Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)

Department Member, Chair for Science Studies

Senior Research Fellow

About

I did my Phd. at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Philosophy.  Spent a year at the University of Konstanz (Germany), to finish up my thesis (2005-06).  Afterwhich, I began with the project, _Knowledge in the Making_, for which I spent one year (2007-08) at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), and then nearly two years at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence (Italy).  As of the middle of Dec. 2009, I am at the ETH-Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).  Also am member of the NCCR Eikones Group at the University of Basel.

Involved with two projects at the moment:

1) History and Philosophy of Observation - Looking at the procedures of observation, involving hand drawings, in 19th century astronomy.

2) Scientific Observation and Images and their Role in the Early History of Analytic Philosophy - especially as it relates to theories of perception.

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