Teaching and Supervision


Teaching:

Recent undergraduate teaching includes courses in science and values, science and democracy, feminist analyses of science, and biomedical ethics.

Recent graduate teaching includes courses on twentieth-century philosophy of science, varieties of voluntarism in philosophy of science, and feminist critiques of science.


Doctoral and Postdoctoral Supervisions

PhD:

Joel Morris: “Kant and the Conservation of Matter.” Completed 1992.

Jennifer McRobert: “Concept Formation and Laws of Nature in Kant’s Critical Philosophy.”  Completed 1994.

Andrew Reynolds: “Evolution and Irreversibility in the Cosmology of C.S. Peirce.”  Completed 1997.

Lisa Gannett: “ Genetic Mutation: Variation, Deviation, or Deviance?”  Completed 1998.

Kevin deLaplante: “Towards a General Philosophy of Ecology.”  Completed 1998.

Catherine Hundleby:  “Feminist Standpoint Theory as a Naturalist Epistemology.”   Completed 2001.

William Vanderburgh: “Dark Matters in Modern Cosmology: A Case Study for Philosophical Theories of Scientific Confirmation.”   Completed 2001.

Letitia Meynell: “Representing, Visualizing and Imagining: The Aesthetics and Epistemology of Images in Science.”  Completed 2003.

Shannon Dea: “Peirce and Spinoza’s Surprising Pragmaticism.”  Completed 2007.

Lucien Lamoureux: “From Mirror to Mirage: The Idea of Logical Space in Kant, Wittgenstein and van Fraassen.”   Completed 2012.

Amy Wuest: “Science and Its Social Context: Philipp Frank on Pragmatism, Theory Acceptance, Sociology, and the Unity of Science.”   Completed 2015.

Jamie Shaw: “A Pluralism Worth Having.”  Completed 2018.


Postdoc:

Dan Hicks, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, 2013 - 2015.

 

 

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