Arthur I. Miller is
Emeritus Professor
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In some c ...
of History and Philosophy of Science at
University College London
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. He took a PhD in physics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. From 1991 to 2005 he was Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at
University College London
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(UCL). At UCL, Professor Miller helped restructure an academic unit combining
history
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and
philosophy of science
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,
sociology of science
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, and
science communication
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to create
UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies, renamed in 1994. He was instrumental in developing the UK's first undergraduate single honours BSc degree in History and Philosophy of Science, at UCL, launched in 1993.
Selected bibliography
Books
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* ''Deciphering the Cosmic Number—The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung'', W. W. Norton & Co. (2009)
* ''Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes'', Little, Brown & Company (2005)
W. W. Norton & Co. (2009)
* ''Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art'', W. W. Norton & Company (2014)
* ''The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity'', The MIT Press (2019)
Critical studies and reviews of Miller's work
;''The artist in the machine''
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;''Einstein, Picasso''
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References
External links
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Publications at Goodreads.com
Living people
Academics of University College London
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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