Personnel

Deans and Directors
STS Faculty (Start to 2000)

Briggs History

Other Unit Faculty with STS Interests
Early Science Faculty

STS Program

A scanned page showing a typewritten document titled 'Rough Draft' with the subtitle 'Lyman Briggs College'. The document discusses the establishment and planning of Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University in 1966, detailing the formation of a Planning Committee and its objectives.
Briggs Founding and Early Years
A typed letter dated May 23, 1969, addressed to LBC Philosophy and Logic Instructors, discussing philosophy and logic courses, textbooks, and academic topics. Signed by Gerald J. Massey, Professor.
1969 Massey Memo To Newly Hired Philosophers
1984 brochure titled 'Science and Technology Studies' describing the Lyman Briggs Science and Technology Studies Program
1984 Briggs STS Program
Briggs STS Courses

Philosophy of Science For Science Students

Besides adding area oriented courses – Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mathematics – in an attempt both to make philosophy of science courses seem be part of a science education and to interest the students in a way in which an epistemologically oriented philosophy of science course did not, I also attempted to develop a philosophy of science oriented towards scientific methodology as they understood it and gradually work towards philosophical issues.  The course pack below shows what that effort looked like.

Scientific Metodology and Its Philosophical Presuppositions