9.

“Fortune, Fate, and Divination: Gassendi's Voluntarist Theology and the Baptism of Epicureanism,” in Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought, edited by Margaret J. Osler (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 155-174.

“Baptizing Epicurean Atomism: Pierre Gassendi on the Immortality of the Soul,” in Religion, Science, and Worldview: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall, edited by Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 163-184.

Selected sections reprinted in The Scientific Revolution, edited by Lisa Sarasohn (Worcester, Massachusetts: Houghton-Mifflin, 2005), pp. 67-71..

Reprinted in Essays on Early Modern Philosophers: From Descartes and Hobbes to Newton and Leibniz, edited by Vere Chappell (Hamden, Connecticut: Garland, 1992)

“Preface: Westfall as Teacher and Scholar,” in Religion, Science, and Worldview: Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall, edited by Margaret J. Osler and Paul Lawrence Farber (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. xi-xiv. “Apocryphal Knowledge: The Misuse of Science,” in Science, Pseudo-science, and Society, edited by Marsha P. Hanen, Margaret J. Osler, and Robert G. Weyant, (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980), pp. 273-290.

“Certainty, Scepticism, and Scientific Optimism: The Roots of Eighteenth-century Attitudes toward Scientific Knowledge,” in Probability, Space, and Time, edited 6 by Paula Backscheider (New York: AMS Press, 1977), pp. 3-28.

Articles in Journals

“The Search for the Historical Gassendi,” Perspectives on Science, forthcoming.

With Richard A. Watson, “Philosophical History of Philosophy: A Reply,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2003, 41: 407.

“The History of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: A Plea for Textual History in Context,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2002, 40: 529-533.

“New Wine in Old Bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian Origin of Early Modern Physics,” Renaissance and Early Modern Philosophy, edited by Peter French, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 26 (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 167-184.

“Whose Ends? Teleology in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,”Osiris, 2001, 16: 151- 68.

“Rethinking the Scientific Revolution: New Historiographical Directions,” Intellectual News, no. 8, Summer, 2000: 21-30.

“Mixing Metaphors: Science and Religion or Natural Philosophy and Theology in Early Modern Europe,” History of Science, 1998, 36: 91-113.

“From Immanent Natures to Nature as Artifice: The Reinterpretation of Final Causes in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy,” The Monist, 1996, 79: 388-408.

“Eternal Truths and the Laws of Nature: The Theological Foundations of Descartes' Philosophy of Nature,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 1985, 46: 349-362.

“Providence, Divine Will, and Gassendi's Views on Scientific Knowledge,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 1983, 44: 549-560.

“Sex, Science, and Values: A Critique of Sociobiological Accounts of Sex Differences,” Resources for Feminist Research, 1980: 119-124.

“Charleton and Descartes on Nature and God,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 1979, 40: 445-456.

With Eliane Leslau Silverman, “Women in Science: A Discussion,” Atlantis, 1977, 2: 173-177.

“Galileo, Motion, and Essences,” Isis, 1973, 64: 504-509. Reprinted in The Scientific Enterprise in Early Modern Europe: Readings from Isis, edited by Peter Dear (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Reprinted in Meridians: Sources in World History (Boston: Pearson Custom 7 Publishing, 2006

“John Locke and the Changing Ideal of Scientific Knowledge,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 1970, 31: 3-16.

Reprinted in Philosophy, Religion and Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries, edited by John W. Yolton (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1990), pp. 325-338.

Articles in Reference Works

“The Mechanical Philosophy,” in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, edited by Maryanne Cline Horowitz, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005), vol. 4, pp. 1389-92.

“Charleton, Walter,” in Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, edited by Jonathan Dewald, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 476-7.

“Gassendi, Pierre,” in Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, edited by Jonathan Dewald, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004), vol. 3, pp. 21-3.

“Charleton, Walter,” in Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, edited by Jonathan Dewald, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004), vol. 1, pp. 476-7.

“Mechanical Philosophy,” in A Historical Introduction to Science and Religion, edited by Gary Ferngren (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), pp. 143- 153.

“Scienza e Teologia,” in Storia della scienza, editor-in-chief Sandro Petruccioli, 10 vols. (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 2001- ), vol.5 (2002), pp. 34-48..

“Epicurus” in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, edited by Paul F. Grendler, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999), vol. 2, pp. 283-4 “Skepticism,” in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, edited by Paul F. Grendler, 6 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons in association with the Renaissance Society of America, 1999), vol. 6, pp. 36-8.

“Skepticism”, in The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, edited by Wilbur Applebaum (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 601-2. “Epicureanism”, in The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, edited by Wilbur Applebaum (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 210-213.

“Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655)”, in The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, edited by Wilbur Applebaum (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 256-8.

“Providence, Divine”, in The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia, edited by Wilbur Applebaum (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 529-31). 8 “Charleton, Walter,” in Thoemmes' Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophy, edited by Andrew Pyle, 2 vols. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2000), vol. 1 pp. 169-75.

“Varieties of Providentialism”, in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, edited by Gary B. Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, and Darrel W. Amundsen (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000), pp. 53-7.

“Skepticism”, in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, edited by Gary B. Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, and Darrel W. Amundsen (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000), pp. 141-5.

“Mechanical Philosophy”, in The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, edited by Gary B. Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, and Darrel W. Amundsen (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000), pp. 149-54.

“Gassendi, Pierre (1592-1655),” in Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 305-6.

“Gassendi, Pierre,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward Craig 10 vols. (London: Routledge, 1998), vol. 3, pp. 848-57.

“Fahrenheit, Gabriel Daniel,” and “Hooke, Robert,” in The World Book Encyclopedia (Chicago: 1989), Vol. 9, p. 310.

“Physical Sciences, History of,” with James Brookes Spencer, Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th edition (Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1974), Vol. 14, pp. 384- 392.

Occasional Pieces

“ Magic, Science, and Religion in Calgary,” History of Science Society Newsletter, October 2009.

“History and Philosophy of Science among the Kiwis,” History of Science Society Newsletter, October 2008, 37.

“Jan W. Wojcik: 21 September 1944 – 1 July 2006,” Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2006, 44, number 4.

“Magic, Science, and Religion in Calgary,” History of Science Society Newsletter, April 2002, 31 (2): 4-5.

“The Relation of Gender Race and Science in Historical Perspective,” in Women, Gender, and the History of Science, collected and prepared by Andrea Rusnock (Seattle, Washington: History of Science Society, 1999).

“Richard S. Westfall, 22 April 1924--21 August 1996,” in The Richard Westfall Library 9 of Newton & Newtoniana, Jeff Weber Rare Books, Catalog 57, 1998.

“Eloge: Richard S. Westfall, 22 April 1924--21 August 1996,” Isis, 1997, 88: 178-181.

“Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs (19 October 1930 - 29 March 1994): A Tribute,” History of Science Society Newsletter, July 1994, pp. 7-8.

“The Realism of Copernican Astronomy,” The Book of Lectures, edited by Richard Johnston, Festival of Polish Culture, The University of Calgary, 1977.

