CONTRIBUTORS

RICHARD J. BLACKWELL is professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University.

RIVKA FELDHAY is the director and professor of the Cohen Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

PAULO GALLUZZI is Director of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, and professor of philosophy at the University of Florence, Italy.

WALLACE E. HOOPER, currently part of the American Indian Studies Research Institute at Indiana University, was the Galileo Postdoctoral fellow at the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy in 1993–4, and Maria Luisa Righini Postdoctoral fellow in 1995–6.

PETER MACHAMER is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Pittsburgh.

ERNAN MCMULLIN is Director Emeritus of the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and O'Hara Professor Emeritus of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.

MARCELLO PERA is professor of philosophy, on leave, at the University of Pisa, Italy. He is currently a Senator of the Italian Republic.

PIETRO REDONDI is associate professor of history of science at Universita di Bologna, Italy. He is the author of Sadi Carnot et la technologie francaise and Galileo Heretic.

MICHAEL SEGRE teaches history of science at the University of Munich. He is author of In the Wake of Galileo.

WILLIAM SHEA is Director of the Institute for Philosophy at Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.

N. M. SWERDLOW is professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at The University of Chicago. His research is concerned with the history of the exact sciences, particularly astronomy from antiquity through the seventeenth century.

WILLIAM A. WALLACE is professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland and professor emeritus of philosophy and history at The Catholic University of America.