Michael R Matthews

Michael R. Matthews is an honorary associate professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. He has degrees in Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Education and History and Philosophy of Science. He has published articles, books, and edited collections in the areas of philosophy of education, history and philosophy of science, and science education. He was Foundation Editor of the Springer journal Science & Education: Contributions from the History and Philosophy of...See more

Michael R. Matthews is an honorary associate professor in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. He has degrees in Science, Psychology, Philosophy, Education and History and Philosophy of Science. He has published articles, books, and edited collections in the areas of philosophy of education, history and philosophy of science, and science education. He was Foundation Editor of the Springer journal Science & Education: Contributions from the History and Philosophy of Science. He has been awarded the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize of the History of Science Society (USA) in recognition of his contributions to the teaching of history of science. He has been President of the International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Group, and the Inter-Divisional Teaching Commission of the International Union for History and Philosophy of Science. Contributors Joseph Agassi is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and York University, Toronto. He is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Society of Canada, and the World Academy of Art and Science; he is a former Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. He has published more than 600 papers in diverse fields. He has authored 20 books and edited 10. Evandro Agazzi is Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics of the Panamerican University of Mexico City, and Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Genoa (Italy) and Fribourg (Switzerland). He is Honorary President, of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science (Brussel), the International Federation of the Philosophical Societies, the International Institute of Philosophy (Paris). He has published in several languages, as author or editor, more than 80 books and about 1,000 papers and book chapters. His main fields of research are logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of physics, general philosophy of science, ethics of science, metaphysics and bioethics Omar Ahmad is an Internal Medicine physician and Clinical Informatics Lead at Stanton Hospital in Yellowknife, Canada. His main research interests are genetic epidemiology, clinical informatics, and biophysics. Richard T. W. Arthuris Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University, Canada. He researches in early modern natural philosophy and mathematics, the philosophy of physics, and scientific epistemology, specializing in the theory of time, the infinite, and thought experiments. He is author of G. W. Leibniz: The Labyrinth of the Continuum (Yale UP, 2001), Leibniz (Polity, 2014), Natural Deduction (Broadview 2011), Introduction to Logic (Broadview 2017), and over 60 articles and book chapters. Nimrod Bar-Am is a senior lecturer at the Communication Department of Sapir College, Israel, where he heads a unit for the study of Rhetoric and Philosophy of Communication. He is the author of Extensionalism:The Revolution in Logic (Springer 2008), and In Search of a Simple Introduction to Communication (Springer 2016), as well as numerous papers. Russell Blackford holds a conjoint research appointment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Freedom of Religion and the Secular State (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies (MIT Press, 2014), The Mystery of Moral Authority (Palgrave, 2016), and Philosophy's Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress (co-edited with Damien Broderick; Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). Mauro A.E. Chaparro is Professor at the Facultad de Ciencias Exactas and Naturales of Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata and Assistant Researcher of the National Research Council (CONICET) of... See less