Helen Hattab
Phone: 713-743-4147
E-mail: hhattab@uh.edu
Helen Hattab is a specialist in Renaissance and early modern philosophy. Recently, she's studying the ways in which the interplay between science, theology and philosophy during the scientific revolution shaped modern views about the natural world and our place in it. She currently is writing a book on the origins of the modern understanding of causation and scientific explanation, entitled Causes, Laws and Mechanisms: The Transformation of the Efficient Cause From the Late Scholastics to Descartes. Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