Essay Reviews

“Once and Future Scholars: Gassendi Studies Today,” in Perspectives on Science, forthcoming.

“What Ever Happened to the Scientific Revolution?” featured review of Katharine Park and Lorraine Daston, editors, The Cambridge History of Science, vol 3, Early Modern Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), in The American Historical Review, 2007, 112: 1184-1187.

“A Hero for Their Times: Early Biographies of Newton,” essay review of Rob Iliffe, Milo Keynes and Rebekah Higgitt, Early Biographies of Isaac Newton, 1660- 1885, 2 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005), in Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, vol. 60 (3), 08 September 2006: 291-305.

“Robert Boyle Recovered,” essay review of The Works of Robert Boyle, edited by Michael Hunter and Edward B. Davis, 14 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 1999 and 2000) in Isis, 2001, 92: 351-3.

“Revolution or Resurrection?” essay review of Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996) and Andrew Cunningham, The Anatomical Renaissance: The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997) in Configurations, 1999, 7: 91-100.

“Medieval Natural Philosophy in Context,” essay review of Roger French and Andrew Cunningham, Before Science: The Invention of The Friars' Natural Philosophy (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1996), in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1998, 29, 305-311.

“The Year of Gassendi,” essay review of Sylvia Murr, editor, Bernier et les gassendistes, Special Issue of Corpus, Revue de Philosophie, Number 20/21, 1992; François Bernier, Abrégé de la philosophie de Gassendi, edited by Sylvia Murr and Geneviève Stefani, 7 vols. (Paris: Fayard, 1992); and Catalogue: Pierre Gassendi, explorateur des sciences. Catalogue de l'exposition, quatrième centenaire de la naissance de Gassendi, edited by Anthony Turner and Nadine Gomez (Digne-les-Bains: Musée de Digne, 1992), in Annals of Science, 1994, 51: 281-5. 10

“Descartes, Natural Philosopher,” essay review of Daniel Garber, Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) and William R. Shea, The Magic of Numbers and Motion: The Scientific Career of René Descartes (Canton, Massachusetts: Science History Publications, USA, 1991), in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1992, 23: 509-518.

“Locke as Philosopher of Science,” essay review of John W.Yolton, Locke and the Compass of Human Understanding (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970), in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1972, 3: 189-194.

Lilo Luxembourg, Francis Bacon and Denis Diderot: Philosophers of Science (New York: Humanities Press, 1967), in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 1971, 2: 91-95.

Reviews

Michael Hunter, Boyle: Between God and Science (New Haven,: Yale University Press, 2009), in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, forthcoming.

Robert Bartlett, The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), in British Journal for the History of Science, forthcoming.

Catherine Wilson, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity (Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press, 2008), in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 24, 2009.

Sylvie Taussig; Anthony Turner (Editors), Mémoire de Gassendi: Vies et célébrations écrites avant 1700. (Les styles du savoir: Défense et illustration de la pensée à l'âge classique.) (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2008), for Isis, 2009, 100: 213- 214.

John Henry. The Scientific Revolution and the Origins of Modern Science. 3rd edition (New York: Palgrave, 2008), in Isis, 2009, 100: 403-404. Antonia Lolordo, Pierre Gassendi and the Birth of Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), in Renaissance Quarterly, 2008, 60: 244-245.

William R. Newman, Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), in Canadian Journal of History—Annales d’histoire Canadiennes, 2007, 42: 291- 293.

Giulia Belgioioso, editor, with the collaboration of Igor Agostini, Francesco Marrone, Franco A. Meschini, Massimiliano Savini, and Jean-Robert Armogathe, René Descartes: Tutte le lettere, 1619-1650 (Milano: Bompiani, 2005), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2007, 45: 332-33.

“Science and Religion over Two Millennia,” review of Edward Grant, Science and 11 Religion, 400 B.C. – A.D. 1500: From Aristotle to Copernicus (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004), in Journal of the History of Astronomy, 2006, 37: 486-487.

David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, editors, When Science and Religion Meet (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 2007, 37: 89.

Saul Fisher, Pierre Gassendi's Philosophy and Science: Atomism for Empiricists (Leiden: Brill, 2005) in The Renaissance Quarterly, 2006, 59: in 1283-1284.

Correspondence of John Wallis, Volume I (1641-1659) and Volume II (1660-September 1668). Edited by Philip Beeley and Christoph J. Scriba with the assistance of Uwe Mayer. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 and 2005), for Isis, 2006, 97: 743-745.

Christia Mercer and Eileen O’Neill, editors, Early Modern Philosophy: Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), for Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2006, 44: 478-9.

Simon Oliver, Philosophy, God and Motion (London: Routledge, 2004), for International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, July 2005, 20: 236-239.

Stanton J. Linden (ed.), The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), for The Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin canadien d'histoire de la médecine, 2005, 22(2):

Sylvie Taussig, Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655: Introduction à la vie savante (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2003) and Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655):Lettres Latines, 2 vols. (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2004), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2005, 43,: 489-490.

Peter R. Anstey (ed.), The Philosophy of John Locke. New Perspectives (London and New York: Routledge, 2003}, in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2005, 27: 280-281.

Rina Knoeff, Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738): Calvinist Chemist and Physician (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, 2002), in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2004, 24: 439-40.

“Long on Openness,” review of Pamela O. Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship: Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), in Metascience, 2004, 13: 231-233.

Peter Dear, Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), in Annals of Science, 2004, 61: 134-6. 12

Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine, eds., Books and the Sciences in History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), in British Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2003, 11: 367-9

Stephen Gaukroger, Descartes’ System of Natural Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2003, 40: 558- 9.

Marianne Pade (editor), Renaissance Readings of the Corpus Aristotelicum (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001), in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2002, 40: 394-5.

Jürgen Helm and Annette Winkelmann, Religious Confessions and the Sciences in the Sixteenth Century Studies in European Judaism, Vol. 1 (Boston: Brill Academic Publishing, 2001), Isis, 2002, 93: 691-2.

Dennis Des Chene, Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001), in Isis, 2002, 93: 116-117.

Peter Pesic, Labyrinth, A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2000), in Annals of Science, 2001, 58: 429-30.

Margaret Dauler Wilson, Ideas and Mechanisms: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), in Early Science and Medicine, 2001, 6: 62-3.

Peter A. Schouls, Descartes and the Possibility of Science (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), Journal of the History of Philosophy, 2001, 39: 294-6.

Allen G. Debus and Michael T. Walton (editors), Reading the Book of Nature: The Other Side of the Scientific Revolution (Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol. 41), Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1998), Isis, 2000, 91: 350-1.

Reid Barbour, English Epicures and Stoics: Ancient Legacies in Early Modern Stuart Culture (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998), in Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, 2000, 24: 99-100.

Daniel Garber and Michael Ayers, The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), in Isis, 1999, 90: 404-5.

Stanley Tweyman, editor, Hume on Religion and Hume on Natural Religion, 2 vols. (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1996), in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 1998, 27: 88-9.

