CURRICULUM VITA MARGARET SCHABAS Department Of

CURRICULUM VITA

MARGARET SCHABAS

Department of Philosophy 1866 Main Mall E370 University of British Columbia Vancouver BC CANADA V6T 1Z1

Phone: (604) 822-2820

EDUCATION

University of Michigan, 1985, M.A. in Economics University of Toronto, 1983, Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Indiana University, 1977, M.A. in History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University, 1976, B.S. (with Distinction) in Music and Philosophy of Science

Languages: French (Reading and speaking); German (Reading)

TEACHING POSITIONS HELD a) Regular

University of British Columbia-Vancouver, Department of Philosophy: full professor (2001 to the present)

York University-Toronto, Department of Philosophy: full professor (1999-2001); associate professor (1992- 1999); assistant professor (1991-1992)

University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of History of Science: assistant professor (1987-1991)

1 b) Visiting

University of Arizona, Philosophy Department (Center for Freedom), research professor (annual one-week visit, 2016-21) Ecole Normale Supèrieure de Cachan, Economics, professeur invité (Fall 2006) Université de Paris I (Sorbonne), Economics, professeur invité (Spring 1996) California Institute of Technology, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences: visiting assistant professor (Spring 1992) Harvard University, Department of History of Science: visiting assistant professor (1987-88) University of Colorado-Boulder, Department of Philosophy: visiting assistant professor (1985-87) University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Department of Economics: instructor (Spring 1985) Michigan State University, Science and Technology Studies: visiting assistant professor (1983-85)

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Killam Research Prize (UBC) (2015) President, History of Economics Society (2013-14) Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (UBC): Distinguished Scholar in Residence (2009-10) Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin): Research Fellow (Spring 2007) London School of Economics: Ludwig Lachmann Fellow (Fall-Winter 2006-7) Cambridge University: Clare Hall Fellow (Fall 2001) York University Faculty Leave Fellowship (1997-8) Dibner Institute for the History of Science (MIT) Fellow (Winter 1995) York University Faculty of Arts Teaching Prize (1992) Duke University NSF Fellow (Spring 1991) Harvard University Mellon Fellow (1987-88) Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Junior Fellow, Summer 1986)

2 CURRENT RESEARCH AND TEACHING FIELDS

History and Philosophy of Economics Science and Technology Studies History and Philosophy of Science Early Modern Philosophy (17th & 18th century) Modern Philosophy (19th century) Philosophy of Social Science

RESEARCH GRANTS (details omitted; ‘M’ stands for multiple grants)

Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada M UBC: Faculty of Arts, PWIAS, Hampton Fund, French Consulate M Ludwig Lachmann Foundation Max Planck Institute-Berlin York University: Faculty of Arts M Dibner Foundation M Wisconsin Alumni Research Fund M National Science Foundation National Research Council M Canada Council for the Arts M

EDITORIAL OR ADVISORY BOARDS (Refereed Journals)

History of Political Economy, Advisory Board (1989-2021) Economics and Philosophy, Advisory Board (2015-19) Economics and Philosophy, Editorial Board (1994-2014) Economics and Philosophy, Book Review Editor (1989-1997) Hume Studies, Editorial Board (2011-2021) HOPOS, Editorial Board (2010-) Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, Advisory Board (2008-) Serendipities: Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences, Advisory Board (2015-) Reproductive Biomedicine and Society, Section Editor (Economics) (2015-2017)

3 Theoria & Praxis: Journal of Interdisciplinary Thought, Editorial Board (2013-) History of Economics Review (2017-), Editorial Board The Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi (2017- ), Advisory Board SSRN, Economics Advisory Board IONA Journal of Economics (Undergraduate UBC) (2017-9) European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2019-24) Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2019-23)

KEYNOTE OR PLENARY LECTURES

Australian Society for the History of Early Modern Philosophy (Brisbane 2019, keynote) Australian Society for the History of Economic Thought (Sydney, 2015), keynote International Hume Society (Portland OR, 2014), opening keynote History of Economics Society (Montreal, 2014), presidential address Mandeville Tricentenary (Rotterdam, 2014), plenary lecture Bioeconomics of Reproduction (ZiF Bielefeld, 2012), opening keynote Canadian Philosophical Association (Ottawa, 2009), keynote HOPOS (Vancouver, 2008), keynote International Hume Society (Boston, 2007), keynote Columbia History of Science Group (Friday Harbor WA, 2006), keynote International Hume Society (Tokyo, 2004), plenary lecture John R. Commons Annual Lecture (Madison WI, 1990)

PRESENTATIONS (CONFERENCES/UNIVERSITIES/INSTITUTIONS)

