Curriculum Vitae
TREVOR PEARCE
University of Wisconsin-MadisonCollege of Letters & Science
5123 Helen C. White Hall
600 N. Park St.
Madison, WI 53706
USA
trpearce@wisc.edu
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Curriculum VitaeTREVOR PEARCEUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonCollege of Letters & Science 5123 Helen C. White Hall 600 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 USA trpearce@wisc.edu |
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| Areas of Specialization: | Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Biology, American Pragmatism |
| Areas of Competence: | Environmental Philosophy, Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy, Logical Empiricism, History of Modern Philosophy, Continental Philosophy |
| 2011-2013 | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities |
| Department of Philosophy | |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2010-2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy of Science |
| Rotman Institute of Philosophy | |
| University of Western Ontario |
| 2010-2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow |
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| Ph.D. | 2010 | Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science | |
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| M.Sc. | 2007 | Committee on Evolutionary Biology | |
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| M.A. | 2007 | Department of Philosophy |
| B.A. | 2004 | English Honours | |
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| B.A.Sc. | 2004 | Metals and Materials Engineering | |
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Pearce, Trevor. In press. Convergence and Parallelism in Evolution – A Neo-Gouldian Account. |
| British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. |
Pearce, Trevor. 2012. Essay Review: Philosophy of Biology in the Twenty-First Century. |
| Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (March): 312-315. (PDF) |
Pearce, Trevor. 2011. Evolution and Constraints on Variation: Variant Specification and Range of Assessment. |
| Philosophy of Science 78 (December): 739-751. (PDF) |
Pearce, Trevor. 2011. Ecosystem Engineering, Experiment, and Evolution. |
| Biology & Philosophy 26 (November): 793-812. (PDF) |
Pearce, Trevor. 2010. From ‘Circumstances’ to ‘Environment’ – Herbert Spencer and the Origins of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction. |
| Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 41 (September): 241-252. (PDF) |
Pearce, Trevor. 2010. ‘A Great Complication of Circumstances’ – Darwin and the Economy of Nature. |
| Journal of the History of Biology 43 (August): 493-528. (PDF) |
Pearce, Trevor and Michael LaBarbera. 2009. Biomechanics of Byssal Threads outside the Mytilidae – Atrina rigida and Ctenoides mitis. |
| Journal of Experimental Biology 212 (May 15): 1449-1454. (PDF) (cover) |
Pearce, Trevor and Michael LaBarbera. 2009. A Comparative Study of the Mechanical Properties of Mytilid Byssal Threads. |
| Journal of Experimental Biology 212 (May 15): 1442-1448. (PDF) (Fig. S1) |
Pearce, Trevor. 2008. Tonal Functions and Active Synthesis: Hugo Riemann, German Psychology, and Kantian Epistemology. |
| Intégral 22: 81-116. (PDF) |
Chan, K.H.S., Pearce, T., et al. 2007. Simple Mathematical and Computational Wear Model for Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene Total Hip Replacements. |
| Applied Bionics and Biomechanics 4: 83-88. (PDF) |
Pearce, Trevor. 2007. Jean-Michel Pouget, La science goethéenne des vivants: De l'histoire naturelle à la biologie évolutionniste (Bern: Peter Lang, 2001). |
| Journal of the History of Biology 40 (March): 187-190. (PDF) |
Pearce, Trevor. 2007. Allen Thiher, Fiction Refracts Science: Modernist Writers from Proust to Borges (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005). |
| Modern Philology 104 (February): 463-466. (PDF) |
Pearce, Trevor. 2006. More than an Analogy: Rudolf Carnap and Theodor Adorno on Music and Philosophy. |
| voiceXchange 2 (Spring): 3-11. (PDF) |
| Spring 2012 | Instructor |
| PHIL 523 – Philosophical Problems of the Biological Sciences | |
| College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Fall 2011 | Instructor |
| PHIL 455 – American Pragmatism (syllabus) | |
| College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Winter 2011 | Instructor |
| PHIL 2030G – Philosophy of Science (syllabus) | |
| Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario |
| Winter 2009 | Instructor |
| PHIL 20108 – Environmental Philosophy (syllabus) | |
| Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago |
| Autumn 2008 | Teaching Assistant |
| BIOS 20184 – Biological Diversity (Instructor: Michael LaBarbera) | |
| Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago |
| Spring 2008 | Instructor |
| HIPS 29508 – Nature as Technology (syllabus, bibliography) | |
| Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago |
| Winter 2006 | Teaching Assistant |
| PHIL 22500 – Biological and Cultural Evolution (Instructors: William Wimsatt & Salikoko Mufwene) | |
| New Collegiate Division, University of Chicago |
| Spring 2004 | Writing Tutor |
| UBC Writing Centre (Supervisor: Ramona Montagnes) | |
| University of British Columbia |
| Autumn 2003 | Writing Intern |
| CONS 200 – Foundations of Conservation (Instructor: Paul Wood) | |
| Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia |
The Dialectical Biologist, circa 1890: John Dewey and the Oxford Hegelians |
| (ISHPSSB 2011, Salt Lake City, July 2011) |
Dewey before James: Evolution and the Organic, 1875-1889 |
| (‘Romanticism and Evolution’ Conference, University of Western Ontario, May 2011) |
The Biological Roots of Pragmatism: William James and Organism-Environment Interaction |
