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John M. Nicholas
BSc, MSc, PhD Pittsburgh
- Professor Emeritus
- History & Philosophy of Science
- Member, Rotman Institute of Science and Values
Phone: 519 661-3453
Office: Stevenson Hall, Room 3134
E-mail: jnichola@uwo.ca
Website: Personal
2010-2011 Teaching
- PHIL 1022E - Advanced Introduction to Philosophy
- PHIL 2400F - Introduction to Philosophy of Mind
- PHIL 3501F - Epistemology
Selected Publications
Books Edited
- Moral Priorities in Medical Research, edited by J. Nicholas, Toronto: Hannah Institute, 1988.
- Cartesianism 1650-1750, edited by T. Lennon, J. Nicholas and J. Davis, McGill-Queens Press, (1983).
- Images, Perception and Knowledge, edited by J. Nicholas, Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, (1977), 309 pages.
Representative Papers
- "Realism for Shopkeepers; Behaviouralist Notes on Constructive Empiricism" in Brown, J.R. and J. Mittelstrass (eds.), An Intimate Relation. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989, pages 459-476.
- "Planck's Quantum Innovation", in Donovan, A., L. Laudan, and R. Laudan (Eds.) Scrutinizing Science: Empirical Studies of Scientific Change, Dordrecht: Reidel Press, 1988, pages 317 - 335.
- "Scientific and Other Interests", in James R. Brown (ed.), Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland, (1984): 265-294.
- "Scientific Rationality and Local Progress", Nature and System, 2: (1980): 1-25.
- "Newton's Extremal Second Law", Centaurus, 22: (1978): 103-130.
