Dr Tom Rossetter
| Biography | I am a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Durham University. I did my BA, MA, and PhD here at Durham. This was followed by a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. I returned to Durham in 2022 initially as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and became a Teaching Fellow in 2023. My research covers a broad range of topics in the history and philosophy of science and history of philosophy and theology. I have recently been working on articles on miracles and laws of nature in early modern natural philosophy and theology and on the evidentiary role of prediction in the historical natural sciences as well as a co-authored article on the "completeness" or "causal closure" of physics. I am currently co-authoring a book on nineteenth-century chemistry and an article on the history of determinism and its connection with Newtonian natural philosophy and also working on two further articles on miracles in early modern intellectual history. My teaching also covers an expansive range of topics. Currently I am teaching history and philosophy of science and medicine, early modern philosophy, environmental ethics, data ethics, and moral philosophy and also supervising dissertations in the philosophy of science and philosophy of religion. I have previously taught philosophy of religion, history of psychiatry, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind in the Department of Philosophy as well as ancient, medieval, and early modern philosophy for the University's Foundation Programme. I am keen on public engagement and teaching outside the academy and have taught several courses on the history of philosophy and theology and history and philosophy of science at the Joseph Cowan Lifelong Learning Centre in Newcastle. In June 2024 I will be giving a series of lectures at the Centre based on research conducted for my co-authored book on nineteenth-century chemistry. |
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| Research Interests | History of science History of philosophy History of theology Philosophy of science |
| Teaching and Learning | Early Modern Philosophy Ethics and Bias in Data Science History, Science and Medicine Moral Theory Philosophy, Climate Change and the Environment Science, Medicine and Society |