| (APA – Central Division, Minneapolis, April 2011) |
‘Psychologists Don’t Know Much about Evolution’: Osborn, Cope, and the Baldwin Effect |
| (History & Theory of Psychology Colloquium, York University, March 2011) |
Evolution and Constraints on Variation: Variant Specification and Range of Assessment |
| (PSA 2010, Montreal, November 2010) |
Convergence versus Parallelism: A Neo-Gouldian Account |
| (‘Philosophy of Biology’ Workshop, University of Toronto, September 2010) |
The Spencer-Weismann Dispute and Alternative Evolutionary Mechanisms in the 1890s |
| (HSS 2009, Phoenix, November 2009) |
Organism-Environment Interaction, Constraints, and Macroevolution |
| (ISHPSSB 2009, Brisbane, Australia, July 2009) |
From ‘Circumstances’ to ‘Environment’: Herbert Spencer and the Origins of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction |
| (UC-MPI Symposium, ‘Origins: The Historical Sciences in the Age of Darwin’, University of Chicago, June 2009) |
The Spencer-Weismann Dispute and Alternative Evolutionary Mechanisms in the 1890s |
| (CSHPS 2009, Carleton University, May 2009) |
From ‘Circumstances’ to ‘Environment’: Herbert Spencer and the Origins of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction |
| (INPC 2009, ‘The Environment’, University of Idaho, May 2009) |
From ‘Circumstances’ to ‘Environment’: Herbert Spencer and the Origins of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction(video) |
| (Paleobiology Seminar Series, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, April 2009) |
From the Police to the Population: Hacking, Foucault, and Ecology |
| (CSHPS 2008, University of British Columbia, June 2008) |
Complication of Circumstances – Darwin, Ecology, and the Economy of Nature |
| (‘Global Environment’ Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2007) |
The Scorpion’s Sting: Functions, Mechanisms, and Biomechanical Explanation |
| (ISHPSSB 2007, University of Exeter, July 2007) |
From the Police to the Population: Hacking, Foucault, and Ecology |
| (‘Science, Technology, Society, and the State’ Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2007) |
The Scorpion’s Sting: Functions, Mechanisms, and Biomechanical Explanation |
| (‘History and Philosophy of Science’ Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2007) |
Engineering Values – John Dewey, Rudolf Carnap, and Valuation in Science |
| (HOPOS 2006, École Normale Supérieure - Paris, June 2006) |
Complication of Circumstances – Darwin, Ecology, and the Economy of Nature |
| (CSHPS 2006, York University - Toronto, May 2006) |
Complication of Circumstances – Darwin, Ecology, and the Economy of Nature |
| (Midwest Junto for the History of Science, University of Wisconsin - Madison, April 2006) |
Triadic Analogies and Divine Naturalism – Robert Fludd and the Weapon Salve |
| (HSS 2005, Minneapolis, November 2005) |
Science and the A Priori – What Positivists, Pragmatists, and Foucauldians Have in Common |
| (CSHPS 2005, University of Western Ontario, May 2005) |
The Possibility of Revolution – Herbert Marcuse and the Verwirklichung of the Ontological Difference |
| (‘Contemporary European Philosophy’ Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2005) |
Engineering Values – John Dewey, Rudolf Carnap, and Valuation in Science |
| (MEPHISTOS 2005, Brown University, March 2005) |
Tonal Categories and Tonal Functions – Hugo Riemann’s Kantian Psychology |
| (HOPOS 2004, University of San Francisco, June 2004) |
The Sounds of Silence – Theodor Adorno and Musical Performance in the Age of Reproduction |
| (School of Music Graduate Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia, October 2003) |
Science and Nonhuman Interests – Re-imagining the Scientific Community |
| (‘Re-imagining Communities’ Conference, Lancaster University, May 2002) |
| 2011-2013 | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2010-2011 | Rotman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy of Science, University of Western Ontario |
| 2010-2011 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| 2009-2010 | Mellon Foundation Dissertation-Year Fellowship, University of Chicago |
| 2004-2009 | Neubauer Family Presidential Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Chicago |
| Winter 2009 | Environmental Studies Prize Lectureship, University of Chicago (press) |
| Winter 2008 | Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science |
| 2006-2008 | Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
| 2000-2004 | Undergraduate-Scholar-Program Scholarship, University of British Columbia |
| 2002-2003 | Margaret Lawrence Scholarship in Arts, University of British Columbia |
| 2001-2002 | Hugh M. Brock Education Abroad Scholarship, University of British Columbia |
| 2001-2002 | Dynatec Corporation Scholarship in Metallurgy, University of British Columbia |
| 2000-2002 | Cy and Emerald Keyes Scholarship in Metals and Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia |
| 1998-1999 | Outstanding-Student-Initiative Scholarship, University of British Columbia |
| Ongoing | Referee for Biology & Philosophy, Evolution, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, etc. |
| 2007-present | Member of Off-Year Workshop Committee, ISHPSSB |
| Summer 2011 | Session Organizer, Pragmatism and Biology: An Exchange of Ideas,ISHPSSB 2011 |
| 2010-2011 | Coordinator, Rotman Institute of Philosophy Reading Group, University of Western Ontario |
| Summer 2010 | Member of Organizing Committee, ISHPSSB Off-Year Workshop 2010: Integrating Complexity – Environment and History |
| 2007-2010 | Coordinator, Philosophy of Biology Reading/Discussion Group, University of Chicago |
| 2006-2009 | Graduate Student Representative, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago |
| Winter 2006 | Member of Organizing Committee, MEPHISTOS 2006, University of Chicago |