Staff profile

I am a Career Development Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Durham University. I did my BA, MA, and PhD here at Durham and have worked at Durham since 2022 when I joined as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. I became a Teaching Fellow in 2023 and a Career Development Fellow in 2024.

My research covers a broad range of topics in the history and philosophy of science and history of philosophy and theology. I have recently been working on articles on miracles and laws of nature in early modern natural philosophy and theology and on the evidentiary role of prediction in the historical natural sciences. I have also recently co-authored articles on the history of determinism and the "completeness" or "causal closure" of physics and am currently co-authoring a book on nineteenth-century chemistry.

My teaching also covers an expansive range of topics. Currently I am teaching several areas of history and philosophy of science as well as philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and data ethics.

• History of science
• History of philosophy
• History of theology
• Philosophy of science

Book review

• Vera Keller, The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-4214-4592-2. $60.00 (hardcover).
  
  Rossetter, T. (2025). Vera Keller, The Interlopers: Early Stuart Projects and the Undisciplining of Knowledge Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. ISBN 978-1-4214-4592-2. $60.00 (hardcover). The British Journal for the History of Science, 58(1), 145-146. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087424000657
• Karen Hunger Parshall; Michael T. Walton; Bruce T. Moran (Editors). Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era. (Early Modern Studies Series, 15.) xxii + 311 pp., illus., bibls., index. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2015. $50 (cloth).
  
  Rossetter, T. (2017). Karen Hunger Parshall; Michael T. Walton; Bruce T. Moran (Editors). Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era. (Early Modern Studies Series, 15.) xxii + 311 pp., illus., bibls., index. Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 2015. $50 (cloth). Isis, 108(1), 184-185. https://doi.org/10.1086/690693

Chapter in book

• Prediction and Testing in Historical Natural Science
  
  Rossetter, T. (in press). Prediction and Testing in Historical Natural Science. In A. Tucker & D. Cernín (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History (pp. 253-273). Bloomsbury Academic.
• From crisis to normal science, and back again: Coming full “Kuhn cycle” in the career of Warren B. Hamilton
  
  Rossetter, T. (2022). From crisis to normal science, and back again: Coming full “Kuhn cycle” in the career of Warren B. Hamilton. In Special Paper of the Geological Society of America (pp. 7-19). https://doi.org/10.1130/2021.2553%2802%29

Journal Article

• Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet's Theory of the Earth
  
  Rossetter, T. (2023). Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth. The British Journal for the History of Science, 56(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007087422000462
• Realism on the rocks : novel success and James Hutton's theory of the earth
  
  Rossetter, T. (2018). Realism on the rocks : novel success and James Hutton’s theory of the earth. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 67, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.10.005