AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

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.