Affiliate Members

Our Affiliate Members Program is designed to help scholars in the New England area who are working in the history and philosophy of science to network with one another and to provide a resource to the broader community for those looking for expertise in a particular subfield of history and philosophy of science. The Affiliate Members Program now consists of over 20 scholars from over 10 universities and colleges, including Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, Tufts University, and the University of Massachusetts.

Jody Azzouni
Tufts University
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Science
Federica Bocchi
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
History and Philosophy of Science Unit
Research Interests: Measurements, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecology
Email: federica.bocchi@ind.ku.dk
Janet Browne 
University College London
Department of Science and Technology Studies
Research Interests: History of Biology, Darwinism, Environment
Website: 
Jamee Elder 
Tufts University
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Astronomy, Philosophy of Gravitational Physics, Philosophy of Experiment
Sina Fazelpour
Northeastern University
Department of Philosophy and Religion; Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: AI Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Social Epistemology, Agent-Based Modeling
Michael M. J. Fischer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University
Science, Technology, and Society (STS); Department of Anthropology; Global Health & Social Medicine
Research Interests: Social Theory, Ethnography, Psychological Anthropology, Film, Law and Ethics on the Electronic Frontier, Social and Ethical Issues in the Biosciences and Technologies, Colonial Encounters, Postcolonial Disorders
Branden Fitelson
Northeastern University
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Research Interests: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Logic
Sally Haslanger 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Linguistics; Department of Philosophy; Women’s & Gender Studies Program
Research Interests: Feminist Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Social Science
Email: shaslang@mit.edu
Website: http://sallyhaslanger.weebly.com
David Shumway Jones 
Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Research Interests: History of Medicine, Bioethics, Race and Medicine, Climate Crisis
Email: dsjones@harvard.edu
Website: https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/david-s-jones
Alison K. McConwell
University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: History and Philosophy of Biology
Email: alison_mcconwell@uml.edu
Website: https://www.alisonkmcconwell.com/
Jeffrey K. McDonough
Harvard University
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Religion
Email: jkmcdonough@gmail.com
Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcdonough/home
Constantinos Mekios
Stonehill College
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Biology
Email: cmekios@stonehill.edu
Website: https://www.stonehill.edu/faculty-staff-directory/details/constantinos-mekios/
Jorge Morales
Northeastern University
Department of Philosophy and Religion; Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness
Email: j.morales@northeastern.edu 
Website: https://subjectivitylab.org
Bernhard Nickel
Harvard University
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science
Email: bnickel@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://scholar.harvard.edu/bernhardnickel/
Naomi Oreskes
Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Research Interests: Earth and Environmental Science, Applied Epistemology, Agnotology, Politics of Science
Email: oreskes@fas.harvard.edu
Website: https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/naomi-oreskes
Jürgen Renn
Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Structural Changes of the Technosphere
Research Interests: Evolution of Knowledge, Anthropocene, History of Science, Digital Humanities, Globalization of Knowledge
Email: rennoffice@gea.mpg.de
Website: https://hrilab.tufts.edu/
Matthias Scheutz
Tufts University
Department of Computer Science
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, Philosophy of Language, Formal Logic, Cognitive Architectures
Email: matthias.scheutz@tufts.edu
Website: https://www.gea.mpg.de/person/124530/30295
Bradford Skow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: Causation, Explanation
Email: matthias.scheutz@tufts.edu
Website: https://hrilab.tufts.edu/
Rory Smead
Northeastern University
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Research Interests: Game Theory, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Social Science
Email: r.smead@northeastern.edu
Website: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/rory-smead/
Marius Stan
Boston College
Department of Philosophy
Research Interests: History and philosophy of classical physics
Email: marius.c.stan@gmail.com
Website: https://philpeople.org/profiles/marius-stan
Catherine Wearing
Wellesley College
Department of Philosophy; Program in Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
Research Interests: Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of language; AI
Email: cwearing@wellesley.edu
Website: https://www.wellesley.edu/people/catherine-wearing