A.C. Crombie, Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought (London and 13 Rio Grande: The Hambledon Press, 1996), in British Journal for the History of Science, 1998, 73: 73-74.

John Rogers, The Matter of Revolution: Science, Poetry, and Politics in the Age of Milton (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996), in Isis, 1997, 88: 336-7.

H. Floris Cohen, The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, 1997, 2: 948-50.

Michael Hunter, The Royal Society and Its Fellows 1660-1700, (Oxford: British Society for the History of Science monographs, vol. 4, 1994), in Physis. Rivisita Internazionale di Storia della Scienza, 1997, 43, : 375.

Peter Dear, Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), in Early Science and Medicine, 1997, 2: 103-105.

J. A. van Ruler, The Crisis of Causality: Voetius and Descartes on God, Nature and Change (Leiden: Brill, 1995), in British Journal for the History of Science, 1997, 30: 233-234.

Michael Hunter, Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1995), in Albion, 1996, 28: 36-37.

Rose-Mary Sargent, The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1996, 34: 616-618.

J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James, editors, Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), in Isis, 1995, 86: 323-4.

Steven Shapin, A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1996, 27: 121-22.

Michael Hunter, ed., Robert Boyle Reconsidered (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), in The Scriblerian, 1995, 27: 229-30.

William Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), in The American Scientist, 1995, 83: 199.

Victor Coelho, editor, Music and Science in the Age of Galileo (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1992), in Physis. Rivisita Internazionale di Storia della Scienza, 1995, 41: 148-149.

Massimo Bucciantini and Maurizio Torrini, editors, Geometria e atomismo nella scuola 14 galileiana (Florence: S. Olschki, 1992), in Isis, 1995, 86: 111.

Thomas M. Lennon, The Battle of the Gods and Giants: The Legacies of Descartes and Gassendi, 1655-1715 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993), in The Journal of Modern History, 1995, 67: 904-6.

John T. Harwood, editor, The Early Essays and Ethics of Robert Boyle (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), in The Scriblerian.

Erica Harth, Cartesian Women: Versions and Subversions of Rational Discourse in the Old Regime (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992), in Isis, 1993, 84: 582-583.

Bas C. Van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989), in History of European Ideas, 1993, 14: 386-387.

Nancy G. Siraisi, Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1991/1992, 22: 494-495.

Howard Jones, The Epicurean Tradition, (London and New York: Routledge, 1989), in Isis, 1991, 82: 706.

Michael Hunter, Establishing the New Science: The Experience of the Early Royal Society (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1989), in Social History of Medicine, 1991, 4: 145-146.

Walter Soffer, From Subjectivity to Science: An Interpretation of Descartes' Meditations (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1987), in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 1988.

Gabriel Moked, Particles and Ideas: Bishop Berkeley's Corpuscularian Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988), in Isis, 1991, 82: 143-144.

Gary B. Herbert, Thomas Hobbes: The Unity of Scientific and Moral Wisdom (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1989), in Isis, 1990, 91: 773- 775.

Peter Dear, Mersenne and the Learning of the Schools (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988), in History of Universities, 1991, 11: 269-270.

James E. Force, William Whiston: Honest Newtonian (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), in The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, n.s. 11, p. 207.

Otto Mayr, Authority, Liberty and Automatic Machinery in Early Modern Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), in Canadian Journal of History, 1987, 22: 400-401. 15 Kathleen Okruhlik and James Robert Brown, editors, The Natural Philosophy of Leibniz (Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1985) in Isis, 1987, 78: 304-305.

Marco Messeri, Causa e Spiegazione: La Fisica di Pierre Gassendi (Milan: Franco Angeli, 1985), in Isis, 1987, 78: 131.

Jerry Weinberger, Science, Faith, and Politics: Francis Bacon and the Utopian Roots of the Modern Age (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), in Isis, 1986, 77: 544.

Peter Alexander, Ideas, Qualities, and Corpuscles: Locke and Boyle on the External World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), in Isis, 1986, 77: 715- 716.

Barbara J. Shapiro, Probability and Certainty in Seventeenth-Century England (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983), in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 1986, 22: 228-30.

René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, translated by Valentine Rodger Miller and Reese P. Miller (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1983), in Isis, 1884, 75: 418-419.

I Bernard Cohen, The Newtonian Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), in Isis, 1983, 74: 446-447.

Colette M. Kinnon, A. N. Kholodilin, and J. G. Richardson, editors, The Impact of Modern Scientific Ideas on Society: In Commemoration of Einstein, edited by (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1981), in Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, 1982. René Taton, editor, Roemer et la vitesse de la lumière (Paris: J. Vrin, 1978), in Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences, 1982.

Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Harper and Row, 1980), in Isis, 1981, 72: 287-288.

Theophrastus, De Igne: A Post-Aristotelian View of the Nature of Fire, in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1974, 12: 256.

R. E. Butts and J. C. Pitt, eds., New Perspectives on Galileo (Dordrecht: Reidel, 1978), in Philosophy of Science, 1972, 10: 480.

Robert Palter, ed.,The Annus Mirabilis of Sir Isaac Newton: 1666-1966 (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1970), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1972, 10: 480.

Arnold Thackray, Atoms and Powers: An Essay on Newtonian Matter-Theory and the Development of Chemistry (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1972, 10: 95-96.

David Lindberg, John Pecham and the Science of Optics (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970), in Journal of the History of Philosophy, 1972, 9: 510. 16 “On the Nature of Science,” review of The Methodological Heritage of Newton, edited by R. E. Butts and J. W. Davis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970), in Science, 1970, 170: 153.

Presentations at Conferences

“Gassendi on Creation, Time, and Eternity,” In the Beginning…: A Conference on the Problem of “Non-Everlastingness”, St. Thomas University, Houston, 2011.

“Religion and the Changing Historiography of the Scientific Revolution,” History of Science Society, Pittsburgh, November 2008.

“What Does Religion Have To Do With the Scientific Revolution?” Workshop on Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Sydney-Otago Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, May 2008.

“Gassendi against the Stoics: Divine Foreknowledge and Free Will,” Conference on Stoicism and the Self,” Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, September 2007.

“Did ‘Science’ and ‘Religion’ Become Separate Activities in the Seventeenth Century?” Conference on Major Myths of Science and Religion, Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, August 2007.

“Religion and the Changing Historiography of the Scientific Revolution,” Science and Religion: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, An International Conference to Mark the Retirement of John Hedley Brooke, Lancaster University, July 23-26, 2007.

“Reading Gassendi: Sceptics, Libertines, and Historians of Philosophy,” Session in Honor of Richard H. Popkin, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, April 2006.

“Gassendi on Atomism and Resurrection,” History of Science Society, Minneapolis, November 2005.

“Gassendi on Atomism and Resurrection: The Limits of Reason and the Boundaries of Mechanization,” Conference on “Pierre Gasssendi et la Modernité”, La Société Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains, France, October 2005.

“New Wine in Old Bottles: Natural Philosophy in a Period of Transition,” plenary session, Three Societies Meeting (History of Science Society, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, British Society for the History of Science), Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 2004.

