Warren Schmaus

Professor, Philosophy
(on leave fall 2012)

Office: SH 228
Office Hours: MW 2-4 p.m.
Phone: 312.567.3473
Fax: 312.567.5187
Email: schmaus@iit.edu
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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 book entitled "Auguste Comte: The Rise of Positivism" with Michel Bourdeau and Mary Pickering

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

Science and the Social Contract in Renouvier. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 1,1 (2011): 73-100.

Durkheim, Jamesian Pragmatism, and the Normativity of Truth. History of the Human Sciences 23,5 (2010):  1-16.

Durkheim and Psychology.  In Religion, Economy, and Cooperation, Ilkka Pyysiainen, editor. Berlin: Mouton DeGruyter, 2010. Pp. 99-126.

Durkheim, o pragmatismo jamesiano e a normatividade daverdade. Translated into Portuguese by Alexandre Massella.   In Durkheim: 150 Anos, Alexandre Massella et al., editors. Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Argumentum, 2009. Pp. 191-207.

Professional Society Memberships

• Lifetime Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Editorial Board Service

• Book review editor for HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science. See: http://www.jstor.org/page/journal/hopos/about.html

Professional Society Service

• President of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science.
• American Philosophical Association Philosophy of Science Association History of Science Society

Grants

Community Service