Tara
Abraham
Position / Title: 

Assistant Professor

Phone: 
519.824.4120 ext. 56012
Email: 

taabraha@uoguelph.ca

Room: 
1003 MacKinnon Extension
Education: 

    Ph.D. University of Toronto, 2000
    M.A. University of Toronto, 1996
    B.Sc.-Honours McMaster University, 1992

Research: 

    History of the Life Sciences
    History of Cybernetics
    History of Cognitive Sciences
    History of 20th-century American sciences

 

Publications: 

    “The Role of Negative Feedback in Cybernetics.” In Peter Hammerstein, Manfred D. Laubichler, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, ed., Regulation: Historical and Current Themes in Theoretical Biology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.

    “Nicolas Rashevsky’s Mathematical Biophysics.” Journal of the History of Biology 37, no. 2 (2004): 333-385.

    “From Theory to Data: Representing Neurons in the 1940s.” Biology and Philosoph 18, no. 3 (2003): 415-426.

    “Integrating Mind and Brain: Warren S. McCulloch, Cerebral Localization, and Experimental Epistemology,” Endeavour 27, no. 1 (2003): 32-36.

    “(Physio)logical Circuits: The Intellectual Origins of the McCulloch-Pitts Neural Networks." Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 38, no. 1 (2002): 3-25.

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