Science and Reality: Recent Work in the Philosophy of Science: Essays in Honor of Ernan McMullin
Cushing, James T., Gutting, Gary, Delaney, C. F.Priest, scholar, and educator, Ernan McMullin has been one of the principal voices in the philosophy of science for the last thirty years. While avoiding the extremes of historicism and logicism, he has made major contributions to both the historical and critical traditions in the philosophy of science. His books on Galileo and Newton have become standards, and his studies of explanation and realism have been at the forefront of philosophical discussion. His contribution to philosophy, moreover, has been more than merely scholarly. He has served his university, Notre Dame, as chairman of its philosophy department for seven years and has served the philosophical community at large to an unprecedented degree. Ernan has been president of the American Philosophical Association, the Philosophy of Science Association, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Metaphysical Society of America, and has served on numerous national and international committees. But in keeping with his principal calling, his most profound impact may well be personal; he is a friend and confidant of uncountably many.