McMullin served on the editorial boards of a dozen academic journals and encyclopedia. At the time of his death he was a member of the editorial boards of
Perspectives on Science, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, and International Philosophical Studies. The author of some 200 articles in scholarly and popular journals, Father McMullin also published 14 books including: •
Newton on Matter and Activity (1978) •
The Inference That Makes Science (1992). •
The Church and Galileo, a collection of essays he edited for the University of Notre Dame Press, was published in 2005 to widespread acclaim. The author of numerous scholarly articles and the editor of a series of monographs on logic published in the mid-1960s by Prentice Hall, he also edited ten other books. Among his edited volumes: •
The Concept of Matter in Greek and Medieval Philosophy (Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1965). •
The Concept of Matter in Modern Philosophy (1978 Rev. ed). •
Evolution and Creation (1985) Just before his death, he was working on a study on rationality, realism, and the growth of knowledge. •
Harvard University philosophy professor
Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses McMullin's views on
Scientific realism in the book
Theory and reality (
University of Chicago Press, 2003, p. 178), citing McMullin's paper "A Case for Scientific Realism" in the book
Scientific Realism, edited by
Jarrett Leplin (
University of California Press, 1984). • "Science and the Catholic Tradition"—appears as a chapter in part I (Introduction) of
Science and Religion: New Perspectives on the Dialogue (1968), pages 30–42, ed.
Ian Barbour ==Notes and references==