Biography:Howard Stein (philosopher)
Howard Stein | |
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| Nationality | United States |
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| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1974) |
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| Institutions | Brandeis University Case Western Reserve University Columbia University University of Chicago |
Howard Stein (born January 21, 1929) is an American philosopher and historian of science.[1] He is an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago.[2]
Biography
Stein was born on January 21, 1929, in New York City . He received a BA from Columbia University in 1947,[3] where he studied under John Herman Randall Jr., Irwin Edman, and Ernest Nagel, before obtaining a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1958,[4] and an MS from the University of Michigan in 1959.[2] He joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 1951 before teaching at Brandeis University, Case Western Reserve University and Columbia University. He also worked for Honeywell as a mathematician and engineer in between his teaching career. He returned to the University of Chicago in 1980 and retired in 2000.[5]
Stein's work has centered around the philosophy of physics, as well as the history of physics and mathematics.[2] His 1967 paper, "Newtonian Space Time," inaugurated the modern study of the foundations of physics.[6]
Stein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989.[7] He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974.[8]
References
- ↑ Carus, A.W. (2010). "The Pragmatics of Scientific Knowledge: Howard Stein's Reshaping of Logical Empiricism". The Monist 93 (4): 618–639. doi:10.5840/monist201093435. ISSN 0026-9662. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27904170.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Howard Stein | Department of Philosophy". https://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/stein.
- ↑ "Columbia College Today". p. 56. https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/sites/cct/files/fall_13_cct_0.pdf.
- ↑ Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1990). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development. http://archive.org/details/ldpd_12981092_032.
- ↑ "Curriculum Vitae - Howard Stein". http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/stein-cv.pdf.
- ↑ "The Philosophy of Howard Stein – A Conference at the University of Chicago, June 9th-11th 2017.". https://voices.uchicago.edu/stein2017/.
- ↑ "Howard Stein" (in en). https://www.amacad.org/person/howard-stein.
- ↑ "Howard Stein" (in en-US). https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/howard-stein/.
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