2020: STS-UC-San Diego 2019: INET-Los Angeles, Cal-Tech, APA-Vancouver, ESHET-Lille, HES- New York, New York University, University of Queensland, Brisbane 2018: University of Calgary, APA-San Diego, ESHET-Madrid 2017: University of Minnesota, University of Arizona, London School of Economics, University of Konstanz, CSHPS-Toronto, INEM-San Sebastian, University of Turin, HSS-Toronto 2016: INET Central European University-Budapest, Harvard University, UKHET-Shanghai, ESHET-Paris, APA-San Francisco, University of San

4 Francisco, University of Arizona, AEA-San Francisco, University of Toronto 2015: ECORA-Aarhus University, University of Queensland, University of Washington-Seattle, Langara College 2014: Columbia University, UBC 2013: ESHET-London, CPA-Victoria, Duke University, SPSP-Toronto, University of Freiburg, University of Lyon, University of Grenoble 2012: IHPST-Paris, HES-Brock University, PSA-San Diego, AEA-Chicago, London School of Economics 2011: ESHET-Istanbul, EHESS-Paris, Ben Gurion University, University of Alberta 2010: London School of Economics, IHPST-Paris, University of Vienna, UBC, University of Tel Aviv, Hebrew University 2009: University of Melbourne, ISHPSSB-Brisbane, University of Amsterdam 2008: University of Washington-Seattle, European University Institute- Florence, Joint HSS-Oxford 2007: University of Paris-I, University of Rome-La Sapienza, Erasmus University-Rotterdam, UBC 2006: London School of Economics, Columbia University, HSS- Vancouver, University of Amsterdam, UKHET-Brighton, Cambridge University, ENSC-Paris 2005: University of Washington-Seattle, University of Calgary, Hume Society-Toronto, CalTech 2004: HES-Toronto, WCPA-Victoria 2003: ILMPS-Oviedo, HES-Durham NC, University of Toronto, UBC, SFU, University of Victoria, Queen’s University, Columbia University, CHSG- Friday Harbor 2002: HES-Davis CA, Duke University, UBC, HSS-Milwaukee, CSHPS- Toronto 2001: Cambridge University, Barnard College 1999: HSS-Pittsburgh, European HES-Paris 1998: HES-Montreal, University of Toronto 1997: Clark Library-UCLA 1996: University of Chicago, European HES-Lisbon, York University, AEA-San Francisco, Charles Gide Society-Toronto, Joint HSS-Edinburgh 1995: European HES-Rotterdam, Dibner Institute-MIT

5 1994: Cambridge University, London School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, HSS-New Orleans, Sorbonne, University of Rome-La Sapienza 1993: EHA-Tucson, UQAM, ICHS-Zaragoza, Duke University, HES- Philadelphia, York University 1992: UCLA, University of Maastricht, UKHET-Exeter, CalTech, University of Waterloo, WCHSS-Morro Bay, Erasmus University, Joint HSS-Toronto 1991: Duke University, Notre Dame University 1990: HSS-Seattle, AEA-Washington DC 1989: ICHS-Hamburg/Munich, Interdisciplinary 19th-C Studies-Portland 1988: Harvard University, Brandeis University, Joint HSS-Manchester 1987: Harvard University, Duke University, HSS-Raleigh, IUHPS- Moscow, SUNY-Buffalo 1986: HES-Barnard College, Virginia Tech, University of Colorado- Boulder, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1984: HSS-Chicago, HES-Pittsburgh, Indiana University-Bloomington PUBLICATIONS a) BOOKS A Philosopher’s Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism, co-authored with Carl Wennerlind. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2020 (in production). David Hume's Political Economy. Eds. Carl Wennerlind and Margaret Schabas (London: Routledge) hardback and e-book 2008; paperback 2009). 368 + xiii pages. The Natural Origins of Economics. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2005; paperback 2007). 231 + xi pages (reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement). Oeconomies in the Age of Newton. Eds. Margaret Schabas and Neil De Marchi (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press 2003). 414 + vii pages. A World Ruled by Number: William Stanley Jevons and the Rise of Mathematical Economics. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1990). 192 + xii pages (reviewed in the Times Higher Educational Supplement and reissued in paperback in 2014).

6 b) JOURNAL ARTICLES (refereed)

“David Hume as a Proto-Weberian: Commerce, Protestantism, and Secular Culture,” Social Philosophy and Policy 37.3 (Summer 2020).

