Warren Schmaus
Professor, Philosophy; Co-Director, Graduate Studies
Office: SH 228
Office Hours: MW 2-4 p.m.
Phone: 312.567.3473
Fax: 312.567.5187
Email:
schmaus@iit.edu
Web:
www.iit.edu/~schmaus
Expertise
- Philosophy of science; history of philosophy, history and philosophy of the social sciences
- History of philosophy in 19th and early 20th c. France, especially history of philosophy of science in this period and how it gave rise to social sciences in the work of Auguste Comte, Charles Renouvier, Emile Durkheim, Lucien Levy-Bruhl, and others.
- Values and the social organization of science.
- Relationships among sociology, anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience for understanding cognition.
Education
Curriculum Vitae
Research & Major Accomplishments
Current Projects
- Writing a book on Charles Renouvier's philosophy of science
- Editing the Cambridge Companion to Auguste Comte, with Michel Bourdeau and Mary Pickering
- Contributing a chapter to Ilkka Pyssiainen's volume on Religion, Economics, and Evolution
Awards/Honors
Patents
Books
- Rethinking Durkheim and His Tradition, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge, University of Chicago Press, 1994.
- Emile Durkheim: Critical Assessments. Third series, vol. II. Co-edited with W.S.F. Pickering. London: Routledge, 2001.
Selected Publications
A New Way of Thinking about Social Location in Science. Science & Education, 17 (2008): 1127-1137.
Renouvier and the Method of Hypothesis. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A vol. 38, no. 1 (2007): 132-148.
Categories and Classification in the Social Sciences. In Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, Mark Risjord and Stephen Turner, editors. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, vol. 8, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science Ltd., 2007.
Understanding and Explanation in France: From Maine de Biran's mÈthode psychologique to Durkheim's Les Formes ÈlÈmentaires de la vie religieuse. In Uljana Feest, ed., Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen: An Interdisciplinary Workshop. Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Pre-print # 324, 2007, pp. 83-100. This volume has been accepted for publication by Springer Verlag (Heidelberg, New York, and London).
Evolutionary and Neuroscience Approaches to the Study of Cognition. Philosophy of Science 72 (2005): 675-86.
Professional Society Memberships
Editorial Board Service
- Book review editor for HOPOS: The Journal (Proposal under review by University of Chicago Press)
Professional Society Service
- Vice President of HOPOS: The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
- American Philosophical Association Philosophy of Science Association History of Science Society
