Christopher J Phillips
Biographic Data
| ID | 1137320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher J Phillips |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher J |
| FAMILY NAME | Phillips |
| SIGNATURE | PHILLIPS C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carnegie Mellon University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3251-4765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The history of statistics in statistically valid regulation
This paper uses the introduction at the US Food and Drug Administration of dose–response extrapolation for ascertaining toxicity between 1950 and 1980 to analyse the negotiations between statistical knowledge and regulation. Those statistical methods enabled experimental results to be translated into a ‘safe dose’ of a substance for human consumption, but different methods continued to give different estimates of effects, and there was little bas…
Modeling the epidemiologic individual
Modern epidemiological methods often elide the distinction between individuals and populations in practice. Health data and outcomes gathered from a population can be, and often are, applied to a specific person, guiding preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions. This article looks at a key site for the origin of this elision, the Framingham Heart Study, and shows how a novel methodological 'calculator' for individual risk of future d…
Who Wants to Be a Mathematician
Ruth A. Miller. Flourishing Thought: Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards
This engaging monograph asks us to think more carefully about embryos, clones, and data hoards as productive constituents of democratic theory. Ruth A. Miller’s Flourishing Thought: Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards opens with an unusual juxtaposition: amoeba-like slime and data surveillance, the book suggests, should be understood not as uncontrollable threats to liberal democracy, but as nonhuman entities that promote a different kind of polit…
The taste machine: Sense, subjectivity, and statistics in the California wine world
This article is about mid-20th-century attempts to turn subjective judgments about the quality and composition of wine into objective knowledge. It focuses on the research of Maynard Amerine at the University of California, Davis, and his project to formalize the procedures of sensory evaluation. Using controlled experimental conditions, Amerine and colleagues transcribed judgments about taste into numbers that could then be aggregated and analyz…
An Officer and a Scholar: Nineteenth-Century West Point and the Invention of the Blackboard
Over two centuries after the invention of blackboards, they still feature prominently in many American classrooms. The blackboard has outlasted most other educational innovations and technologies, and has always been more than an aide memoire . Students and teachers have long assumed inscriptions on its surface made mental processes visible. As early as 1880, in fact, the A.H. Andrews & Co. catalog described the blackboard as a “mirror reflecting…
The New Math and Midcentury American Politics
Journal Article The New Math and Midcentury American Politics Get access Christopher J. Phillips Christopher J. Phillips Christopher J. Phillips is an assistant professor and a faculty fellow at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Readers may contact Phillips at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, Septemb…
"In Accordance with a "More Majestic Order: The New Math and the Nature of Mathematics at Midcentury
The "new math" curriculum, one version of which was developed in the 1950s and 1960s by the School Mathematics Study Group under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, occasioned a great deal of controversy among mathematicians. Well before its rejection by parents and teachers, some mathematicians were vocal critics, decrying the new curriculum because of the way it described the practice and history of the discipline. The nature of ma…
Robert Woodhouse and the Evolution of Cambridge Mathematics
Robert Woodhouse’s lifetime, 1773–1827, is often characterized as the nadir of British mathematics. In that view, the country of Newton was clinging desperately to his coat-tails whilst Continental mathematicians forged on with novel and important work in mathematics and the physical sciences. Although Woodhouse briefl y held the Lucasian Chair, the esteemed position of Newton at Cambridge, his work sought to introduce Continental mathematics to …
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
Journal Article “Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction”: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. By Midori Takagi. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xii, 187 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1834-0.) Get access Christopher Phillips Christopher Phillips University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pag…
The taste machine: Sense, subjectivity, and statistics in the California wine world
This article is about mid-20th-century attempts to turn subjective judgments about the quality and composition of wine into objective knowledge. It focuses on the research of Maynard Amerine at the University of California, Davis, and his project to formalize the procedures of sensory evaluation. Using controlled experimental conditions, Amerine and colleagues transcribed judgments about taste into numbers that could then be aggregated and analyz…
"In Accordance with a "More Majestic Order: The New Math and the Nature of Mathematics at Midcentury
The "new math" curriculum, one version of which was developed in the 1950s and 1960s by the School Mathematics Study Group under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, occasioned a great deal of controversy among mathematicians. Well before its rejection by parents and teachers, some mathematicians were vocal critics, decrying the new curriculum because of the way it described the practice and history of the discipline. The nature of ma…