“When Did Gassendi Become A Libertine?” History of Science Society, Cambridge, Mass., November 2003. 17 “Becoming an Outsider: Gassendi in the History of Philosophy,” Conference on Outsiders in Early Modern Philosophy, Warburg Institute, University of London, October 2003.

“The History of Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: Temporal Musings on Eternal Truths,” Conference on Eternal Truths in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, June 2002.

“The New Newton Scholarship and the Fate of the Scientific Revolution,” Newton 2000: Newton Studies in the New Millennium, UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, October 2000.

“Early Modern Uses of Hellenistic Philosophy: Gassendi’s Epicurean Project,” Conference on Hellenistic Philosophy and the Early Modern Period, Toronto, September 2000.

“Avoiding Essentialism, or, Why the History of Science is Needed for Discussing the Relationship between Science and Religion,” Joint Session, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science and Canadian Philosophical Association, Edmonton, May 2000.

“God and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe,” Conference on A “Storied Past”: Science and Religion in Historical Perspective, Concord College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, April 2000.

“The Nature of Gender and the Gender of Nature in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,” Conference on “Metaphysics into Science: Gender and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” University of Cincinnati and Miami University, April 2000.

“How Mechanical Was the Mechanical Philosophy?” Keynote Speaker, Columbia History of Science Group, Friday Harbor, Washington, March 2000.

“The Past is a Foreign Country, Or, Why the History of Science is Necessary for Understanding the Relationship between Science and Religion,” Introductory Workshop, Science and Religion Course Program, Center for Theology and Natural Science, Berkeley, California, January 2000.

Discussant, Symposium on “Sources and Resources: The Immediate Future of the Distant Past,” Early Science Interest Group, History of Science Society, Pittsburgh, November 1999.

“The Canonical Imperative: Rethinking the Scientific Revolution,” History of Science Society, Pittsburgh, November 1999.

“Final Causes and Seminal Principles in Gassendi and Boyle,” History of Science Society, Kansas City, Missouri, October, 1998. 18

“The Appropriation of Some Theological Concepts into Early Modern Physics,” Conference on “Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimension,” Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science, Ancaster, Ontario, July, 1998.

“Will I Know That in Heaven? Robert Boyle on the Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife,” Conference on “Millenarianism Among English Protestant Thinkers, 1600-1800: Science, Liberal Politics, Philosemitism, and Millenarian Thought,” UCLA Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, February 1998.

“Fish Lines, Sky Hooks, and Vapor Trails: Non-Epicurean Themes in Gassendi’s Atomism,” History of Science Society, La Jolla, California, November 1997.

“Corpuscles and Active Matter in Gassendi’s Mechanical Philosophy,” Workshop on “The Newtonian Corpuscle, Short-Range Forces and Knowledge of the Microscopic World, 1670-1820,” Seven Pines Lodge, Wisconsin, September 1997.

“Gassendi on Final Causes,” Colloquium on Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, The Warburg Institute and King’s College London, June 1997.

“Final Causes in the Scientific Revolution,” Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Berkeley, California, February 1997.

“Non-Epicurean Themes in Gassendi's Atomism,” Workshop on Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theory, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 1996.

“Mixing Metaphors: Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe,” The Stillman Drake Lecture, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, St. Catharine's, Ontario, May 1996.

“Triangulating Divine Will: Henry More, Robert Boyle, and René Descartes on God's Relationship to the Creation,” History of Science Society, Atlanta, November 1996. “Mind Senior to the World: Origenism and Stoicism in Seventeenth-Century English Platonic Philosophy,” Centro Studi del Pensiero Filosofico del Cinquecento e del Seicento, Milan, November 1995.

“Science and Religion in the Seventeenth Century: Historiographical Reconsiderations,” Conference on Jewish Responses to Early Modern Science, Tel Aviv University and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, May 1995.

“From Immanent Natures to Nature as Artifice: The Reinterpretation of Final Causes in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy” History of Science Society, Minneapolis, October 1995. A Conference on Tradition and Innovation: Social, Political, and Regional Considerations in the Competition between the Old and New Science in the Seventeenth Century, The University of Chicago, April 1994. 19

“Textual Authority and The Authority of Texts: Gassendi and Epicurus in the Syntagma Philosophicum,” History of Science Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1993.

Organizer and Chair, “Theology, Metaphysics, and Alchemy in the Thought of Robert Boyle,” History of Science Society, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 1993.

Organizer and Chair, “Historiographic Trends in Eighteenth-Century Science,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Providence, Rhode Island, April 1993.

Discussant, Panel Discussion, “Gassendi Studies Today,” History of Science Society, Washington, D.C., December 1992.

“Volonté divine et vérité mathématique: le conflit entre Descartes et Gassendi sur le statut des vérités éternelles,” Colloquium “Gassendi, sa posterité: 1592-1992,” The University of Paris—Sorbonne, October 1992.

“Mathematics and Theology: The Argument between Gassendi and Descartes,” Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, May 1992. “Ancients, Moderns, and the History of Philosophy: The Case of Gassendi's Epicureanism,” History of Science Society, Madison, Wisconsin, November 1991.

“Essentialism, Empiricism, and Science,” Discussion Paper, Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge and Gender, University of Calgary, June 1991.

“Mathematizing Nature: Descartes' Geometrical Theory of Matter,” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Kingston, Ontario, May 1991.

Organizer and Chair, “Does Taking Gender into Account Make a Difference?” Joint Session: Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science and Canadian Philosophical Association, Kingston, Ontario, May 1991.

“Ancients, Moderns, and the History of Philosophy: Gassendi's Epicurean Project,” Joint Session: Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science and Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas, Kingston, Ontario, May 1991.

Organizer and Chair, Joint Session on Women in the Universities, Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science and Canadian Philosophical Association, Victoria, B.C., May 1990.

“Theories of Matter and their Epistemological Roots: The Case of Gassendi's Atomism,” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Victoria, B.C., May 1990.

“Fortune, Fate, and Divination: Gassendi's Voluntarism and the Baptism of Epicurus.” History of Science Society, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 1988. 20 Conference on Epicureanism and Stoicism, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, March 24-27, 1988.

“Stoicism, Epicureanism, and the Foundations for the New Science: Gassendi's Choice of a Philosophy of Nature,” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Windsor, Ontario, May 1988.

“Why Gassendi Chose Epicurus,” Columbia History of Science Group, Friday Harbor, Washington, April 1988.

“The Theological Foundations of Seventeenth-Century Science: Descartes and Gassendi on Divine Will and the Laws of Nature,” Calgary Institute for the Humanities, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, February 1988.

“The Intellectual Origins of Robert Boyle's Philosophy of Nature” History of Science Society, Raleigh, North Carolina, October, 1987. Columbia History of Science Group, Friday Harbor, Washington, May 1987.

“Voluntarism and Latitudinarianism in the Thought of Robert Boyle,” Conference on Latitudinarianism, Science, and Society, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, April 1987.

