ANNA ALEXANDROVA
Areas of Specialization: philosophy of science (especially economics and psychology), ethics
Areas of Competence: history and sociology of science, metaphysics, game and decision theory
Current position: University Lecturer in Philosophy of Science, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, from 2011
Previous Employment:
Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Missouri St Louis, 2007-2011
McDonnell Post Doctoral Fellow, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University in St. Louis 2006-2007
Education:
2000-2006 PhD Philosophy (with Science Studies), University of California, San Diego
1998-1999 MSc Philosophy of Social Science, London School of Economics, UK
1995-1998 BSc Communications, Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus Summa Cum Laude
1994-1995 Linguistics and Philology, Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia
Journal articles and book chapters:
13) "Paternalism and Economics" (as a second author with Dan Haybron) forthcoming in a collection on paternalism from Cambirdge University Press edited by Christian Coons and Michael Weber.
12) "Doing Well In The Circumstances" forthcoming in the Journal of Moral Philosophy
11) "Values and The Science of Well-being" forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook for Philosophy of Social Science (ed. Harold Kincaid).
10) "Buyer Beware: Robustness Analyses in Economics and Biology" (with Jay Odenbaugh) forthcoming in Biology and Philosophy
9) High Fidelity Economics (with Dan Haybron), forthcoming in the Elgar Companion to Recent Economic Methodology (eds. John Davis and Wade Hands).
8) When Analytic Narratives Explain The Journal of Philosophy of History, 3/1 (March 2009) 1-24
7) “Neural Mechanisms for Microeconomics: No Revolution Necessary” (as a second author with Carl Craver) Economics and Philosophy, 24 (2008) 281-305
6) First-Person Reports and Measurement of Happiness Philosophical Psychology 21/5 (October 2008) 657-669
5) Making Models Count Philosophy of Science, 75 (July 2008) 383-404
**Winner of the Philosophy of Science Association Recent PhD Essay Award 2008**
4) Progress in Economics: Lessons from the Spectrum Auctions (with Robert Northcott), The Oxford handbook for Philosophy of Economics, eds. H. Kincaid and D. Ross, OUP, 2009.
3) “Connecting Rational Choice Models to the Real World” Philosophy of The Social Sciences 36/2 (June 2006) 173-192
2) “Subjective Well-Being and Kahneman’s ‘Objective Happiness’” Journal of Happiness Studies (2005) 6:301-324
1) Laws (as a second author with Nancy Cartwright) in The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, eds. M. Smith and F. Jackson, OUP, 2006
Book Reviews and Comments:
6) "Adequacy For Purpose: The Best Deal a Model can Get" Modern Schoolman: A Quarterly Journal of Philosophy, 87(3-4), 295-301, Mr-My 2010. (Comments on Wendy Parker)
5) Daniel M. Haybron's The Pursuit of Unhappiness: The Elusive Psychology of Well-Being (New York: OUP, 2008), Ethics 119 (July 2009) 773-777
4) “What Experimental Economics Teaches Us About Models” Journal of Economic Methodology 15/ 2 (June 2008) 197-231. (Symposium on Francesco Guala's Methodology of Experimental Economics)
3) N. Emrah Aydinonat's The Invisible Hand in Economics: How Economists Explain Unintended Social Consequences (Routledge 2008) Economics and Philosophy, forthcoming.
2) “Probabilistic Causality, Selection Bias and the Logic of Democratic Peace” (as a second author with B. Slantchev and E. Gartzke), American Political Science Review (2005) 99/3:459-462
1) Max Steuer’s Scientific Study of Society (with R. Northcott), Economics and Philosophy (2004) 20/2: 375-381
Refereed Presentations:
"Paternalism in Economics" (with Dan Haybron) The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy, April 1-2 2011.
"High Fidelity Economics" Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, March 2010 St Louis
"Doing Well In The Circumstances" Central Division, American Philosophical Association, February 2010
"Values and the Science of Wellbeing" Boulder History and Philosophy of Science Conference, October 2009
"The Contribution of Models to Empirical Succeses" Models and Simulations 3, UVA, March 2009
“Do game theoretical models explain?” British Society for Philosophy of Science, Bristol, July 2007
Author Meets Critics (Francesco Guala’s Methodology of Experimental Economics), American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco March 2007
"What the Science of Happiness can learn from Philosophy" Science and Philosophy Symposium at Stony Brook, March 2007
"How to use Introspective Reports to Measure Happiness" Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting, Vancouver, November 2006
"Connecting Rational Choice Models to the Real World", American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, April 2005
"Connecting Rational Choice Model to the Real World", 7th Annual Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Barnard College, March 2005
"Connecting Rational Choice Models to the Real World", Southern California Philosophy Conference, UC – Irvine, November 2004
"Qualitative Comparative Method and the Problem of Spurious Correlation", Tensions in Social Statistics, University of Durham, England, September 2004
"Mill’s Dilemma and Comparative Social Science", March 2003, 5th Annual Philosophy of Social Science St. Louis Roundtable, UM – St. Louis
Invited Talks:
"Values and the Science of Wellbeing: A Recipe for Mixture" The Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham, April 2010.
"Comments on Wendy Parker" Henle Conference on Experimental and Theoretical Knowledge, Saint Louis University, March 2010
"Doing Well In the Circumstances" Washington University in St Louis, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Colloquium, January 2010
"Wellbeing and Practical Interests” UMSL Philosophy Department Works In Progress Series, February 2009
"When Analytic Narratives Explain" Washington University in St Louis, Political Theory Workshop, October 2008
"Wellbeing and Practical Interests: A Defense of Variantism" