Institute for Science, Engineering and Public Policy

Faculty Member, Philosophy of Science

President

Affiliated with Oregon University System

Thesis Title: Limits of Science

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Current focus on post-scientific worldview, Feyerabend, Lakatos and Bohr insights on complementarity – leading to the Socratic Turn (ancient) and Dewey's Philosophy of Engineering (modern).
Most important work is in philosophy of thermodynamics – Carnot's Epiphany (viz Carnot's engineering thermodynamics is more general and subsumes Maxwell-Boltzmann 'scientific, mechanical thermodynamics).

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