Education
And Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
And Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy of social science from Wesleyan University and an Master of Arts His dissertation was on the status of law-like explanations in the social sciences. He has taught philosophy at Colgate University, Boston University, Tufts Experimental College, Simmons College, and Harvard Extension School. McIntyre is the author of Laws and Explanation in the Social Sciences (Westview Press, 1996.
Revised edition 1998), Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2006), and Respecting Truth: Willful Ignorance in the Internet Age (Routledge, 2015).
He is the co-editor of three anthologies: Readings in the Philosophy of Social Science (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1994), Philosophy of Chemistry (Springer, 2006), and Philosophy of Chemistry, 2nd edition (Springer, 2014). He is also the author of numerous philosophical essays that have appeared in Synthese, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Teaching Philosophy, Perspectives on Science, Biology and Philosophy, Critica, and Theory and Decision, as well as articles that have appeared in The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Humanist, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Regional Review.
He has been a leading spokesman for the Duncanian position that there is no fundamental demarcation between the natural sciences and the social sciences either in their nature or their appropriate methodologies. McIntyre is also a novelist, who writes idea-driven suspense fiction in the thriller genre.