“John Stuart Mill: Evolutionary Economics and Liberalism,” Journal of Bioeconomics 17.1 (April 2015): 97-111. “Bees and Silkworms: Mandeville, Hume and the Framing of Political Economy,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 37.1 (March 2015): 1-15. “’Let Your Science Be Human’: David Hume and the Honourable Merchant,” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 21.6 (December 2014): 977 - 990. “Hume on Money, Commerce, and the Science of Economics,” co- authored with Carl Wennerlind, Journal of Economic Perspectives 25.3 (Summer 2011): 217-30. “Constructing ‘The Economy’,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 39.1 (March 2009): 3-19. “Nature Does Nothing in Vain,” Daedalus 137 (Spring 2008): 71-79. “Hume’s Monetary Thought Experiments,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 39.3 (Fall 2008): 161-169. "Individuals versus Groups in Hume's Political Economy," The Monist 90.2 (April 2007): 200-12. "David Hume on Experimental Natural Philosophy, Money, and Fluids," History of Political Economy 33.3 (Fall 2001): 411 - 35. "Commentary for a Minisymposium on Anthony Brewer's 'A Minor Post- Ricardian? Marx as an Economist'," History of Political Economy 27.1 (1995): 195 - 199. "John Stuart Mill and Concepts of Nature," Dialogue 34.3 (Summer 1995): 447 - 65. "Breaking Away: History of Economics as History of Science," History of Political Economy 24.1 (Spring 1992): 187 - 203. "Alfred Marshall, W. Stanley Jevons, and the Mathemization of Economics," Isis 80.301 (March 1989): 60 – 73 (featured article- gist in The Chronicle for Higher Education, June 14 1989)

7 "The Permissibility of Classified Research in University Science," Public Affairs Quarterly 2.4 (October 1988): 47 - 64. "An Anomaly for Laudan's Pragmatic Model,"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 18.1 (March 1987): 43 - 52. "An Assessment of the Scientific Standing of Economics," Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 1 (October 1986): 298 - 306. "Some Reactions to Jevons's Program for Mathematical Economics: The Case of Cairnes and Mill," History of Political Economy 17.3 (Fall 1985): 337 - 353. "The Worldly Philosophy of William Stanley Jevons," Victorian Studies 18.1 (Autumn 1984): 129-147. "John Stuart Mill to William Stanley Jevons: An Unpublished Letter," The Mill News Letter 18.2 (Summer 1983): 24 - 28. c) BOOK CHAPTERS

“Hume”. Knowledge in Modern Philosophy, vol. 3 of The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History. Stephen Gaukroger, ed. Bloomsbury, 2018, 129-46.

“More Food for Thought: Mill, Coleridge and the Dismal Science of Economics”. The Romance of Science: Essays in Honour of Trevor Levere. Jed Z. Buchwald and Larry Stewart, eds. Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Vol. 52. Springer, 2018, 151-62.

“Thought Experiments in Economics”. The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments. Eds. Mike T. Steuart, Yiftach Fehige and James R. Brown. Routledge, 2018, 171-82.

“Philosophy of the Human Sciences”. Routledge Companion to Eighteenth- Century Philosophy Ed. Aaron Garrett. Routledge, 2014. 731-52.

“Hume on Economic Well-Being”. Continuum Companion to David Hume. Eds. Alan Bailey and Dan O’Brien. Continuum Press, 2012. Reprinted in paperback as The Bloomsbury Companion to Hume. Bloomsbury, 2015. 332-48.

8 “The Evolutionary Context of Hume’s Political Economy”. David Hume on Norms and Institutions. Ed. Wojciech Zaluski. Florence: European University Institute, 2009 (on-line). "Temporal Dimensions in Hume's Monetary Theory". David Hume's Political Economy. Eds. Carl Wennerlind and Margaret Schabas. Routledge, 2008. 127 - 145. (plus Introduction) “Introduction”. Writings on Economics: David Hume. Ed. Eugene Rotwein. Transaction Publishers, 2007. vii-xxiii. "Adam Smith's Debts to Nature". Oeconomies in the Age of Newton. Eds. Margaret Schabas and Neil De Marchi. Duke University Press, 2003. 262 - 281. (plus Introduction) "British Economic Theory from Locke to Marshall". The Cambridge History of Science: The Modern Social Sciences. Vol. 7. Eds. Theodore M. Porter and Dorothy Ross. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 171 - 182. "From Political Economy to Positive Economics". The Cambridge History of Philosophy: 1870-1945. Vol. 7. Ed. Thomas Baldwin. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 235 - 44. "Coming Together: History of Economics as History of Science". The Future of the History of Economics. Ed. Roy Weintraub. Duke University Press, 2002. 208 - 25. "Verve and Versatility: Neil De Marchi on the Culture of Economics". Historians of Economic Thought. Eds. Warren Samuels and Steven Medema. Routledge, 2001. 52 - 62. "The Jevonian Revolution Re-appraised". Contributions to the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of R.D.C. Black. Eds. Antoin E. Murphy and Renee Prendergast. Routledge, 2000. 141 - 53. "Victorian Economics and the Science of the Mind". Victorian Science in Context. Ed. Bernard Lightman. University of Chicago Press, 1997. 72 - 93. "Parmenides and the Cliometricians". The Reliability of Economic Models: Essays and the Epistemology of Economics. Ed. Daniel C. Little. Kluwer, 1995. 183 - 202. "From Political Economy to Market Mechanics: The Jevonian Moment in the History of Economics". The Natural Sciences and the Social

