Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Room 360L
Telephone (cell): 617.999.5130
Fax: 617.552.3874
email: daniel.mckaughan@bc.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Science (Notre Dame, 2007);
M. Div. (Princeton Theological Seminary, 1999)
B.A. (University of Oregon, 1996)
Biographical Summary
Prior to joining the BC faculty in 2008, Professor McKaughan was at the University of Notre Dame, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and, subsequently, a Sorin Postdoctoral Fellow.
Fields of Interest
− Philosophy of science
− Philosophy of biology
− Epistemology
− Philosophy of religion
Current Teaching
− New Scientific Visions (Perspectives IV)
− Philosophy of Biology (Darwin, Genes, and Embryology)
− Philosophy of Science
− Science and Religion
− Analytic Epistemology
Recent Publications
− “The Influence of Niels Bohr on Max Delbrück: Revisiting the Hopes Inspired by ‘Light and Life’,” Isis, December 2005, Volume 96 Number 4:507-529.
− “Was Delbruck Really a Reductionist? The “Three Man Paper” and the Puzzle About Delbrück’s Place in the History of Molecular Biology” in Towards a Physical Biology: The Three Man Paper and the Origins of Molecular Biology, Phillip Sloan, ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), forthcoming.
− “From Ugly Duckling to Swan: C. S. Peirce, Abduction, and the Pursuit of Scientific Theories,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, Vol. 44, Issue No. 3, Summer 2008, forthcoming.
− “How Values in Scientific Discovery and Pursuit Alter Theory Appraisal” (with Kevin Elliott, University of South Carolina) PSA 2008. Part I, Contributed Papers. Proceedings of the 2008 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 7-9, 2008. A special issue of Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. |
