Joseph Pitt
Joseph Pitt
Professor
Office
237 Major Williams Hall
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone
540-231-5760
Department Membership
Expertise
- History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
- Galileo
- Wilfrid Sellars
- Pragmatism
- Hume
Professional Activities
- Organizing Committee, Forum for Philosphy, Engineering, and Technology
- Society for Philosophy and Technology
- Philosophy of Science Association
- AAAS
- Sigma Xi
Education
- AB College of William and Mary 1966
- MA University of Western Ontario 1970
- PhD University of Western Ontario 1972
Research Interests
Awards and Honors
Fellow AAAS
Alumni Award for Excellence in Research (VT)
Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching
Selected Publications
Books
Doing Philosophy of Technology
Galileo, Human Knowledge and the Mirror of Nature
Thinking About Technology (Download in PDF)
Pictures, Images and Conceptual Change
Edited Books
Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Technology
Articles
The Dilemma of Case Studies”
“Successful Design in Architecture and Engineering”
“The Role of Technologies in Undermining the Perennial Philosophy”
“Guns Don’t Kill, People Kill; values in/or around technologies”
Sponsored Research
“Establishing an Interdisciplinary Liberal Engineering Ethics Curriculum at Virginia Tech,” Co-PI with Ishwar Puri (Enginering Science and Mechanics) and Richard E. Wokutch. (Management), National Science Foundation 2008-10 ($299,000)
SGER: Explanations of Software-Intensive Systems: A foundation for Design Science,” Co-PI with Steven R. Haynes and John M. Carroll (Penn State) 2006-2008, National Science Foundation ($199,712).
Journal Project: Perspectives on Science; Historical, Philosophical, Social. University of Chicago Press, 1992-1997. ($120,000)
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