Faculty Profile

Rose-Mary Sargent’s areas of specialization include Philosophy of Science and Technology, Modern Philosophy, and Epistemology. In addition to her position at Merrimack College, she has been Eleanor Searle Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology, a visiting professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota.

Publications include: The Diffident Naturalist: Robert Boyle and the Philosophy of Experiment, published by the University of Chicago Press in 1995, and a collected edition of the works of Francis Bacon from Hackett Publishing, 1999. Her articles have been published in Philosophy of Science, Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Annals of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Isis, and The Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Among her awards, Professor Sargent has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities, the Ciejek Fellowship for Humanistic Research and Study, and numerous Faculty Development Grants from Merrimack College.

She is currently Editor-in-Chief of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, and is serving her third term as Editorial Board Member of Philosophy of Science (1999–2014), the official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association. In addition, she has served on the program committees for conferences given by these two organizations, and as referee for manuscripts submitted to Cambridge University Press, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Early Science and Medicine, Annals of Science, Perspectives on Science, and Philosophy of Science.

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