consequences of this view in "Activities and Causation: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Mechanisms," International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 187.1 (2004): 27–39, and in work in progress "Explaining Mechanisms" and "Models as Models of Mechanisms." History of philosophy and history and philosophy of science Machamer's research in history of philosophy and history and philosophy of science has focused on Descartes and Galileo, but he has also worked on Hobbes and Aristotle. Much of his focus has been upon using natural philosophy by these figures as a way of understanding their metaphysics and epistemology. Selected works Monographs Descartes' Changing Mind (Princeton University Press, 2009), with J.E. McGuire. Selected edited books Perception, Realism, and Reference (Cambridge University Press, 2012), edited with A. Raftopoulos. Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Science (Blackwell, 2002), edited with Michael Silberstein. Theory and Method in the Neurosciences (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), edited with P. McLaughlin and R. Grush. Scientific Controversies (Oxford, 2000), edited with A. Baltas and M. Pera. Cambridge Companion to Galileo (Cambridge University Press, 1998), editor. Mindscapes: Philosophy, Science and the Mind (UVK.Universitatsverlag Konstanz/University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997), edited with Martin Carrier. Perception: Historical and Philosophical Studies (Ohio State University Press, 1978), edited with Robert Turnbull. Motion and Time, Space, and Matter (Ohio State University Press, 1976), edited with Robert Turnbull. Selected journal articles and other works "Thinking About Mechanisms," Philosophy of Science 67 (2000): 1-25, with Lindley Darden and Carl Craver. The most cited article in Philosophy of Science from 2011 to 2014. Entry on Galileo Galilei, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. "Good Beer, or How Properly Dispute Taste" in Steven Hales, ed., Beer and Philosophy (Blackwell, 2007), 52–63. References 1942 births 21st-century American philosophers Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Columbia College (New York) alumni Historians of science Living people Ohio State University faculty Philosophers of science University of Chicago alumni University of Pittsburgh faculty