“Providence and the Epistemological Foundations of the Mechanical Philosophy,” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Winnipeg, May 1986. Conference on Newton and Halley, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, August 1985. XVIIth International Congress of History and Philosophy of Science, Berkeley, August 1985.

“God, Nature, and the Human Mind: Reason, Religion, and Science in the Seventeenth Century,” commentator on session, History of Science Society, Bloomington, Indiana, October 1985.

“God, Nature, and Human Understanding in the Seventeenth Century,” History Department Colloquium, University of Calgary, March 1985.

“Baptizing Epicurean Atomism: Pierre Gassendi on the Immortality of the Soul,” History of Science Society, Chicago, December 1984

“Pierre Gassendi on the Immortality of the Soul,” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Guelph, Ontario, June 1984.

“Eternal Truths and the Laws of Nature: The Theological Foundations of Descartes' Philosophy of Nature,” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Vancouver, June 1983.

“Descartes, Gassendi, and the Theological Foundations of the Mechanical Philosophy,” Joint Meeting of the History of Science Society and the Philosophy of Science 21 Association, Philadelphia, October 1982.

“Providence and Divine Will: The Theological Background to Gassendi's Views on Scientific Method,” West Coast History of Science Society, Berkeley, May 1982.

“Sex, Science, and Values: A Critique of Sociobiological Accounts of Sex Differences,” Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, Edmonton, November 1979.

“Apocryphal Knowledge: The Misuse of Science,” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science, Saskatoon, May 1979. Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Summer Workshop, May 1979. Broadcast on CBC “Ideas” program, Winter 1980.

“Descartes, Gassendi, and the Foundations of the Mechanical Philosophy,” West Coast History of Science Society, Seattle, June 1978.

“Nature, God, and the Mechanical Philosophy,” History of Science Society, New York, December 1976.

“Nature, Space, and God: The Universe after Newton,” Modern Language Association, Midwest meeting, Chicago, November 1975.

“Probability and the Limits of Knowledge: Background to a discussion of Probability in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Scientific Thought,” Modern Language Association, New York, December 1974.

“The Bigger They Are The Harder They Fall,” West Coast History of Science Society, San Francisco, April 1972.

“The Experimental and Mechanical Philosophies in the Chemical Writings of Robert Boyle,” Midwest Junto for the History of Science, Allendale, Michigan, April 1967.

Lectures at Universities

“Gassendi and Newton on Time and Eternity,” Seminar “Il tempo”, Centro Interdepartmentale di Studi su Descartes e il Seicento, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy, January, 2009.

“New Wine in Old Bottles: The Aristotelian Origin of Physics,” History Seminar, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, May 2008.

“When Did Gassendi Become a Libertine? Or, Historians and Historical Subjects in Context” University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, May 2008. Philosophy Seminar, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, May 2008. 22

“The Other Side of Isaac Newton,” Philosophy Retreat at Kaikoura, University of Canterbury, May 2008.

“What Does Religion Have To Do with the Scientific Revolution?” Philosophy Seminar, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, June 2008. Calgary Institute for the Humanities, January 18, 2008.

“The Other Side of Isaac Newton: The Religiosity of Scientific Thinkers in Seventeenth Century Europe”and “Science and Religion, Belief and Doubt in the Classroom”, Teagle Faculty Seminar on The Pedagogy of Belief and Doubt, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia June 2007.

“A Hero for Their Times: Biographies of Newton,” History and Philosophy Research Group, University of Calgary, February 2007. “New Wine in Old Bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian Origin of Physics,” Seminar on Gassendi e il Libertinismo, Centro Interdepartmentale di Studi su Descartes e il Seicento, University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy, January, 2005.

“When Did Gassendi Become A Libertine? Or, The Historian of Philosophy in Context,” Department of Philosophy Colloquium, University of British Columbia, January, 2005.

“The Idea of Nature from the Greeks to the Seventeenth Century,” Workshop on Nature and the Natural, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, May 2004.

“The Concept of Nature from Aristotle to the Seventeenth Century,” Conference in Honor of Paul Farber, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, April 2004.

Visiting Lecturer, Seminar on Philosophy and Language, Centro Interdepartmentale di Studi su Descartes e il Seicento, University of Lecce, Lecce, Italy, January, 2004. “Baptizing Epicurean Philosophy: Gassendi on Divine Will and the Philosophy of Nature” “When Did Gassendi Become a Libertine?”

“When Did Gassendi Become a Libertine? A Plea for Contextualized History of Philosophy” University of Calgary, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, September 2002. Oregon State University, June 2003.

“New Wine in Old Bottles: Gassendi and the Aristotelian Origin of Physics,” Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, February 2002.

“When Did Gassendi Become a Libertine?” Seminar on Heterodoxy and Natural Philosophy, All Souls’ College, Oxford, February 2002.

“The Gender of Nature and the Nature of Gender in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,” Columbia University, University Seminar in History and Philosophy of Science, 23 September 2004. University of Calgary, Medieval and Renaissance Research Group, February 2004 Oregon State University, June 2003 University of Alberta, Department of History Colloquium, March 2000 Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, October 2000.

“Unexpected Consequences: Medieval Theology and the Scientific Revolution,” Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, October 2000.

“Whose Ends? What Happened to Final Causes in the Scientific Revolution?” Westfall Lecture, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, March 1999. History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1998.

“Boyle on the Knowledge of Nature in the Afterlife,” Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, April 1998.

“How Mechanical Was the Mechanical Philosophy? Final Causes, Animism, and Alchemy in Gassendi’s Natural Philosophy” Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, November 1998. Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, April 1998. Science, Technology, and Society Program, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, November 1997.

“Re-thinking the Scientific Revolution: Lingering Aristotelianism, Animism, and Alchemy in the Natural Philosophy of Pierre Gassendi,” Calgary Institute for the Humanities, October 1997.

“Mixing Metaphors: Science and Religion or Natural Philosophy and Theology in Early Modern Europe” Department of History, Oregon State University, Corvallis, April 1997. Department of the History of Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, March 1997.

“Mixing Metaphors: Essentialism, Historiography, and Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe,” History of Consciousness Board, University of California, Santa Cruz February 1997.

“Whose Ends? Teleology and the Scientific Revolution,” Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, November 1995.

“Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Historiographical Reconsiderations,” University of Washington, Seattle, April 1995.

“From Immanent Natures to Nature as Artifice: The Reinterpretation of Final Causes in 24 Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy,” Department of History, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, February 1997. Eighteenth-Century Studies Group, University of Calgary, March 1996. York University, Toronto, March 1995.

“Cosmology: The Case of Galileo,” University of Winnipeg, November 1990.

“The Paris Condemnations of 1277,” University of Winnipeg, November 1990.”

“Galileo and the Church,” University of Winnipeg, November 1990.

“Theories of Matter: The Case of Pierre Gassendi,” University of Winnipeg, November 1990.

“Theology and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Divine Will and the Philosophy of Nature” Program in History of Science and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, February 1990.

“Gassendi, Descartes, and the Theological Foundations of the Mechanical Philosophy,” Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science and Technology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October 1989.

