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Biography: Scott Walter

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Research Activities and Interests:
History and philosophy of physics and mathematics from 1800 to 1930. Chief editor of Henri Poincaré's correspondence with physicists, chemists, and engineers (Birkhäuser, 2007), of Poincaré's correspondence with astronomers and geodesists (2012), and contributing editor for the edition of Poincaré's correspondence with mathematicians (2013).

Positions:
2001+    Associate Professor, Department of philosophy, Univ. Nancy 2. Director of graduate studies in philosophy and history of science, 2009-12
1999Assistant Professor, Department of philosophy, Université Nancy 2. Department Chair, 2000-2002
1992-93Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Schiller International University, Paris, France
1989R&D project director, Kis, Grenoble, France
1985-88Staff Research Scientist in Robotics, Computer Science Department, General Motors Research Laboratories, Warren Technical Center, Warren, Michigan

Course offerings:
Undergraduate    Master
Epistemology (10h) Modal logic (20h)
Introduction to the history of science (40h) The role of experiment in contemporary science (20h)
The Scientific Revolution (30h) The philosophical reception of relativity in France: Bergson vs. Einstein (40h)
History of optics (12h) Henri Poincaré's Science and Hypothesis (40h)
Sentential logic (40h) Henri Poincaré's Value of Science (40h)
First-order logic (40h) Henri Poincaré's Science and Method (40h)
History and philosophy of relativity (40h) The historiography of science (12h)
Science & religion (30h) Topics in science & religion (8h)
Cellular automata and formal grammars (20h) Methodology in the history and philosophy of science (12h)
Concepts of energy in the 19th century (12h) Practice and representation in contemporary physics (30h)
Styles of scientific reasoning (20h) Scientific biography: Poincaré and Einstein (40h)
Historical and philosophical approaches to spacetime (30h)
Science and Christianity in 19th-Century Europe (8h)
Techniques and strategies for research in the humanities (12h)
La dynamique des systèmes et la théorie du contrôle de Maxwell à Andronov (10h)
La vitesse superluminique de Wien au CERN (8h)

Diplomas:
2008Habilitation, Université Nancy 2
1996   Ph.D. in Epistemology and History of the Exact Sciences, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot
1992D.E.A. in Epistemology and History of the Exact Sciences, Université Paris 7 Denis Diderot
1990Licence de philosophie, Université Paris 8
1985B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Principal Investigator:
2010-13   Electronic edition of mathematical manuscripts (eManMath), Maison des sciences de l'homme Lorraine
2007-11   Sources of 20th-century mathematical knowledge, Agence nationale de la recherche
2008-11   Henri Poincaré Correspondence Project, Maison des Sciences de l'homme Lorraine
2000-03   Henri Poincaré Correspondence Project, Lorraine Region

Supervision of Postdoctoral Scholars:
2006-08: Ralph Krömer, history of mathematics
2007-09: Martina Schiavon, history of 19th-century geodesy
2010-11: Amirouche Moktefi, history of mathematics, history of modern logic
2010-11: Olivier Bruneau, history of mathematics

Select Honors:
2011-12Research sabbatical, Univ. Nancy 2 (fall semester)
2007-2008   CNRS research fellow, affiliated with the Henri-Poincaré Archives (UMR 7117)
2004-05Research sabbatical, Univ. Nancy 2 (fall semester)
1998-99Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
1992-95Predoctoral Fellow, REHSEIS, CNRS, Paris

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