Curriculum Vitae

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Education

2006 PhD, University of Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science

1999 BA, Yale University, Physics and Philosophy

Employment

2022 Auburn University, Associate Professor of Philosophy.

2018–2021 Iowa State University, Associate Professor of Philosophy

2013–2018 Iowa State University, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

2012–2013 Emory University, Oxford College, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

2008–2012 Duke University, Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy and History Departments

2008–2010 Journal of the History of Philosophy, Managing Editor

2006–2008 Yale University, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Whitney Humanities Center

Publications

Monograph

Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution. (Cambridge University Press, 2014). (Reviewed in Isis, HOPOS, Renaissance Quarterly, Revue Philosophique de Louvain.)

Edited Volume

The Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, ed. with Dana Jalobeanu, Cambridge Histories of Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Articles and Chapters

“Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius and Its Reception.” Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, ed. David Marshall Miller and Dana Jalobeanu (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Regressus and Empiricism in the Controversy about Galileo’s Lunar Observations.” Perspectives on Science 26 (2018), 293–324.

The Parallelogram Rule from Pseudo-Aristotle to Newton.” Archive for History of Exact Sciences 71 (2017), 157–191.

“Models of Intelligibility in Galileo’s Mechanical Science.” Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer, ed. Marcus Adams, Zvi Biener, Uljana Feest, and Jaqueline Sullivan (Springer, 2017).

“Seeing and Believing: Galileo, Aristotelians, and the Mountains on the Moon.” The Starry Messenger, ed. Daniel De Simone and John W. Hessler (Library of Congress/Levenger, 2013).

Friedman, Galileo, and Reciprocal Iteration.” Philosophy of Science 78 (2011), 1293–1305.

History and Philosophy of Science History.” Integrating History and Philosophy of Science, ed. Tad M. Schmaltz and Seymour Mauskopf (Springer, 2011).

Qualities, Properties, and Laws in Newton’s Induction.” Philosophy of Science76 (2009), 1052–1063.

O Male Factum: Rectilinearity and Kepler’s Discovery of the Ellipse.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 39 (2008), 43–63.

The Thirty Years War and the Galileo Affair.” History of Science 46 (2008), 49–74.

Encyclopedia Entries

"Law of Inertia" and "Representations of Space." Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles Wolfe (Springer).

Representations of Space.” Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles Wolfe (Springer, 2019).

Essay Reviews

Review of Michael J. Sauter, The Spatial Reformation: Euclid Between Man, Cosmos, and God. HOPOS 10 (2020), 601–605.

On Newton’s Method,” symposium review of William Harper, Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method, with Nick Huggett, George E. Smith, and William Harper. Metascience 22 (2013), 215-246.

Critical notice of Eileen Reeves and Albert Van Helden, trans., On Sunspots. Aestimatio 9 (2012), 97–102.

Galileo’s Impractical Science.” Review of Matteo Valleriani, Galileo Engineer. Metascience 21 (2012), 223–225.

Review of Stephen Gaukroger, The Emergence of a Scientific Culture. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (March 3, 2008).

Selected Presentations and Seminars

Sidereus Nuncius and Its Reception.”

  • Revolutions in History of Early Modern Philosophy and Science. Iowa State University. July 27, 2018.

  • Workshop on early modern mathematics and physics. University of Bergamo. October 4, 2017.

“Mathematization and the Quaestio de Certitudine Mathematicarum.” Bucharest Colloquium in Early Modern Science. University of Bucharest. March 14, 2018.

“The Thirty Years War and the Galileo Affair.” History Department colloquium. Iowa State University. October 18, 2017.

“Making Observation Evidence: Regressus, Galileo, and the Moon.” Scientiae 2017. University of Padua. April 22, 2017.

Author-respondent. Author-meets-critics session on Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution. Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. University of Minnesota. March 31, 2017.

“Models of Intelligibility in Galileo’s Mechanical Science.” Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting. Atlanta, Georgia. November, 2016.

Regressus in Early Modern Thought.” Two-session reading group. Bucharest-Princeton Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. Alba Iulia, Romania. July 13-14, 2016.

