Joseph Emmet Earley, Sr.

Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 20057, USA Earleyj@georgetown.edu    Phone: 703 532 5238 or (failing that) 301 387 5391    Mobile Phone: (US) 703 507 7425.     Fax:  703 532 5238 (after a voice call.)

Publications currently in the press:

122) “A neglected aspect of the puzzle of chemical structure: how history helps. Published online in Foundations of Chemistry on January 17, 2012.DOI 10.007/s 19698-012-9146-0.

R17) Invited Review of: Paul Bartha, By Parallel Reasoning: The Construction and Evaluation of Analogical Arguments. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. In press, The Philosophical Review, 2012.

“Three Concepts of Chemical Closure and their Epistemological Significance” presented at the workshop “Epistemology of Chemistry: roots, methods and concepts” at the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée, École Polytechnique, Paris, France. September 11, 2010. Forthcoming, in French and English versions, in Epistemology of Chemistry: roots, methods and concepts, edited by Jean-Pierre Llored and Michel Bitbol. Preprints available at http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5565.

119) “Life in the Interstices: Systems Biology and Process Thought” Spyridon Koutrofinis, ed, Life and Process. Towards a Whiteheadian Biophilosophy, Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, forthcoming.

Research:

Philosophy and Chemistry: The philosophical importance of recent developments in chemical science.

History --  Disputes during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in  Cinel Luachain, a  district of  Ireland near Ballinamore, County Leitrim.

Curriculum Vitae:

Academic background, activities, recent publications, lectures.

Websites currently maintained:

The Everan Foundation

The Association of Main-Campus Retired Faculty (Georgetown University)

The Broadway Condominium Unit Owners Association

Websites formerly maintained:

The International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry

The Metaphysical Society of America.

Modified on December 15, 2010 by Joseph E. Earley, Sr.