People
Director
Alisa Bokulich
Alisa Bokulich holds a PhD in the History & Philosophy of Science, is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Boston University, and an Associate Member of the History of Science Department at Harvard University. She serves on the Steering Committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section-L. From 2010-2023 she served as Director of BU’s Center for Philosophy & History of Science. She co-founded & directs the Philosophy of Science Association’s Underrepresented Philosophy of Science Scholars (UPSS) Initiative & Mentoring Program. Bokulich leads a research group in the philosophy of the geosciences called Phi-Geo. She is author of the book Reexamining the Quantum-Classical Relation: Beyond Reductionism and Pluralism and is currently working on a new book on the philosophy of the geosciences, titled Measuring the Earth and Reconstructing Deep Time: Philosophical Issues in Data, Modeling, & Uncertainty.
Email: abokulic@bu.edu
Directors Emeriti
Victor Kumar
Director (2025-2026)
Rachell Powell
Director (2023-2025)
Alisa Bokulich
Director (2010 – 2023)
Alfred Tauber
Director (1993 – 2010)
Robert S. Cohen
Director (1960 – 1993)
International Advisory Board
Edward Jones-Imhotep,
Director, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology
University of Toronto (Canada)
Alan Love,
Director, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science
University of Minnesota (U.S.)
Bryan Roberts,
Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural & Social Science
The London School of Economics and Political Science (UK)
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Affiliate Members
Our Affiliate Members consists of over 40 scholars in the greater Boston area who work across a broad range of topics in the history and philosophy of science, technology, and medicine. Our affiliates include faculty members at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts University, Boston College, Northeastern University, and more. Please visit our Affiliates page for more information.