“Galileo, Regressus, and the Origins of Empiricism.” Philosophy of Science Workshop. Dartmouth College. May 20–21, 2016.

“The Parallelogram Rule from Pseudo-Aristotle to Newton.”

  • Scientiae 2016. University of Oxford. July 5–7, 2016.

  • HOPOS 2016: 11th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Minneapolis, Minnesota. June 22–26, 2016.

“Galileo, Empiricism, and the Moon.” NEH Summer Institute: Between Medieval and Early Modern, Philosophy from 1300-1700. University of Colorado, Boulder. July 27, 2015

“Preliminary Notes for a History of the Parallelogram Rule.” Geometry and Space in the Early Modern Age. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. July 8, 2015.

“Throwing Stones and Spinning Tops: What ‘Motion’ Meant to Galileo.” Philosophy Department colloquium. Duke University. April 14, 2015.

“Descartes and His Critics on Conserved Rectilinear Motion.”

  • HOPOS 2014: 10th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Ghent, Belgium. July 4, 2014.

  • Early Modern Philosophy Workshop. University of Iowa. November 9, 2013.

Invited participant. Galileo and Early Modern Philosophy. Hendrix College. April 6, 2013.

Pluribus Ergo Existentibus Centris: Explanations, Descriptions, and Copernicus.”

  • HOPOS 2012: 9th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 21, 2012.

  • &HPS4 Conference in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science. University of Athens. March 15, 2012.

Moderator and Panelist. “Why Should Scientists and Humanists Talk to Each Other, Anyway?” Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Yale University. April 13, 2012.

Mille Movimenti Circolari: From Impetus to Conserved Curvilinear Motion in Galileo.” Summer Colloquium: Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space. Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. July 25, 2011.

“Interdisciplinarity in a Disciplinary World: The Brands of Science Studies.” ACTC Annual Conference. New Haven, Connecticut. April 16, 2011.

“Galileo on the Moon: Seen and Unseen.”

  • Restraints and Constraints: What Counted as Good Philosophy in the Early Modern Period. East Tennessee State University. March 18, 2011.

  • The Starry Messenger: Library of Congress Rare Book Forum. Library of Congress. November 5, 2010.

“Friedman’s Dynamics of Reason, Galileo’s Archimedean Approximation, and Reciprocal Iteration.”

  • APA Eastern Division Meeting Main Program. Boston, Massachusetts. December 30, 2010.

  • Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting. Montreal, Quebec. November 6, 2010.

  • Philosophy Department colloquium. Duke University. April 2, 2010.

“From Ontic Toward Epistemic in Newton’s Induction.” Miniconference in Early Modern Philosophy. Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. April 29, 2009.

“Galileo’s Archimedean Approximation and the Dynamics of Reason.” Philosophy Department colloquium. University of Nevada, Las Vegas. February 27, 2009.

“Qualities, Properties, and Laws in Newton’s Induction.”

  • APA Eastern Division Meeting Main Program. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. December 27, 2008.

  • Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. November 7, 2008.

  • Induction: Historical and Contemporary Approaches. 5th Ghentian Conference in the Philosophy of Science. University of Ghent. July 9, 2008.

Selected Fellowships and Grants

Revolutions in the History of Early Modern Philosophy and Science,” Collaborative Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities (2017–2018)

Symposium Grant, Center for Excellence in Arts and Humanities, Iowa State University (2017–2018)

Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Initiative Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University (2015–2016)

NEH Summer Institute Scholar, University of Colorado at Boulder (Summer 2015)

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Summer 2011)

Professional Service

Steering Committee, International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) (2015–2020)

Editorial Board, Frontiers in History of Science book series (Birkhäuser) (2016–present)

Other Appointments

Township Trustee, Jackson Township, Boone County, Iowa (2017–2024); elected office administering services for an unincorporated jurisdiction.

Lecturer, Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University (2006–2008)

Residential Fellow, Berkeley College, Yale University (2007–2008)

Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University (2006–2007)

Visiting Lecturer, Philosophy Department, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2005–2006)

Software Developer, OnExchange, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts (Summer–Fall 2000, Summer 2001)