“Science and Religion as Cultural Siblings: Another Look at the Evidence,” University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, November 1988.

“Religion, Materialism, and the Rise of Science,” University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, November 1988.

“Voluntarist Theology and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi's Influence on Boyle,” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, January 1988.

“The Roots of Boyle's Worldview,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 1987.

“Matter, Motion, and Force: Newton and the Mechanical Philosophy,” Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., November 1987.

“The Intellectual Origins of Boyle's Philosophy of Nature” University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, May 1987. Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, March 1987.

“Providence, Divine Will, and the Laws of Nature,” Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, October 1984.

“The Rise of the Mechanical Philosophy,” Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California, February 1981.

“Descartes, Gassendi, and the Foundations of the Mechanical Philosophy,” Oregon State 25 University, Corvallis, Oregon, June 1978.

“Apocryphal Knowledge: The Misuse of Science” Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, November 1980. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, June 1978. University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, March 1978. “The Mechanical and Experimental Philosophies of Robert Boyle,” Oregon State University, October 1967.

Lectures to Community Groups

“’Ye Men of Galilee, Why Gaze Ye at the Stars’,” Rothney Astrophysical Observatory, Calgary, February, 2009.

“What Is Nature? Historical Perspectives,” The Apeiron Society for the Practice of Philosophy, Calgary, Alberta, January 2006.

“Science and Religion: Common Origins,” Joint meeting of Alberta Skeptics and Association of Secular Humanists, Calgary, Alberta, March, 2004.

“Kepler and Pseudo-science,” Planetarium Association of Canada, Calgary, Alberta, October 1979.

Conferences Organized

Lecture Series to Celebrate Darwin’s Two-hundredth Birthday and the Hundredth Anniversary of The Origin of Species, University of Calgary, co-organizer with Jeremy Fox and A. P. Russell, 2008-2009.

Workshop on Nature and the Natural, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, co-organizer with Marc Ereshefsky, May 2004,.

“Eternal Truths in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,” Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, co-organized with Patricia Easton,June 2002 and May 2003.

“Science in Theistic Contexts: Cognitive Dimensions,” The Pascal Centre for Advanced Studies in Faith and Science, Redeemer College, Ancaster, Ontario, July 1998. Member of the organizing committee.

“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge,” co-organized with H. Lorraine Radtke, Leslie Miller, and Pamela McCallum University of Calgary, June 1991. 26 Research Workshop: “Knowledge, Gender, Education, and Work,” Faculty of General Studies, University of Calgary, May and June 1989. (With Marsha P. Hanen, Kathleen Martindale, Lorraine Radtke, and Pamela McCallum.)

“Epicureanism and Stoicism,” Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, March 1988. (With J. J. MacIntosh and Louise Fothergill-Payne)

“Science, Pseudo-science, and Society,” Calgary Institute for the Humanities, University of Calgary, May 1979. (With Marsha P. Hanen and Robert G. Weyant).

Other Grants

Special Projects Grant, University of Calgary for Conference on “Eternal Truths in Early Modern Europe,” June 2002. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Confererence Grant for “Eternal Truths in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,” June 2002. Conference Grant, University of Calgary Research Grants Committee, for “Eternal Truths in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,” June 2002. University of Calgary Research Grant for Short Term Project, 1999. University of Calgary Travel Grants Conference on Libertines and Libertinism in Early Modern Europe: The Origins of Civil and Religious Liberty, British Society for the History of Philosophy, London, March 1999. Declined by me. Conference on Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy, The Warburg Institute, London, June 1997. Conference on Jewish Responses to Early Modern Science, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, May 1995. Colloque Internationale, “Gassendi et sa Posterité”, Paris, October, 1992. Conference on Latitudinarianism, Science, and Society, The Clark Library, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987. International Congress of the History of Science, Berkeley, California, 1985. University of Calgary, Visiting Scholar's Grants: Professor Joan Cadden, November 2004 Professor Paul Farber, May 2004 Professor Patricia Easton, June 2002 Dr. Sarah Hutton, October 1998 Professor Lawrence M. Principe, Winter 1997 Professor Paula R. Backscheider, Fall 1995 Professor Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Spring 1993 Professor J'nan Morse Sellery, November 1992 Professor B. J. T. Dobbs, Fall 1985 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Conference Grant for “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Knowledge,” June 1991. Conference Grant, University of Calgary Research Grants Committee, for “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Knowledge,” June 1991. Special Projects Grant, University of Calgary, for “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Gender and Knowledge,” June 1991 27 Harvey Mudd College, Curriculum Development Grant for course on “Classic Experiments in the History of Science 1973. Oregon State University, Faculty Development Grant, 1969.

Professional Affiliations

History of Science Society Society Secretary (2001-2011) Ad hoc committee to evaluate the Executive Director, 2009 Member of Council (1978-81, 1994-97) Committee on Education (2003- Committee on Research and the Profession (1999-2003) Committee on Honors and Prizes (1997-1999) Chair (1997-1999) Sub-Committee on Hazen Education Prize (1998-2000), Chair (1998) Ad hoc Committee on Creation of A Permanent Society Office (1996) Committee on Meetings and Programs (1986-88, 1992-95) Nominating Committee (1991-92, 1995-96) Selection Committee for Executive Secretary (1992) Schuman Prize Committee (1977) North American Committee for the Dibner Visiting Historians of Science Program (1991-96), Chair (1994-95) Program Chair, 1993 Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Member of Council (1983-85) Second Vice-President (1984-85) First Vice-President (1985-87) President (1987-90) International Society for Science and Religion (elected to membership 2005) West Coast History of Science Society Executive Officer (1973-74) British Society for the History of Science Canadian Society for the Study of European Ideas British Society for the History of Philosophy International Society for Intellectual History Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, California Sigma Xi La Société Gassendi American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Canadian Association of University Teachers

