Henry M. Cowles

Assistant Professor

cowles@umich.edu

Office Information:

1658 Haven Hall hours: Wednesdays, 2:30-3:50

United States ; Europe; Science, Technology & Medicine; Intellectual & Cultural History ; 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. In addition to the History Department, he is affiliated with the Science, Technology, & Society Program and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History. His book, The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in Spring 2020. Current projects include a study of the relationship between tools and theories in psychology and psychiatry since 1800 and a history of habit from the celebration of daily routines in Thoreau's Walden to the rise of “persuasive technologies" in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Undergraduate Courses:

Minds and Brains in America

American Addictions

Some Academic Publications:

The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey (Harvard University Press, forthcoming)

"History Comes to Life," Modern Intellectual History 16, no. 1 (April 2019): 309–320

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

"History Naturalized," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 47, no. 1 (February 2017): 107-116

"The Age of Methods: William Whewell, Charles Peirce, and Scientific Kinds," Isis 107, no. 4 (December 2016): 722–737

"Hypothesis Bound: Trial and Error in the Nineteenth Century," Isis 106, no. 3 (September 2015): 635-645

"A Victorian Extinction: Alfred Newton and the Evolution of Animal Protection," The British Journal for the History of Science 46, no. 4 (December 2013): 695–714

Some Non-Academic Publications:

"Brain Work," Aeon (May 2019)

"Orwell Knew," Aeon (July 2018)

"Child's Play," Aeon (January 2017)

About

Undergraduate Courses:

Minds and Brains in America

American Addictions

Some Academic Publications:

The Scientific Method: An Evolution of Thinking from Darwin to Dewey (Harvard University Press, forthcoming)

"History Comes to Life," Modern Intellectual History 16, no. 1 (April 2019): 309–320

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

"History Naturalized," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 47, no. 1 (February 2017): 107-116

"The Age of Methods: William Whewell, Charles Peirce, and Scientific Kinds," Isis 107, no. 4 (December 2016): 722–737

"Hypothesis Bound: Trial and Error in the Nineteenth Century," Isis 106, no. 3 (September 2015): 635-645

"A Victorian Extinction: Alfred Newton and the Evolution of Animal Protection," The British Journal for the History of Science 46, no. 4 (December 2013): 695–714

Some Non-Academic Publications:

"Brain Work," Aeon (May 2019)

"Orwell Knew," Aeon (July 2018)

"Child's Play," Aeon (January 2017)

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