Henry M. Cowles

Assistant Professor

cowles@umich.edu

Office Information:

On leave 2017-18, Stanford Humanities Center
1658 Haven Hall

United States ; Europe; Science, Technology & Medicine; Intellectual & Cultural History

Education/Degree:

PhD Princeton University, 2015

About

Henry Cowles is a historian of modern science and medicine. His research and teaching focus on the sciences of mind and brain, evolutionary theory, and the experimental ideal in the United States and Great Britain. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the psychology of scientific method in the nineteenth century and beginning research for a new project on the history of habit.

Undergraduate Courses:

Minds and Brains in America

American Addictions

Other Minds

Selected Publications:

"History Comes to Life," Modern Intellectual History (forthcoming, 2018)

"On the Origin of Theories: Charles Darwin’s Vocabulary of Method," The American Historical Review 122, no. 4 (October 2017): 1079–1104

"The Age of Methods: William Whewell, Charles Peirce, and Scientific Kinds," Isis 107, no. 4 (December 2016): 722–37

"A Victorian Extinction: Alfred Newton and the Evolution of Animal Protection," The British Journal for the History of Science 46, no. 04 (December 2013): 695–714