Matthew D. Eddy

Matthew Daniel Eddy is a lecturer in the history of science and culture at Durham University.

Biography

After pursuing undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Zurich, Oxford and Princeton, he received his PhD from Durham University in the history of science and medicine. His thesis was supervised by professors David M Knight and E J Lowe, and externally examined by Robert Fox, professor of the history of science, Oxford University. He has held fellowships at MIT, Harvard, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), the University of Notre Dame's Erasmus Institute, Caltech and the Clark Library at UCLA. He is an Honourable Member of Council for the Society for History of Alchemy and Chemistry and is on the editorial board of Ambix.

In addition to teaching modules in Durham's Department of Philosophy, Eddy lectures on courses organised by Durham's School for Modern Languages and Culture and the School for Health. He is a tutor at St John's College and an associate of the the Wellcome Trust-supported Northern Centre for the History of Medicine, Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Centre for Seventeenth Century Studies. He has also served in an advisory capacity for Durham's Institute for Advanced Studies and is the Department of Philosophy's Director for Durham's MA in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine.

Published works

Over the past few years he has published numerous articles and chapters on a wide number topics that fall under the general rubric of the cultural history of ideas - with a particular focus given over to the history of science, philosophy, medicine and religion. With David M Knight, he has edited "William Paley's Natural Theology" (Oxford University Press: 2006) and a series of essays entitled "Science and Beliefs: From Natural Philosophy to Natural Science, 1700-1900" (Ashgate: 2005). He first book was "The Language of Natural History in Enlightenment Scotland: John Walker and the Edinburgh Medical School" (Ashgate : 2008) and his second book, "The Reordering of Things: Scottish Naturalists and Scientific Texts in the Age of Empire, 1745-1815", will appear with the University of Chicago Press in 2010.