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Lecturers:
Martin Carrier
Martin Carrier is Professor of Philosophy at Bielefeld University. He
received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Münster and earned
his habilitation at the University of Konstanz. His chief area of work is the
philosophy of science, in particular, historical changes in science and
scientific method, theory-ladenness and empirical testability, intertheoretic
relations and reductionism, and presently methodological issues of application-
oriented research. Carrier is a member of the “German Academy of
Science Leopoldina,” the “Mainz Academy of Sciences, Humanities and
Literature,” and the “Academia Europaea.” He was awarded the Leibniz
Prize of the German Research Association (DFG) for 2008. His publications
include The Completeness of Scientific Theories. On the Derivation of
Empirical Indicators within a Theoretical Framework: The Case of Physical
Geometry (Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994); Nikolaus Kopernikus (Beck
2001); Wissenschaftstheorie: Zur Einführung (Junius 2006, rev. 2008);
Raum-Zeit (de Gruyter 2009).
www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/philosophie/personen/carrier/
Rose-Mary Sargent
Rose-Mary Sargent is Professor of Philosophy at Merrimack College
and Editor-in-Chief of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for
the History of Philosophy of Science. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy
from the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on experimental
practices from the 17th century to the present. Currently she is working on
a study of Francis Bacon’s vision of how experimental science would lead to useful knowledge that would advance the common good and how the
inherent tensions within this program were revealed as subsequent generations
attempted the pursuit of science in the public interest. In addition
to numerous articles, she is the author of The Diffident Naturalist: Robert
Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment (University of Chicago Press 1995),
and editor of Selected Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon (Hackett 1999).
http://warrior.merrimack.edu/academics/liberal_arts/philosophy/MeetFacultyStaff/Pages/fac_RSargent.aspx
Peter Weingart
Peter Weingart is Professor Emeritus of Sociology (sociology of science
and science policy) at Bielefeld University, Germany. He was director of the
Institute for Science and Technology Studies (IWT) and director of the
Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF 1988–1994). He is a member of
the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering
Sciences (acatech) in Germany. He is managing editor of the Yearbook
Sociology of the Sciences and since 2008 he is editor-in-chief of
Minerva. He has published numerous articles and books in the sociology
of science and science studies, among them Metaphors and the Dynamics
of Knowledge (with S. Maasen, Routledge 2000), Die Stunde der Wahrheit?
(Velbrück Wissenschaft 2001), Die Wissenschaft der Öffentlichkeit (Velbrück
Wissenschaft 2005).
www.uni-bielefeld.de/iwt/personen/weingart/
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