Preface to the 90th Anniversary Issue of Philosophy of Science

James Owen Weatherall, Editor-in-Chief

Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine

The first issue of Philosophy of Science was published in January 1934. The journal was founded – and, apparently, funded – by William Marias Malisoff, a 38-year-old biochemist of independent means who maintained serious interests in a broad range of subjects, including physics, mathematics, and philosophy.  Malisoff had emigrated to the United States from modern-day Ukraine – at that time, Russia – as a child.  He held three degrees from Columbia, but his PhD, in biochemistry, was ultimately from NYU.  After finishing the PhD he held teaching positions at various institutions in the mid-Atlantic region, spending about a decade as Associate Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania before taking a similar role at Brooklyn Polytechnic. Towards the end of his career, he was affiliated with the Essex School of Medicine.  He died, suddenly and unexpectedly, in November 1947, at the age of 52.  He edited the journal up until his death (Frank and Churchman 1948; Churchman 1984).

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