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Ernan McMullin is the Director Emeritus of the Program
in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame.
He has published widely in the fields of contemporary philosophy of science,
the history of the philosophy of science from Greek times onwards, and
the interactions, both historical and philosophical, between religious
belief and the natural sciences. Among the books he has written or edited
are: The Concept of Matter (1963); Galileo, Man of Science (1967); Newton
on Matter and Activity (1978); Evolution and Creation (1985); The Shaping
of Scientific Rationality (1985); The Social Dimensions of Science (1992).
He has held the office of President in four major American philosophical
associations: the American Philosophical Association (Central Division);
the Philosophy of Science Association; the American Catholic Philosophical
Association: and the Metaphysical Society of America. He is a Fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the International Academy
of the History of Science.
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