Dr. Hepburn awarded URCA grant; publishes three new book chapters

Join us in congratulating Brian Hepburn, who has been awarded a 2021 URCA grant to conduct achival research at the Linda Hall Library in Kansas City on the use of normative language and argumentation in engineering problem solving.  

Dr. Hepburn also has three forthcoming publications: "The Quiet Scientific Revolution: Problem Solving and the Eighteenth Century Origins of 'Newtonian' Mechanics", to appear in The Oxford Handbook on Newton from Oxford University Press; "The Creation of Rational Mechanics", to appear in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences from Springer; and "Mechanics in Newton's Wake" (with Zvi Biener), to appear in Cambridge History of Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution, from Cambridge University Press.