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First Name
Lydia
Last Name
Patton
Country
United States
State
VA Virginia
Affiliation
Virginia Tech
Website URL
http://pattonacademic.wordpress.com
Keywords
history of science, history of philosophy of science, history of mathematics
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PhD

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About Me

I am a historian of the philosophy of science, including the history of science and of mathematics. My work centers on the development of scientific theories and their philosophical interpretation and analysis. That history also engages with the changing relationship between the sciences and the humanities, as well as the ways that science itself is characterized and pursued.

Recent Publications

Perspectivalism in the Development of Scientific Observer-Relativity

In Martin Kusch, Katherina Kinzel, Johannes Steizinger & Niels Jacob Wildschut (eds.), The Emergence of Relativism, Routledge. pp. 63-78. 2019.

Intuitions and Assumptions in the Debate over Laws of Nature

with Walter Ott
In Walter Ott & Lydia Patton (eds.), Laws of Nature, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-17. 2018.

Methodology of the Sciences

In Michael Forster & Kristin Gjesdal (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century, Oxford University Press. pp. 594-606. 2015.

Laws of Thought and Laws of Logic after Kant

In Sandra Lapointe (ed.), Logic from Kant to Russell, Routledge. pp. 123-137. 2018.
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Expertise by Geography
England, France, Germany, United States, Western Europe
Expertise by Chronology
18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century
Expertise by Topic
Literary History, Science, Technology