Advisory Board

Professor Stephen Garton

Stephen Garton is the author of four books and over sixty articles, chapters and encyclopaedia and historical dictionary entries in such areas as the history of madness, psychiatry, crime, incarceration, masculinity, eugenics, social policy, poverty, returned soldiers, and sexuality. In addition to being a fellow of a number of learned academies and societies he was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 for services to Australian history. From 2001 to 2009 Professor Garton was Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He is currently Provost & Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sydney.

Professor Stephan Hartmann

Stephan Hartmann is Chair in Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University and Director of the Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science. His primary research and teaching areas are general philosophy of science, formal epistemology, philosophy of physics, and political philosophy. Hartmann published numerous articles and the book Bayesian Epistemology (with Luc Bovens) that appeared in 2003 with Oxford University Press.

Professor Gerard Milburn

Professor Milburn is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology. He is currently an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow at the University of Queensland. He is a member of a number of international advisory committees including the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada. Gerard Milburn is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and The American Physical Society.

Dr Ann Moyal

Dr Ann Moyal AM is a leading historian of Australian science. She is a graduate of the University of Sydney and holds a D.Litt (ANU), an honorary D.Litt (Syd.) and is Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She has held research and teaching positions in a number of Australian universities and her many publications in the history of Australian science and technology include A Bright & Savage Land: Scientists in Colonial Australia, Clear Across Australia: A History of Telecommunications, Platypus and Portraits in Science. She also holds the Centenary Medal.

Professor John Norton

Professor Norton is Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a founder and executive committee member of the philosophy of science preprint server, philsci-archive.pitt.edu, a contributing Editor to Archive for History of Exact Science, a philosophy of physics editor of The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and serves on several other editorial boards.

Dr Alan Saunders

Dr Alan Saunders is the presenter of ABC Radio National’s Philosopher’s Zone, a weekly program that looks at the world of philosophy and the world through philosophy. He has Masters degree in Logic and Scientific Method from the London School of Economics and his doctoral thesis - completed at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University - was on the eighteenth-century chemist Joseph Priestly. He has been a Frances Yates Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute, London.