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Paula Findlen, Director
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History

Paula Findlen is the Director of the Suppes Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Stanford University, and also Co-Chair of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science. Her field of research and study is the History of Science and medicine and early Modern Europe, with a special interest in the Renaissance and Italy. Recent projects and books include Mapping the Republic of Letters, Early Modern Things: Objects and their Histories, 1500-1800 (2013), Gusto for Things (2012).


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Michael Friedman
Patrick Suppes Professor of the Philosophy of Science

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).


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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 manager.







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