 Philosophy of Science, Analytic Philosophy
Johns Hopkins University
Gilman Hall 338
3400 North Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-516-7516
E-mail: peter.achinstein@jhu.edu PhD: Harvard University
Peter Achinstein specializes in philosophy of science and has interests in the history of science as well. In addition to numerous articles and reviews in these fields, he is the author of Concepts of Science (1968), Law and Explanation (1971), the Nature of Exploration (1983) and Particles and Waves (1991). The latter, which received the Lakatos Award, is a study of methodological problems arising from three episodes in 19th-century physics: the wave-particle debate about light, the development of the kinetic-molecular theory, and the discovery of the electron. Recent publications include The Book of Evidence (2001), which develops a theory of scientific evidence and applies it to cases in the history of science, and, an article in the Journal of Philosophy (2002) titled "Is There a Valid Experimental Argument for Scientific Realism?". His most recent publication is Science Rules:A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods(2004), and Scientific Evidence (2005). He has held Guggenheim, NEH, and NSF fellowships, and has served as a visiting professor at MIT, Stanford, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a founder and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for History and Philosophy of Science.
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