PEOPLE
Dr. GUIDO BACCIAGALUPPI, Reader in Philosophy
Dipl.Math. ETH (Zürich), MPhil, PhD (Cambridge) Philosophy of physics, esp. history and philosophy of quantum theory; foundations of probability; time symmetry and asymmetry.
g.bacciagaluppi@abdn.ac.uk
Dr. ELISE CRULL, Postdoctoral Fellow (Leverhulme Trust)
BS (Calvin College), PhD (Notre Dame, IN)
Philosophy of physics, history of quantum mechanics.
e.crull@abdn.ac.uk
Dr. JENNIFER DOWNES, Curator (Exhibitions & Science)
Early modern scientific instruments and print culture.
j.downes@abdn.ac.uk
Prof. STEPHEN GAUKROGER, Chair in Philosophy
BA (London), MA, PhD (Cambridge), FAHA
History of early modern science and philosophy (17th and 18th centuries); philosophy of science; history of analytic philosophy.
s.gaukroger@abdn.ac.uk
Dr. CATHERINE JONES, Lecturer in English
Literature and sciences of the mind; history of emotions; acoustics and literature; technical innovation and the arts
c.a.jones@abdn.ac.uk
Dr. MOGENS LAERKE, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (On Leave 2011-14)
PhD Univ.of Paris IV (Sorbonne)
Early Modern Philosophy (17th and 18th centuries), esp. Leibniz and Spinoza; metaphysics; philosophy of religion.
m.laerke@abdn.ac.uk
Dr. RUSSELL RE MANNING, Lord Gifford Fellow in Natural Theology
BA (MA) (Oxford) MPhil, PhD (Cambridge)
Science and religion in Restoration England; conceptual and historical varieties of Natural theology; philosophy of religion.
r.remanning@abdn.ac.uk
Dr. BEN MARSDEN, Senior Lecturer, History of Science and Technology (On Leave 2011-12)
BA (MA) (Cambridge) PhD (Kent at Canterbury)
Science and technology in Britain (18th and 19th centuries); the humanitarian movement and veterinary professionalization; science and music.
b.marsden@abdn.ac.uk
Dr. LUCA MORETTI, Lecturer in Philosophy
Laurea (Pisa) MLitt (St Andrews), PhD (London)
Epistemology; formal epistemology; logic, metaphysics; philosophy of science.
l.moretti@abdn.ac.uk
Prof. RALPH O’CONNOR, Chair in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland and Iceland (On Leave, 2012-13)
BA (MA) (Cambridge), MPhil (Cambridge), PhD (Cambridge)
Literature and science in Europe and America since 1800; popularization of science since 1800; geology, evolution and religion.
r.oconnor@abdn.ac.uk
Dr. ULRICH STEGMANN, Lecturer in Philosophy
Diplom-Biologie (Bremen), Dr. rer. nat. (Würzburg), MA, PhD (London)
Philosophy of biology; philosophy of mind and cognition; philosophy of science.
u.stegmann@abdn.ac.uk
NOTE: Prof. PETER DEAR, Cornell University, will take up a Carnegie Centenary Professorship at the University of Aberdeen for six months from January to June 2013.
Balint Kekedi, "Mechanisms and their significance with respect to scientific explanation and reduction" (supervisor: Catherine Wilson) balint.kekedi@abdn.ac.uk
Daniel McShane, "Limitations of Materialism" (Guido Bacciagaluppi)
Cameron Brown, "New Science, Antient Metaphysics: Lord Monboddo's Critique of Newton and Empiricism" (Catherine Wilson) cameron.brown@abdn.ac.uk
Alistair Haggarty, "The Scottish Medical Community in London: 1850-1950" (Marjory Harper and Ben Marsden)
Liz Neesam, "Medical Print and the Communication of Medical Knowledge in the Age of Improvement in Scotland (1750-1850)" (Michael Brown and Ralph O'Connor)
Dr Margaret Bolton (Anthropology): science, technology and expertise, especially in South America; human-animal relations
Dr Brian Brock (Divinity): technology and ethics; theology and disability; medicine, humanity and inhumanity; religion and environmental practices
Dr Michael Brown (History / Irish and Scottish Studies): the Scottish and Irish Enlightenments
Professor Steve Bruce (Sociology): sociological approaches to secularization
Mrs Laura Colucci-Gray (Dr.) (Education): from science education to sustainability education: interfaces between the epistemological reflection on science and pedagogical practice; use of interactive and participatory activities to deal with complex and controversial socio-environmental issues
Professor Cairns Craig (English / Irish and Scottish Studies): late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish scientific and philosophical thought
Dr Neil Curtis (Marischal Museum / Anthropology): history of museums; contemporary museology
Dr Elizabeth Curtis (Education): history of archaeology and antiquarianism in 19th-century public culture
Dr Andrew Dilley (History): history of political economy and empire
Dr Nick Fisher (emeritus, History & Philosophy of Science): Victorian culture and the Great Exhibition
Dr Karin Friedrich (History): early modern Northern intellectual networks
Dr Debra Gimlin (Sociology): gender and embodiment; representation of cosmetic surgery in scientific and public discourse
Dr Katherine Groo (Film): early ethnographic cinema and non-fiction cinema
Dr Zohar Hadromi-Allouche (Religious Studies): representations of physicians in early Islam; folklore and creation-narratives
Professor Marjory Harper (History): mental illness and emigration in 19th- and 20th-century Scotland
Professor Tony Heywood (History): history of railways
Dr Hazel Hutchison (English): science in Victorian and early Modernist literature; nursing in the First World War
Professor David Inglis (Sociology): culture, society and nature; globalization
Professor Tim Ingold (Anthropology): human-animal relations; language, technology and skilled practice
Dr Adrienne Janus (English): literary avant-gardes and auditory technology
Dr Áine Larkin (French): photography and literature
Professor James Leach (Anthropology): creativity, knowledge production and ownership; art, science and collaboration; the development of new technologies and their implications for social form
