Master\u2019s Theses Directed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1976 Thomas Peter Gariepy, \u201cThe Acceptance of Antiseptic Surgery in the United States.\u201d MA Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1978 Robert M. Hawthorne, \u201cFriedrich W\u00f6hler and the Professionalization of Chemistry in Nineteenth-Century Germany.\u201d MA Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2016 Bohang Chen, \u201cThe Death of Early Twentieth-Century Vitalism.\u201d 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 <\/em><\/em> <\/em><\/em>Philosophy. <\/em>Cham, Switzerland, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n Doctoral Dissertations Directed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1996 Christopher Blum, \u201cSt. George Jackson Mivart, Catholic Scientist.\u201d Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1999 Michael Letteney, \u201cGeorges Cuvier, Transcendental Anatomist: A Study of Teleological Explanation in Biology.\u201d Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2003 Ryan MacPherson, \u201cThe Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation <\/em>and the Pre\u2013Darwinian Evolutionary Debates in America in Three Intellectual Communities.\u201d Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. Subsequently published as Debating Evolution Before Darwinism: An Exploration <\/em><\/em> <\/em><\/em>of Science and Religion in <\/em><\/em>America<\/em>, 1844-1859<\/em>, Mankato, MN: Into Your Hands Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2003 Roberta Berry, \u201cRecreating Adam: A Philosophical Investigation of the Genetic Engineering of Human Beings.\u201d Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2003 Christopher Mirus, \u201cAristotle on the Unity of Living Substances,\u201d co\u2013directed with Michael Loux, Notre Dame Philosophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2007 Nayhan Fancy, \u201cPulmonary Transit and Bodily Resurrection: The Interaction of Medicine, Philosophy and Religion in the Works of Ibn Al\u2013 Nafis (D. 1288).\u201d Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. Co\u2013Directed with Ahmad Dallal, Georgetown U. This dissertation won the prize of the Malmuk Association for the best dissertation in Middle\u2013Eastern history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2010 Erik L. Peterson, \u201cFinding Mind, Form, Organism, and Person in a Reductionist Age: The Challenge of Gregory Bateson.\u201d This dissertation formed in part the basis of Peterson\u2019s book The Life Organic: The Theoretical Biology Club and the Roots of Epigenesis<\/em>. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh University Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2011 James L. Barham,\u201cTeleological Realism in Biology.\u201d Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2019 Xiaoxing Jin, \u201cDarwin in China: 1870-1935.\u201d Co- Directed with Thomas Stapleford, Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Master\u2019s Theses Directed: 1976 Thomas Peter Gariepy, \u201cThe Acceptance of Antiseptic Surgery in the United States.\u201d MA Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame. 1978 Robert M. Hawthorne, \u201cFriedrich W\u00f6hler and the Professionalization of Chemistry in Nineteenth-Century Germany.\u201d MA Dissertation, Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Notre … Continue reading Dissertations Directed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4751,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/15"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/phillip-sloan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}