Fonds F0288 - Margaret Osler fonds.

Margaret J. Osler was born on November 27 1942. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College in 1963 and later graduated from Indiana University with her Master of Arts (1966) and Ph.D. (1968) with degrees in History and the Philosophy of Science. Her dissertation was "John Locke and Some Philosophical Problems in the Science of Boyle and Newton.

Osler held teaching appointments at Oregon State University, Harvey Mudd College and Wake Forest University; she moved to Calgary in 1975 with a position in the Department of History. During her tenure she was instrumental in the creation of the major and minor undergraduate programs in History and Philosophy of Science, the interdisciplinary M.A and Ph.D. programs and the Research Institute in Gender Studies. She published widely in the areas of history of science and religion, intellectual history, mechanical philosophy and the scientific revolution.

Osler was the recipient of the Science and Religion Course Prize from the Centre for Theology and the Natural Sciences, the Richard S. Westfall Lecture from Indiana University and the Stillman Drake Lecture from the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, of which she was President from 1987-1990. She was also active as the editor of several journals including the Journal of the History of Philosophy, and she served in many community organizations including the Rocky Mountain Civil Liberties Association and the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership.

Osler died in Calgary on September 15, 2010.