Dr Alexandra Lewis (English): trauma narratives; literature and science, 1800 to present; history of medicine and psychology; fin-de-siècle Britain
Dr Peter McCaffery (International Relations / Cultural History): history of midwifery; sociology of plausibility
Dr Andrew McKinnon (Sociology): energy and sociological theory
Dr Laura McMahon (Film): animals and the moving image
Dr John Morrison (History of Art): science and Scottish and Irish art since 1800
Professor William A. Naphy (History): early modern witchcraft and plague; history of sexuality and deviance
Dr Samantha Newington (History): Near Eastern creation-myths
Professor Robert Segal (Religious Studies): theories of myth and their history; religion and the social sciences
Dr David Smith (honorary, History): 20th-century British medicine, nutrition and food safety
Professor Jane Stevenson (History): late-antique and mediaeval learning
Dr Janet Stewart (Visual Culture / German): modern visual culture; sociology of art and space; sociological and cultural approaches to energy in the 20th and 21st centuries
Dr Alex Sutherland (History): history of medicine in Scotland; the Enlightenment and folk culture
Professor John Swinton (Divinity): practical theology, nursing, disability and mental health
Dr Will Tuladhar-Douglas (Religious Studies): interaction between ritual and technology in Buddhism; human-animal interactions
Dr Simon Ward (German / Visual Culture): cultural history of transport in the 20th century; architecture and urban space; travel writing
Dr Andrew Whitehouse (Anthropology): human-animal interactions; perceptions of nature
Dr Matthew Wickman (English): literature and mathematics; intellectual history of Scottish Enlightenment
Dr Rhoda Wilkie (Sociology): sociology of human-animal interactions
Dr Margaret Bolton (Anthropology): science, technology and expertise, especially in South America; human-animal relations
Dr Brian Brock (Divinity): technology and ethics; theology and disability; medicine, humanity and inhumanity; religion and environmental practices
Dr Michael Brown (History / Irish and Scottish Studies): the Scottish and Irish Enlightenments
Professor Steve Bruce (Sociology): sociological approaches to secularization
Professor Cairns Craig (English / Irish and Scottish Studies): late 19th- and early 20th-century Scottish scientific and philosophical thought
Dr Neil Curtis (Marischal Museum / Anthropology): history of museums; contemporary museology
Dr Andrew Dilley (History): history of political economy and empire
Dr Nick Fisher (emeritus, History & Philosophy of Science): Victorian culture and the Great Exhibition
Dr Karin Friedrich (History): early modern Northern intellectual networks
Dr Debra Gimlin (Sociology): gender and embodiment; representation of cosmetic surgery in scientific and public discourse
Dr Katherine Groo (Film): early ethnographic cinema and non-fiction cinema
Dr Zohar Hadromi-Allouche (Religious Studies): representations of physicians in early Islam; folklore and creation-narratives
Professor Marjory Harper (History): mental illness and emigration in 19th- and 20th-century Scotland
Dr Tony Heywood (History): history of railways
Dr Hazel Hutchison (English): science in Victorian and early Modernist literature; nursing in the First World War
Professor David Inglis (Sociology): culture, society and nature; globalization
Professor Tim Ingold (Anthropology): human-animal relations; language, technology and skilled practice
Dr Adrienne Janus (English): literary avant-gardes and auditory technology
Dr Áine Larkin (French): photography and literature
Professor James Leach (Anthropology): creativity, knowledge production and ownership; art, science and collaboration; the development of new technologies and their implications for social form
Dr Alexandra Lewis (English): trauma narratives; literature and science, 1800 to present; history of medicine and psychology; fin-de-siècle Britain
Dr Peter McCaffery (International Relations / Cultural History): history of midwifery; sociology of plausibility
Dr Andrew McKinnon (Sociology): energy and sociological theory
Dr Laura McMahon (Film): animals and the moving image
Dr John Morrison (History of Art): science and Scottish and Irish art since 1800
Professor William A. Naphy (History): early modern witchcraft and plague; history of sexuality and deviance
Dr Samantha Newington (History): Near Eastern creation-myths
Professor Robert Segal (Religious Studies): theories of myth and their history; religion and the social sciences
Dr David Smith (honorary, History): 20th-century British medicine, nutrition and food safety
Professor Jane Stevenson (History): late-antique and mediaeval learning
Dr Janet Stewart (Visual Culture / German): modern visual culture; sociology of art and space; sociological and cultural approaches to energy in the 20th and 21st centuries
Dr Alex Sutherland (History): history of medicine in Scotland; the Enlightenment and folk culture
Professor John Swinton (Divinity): practical theology, nursing, disability and mental health
Dr Will Tuladhar-Douglas (Religious Studies): interaction between ritual and technology in Buddhism; human-animal interactions
Dr Simon Ward (German / Visual Culture): cultural history of transport in the 20th century; architecture and urban space; travel writing
Dr Andrew Whitehouse (Anthropology): human-animal interactions; perceptions of nature
Dr Matthew Wickman (English): literature and mathematics; intellectual history of Scottish Enlightenment
Dr Rhoda Wilkie (Sociology): sociology of human-animal interactions