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Faculty / Staff Detail

Steve Gimbel Name: Steve Gimbel
Email: sgimbel@gettysburg.edu
Title/Dept: Chairperson/Associate Professor, Philosophy

Box: Campus Box 0404
Address: Weidensall Hall

North Washington St.
Gettysburg, PA 17325-1400

Phone: (717) 337 - 6575
Degree(s): PhD Philosophy: Johns Hopkins University, 2000
MA Philosophy: Johns Hopkins University, 1994
BA Physics/Philosophy: University of MD, Baltimore County, 1991

Courses Taught: Early Modern European Philosophy
Ethical Theory
From Babylonia to the Big Bang: The History and Philosophy of Cosmology
From Zero to Infinity: Philosophical Revolutions in Mathematics
Language, Truth & Reality
Logic
Philosophical Revolutions in Geometry
Philosophy of Chemistry
Philosophy of Science
Reading Darwin
The Nature of Space: Philosophical Revolutions in Physics
Topics in Geometry


Academic Focus: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Physics, Analytic Philosophy

Steve's research focuses on the connection between scientific evidence and explanation, interpretations of the geometrical aspects of gravitation theories, and the development of 20th century analytic philosophy.

He has also been interested in questions of sportsmanship arising from the Kasparov/Deep Blue chess match, the geometry of M.C. Escher's art, the environmental ethic of the American Nazi Party, and Dr. Seuss' non-trivial use of tautologies.

The classes Steve teaches include Einstein in Wonderland: Physics, Philosophy and Other Nonsense; Bad Science, Wrong Science and Pseudo-science; Language, Truth, and Reality; From Zero to Infinity: Philosophical Revolutions in the History of Numbers; and From Aristotle to Einstein: Philosophical Revolutions in the History of Space.

 
 
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