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Peter Achinstein

Peter Achinstein who received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard, is the author of seven influential books in the philosophy of science, including Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science (OUP 1991), which received the Lakatos Award in 1993. A festschrift in his honor, Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein , was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.