Lee McIntyre
Lee Cameron McIntyre is a research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an Instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He has published books and articles on the philosophy of the social sciences, as well as attempts to undermine science and the appropriate response to these attempts to scientists. Early life and education McIntyre earned a B.A. in philosophy of social science from Wesleyan University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. McIntyre's doctoral dissertation was on the status of law-like explanations in the social sciences. Career McIntyre taught philosophy at Colgate University, Boston University, Tufts Experimental College, and Simmons College. In addition, he taught at the Harvard Extension School, was Executive Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University, and served as a policy advisor to the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. McIntyre was an Associate Editor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Body of work McIntyre's books have been concerned with the nature of scientific knowledge generation and validation. These have included Explaining explanation, essays in the philosophy of the special