9 Sciences: Some Critical and Historical Perspectives. Ed. I. Bernard Cohen. Kluwer, 1994. 235 - 255. "Market Contracts in the Age of Hume". Higgling: Transactors and Their Markets in the History of Economics. Eds. Neil De Marchi and Mary S. Morgan. Duke University Press, 1994. 117 - 34. "The Greyhound and the Mastiff". Natural Images in Economic Thought. Ed. Philip Mirowski. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 322 - 35. "What's So Wrong with Physics Envy?" Non-Natural Social Science: Reflecting on the Enterprise of More Heat than Light . Ed. Neil De Marchi. Duke University Press, 1993. 45 - 53. "Mathematics and the Economics Profession in late Nineteenth-Century Britain". The Estate of Social Knowledge. Eds. JoAnn Brown and David van Keuren. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. 67 - 83. "Ricardo Naturalized: Lyell and Darwin on the Economy of Nature ". Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought. Ed. Donald Moggridge. Edward Elgar, 1990. 40 - 9. “The Worldly Philosophy of William Stanley Jevons”. Energy and Entropy. Ed. Patrick Brantlinger. Indiana University Press, 1989. 229-247 (reprint of journal article). d) REFERENCE ENTRIES

“Political Economy, History of” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd. Ed. (on-line). Ed. James D. Wright (Elsevier, 2015) pp. 356-61. “Mill on the Moral Sciences” Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Ed. Byron Kaldis. (Sage 2013) pp. 607-8. "Economics" Dictionary of American History. Ed. David Hollinger (Section editor) (Scribner's 2002) pp. 107-111. "History of Economics" International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ed. Orly Ashenfelter (Economics editor) (Elsevier. 2001) pp. 4152-4158. "Adam Smith"Reader's Guide to the History of Science. Ed. Arne Hessenbruch. (Fitzroy Dearborn 2000) pp. 689-690.

10 "John Stuart Mill" Reader's Guide to the History of Science. Ed. Arne Hessenbruch. (Fitzroy Dearborn 2000) pp. 482 - 482 "Political Economy" Reader's Gide to the History of Science. Ed. Arne Hessenbruch. (Fitzroy Dearborn 2000) pp. 584 - 585 "John Maynard Keynes" Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Arthur Fine (section editor) (Routledge 1998) pp. 233-235. "William Stanley Jevons" Handbook of Economic Methdology. Ed. John B. Davis, D. Wade Hands and Uskali Mäki. (Edward Elgar Press 1997) pp. 260 - 261. e) BOOK REVIEWS

Marcel Boumans, Science Outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics (2015) in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 54.1 (Winter 2018): 67.

Keith Tribe, The Economy of the Word: Language, History, and Economics (2015) in The American Historical Review 122.4 (October 2017): 1178-79.

Till Düppe, The Making of the Economy (2011) in History of Political Economy 46.2 (Summer 2014): 346-8.

Joel Mokyr, The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850 (2009) in American Historical Review 116.1 (February 2011): 221-2.

Donald MacKenzie, Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed (2009) in Economics and Philosophy 26.3: 394-401.

Mary Poovey, Genres of the Credit Economy (2008) in The English Historical Review 124 (December 2009): 1510-12.

Bert Mosselmans, William Stanley Jevons and the Cutting Edge of Economics (2007) in Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 31 (June 2009).

