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Joseph Pitt
229B Major Williams Hall
(540) 231-5760
Email: jcpitt(at)vt(dot)edu
Dr.
Pitt earned his Ph.D. at University of Western Ontario. He has
major research interests in history and philosophy of science
and technology, with an emphasis on the impact of technologies
on scientific change. His historical interests include
Galileo, Hume, and American pragmatism. He is author of
several books and numerous articles in the history and
philosophy of science and technology. He is Founding Editor of
the journal Perspectives on Science, Historical,
Philosophical, Social, published by MIT Press.
Winner of the Alumni Teaching Award and a member of Virginia
Tech's Academy of Teaching Excellence, he teaches regularly at
introductory, advanced undergraduate, and graduate levels in
philosophy of science and technology and epistemology.
Publications:
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The Production and Diffusion of
Public Choice; Reflections on the VPI center,
co-edited with Dhavad Saleh-Isfahani and Douglas Eckel.
London: Blackwells (forthcoming 2003)
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"Hume and Peirce on Belief, Or, Why
Belief Should Not be an Epistemic Category",
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society,
Vol. XLI, No.2, pp 343-354
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"The Dilemma of Case Studies" in
Perspectives on Science; historical, philosophical,
social, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 373-382 (2001)
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"What Engineers Know" in Techne;
The Society in Philosophy and Technology Quarterly
Journal, vol. 5, no. 3 (Spring 2001)
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Work
in Progress:
1204 STORY (Fall 2006)
PHIL/STS 6334 Syllabus (Fall 2007)
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