History and Philosophy of Science at Oregon State University

Congratulations to Mary Jo Nye (Emerita Horning Professor in the Humanities) on the publication of her long-awaited study of Michael Polanyi, the celebrated scientist, philosopher, and critic of positivism.  The title is Michael Polanyi and his Generation: Origins of the Social Construction of Science (Chicago, 2011).  The book has already gained widespread acclaim, including a […]

Oregon State University’s Horning Professor in the Humanities, Anita Guerrini, levels a critique at recent work in the “digital humanities.”  She writes, “Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed ‘culturomics’ is not the same as being an […]