Committee Members & Advisors

Discover scholars who served as dissertation advisors and committee members. Explore academic networks and mentorship relationships that shaped historical scholarship.

Scholar Role Dissertation
Potter, David chair Money, Games, and Power (DeWitt, Jan Kenneth)
Gillispie, Charles Coulston chair The Idea of a Physical Theory from Galileo to Newton (Laudan, Lawrence)
Kuhn, Thomas chair The Royal Road (Mahoney, Michael S.)
Gillispie, Charles Coulston chair The Rise of the Algebra of Logic (Brody, Baruch)
Gillispie, Charles Coulston chair Augustin Fresnel (1788-1827) and the Establishment of the Wave Theory of Light (Silliman, Robert H.)
Benacerraf, Paul chair On Farmalist Philosophies of Math (Grandy, Richard E.)
Gillispie, Charles Coulston chair Charles Augustin Coulomb (Gillmor, C. Stewart)
Gillispie, Charles Coulston chair The Mechanical Philosophy and the Animal Oeconomy (Brown, Theodore M.)
Hempel, Carl chair The Structure and Interrelationship of Physical Theories (Nickles, Thomas J.)
Gillispie, Charles Coulston chair The Origins of Vibration Theory (Dostrovsky, Sigalia)
Hempel, Carl chair The Pragmatic Justification of Induction (Creary, Lewis)
Hempel, Carl chair Notes on the Theory of Rationality (Hattiangadi, Jagdish)
Hempel, Carl chair Some Aspects of Temporal Asymmetry (Earman, John)
Benacerraf, Paul chair Mathematics and Certainty (Kitcher, Philip)
Mahoney, Michael S. reader Mathematics and Certainty (Kitcher, Philip)
Benacerraf, Paul chair Numbers, Truth, and Knowledge (Kessler, Glenn)
Kuhn, Thomas chair The Flow Analogy to Electricity and Magnetism (Wise, M. Norton)
Kuhn, Thomas chair On the Nature of X and Gamma Rays. Attitudes toward Localization of Energy in the 'New Radiations' (Wheaton, Bruce)
Geison, Gerald chair Science and the 'Women Question,' 1860-1920 (Fee, Christine Elizabeth)
Lewis, David chair Representation Relative Abstract Object Idealism (Fair, David)
Burgess, John chair Set Theoretic Realism (Maddy, Penelope J.)
Mahoney, Michael S. chair Straight-Thinking (Owens, Lawrence)
Geison, Gerald chair The Transformation of Academic Medicine in Germany, 1780-1820 (Broman, Thomas H.)
Geison, Gerald chair The Quantification of Things Human (Rusnock, Andrea A.)
Geison, Gerald chair The Emergence of Geo-physics in 19th-Century Britain (Kushner, David)