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.