Ernan McMullin Papers

Fonds

Identifier: EMM

Staff Only

Scope and Content

Files concerning his work with the Notre Dame Department of Philosophy, its Carnegie Summer Seminars, 1968-1972, conferences, book publishing plans, Notre Dame commitees, office correspondence (ca. 1990) for the Program in History and Philosophy of Science in the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at Notre Dame; also files representing his service on national and international committees; research files, reprints of articles, annotated secondary sources, his dissertation, conference files, philosophy department files, course files, honorary degree and awards files, correspondence, speeches including invocations, eulogies, and commencement addresses, review articles, and articles about him.

Dates

Creation: 1968-1990.

Creator

McMullin, Ernan, 1924-2011 (Person)

Language of Materials

English.

Background

Fr. Ernan McMullin served as the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. He studied issues in contemporary philosophy of science, the history of scientific methodology, and the relationship of religion to the natural sciences.