Notes on Contributors

Alan Richardson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of many essays in history of philosophy of science and of the monograph, Carnap's Construction of the World: The Aufbau and the Emergence of Logical Empiricism (Cambridge University Press, 1998). He is a co-editor of Origins of Logical Empiricism (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), Logical Empiricism in North America (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming), and The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (Cambridge University Press, to appear).

Daniela M. Bailer-Jones studied philosophy and physics at the Universities of Freiburg, Oxford and Cambridge. At Cambridge, she completed her M.Phil. in astrophysics in 1993 and her Ph.D. on Scientific Models: A Cognitive Approach with an Application in Astrophysics in 1997. She has since worked in philosophy of science at the Universities of Paderborn and Bonn and is currently funded by the Emmy-Noether Programm of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to do research as a Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests are mainly scientific models and aspects of cognition involved in doing science. She is currently preparing a book on scientific models that traces the development of models in the philosophy of science of the 20th century.

B. A. C. Saunders (Ph.D. Anthropology, Utrecht 1992) is Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Leuven, Belgium, where she concentrates primarily on color. [Begin Page 388]

J. van Brakel (Ph.D. Chemical Engineering 1972 Delft) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven concentrating on philosophy of science.

Alfred Nordmann is Professor of Philosophy at the Technische Universität Darmstadt and adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina. Focusing on the work of Heinrich Hertz and Ludwig Wittgen-stein, he is currently exploring the limits set to science by the ontology implicit in the creation of representations.