Master’s Theses Directed:
1976 Thomas Peter Gariepy, “The Acceptance of Antiseptic Surgery in the United States.” MA Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.
1978 Robert M. Hawthorne, “Friedrich Wöhler and the Professionalization of Chemistry in Nineteenth-Century Germany.” MA Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.
2016 Bohang Chen, “The Death of Early Twentieth-Century Vitalism.” Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. Subsequently published in revised form as Vitalism and its Legacy in Twentieth-Century Life Sciences and Philosophy. Cham, Switzerland, 2023
Doctoral Dissertations Directed:
1996 Christopher Blum, “St. George Jackson Mivart, Catholic Scientist.” Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.
1999 Michael Letteney, “Georges Cuvier, Transcendental Anatomist: A Study of Teleological Explanation in Biology.” Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.
2003 Ryan MacPherson, “The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation and the Pre–Darwinian Evolutionary Debates in America in Three Intellectual Communities.” Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. Subsequently published as Debating Evolution Before Darwinism: An Exploration of Science and Religion in America, 1844-1859, Mankato, MN: Into Your Hands Press, 2016.
2003 Roberta Berry, “Recreating Adam: A Philosophical Investigation of the Genetic Engineering of Human Beings.” Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.
2003 Christopher Mirus, “Aristotle on the Unity of Living Substances,” co–directed with Michael Loux, Notre Dame Philosophy.
2007 Nayhan Fancy, “Pulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn Al– Nafis (D. 1288).” Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. Co–Directed with Ahmad Dallal, Georgetown U. This dissertation won the prize of the Malmuk Association for the best dissertation in Middle–Eastern history.
2010 Erik L. Peterson, “Finding Mind, Form, Organism, and Person in a Reductionist Age: The Challenge of Gregory Bateson.” This dissertation formed in part the basis of Peterson’s book The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenesis. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2016.
2011 James L. Barham,“Teleological Realism in Biology.” Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.
2019 Xiaoxing Jin, “Darwin in China: 1870-1935.” Co- Directed with Thomas Stapleford, Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.