Professional Activities

Granting Agencies—Selection Panels National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.), review panel for NEH Fellowships for University Teachers, 2000, 2003. National Science Foundation (U.S.A.), Graduate Fellowship Selection Panel, 1976. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 28 Graduate Fellowship Selection Panel (History), 1983-87. Chair 1986, 1987. Research Grants Adjudicating Panel (Philosophy, Religious Studies, Medieval Studies, Classics, and Classical Archaeology), 1993-1995. Aid to Research and Transfer Journals Adjudication Committee 1998. Referee of Grant Proposals Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - Council for the Humanities Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada National Science Foundation (U.S.A.) National Endowment for the Humanities (U.S.A.) Canadian Federation for the Humanities Dibner Institute for the History of Science Australian Research Council Editorial Boards Journal of the History of Philosophy, Board of Directors, 2003-2012 Kristeller-Popkin Travel Grant Committee, 2004-2009 Chair, 2006-2009 Wojcik Memorial Prize Committee Isis, Advisory Editor, 2000-2002 Science and Religion around the World, Advisory Board, 2004- Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion, Advisory Board, 2004-2009 Referee for academic presses Cambridge University Press Oxford University Press Columbia University Press Duke University Press Yale University Press Cornell University Press Ashgate Publishing Company Routledge Kluwer Academic Publishers The Humanities Press Broadview Press Referee for professional journals British Journal for the History of Philosophy Ancient Philosophy Annals of Science Journal of the History of Biology Archiv für Geschicthe der Philosophie British Journal for the History of Science Journal of the History of Ideas Journal of the History of Philosophy Isis Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Perspectives on Science Eighteenth-century Life Catholic Historical Review Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Revue d'Histoire des Sciences 29 Physics in Perspective The Georgia Journal of Science Eighteenth-Century Thought History of Psychology External Referee for Faculty Promotions/Tenure University of Oklahoma John Jay College, City University of New York University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia Auburn University Claremont Graduate University Trinity College, Cambridge Johns Hopkins University Columbia University Indiana University Northwestern University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis Oregon State University Duke University State University of New York at Buffalo Advisory Committee, Situating Scientific Knowledge Cluster, 2008-2009. External Reviewer of Academic Programs Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, 2002. Referee for Scholarly Societies Canadian Philosophical Association, annual meetings Cheiron (Society for the History of the Behavioural Sciences) Annual Meeting, 1978 Science and Religion Course Program, Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences—Canada, Advisory Board, 1999-2001

Community Service

Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association, Member of the Board of Directors Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership Betty Flagler Memorial Lecture Committee, 2002-2000 Rhodes Scholarship Selection Panel for Alberta, 1988, 1990- 2000 Selection Panel for Western Canada, 1992, 1995, 1998 Swarthmore College, Alumni Admissions Representative for Alberta.

Consulting

Grant application consultant to Research Unit on Public Policy, University of Calgary, 1996. Consultant to University Microfilms International regarding selection of materials for historical microfilm series in the history of science, 1986. Script Consultant for television series “The Mechanical Universe,” 1985. 30 Teaching

Supervision of Ph.D Students

University of Calgary Margaret Grace Cook, passed Candidacy Examinations, 2000. Withdrew from program 2001.

Supervision of M.A. Theses

University of Calgary

Emil Sargsyan (History and Philosophy of Science), 2006-2007. Moved to Ph.D. program at Indiana University Troy Wason, (History), “The Early Stages of John Locke’s Intellectual Development and the Theory of Adiaphora, or Things Indifferent,” 2002- 2007. Dale Block, (History), “Instruments of Faith: The Religious Uses of Optical Instruments in the 17th Century,” 2004-2006 Jeffrey Wigelsworth, (History), “The Nominal Essence of Motion: John Toland’s Natural Philosophy, 1696-1704,” 1998-2000. Margaret Grace Cook, (History), “The Chymist and the Craftsman: Divine Artifice and Robert Boyle’s Mechanical and Experimental Natural Philosophy,” 1995-1997. Susan McMahon, (History), “Natural History or Histories of Nature: Perspectives on English Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century,” 1992-1994. Jane Elizabeth Jenkins, (History and Philosophy of Science), “Using Nothing: Vacuum, Matter, and Spirit in the Seventeenth Century Mechanical Philosophy,” 1988-1990. Jana A. Andersen, (History), “Freudian Accounts of Sex Difference in the 1920s: Values in Theory and Practice,” 1996-1988. Wallace Edd Hooper, (History and Philosophy of Science), “Galileo's Study of Motions,” 1975-1979.

Membership in Ph.D. Thesis Supervisory and Examination Committees

External Examiner of Ph.D. thesis, Larissa Johnson, "Kaleidoscopic Natural Theology: The Dynamics of Natural Theological Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England," History and Philosophy of Science, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2009. External member of dissertation and examination committee, Sharon Tanner Barnett “Ontology, Divine Action, and Inter-Relations in Isaac Newton’s Mature Thought,” Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Failed to complete. (2001-2008), Program terminated February 1, 2008 External examiner of Ph.D. oral defence of thesis, Susan McMahon, “Constructing Natural History in England (1650-1700),” Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, June 2001 31 External member of Ph.D. supervisory committee, Robert S. Kiely, “The Architect in the Alembic: Chemistry, Neoplatonism, and Religion in 17th-Century Generation Theory,” Department of History, Northwestern University, 1994- 1996. External Examiner, Ph.D. oral defense of thesis, Jane E. Jenkins, “Matter and Vacuum in Robert Boyle's Natural Philosophy,” Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, 1995. External member of Ph.D. supervisory committee, Deborah E. Harkness, “The Scientific Reformation: John Dee and the Restitution of Nature,” Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Davis, 1994. External Examiner, Ph.D. oral defense of thesis, Kathleen Ochs, “The Failed Revolution in Applied Science: Studies of Industry by Members of the Royal Society of London, 1660-1688,” Institute for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, 1981.

University of Calgary David Baumslag, Philosophy, 1997 Mohamed Mahmoud Elsamahi, Philosophy, 1996 Mavis Barkman Reimer, English, 1993 Barry Isaac, English, 1986 Maria K. Eriksen, Educational Psychology, 1980 Roger Kornfein, Philosophy, 1979 Bruce Wilson, Philosophy, 1976

Membership Ph.D. Candidacy Examination Committees

University of Calgary Margaret G. Cook, History, 2001 Martha Wells, English, 2000 E. C. Nicoll, Biology, 1986 Tom Fish, Psychology, 1981 Maria K. Eriksen, Educational Psychology, 1979

Membership M.A. Thesis Examination Committees

University of Calgary Sky Coulter, Philosophy, 2007 Michael Steiner, Philosophy, 2007 Mark Pickup, Political Science, 2000 Jamieson Weetman, History, 1999 Lori Ann Woods, History, 1998 William Gary Lowe, Religious Studies, 1998 Jesse Hendrikse, Philosophy, 1998 Rosanna D’Agnillo, English, 1996 Barrett Wolski, Philosophy, 1993 Pamela Y. Stanton, History, 1993 Mary Ann Moser, Communication Studies, 1991 Susan Hagen, History, 1989 32 Geoff Gorham, Philosophy, 1988 William J. Coll, History, 1985 Doug West, Political Science, 1984 Tom Toews, History, 1983 David Dornian, Philosophy, 1981 and 1982 Dale Stout, Psychology, 1979 Vincent Crinion, History, 1979 Harley Sanford Trudeau, History, 1977 Barry Armstrong, Committee on Resources and the Environment, 1977

Graduate Courses

Oregon State University Classics of Science

The University of Calgary History of Scientific Method (2 terms) Primary Sources in the History of Science (2 terms) The Mechanical Philosophy (1 term) The Scientific Revolution (1 term) History of Biology (2 terms) Historiography of the Scientific Revolution (1 term) Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe (1 term) God and Nature (1 term) The Natural Philosophy of Robert Boyle (1 term) Science and Religion: The Debates about Evolution (1 term)

Undergraduate Teaching

Oregon State University Survey of the History of Science (3 quarters) Classics of Science (1 quarter) The Philosophy of Science (2 quarters)

