Henry M. Cowles

Henry Cowles is a historian of modern science and medicine. His research and teaching focus on the sciences of mind and brain, evolutionary theory, and the experimental ideal in the United States and Great Britain. In addition to the History Department, he is affiliated with the Science, Technology, & Society Program and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History. He is currently completing a book on the psychology of scientific method in the nineteenth century (under contract with Harvard University Press) and starting a new project: a history of habit, from the celebration of daily routines in Thoreau's Walden to the rise of “persuasive technologies" in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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