James E. “Ted” McGuire, professor emeritus of historical past and philosophy of science on the College of Pittsburgh, has died.
Professor McGuire was recognized for his work on time, temporality, and historicity in early trendy thought, significantly his analysis on Newton, in addition to for his work on Descartes’ dualism. He’s the creator of Science Unfettered: A Philosophical Examine in Sociohistorial Ontology (with Barbara Tuchanska) and Descartes’s Altering Thoughts (with Peter Machamer), and over 70 other works.
Professor McGuire joined the school at Pittsburgh in 1971. Previous to that, he held positions at Harvard College, Cornell College, the College of Leeds, the College of Leicester, and the College of Oxford. He additionally held varied visiting positions through the years, together with because the Sarton Chair Holder on the College of Ghent, as a visiting lecturer on the College of the Bosphorous, Istanbul, and because the Silverman Visiting Professor at Tel-Aviv College.
The Division of the Historical past and Philosophy of Science on the College of Pittsburgh has posted a short memorial discover here. In a post about McGuire and his work—the primary in a deliberate collection about McGuire’s “towering contributions,” Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) writes, “as historical past of science grew to become a professionalized area, Newton research helped represent it… To the very best of my data, Ted McGuire was the primary thinker, or one of many first ones, to choose up on the chance to reap the fruits of this historiographic revolution, or professionalization. And in a collection of papers, he reintroduced a posh, messy and endlessly fascinating philosophical determine, Isaac Newton, to his friends and later readers.”
Professor McGuire died on Might twelfth.
