Professor Marga Vicedo obtained her first Ph.D.degree in philosophy at the University of Valencia, Spain. After teaching philosophy at the University of Salamanca, and Arizona State University, she returned to school. This time she earned a Ph.D. in the history of science at Harvard University. She is now a professor in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, Canada.

In Marga Vicedo's intellectual pursuits, she has concentrated on understanding two issues: How do we know? And how should we live? Her interest in exploring the social and moral implications of our knowledge about the world and ourselves led me to the history of the life sciences and later the history of psychology and psychiatry.

Her approach combines intellectual history with socio-cultural history. While she deals with the dynamic formation of scientific views in detail, she also explores the social and cultural conditions under which scientific beliefs develop and shape norms, practices, and policies. Her work is multidisciplinary, analyzing developments in several fields, including evolutionary biology, animal research, and psychology.

She has been a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, a visiting scholar at the Department of History of Science at Harvard, a visiting researcher at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard, and a member of the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton. She was a member of the History of Science Society Council and the history committee of the Society for Research on Child Development. She is now a vice president of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science. She serves on the editorial board of numerous journals, including Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Review of General Psychology, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, History of Psychology, and the Journal for the History of Biology.

Her publications have appeared in the leading academic journals of her field, including ISIS, Journal of the History of Biology, British Journal for the History of Science, History of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences. Her work has been supported by major grants (from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council), as well as by important institutions (Dibner Institute for the history of science, Cambridge, MA; Max Planck Institute for the history of science, Berlin; the Jackman Institute, Toronto; and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton).

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