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The Society for Philosophy and Geography was founded in 1997 by Andrew Light, a philosopher later at George Mason University, and Jonathan Smith, a geographer at Texas A&M University. Three volumes of an annual peer-reviewed journal, Philosophy and Geography, were published by Rowman & Littlefield Press which later became a bi-annual journal ...
LaFreniere taught geology, environmental ethics, and environmental history for more than twenty-five years at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. [2] He remains an active Professor Emeritus and continues to lecture on the transformation of natural landscapes by man, appearing at Willamette University, Portland State University, and Oregon ...
He took leave from the university during World War II to serve with the U.S. Geological Survey, Military Geology Branch and Strategic Minerals Branch from 1942 to 1949. Returning to SMU after the War he was promoted to professor and became Dean of the College Arts and Sciences, 1952–1957.
Mary C. Rabbitt History And Philosophy of Geology Award (2014) Henry Robert Frankel (October 11, 1944 – November 2, 2019) was an American philosopher and historian of science noted for his historical and philosophical analysis of the continental drift controversy and subsequent discovery of plate tectonics .
Robert Frodeman is former Professor and former chair, Dept of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, previously at the University of Colorado, and Director of UNT's Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity. He publishes in the philosophy of geology, the philosophy of interdisciplinarity, and practical philosophy.
Friedman published 573 papers and 19 books, [3] including the highly cited book "Principles of Sedimentology". [4] Friedman received numerous awards including the prestige William H. Twenhofel Medal (in 1997), the Sidney Powers Memorial Award (in 2000), [1] and the Mary C. Rabbitt History And Philosophy of Geology Award (in 2005). [5]
Another accomplishment of hers was the creation of "The Mary C. Rabbit History and Philosophy of Geology Award; it was first created in 1981 and renamed in her honor later on in 2005. It is now awarded to individuals each year for their "exceptional scholarly contributions of fundamental importance to our understanding of the history of the ...
With the government and industrial funding of geological research, more individuals undertook study of geology as technology and techniques improved, leading to the expansion of the field of the science. [14] In the 19th century, geological inquiry had estimated the age of the Earth in terms of millions of years.