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Of Note:

New SiSP Faculty Appointments:
The Science in Society Program is pleased to announce two new faculty appointments:
Dr. Laura Stark of the National Institutes of Health will become Assistant Professor of Science in Society and Sociology, beginning July 1, 2009. Dr. Stark received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University and a post-doctoral fellowship at Northwestern University before taking her current post as a Stetten Fellow at the Office of NIH History.
Professor Gillian Goslinga of Stanford University will become Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and a member of the SiSP faculty, beginning July 1, 2009. Professor Goslinga received her Ph.D. in History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is currently a Humanities Fellow at Stanford University.


Contact Information:
Chair of the Program:
Joseph Rouse
jrouse@wesleyan.edu
(860)685-3655

Administration:
Deborah Grasso
dgrasso@wesleyan.edu
(860)685-2680

350 High Street
Middletown, CT 05459

 
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Rouse, Joseph T.


Chair, Science in Society
Science in Society Program
860.685.3655

Hedding Professor of Moral Science
Philosophy Department
860.685.3655

Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy Department
860.685.3655

Professor, Science in Society
Science in Society Program
860.685.3655

BA Oberlin College
MA Northwestern University
PHD Northwestern University
MAA Wesleyan University

EMAIL:

jrouse@wesleyan.edu

PERSONAL HOME PAGE:

 http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/

COURSES TAUGHT:

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

Philosophy of Science
20th Century Philosophy
Social and Historical Studies of Science

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Professor Rouse specializes in the philosophy of science, the history of 20th C. philosophy, and interdisciplinary science studies. His primary foci within these areas include the philosophy of scientific practice; naturalism and anti-naturalism in 20th Century philosophy; connections between "analytic" and "continental" philosophy; relations between philosophy of science and philosophy of mind/language and metaphysics; cultural studies of science and feminist science studies. He is currently working on a book on conceptual understanding in science and in discursive practice generally.

ACADEMIC ASSOCIATIONS:

American Philosophical Association
Philosophy of Science Association
History of Science Society
Society for Social Studies of Science
International Society for Phenomenological Studies
Society for Literature and Science

AWARDS WON:

Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching, Wesleyan University, 2003

Co-Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Science as Cultural Practice," Wesleyan University, 1991

OFFICE HOURS:

Fall 2009: I am chairing the Science in Society Program, but otherwise on sabbatical. I will hold pretty regular office hours as Chair in my new Allbritton Center Office (Room 209) on M 2-3, and Th 3-4. Any other meetings must be by appointment, usually in Russell House 202.

PUBLICATIONS:

http://jrouse.blogs.wesleyan.edu/publication-list/