Harvey Mudd College The Quest for Commonwealth (2 semesters, freshman, interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. Team taught. Director 1973-74) Survey of the History of Science (2 semesters) The Seventeenth-Century World (1 semester) The Reception of Scientific Ideas (1 semester) Classic Experiments in the History of Science (1 semester) History of the Occult Sciences (1 semester)

Wake Forest University European History, 1500-1789 (1 semester) Survey of the History of Science (2 semesters)

The University of Calgary 33 Courses Taught Introduction to History: Europe after 1500 (1 term) Survey of the History of Science (2 terms) History of Magic, Science, and Religion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1 term) History of Magic, Science, and Religion in Modern Europe and North America (1 term) The Scientific Revolution (1 term) The Impact of Science on Society (1 term) Science and Society (2 terms) Controversial Non-Fiction (1 term) Race, Gender, and Science in Historical Perspective (1 term) Introduction to History: Europe since 1500 (1 term) A History of Science and Religion (2 terms) Science and Religion in the Seventeenth Century (1 term seminar) God and Nature (1 term seminar) The Natural Philosophy of Robert Boyle (1 term seminar) Science and Religion (1 Term) Religious Reactions to Darwin (1 term)

Honours Theses Supervised Mark Waddell, “’Not as Dead Letters but as Preaching Symbols’: Contextualizing John Wilkins’ Philosophical Language,” 2000 Margaret G. Cook, “'No Lover of Dogmatizing': John Webster and Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century,” 1995. Deborah Jakubec (Department of Anthropology), “Evolution in the Alberta High School Curriculum, 1929-70,” 1994. Lesley Cormack, “John Dee: Science and Magic in Sixteenth-Century England,” 1979. John Holden, “The Conservatism of a Seventeenth-Century Doyn: Jean Riolan II (1580-1657) and His Approach to New Scientific Discovery,” 1979. Lynn Zwicky, “Some Historians of Galileo: An Exploration of the Relationship between Historical Interpretations and Epistemologies,” 1979 Michelle A. Tocher, “The Rational Demonstration of God: In Response to Hobbes’s Leviathan,” 1978

Undergraduate Research Supervision Owen Thelwall, “The Weapon Salve and Early Modern Philosophies of Nature,” Summer 2008. Kimberley Faires, “The Daemonologie of King James: Political Posturing or True Belief?” Summer 2006

Honours Thesis Examination Committees David Creasey, “The Social Construction of the Human Genome Project,” Faculty of Communication and Culture, 2001. Preceptor, History of Medicine Course: 2003-4; 2008-9 34 The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand The Scientific Revolution (6 weeks)

University Service

Oregon State University American Association of University Professors, Secretary, 1969-70 Harvey Mudd College History Field Committee of the Claremont Colleges, Chair, 1973-74. Mellon Chair Search Committee, 1973-74 Director, The Quest for Commonwealth (Freshman-Year, Team-Taught Interdisciplinary Course in Humanities and Social Sciences), 1973-74 The University of Calgary History and Philosophy of Science Research Group, Coordinator, Fall 2008 Ad hoc Committee on History and Philosophy of Science, 1977-80. Ad Hoc Committee to Establish Major and Minor Programs in History and Philosophy of Science, 2002-2003 Faculty Association Executive, 1977-80 TUCFA/Board Committee on Salary Structure, 1979-80 TUCFA Committee on the Status of Women, 1986-89 Tenure Committees Faculty of General Studies, 1983 Faculty of Nursing, 1984 Faculty of Education, 1985 Faculty of Management, 1986 Faculty of Social Sciences, 1989 Appointments and Selection Committees Chief Librarian, 1977-78 Dean, Faculty of Medicine, 1981-82 Head, Department of Philosophy, 1981, 1996 Dean, Faculty of Fine Arts, 1983-84 Dean, Faculty of Humanities, 1988-89 Headship Selection Committee, Department of Sociology, 1990-91 Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Faculty of Education, 1992 Director, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1992-93 Department of French, Italian, and Spanish, 1993-94 Department of Greek, Latin, and Ancient History, 1999-2000 Department of Philosophy, 2000-2001 and 2004 Faculty of Humanities, Special Committee for Spousal Hiring, 2003 Department of Psychology, 2003 Department of English, 2004-2005 Headship Selection Committee, Department of History, 2005-2006 Faculty of Medicine, Chair in the History of Medicine 2006-7 Research Grants Committee, 1979-80 General Faculties Council, 1982-84, 1985 Chair, Committee to Draft Document on Non-Academic Student Misconduct, 1983 Committee to Evaluate the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1982, 1995-96 Committee to Establish Interdisciplinary M.A. and Ph.D. Programs in Cultural Studies, 35 1993-94 Faculty of General Studies Coordinator, Science, Technology, and Society, Major Program, 1986-1997 Coordinator, Science, Technology, and Society, Minor Program, 1980-1997 Academic Appointments Review Committee, 1983, 1994-95 Visiting Speakers Committee, 1988-89 Committee to Establish a Research Institute on Gender Studies, 1988-90, 1993-95 Curriculum Committee, 1992-93, 1993-94 Faculty of Social Sciences Research Fellowship Adjudicator, 2006-2008 Headship Selection Committee, Department of History, 2005-2006 Committee of Inquiry, Scholarly Integrity, 2004 Representative to Faculty of Science, Full Council, 1976-8, 2003-4 Staff Affairs Committee, 1989-90, 2010 Academic Planning Committee, 1992-94 Search Committee, Department of Psychology, 1993 Representative to Faculty of General Studies, Full Council, 1993-94, 1995-98. Ethics Committee, 1992-94 Committee on Scientific Integrity, 1995-96 Advisory Committee on Faculty Women's Issues, 1995-97 Representative to Faculty of Humanities, Full Council, 1998-2000 Environmental Sciences Curriculum Committee, 1992 Faculty of Graduate Studies Academic Programme Committee, 1995-96 Striking Committee, 2000-01 Faculty of Medicine History of Medicine Advisory Committee, 2007-ongoing Department of History Metric Coordinator, 1975-present Policy and Planning Committee, 1975-76, 1981-82, 1992-93 Graduate Studies Committee, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1982-83, 1985-89, 1995-97, 1998-2001, 2004-5, 2008-9 Chair and Graduate Coordinator, 1998-2001, July 1 – December 31, 2003 Curriculum Committee, 1976-78, 1985-86 Library Coordinator, 1981-84 Appointments Committee, 1982-83, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1996-97, 2002 Colloquium Committee, 1983-84, 2010-11 Computer Committee, 1983-84 Committee to Draft Proposal for Ph.D. Program, 1985-86 Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1988-89 Ethics Committee, 1993-94 Acting Head, August 21-29, 1995; January 2-6, 1997; December 25, 2006-January 1, 2007 Ad Hoc Committee on Ph.D. Programme, 1998 Ad Hoc Committee on Assessing Merit Increments, 1998 Academic Appointment Review Committee, 1999 History of Medicine Search 2000-1 Timetable Committee 2003, 2008-9, 2010-11 Canadian History Search 2007