11 John Robertson, The Case for the Enlightenment (2005) in History of Political Economy 40.2 (Summer 2008): 417-419. John Davis, Alain Marciano, Jochen Runde, The Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy. (2004) in The Economic Journal. 116 (June 2006): pp. 306 – 325 (co-authored with responses) James Otteson, Adam Smith's Market Place of Life (2002) in Economics and Philosophy. 21.1 (April 2005): pp. 133 - 139. Guido Erreygers, Economics and Interdisciplinary Exchange (2001) in History of Political Economy 38.3 (September, 2003): pp. 602 - 603. Lisbet Koerner, Linnaeus: Nature and Nation (1999) in Philosophy of Science. 68 (Spring 2001): pp. 13 - 15. Lisa Jardine, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution (1999) in The Globe and Mail. (January 2000). Charles Griswold Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment (1999) in Economics and Philosophy. 16.2 (October 2000): pp. 333-337. Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? (1999) in The Globe and Mail. (May 1999). Sandra Peart, The Economics of W.S. Jevons (1996) in History of Political Economy. 31.3 (Fall 1999): pp. 604-605. James P. Henderson, Early Mathematical Economics (1996) in Isis. 89.1 (March 1998): pp. 141-142. Judy L. Klein, Statistical Visions in Time: A History of Time Series Analysis, 1662-1938 (1997) in Isis. 89.4 (December 1998): p. 706. David F. Noble, The Religion of Technology (1997) in The Globe and Mail. (September 1997). M. Norton Wise, ed. The Values of Precision. (1995) in Philosophy of Science. 64 (September 1997): pp. 517 - 519. Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (1996) in The Globe and Mail. (January 1997) Roger Backhouse, ed. New Directions in Economic Methodology (1994) in Journal of Economic History. (Fall 1995). Mary S. Morgan, Mary S.. The History of Econometric Ideas (1990) in Philosophy for the Social Sciences. 23.3 (September 1993): 376 – 9.

12 Bruna Ingrao and Giorgio Israel. The Invisible Hand: Economic Equilibrium in the History of Science (1990) in Historia Mathematica. 19 (1992): pp. 322 - 323. Philip Mirowski, More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics (1989) in Philosophy of Science. 59.4 (December 1992): pp. 708-710. Terence Hutchison, Before Adam Smith (1988) in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. 10 (1992): pp. 218 - 223. Dorothy Ross, The Origins of American Social Science (1990) in The Intellectual History Newsletter. 13 (September 1991): pp. 45 - 47. Patricia James, ed., Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1803) and John Pullen, ed., Thomas Robert Malthus, Principles of Political Economy (1820) (1989) in The British Journal for the History of Science. 24.83 (December 1991): pp. 482 - 484. Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance (1991) in Science. 251 (March 15, 1991): pp. 1373 - 1373. Mark Blaug, Economic History and the History of Economics (1987) in Isis. 79.299 (December 1988): pp. 714 - 715. Steven E. Rhodes, The Economist's View of the World (1987) in Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 18.4 (December 1988): pp. 559 - 561. Theodore M. Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking: 1820-1900 (1986) in Victorian Studies. 31.1 (Autumn 1987): pp. 123 - 124. Michael Turner, Michael, ed. Malthus and His Time (1986) in Victorian Studies. 31.1 (Autumn 1987): pp. 123 - 124. William Breit and Roger W. Spencer, eds. Lives of the Laureates: Seven Nobel Economists (1986) in Isis. 78.294 (December 1987): pp. 464 - 465. William Coleman, Death is a Social Disease (1982) in History of Political Economy. 17.4 (December 1985): pp. 674 - 676.

Citations on Book Jackets Deborah Redman, The Rise of Political Economy as a Science (MIT Press)

13 Philip Mirowski and Esther-Mirjam Sent, Science Bought and Sold (Chicago) Londa Schiebinger, Has Feminism Changed Science? (Harvard) Andre Wakefield, The Disordered Police State: German Cameralism as Science and Practice (Chicago) William Stanley Jevons, Theory of Political Economy (Macmillan) Istvan Hont, Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith (Harvard)

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION Supervisor: Rebecca Livernois (2019); Tyler des Roches (2015); James Kelleher (2011); Sean Armstrong (2004); S. M. Amadae (postdoc 2003); Adam Jay Foster (2003); Ludovic Frobert (postdoc 1998); Robert Pierson (1997) Committee: Justin Ritchie (2018); Jiwon Byun (2017); Jamie Walenta (2008); Michael Ilg (2008); Heiderose Butscher (2001); Michael Macaluso (1997)

SERVICE (SIGNIFICANT DUTIES ONLY) UBC: Dean’s Advisory Committee for Tenure and Promotion (2012-13; 2019-20); Senior Advisory Committee for Tenure and Promotion (2011-12); PWIAS Advisory Board (2006-10); Chair IISGP (2003-4) Head, Philosophy Department (2004-9) Non-UBC: Killam Adjudication Committee, Ottawa (2015-18); President, History of Economics Society (2013-14); Program Chair, History of Science Society (1996-7); Committee Service for HES, HSS, PSA, CSHPS, INEM; Acting Chair, Philosophy Department-York University (1993-4); Senate, York University (1993-96)