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Peter Barker taught for many years in the Science and Technology Studies program at Virginia Tech, and is now Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Science at the University of Oklahoma. His recent publications include Pierre Duhem: Historian and Philosopher of Science (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1996), with Roger Ariew, and “Kuhn’s Mature Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Science,” Philosophical Psychology 9 (1996): 347- 363, with Hanne Andersen and Xiang Chen.

Paul Hoyningen-Huene is Professor of the Philosophy of Science at the University of Hannover. He has a diploma from the University of Munich and a Ph.D. from the University of Zürich in theoretical physics. He has taught at the University of Zürich, at the University of Berne, and was, from 1990 to 1997, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Konstanz. As a visiting scholar he spent a year with Kuhn at MIT; he has also been a visiting fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His many publications include the recent book Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn’s Philosophy of Science (University of Chicago, 1993).

Evelyn Fox Keller received her Ph.D. in theoretical physics at Harvard University, worked for a number of years at the interface of physics and biology, and is now Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. She is author of A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock (San Francisco, 1983); Reflections on Gender and Science (Yale, 1985); Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death: Essays on Language, Gender, and Science (Routledge, 1992); and, most recently, Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology (Columbia University Press, 1995). Her current research is on the history and philosophy of developmental biology.

Blake Leland is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He teaches classes on modernism in the School’s Science, Technology, and Culture program.

Nancy J. Nersessian is Professor of Cognitive Sciences and Coordinator of the Program in Cognitive Science at Georgia Institute of Technology. She has an A.B. in Physics and Philosophy from Boston University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in Philosophy. She is author of numerous publications, including Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories, and is currently at work on a book, Creating Science: A Cognitive-historical Approach to Conceptual Change, to be published by MIT Press. She has been a Fulbright Research Scholar to the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, a Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, a Senior Fellow of the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science, and an elected member of the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association. She has taught at several institutions, including the Technical University of Twente, the Netherlands and Princeton University.

Thomas Nickles is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada at Reno. In 1982-83 he was visiting senior fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. He is editor of Scientific Discovery: Logic and Rationality (Reidel/ Kluwer, 1980), and Scientific Discovery: Case Studies (Reidel/ Kluwer, 1980). He is currently working on heuristic appraisal, problems of “knowledge pollution” in science and society, the strange idea of a scientific method, and related topics, such as methodological luck.

Joseph Rouse is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Science in Society Program at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. His paper “What Are Cultural Studies of Scientific Knowledge?” (Configurations 1 [1993]: 1-22) is expanded in his book Engaging Science: How to Understand its Practices Philosophically (Cornell, 1996). He has also written Knowledge and Power: Toward a Political Philosophy of Science (Cornell, 1987), and is now working on a book manuscript, Scientific Practices and Philosophical Naturalism: Crossing the Analytic/Continental Divide. His work in philosophy of science draws extensively upon social, cultural, and feminist studies of science, and upon philosophical work on intentionality and language.

Luke Springman is Associate Professor of German at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He has published a book and articles on German...

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