Faculty and Staff

Michael Friedman
Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities
Areas of interest include the interaction between philosophy and the exact sciences from Kant through the logical empiricists, prospects for post-Kuhnian philosophy of science in light of these developments. Selected books include: Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and the Philosophy of Science (1983), Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992), Reconsidering Logical Positivism (1999), A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000), and Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (2001).

Robert McGinn
Robert McGinn is Professor (Teaching) of Management Science and Engineering, Director of the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program, and Associate Director of the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University. He received a B.S. in Unified Science and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, a M.S. in mathematics at Stanford, and a Ph.D. in philosophy and the history of ideas at Stanford. McGinn has taught at Barnard College (Columbia University), Tufts University, and, Stanford, where, apart from a year at Bell Laboratories in 1978-79, he has been since 1971. His academic specialties are technology and society; ethics, science, and technology; engineering ethics; and ethics and public policy. His publications include two books, Science, Technology, and Society (1991) and Navigating Rough Waters: Ethical Issues in the Water Industry (2001; co-edited and -written with Cheryl Davis), and articles in scholarly journals such as Daedalus, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Professional Ethics, Technology and Culture, and Science and Engineering Ethics. He is currently doing research on ethical issues related to nanotechnology. McGinn received the Stanford Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa Awards for teaching excellence, and the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for contributions to undergraduate education at Stanford.
He is interested in classical music and opera, Mediterranean languages and cultures, and foreign films. Professor McGinn resides in Palo Alto with his wife, Marguerite Grady.

Paula Findlen
Renaissance science, technology and medicine (especially Italy), natural history, Scientific Revolution, the relations between science and culture, gender and knowledge

Staff
Rosemary Rogers has been with the Center since 2004, and Stanford University since 1994. She is the center administrator as well as the web maestra.

Staff
Margaret Harris is the administrator of the STS program at Stanford. She has been associated with the Center since 2004.

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	Michael Friedman Frederick P. Rehmus Family Professor of Humanities Areas of interest include the interaction between philosophy and the exact sciences from Kant through the logical empiricists, prospects for post-Kuhnian philosophy of science in light of these developments. Selected books include: Foundations of Space-Time Theories: Relativistic Physics and the Philosophy of Science (1983), Kant and the Exact Sciences (1992), Reconsidering Logical Positivism (1999), A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger (2000), and Dynamics of Reason: The 1999 Kant Lectures at Stanford University (2001).

	Robert McGinn Robert McGinn is Professor (Teaching) of Management Science and Engineering, Director of the Science, Technology, and Society (STS) Program, and Associate Director of the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University. He received a B.S. in Unified Science and Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, a M.S. in mathematics at Stanford, and a Ph.D. in philosophy and the history of ideas at Stanford. McGinn has taught at Barnard College (Columbia University), Tufts University, and, Stanford, where, apart from a year at Bell Laboratories in 1978-79, he has been since 1971. His academic specialties are technology and society; ethics, science, and technology; engineering ethics; and ethics and public policy. His publications include two books, Science, Technology, and Society (1991) and Navigating Rough Waters: Ethical Issues in the Water Industry (2001; co-edited and -written with Cheryl Davis), and articles in scholarly journals such as Daedalus, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Professional Ethics, Technology and Culture, and Science and Engineering Ethics. He is currently doing research on ethical issues related to nanotechnology. McGinn received the Stanford Tau Beta Pi and Phi Beta Kappa Awards for teaching excellence, and the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for contributions to undergraduate education at Stanford. He is interested in classical music and opera, Mediterranean languages and cultures, and foreign films. Professor McGinn resides in Palo Alto with his wife, Marguerite Grady.

	Paula Findlen Renaissance science, technology and medicine (especially Italy), natural history, Scientific Revolution, the relations between science and culture, gender and knowledge

	Staff Rosemary Rogers has been with the Center since 2004, and Stanford University since 1994. She is the center administrator as well as the web maestra.

	Staff Margaret Harris is the administrator of the STS program at Stanford. She has been associated with the Center since 2004.