Notes on Contributors

Davis Baird, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Chair of the Deparment of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. During academic year 1999/2000 he is a senior fellow of the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at M.I.T. He is the editor of Techné: Journal for the Society for Philosophy and Technology. He also is a founding member of the International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry. He has published numerous articles on various aspects of the philosophy of scientific instruments, and he currently is finishing a book on this subject provisionally titled Instrument Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments. He has published a book on the foundations of probability and statistics, Inductive Logic: Inferring the Unknown, and he is co-editor of Heinrich Hertz: Classical Physicist, Modern Philosopher.

Mark S. Cohen, Ph.D., is the Director of Functional MRI Activation Imaging and Associate Professor of Neurology, Radiological Sciences and of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the UCLA School of Medicine and is one of the seven faculty members of the Division of Brain Mapping. He is an internationally-recognized expert in high speed magnetic resonance imaging and its applications, particularly in the use of ultra-fast echo-planar imaging for the collection of brain activation data sets, and he has been active in the development of functional magnetic resonance imaging since its inception. Dr. Cohen served as an elected board member of the Society for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (SMRI), and the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) and for two years chaired the Education Committee for the ISMRM. He served as associate editor of the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and is a regular ad-hoc reviewer in Science Magazine and a variety of magnetic resonance and neurology journals. He holds a Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the Rockefeller University in New York City and has spent the past twelve years exploring the technology and applications of magnetic resonance imaging.

Peter Galison is the Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics at Harvard University; he was Professor of Philosophy and of Physics at Stanford University from 1983 to 1992. Author of How Experiments End (Chicago, 1987) and Image and Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics (Chicago, 1997), Galison also has co-edited a series of volumes aimed at linking history of science with other disciplines. These include Big Science: The Growth of Large-Scale Research (Stanford, 1992), The Disunity of Science (Stanford, 1996). Picturing Science, Producing Art (Routledge, 1998), The Architecture of Science (MIT Press, 1999); and Scientific Authorship (in preparation). His current work is on the history and philosophy of theoretical physics, and on the development of the category of scientific objectivity. In physics, he has worked in theoretical high-energy physics.

James Elkins teaches in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His most recent books are The Domain of Images (Cornell University) and Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis (Stanford University).

Alfred Nordmann is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. Using case-studies from 18th and 19th century physics, chemistry, and biology, he explores how science maintains and preserves the conditions under which consensus becomes possible.

Kent W. Staley is assistant professor of philosophy at Arkansas State University. He is interested in the history of modern fundamental physics, and is exploring an error-statistical understanding of evidential reasoning, with a focus on the context of collaborative research. His current project is an expansion of his dissertation, on the experimental search for the top quark.

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