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Science and the Structure of Social Experiment: A Socio-political Study of Climate Data Infrastructure
In recent years a growing literature on science addresses the problem - some may even call it a crisis - of science’s public legitimacy (Douglas 2009, Oreskes and Conway 2010, de Melo-Martin and Intemann 2018). Analysts ... -
Scientific Practice and Analogical Reasoning: The Problem of Ingrained Analogy
From metaphors that direct scientific inquiry to analogical inferences that justify particular hypotheses or models, analogical reasoning plays numerous roles in scientific practice. While in some cases the analogy is ... -
Seduced Into Caring: Virtue and the Life of the Reader
(2013-11-14)Can reading novels and watching films make you a morally better person? In my dissertation I argue that living a life in which the experience of fictional narrative artworks occupies a significant role--what I call the ... -
The Significance of Unintentional Omission: Moral Responsibility for the Failure to Act
(2012-09-13)Many people, if asked, would probably say that we are morally responsible only for actions we voluntarily and intentionally choose to perform. But the phenomenon of unintentional omission poses a special problem for this ... -
The Aesthetic Appreciation of Ruins
It is the goal of my dissertation to explain our peculiar aesthetic fascination with architectural ruins and to show why ruins are worthy of our time and aesthetic appreciation. I propose a model of aesthetic appreciation ... -
The Mismeasure of Woman: The Epistemic and Social Impacts of Gendered Citation Practices
This dissertation will explore the philosophical problems that arise from the finding that women are cited less frequently than men in a number of sciences, what I’ll call gendered citation practices. Gendered citation ... -
The priority of being to truth according to Aristotle
(1969)There appears to be a difficulty in the account which Aristotle offers of being and truth in the Categories and De Interpretatione. In general terms, Aristotle's position is the "realist" one that "propositions are true ... -
The Resurrection of Radical Pacifism: A Defense
Within the ethics of self-defense, the predominant view is that there are liability justifications for harming. A minority position, which I call radical pacifism, denies that there are liability justifications for harming. ... -
Toward a linguistic conception of thought
(2006)The traditional, and still most common, view of the relationship between language and thought is that language is merely a tool for expressing thoughts. I argue that this view is mistaken and that language is the very thing ... -
Toward a Pragmatic Ontology of Scientific Concepts
I argue that current projects in 'naturalized metaphysics' fail to be properly naturalistic, and thereby fail in their stated aim to take one's metaphysics from science. I argue that naturalism must involve the idea of ... -
Tower to Agora: Insularity and Philosophical Methodology
Academic philosophy sits at a methodological crossroads, facing threats to its foundational practices, well-justified challenges to its lack of diversity across several axes, and fears of irrelevancy in response to modern ... -
Troubling Others and Tormenting Ourselves: The Nature and Moral Significance of Jealousy
(2013-02-25)Jealousy is an emotion that arises in diverse circumstances and is experienced in phenomenologically diverse ways. In part because of this diversity, evaluations of jealous subjects tend to be conflicting and ambiguous. ... -
Understanding White Superagency
According to the dominant structuralist view of racism, racist outcomes can be explained by a combination of the following behaviors and phenomena: policies, rules, norms, institutional acts and objects, and implicit bias. ... -
Virtuous Activity Is Sufficient for Happiness and Some Minimally Favorable Circumstances Are Necessary for Virtuous Activity
I argue for a nontraditional sufficiency thesis: virtuous activity is sufficient for happiness and some minimally favorable circumstances are necessary for virtuous activity. This view satisfies two intuitions from the ... -
Wilderness for Wildness: Saving the Wild in a Post-Natural World
Humanity stands at a crossroads. We are at the brink of a planetary crisis of our own making. Carbon emissions threaten a level of climate instability not seen in this epoch. Accelerating species loss invites the possibility ...