Roger Smith (academic)
Roger Smith (academic) | |||
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| Born | June 23, 1945 Chelmsford | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
| Citizenship | United Kingdom | ||
| Education | Phd | ||
| Alma mater | King's College | ||
| Occupation | Scholar | ||
Roger Smith (23rd June, 1945-) is an independent British scholar who researches and publishes on the history of psychology, the mind-body question, and conceptions of human nature. He is a former President of the European Society for the History of Human Sciences.[1]
Career
Roger Smith was born in Chelmsford, UK. He began his academic career in 1964 studying Zoology at King's College, Cambridge, before moving on to a PhD in History and philosophy of science, where his supervisor was Robert M. Young[King's College, with whom he shared the understanding of the continuance between value and fact in scientific thinking, as well as criticisms of scientism.[2][3] He then spent a year in the United States working as a temporary assistant professor at Brandeis University. The following year he returned to England to take up a position as a Lecturer and then Reader in History of Science in Lancaster University. Between 1993 and 1999 he worked as a visiting scholar in the History of science across Europe and America, including Göteborg University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA); Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie); and Institut université romand d’histoire de la médecine et de la santé romand d’histoire de la médecine et de lasanté (Switzerland), respectively.
Thought
Across a number of papers and books, Smith's primary focus is healing the Cartesian division of body and mind[4]. In doing so, much of his work attempts to unite science and the humanities.
Personal Life
In 1998, he took an early retirement to become an independent scholar. He now lives and works in Moscow with his wife, Irina. He participates in a small studio of 'musical movement' and shares the world of Contemporary dance.
References
- ↑ https://www.iasdurham.org/people/former-fellows/being-human-fellows/dr-roger-smith/
- ↑ https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/653927
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Young_(academic)
- ↑ https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/50F3E619535FB6AD41D709EE951EF330/S000708749800334Xa.pdf/roger-smith-the-fontana-history-of-the-human-sciences-london-fontana-press-1997-pp-xviii1036-isbn-0-00-686178-4-pound1299-paperback-edition.pdf
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