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Victor L. Hilts

Professor Emeritus, History of Science

Office: 7139 Social Sciences Building
1180 Observatory Dr
Madison, WI 53706-1393
Phone: 608-262-8476
Fax: 608-262-3984
Email: vlhilts@wisc.edu
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Special interests and recent research:

The history of the social and behavioral sciences

Recent publications:

  • "Towards the Social Organism: Herbert Spencer and William B. Carpenter on the Analogical Method," in I. B. Cohen (ed.), The Natural and the Social Sciences, Some Critical and Historical Perspectives, Boston Studies for the Philosophy of Science 150 (Dordecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994), pp. 275-303.
  • "History of Science at the University of Wisconsin," Isis LXXV (1984), pp. 63-94.
  • "Obeying the Laws of Hereditary Descent: Phrenological Views on Inheritance and Eugenics," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences XVIII (1982), pp. 62-77.
  • "Statist and Statistician: Three Studies in the History of Nineteenth Century English Statistical Thought"(New York: Arno Press, 1981)
  • Guide To Francis Galton's English Men of Science (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1975).
  • "Statistics and Social Science," in R. Giere and R. Westfall (eds.), Foundations of Method: The Nineteenth Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973), pp. 206-233.