An Officer and a Scholar: Nineteenth-Century West Point and the Invention of the Blackboard
Over two centuries after the invention of blackboards, they still feature prominently in many American classrooms. The blackboard has outlasted most other educational innovations and technologies, and has always been more than an aide memoire . Students and teachers have long assumed inscriptions on its surface made mental processes visible. As early as 1880, in fact, the A.H. Andrews & Co. catalog described the blackboard as a “mirror reflecting…
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
Journal Article “Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction”: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. By Midori Takagi. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xii, 187 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1834-0.) Get access Christopher Phillips Christopher Phillips University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pag…
The New Math and Midcentury American Politics
Journal Article The New Math and Midcentury American Politics Get access Christopher J. Phillips Christopher J. Phillips Christopher J. Phillips is an assistant professor and a faculty fellow at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Readers may contact Phillips at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, Septemb…
Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782-1865
Journal Article “Rearing Wolves to Our Own Destruction”: Slavery in Richmond, Virginia, 1782–1865. By Midori Takagi. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999. xii, 187 pp. $37.50, ISBN 0-8139-1834-0.) Get access Christopher Phillips Christopher Phillips University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pag…
Robert Woodhouse and the Evolution of Cambridge Mathematics
Robert Woodhouse’s lifetime, 1773–1827, is often characterized as the nadir of British mathematics. In that view, the country of Newton was clinging desperately to his coat-tails whilst Continental mathematicians forged on with novel and important work in mathematics and the physical sciences. Although Woodhouse briefl y held the Lucasian Chair, the esteemed position of Newton at Cambridge, his work sought to introduce Continental mathematics to …
The New Math and Midcentury American Politics
Journal Article The New Math and Midcentury American Politics Get access Christopher J. Phillips Christopher J. Phillips Christopher J. Phillips is an assistant professor and a faculty fellow at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Readers may contact Phillips at [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, Septemb…
"In Accordance with a "More Majestic Order: The New Math and the Nature of Mathematics at Midcentury
The "new math" curriculum, one version of which was developed in the 1950s and 1960s by the School Mathematics Study Group under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, occasioned a great deal of controversy among mathematicians. Well before its rejection by parents and teachers, some mathematicians were vocal critics, decrying the new curriculum because of the way it described the practice and history of the discipline. The nature of ma…
An Officer and a Scholar: Nineteenth-Century West Point and the Invention of the Blackboard
Over two centuries after the invention of blackboards, they still feature prominently in many American classrooms. The blackboard has outlasted most other educational innovations and technologies, and has always been more than an aide memoire . Students and teachers have long assumed inscriptions on its surface made mental processes visible. As early as 1880, in fact, the A.H. Andrews & Co. catalog described the blackboard as a “mirror reflecting…
The taste machine: Sense, subjectivity, and statistics in the California wine world
This article is about mid-20th-century attempts to turn subjective judgments about the quality and composition of wine into objective knowledge. It focuses on the research of Maynard Amerine at the University of California, Davis, and his project to formalize the procedures of sensory evaluation. Using controlled experimental conditions, Amerine and colleagues transcribed judgments about taste into numbers that could then be aggregated and analyz…
Ruth A. Miller. Flourishing Thought: Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards
This engaging monograph asks us to think more carefully about embryos, clones, and data hoards as productive constituents of democratic theory. Ruth A. Miller’s Flourishing Thought: Democracy in an Age of Data Hoards opens with an unusual juxtaposition: amoeba-like slime and data surveillance, the book suggests, should be understood not as uncontrollable threats to liberal democracy, but as nonhuman entities that promote a different kind of polit…
Who Wants to Be a Mathematician
Modeling the epidemiologic individual
Modern epidemiological methods often elide the distinction between individuals and populations in practice. Health data and outcomes gathered from a population can be, and often are, applied to a specific person, guiding preventive, diagnostic, and therapeutic interventions. This article looks at a key site for the origin of this elision, the Framingham Heart Study, and shows how a novel methodological 'calculator' for individual risk of future d…
The history of statistics in statistically valid regulation
This paper uses the introduction at the US Food and Drug Administration of dose–response extrapolation for ascertaining toxicity between 1950 and 1980 to analyse the negotiations between statistical knowledge and regulation. Those statistical methods enabled experimental results to be translated into a ‘safe dose’ of a substance for human consumption, but different methods continued to give different estimates of effects, and there was little bas…
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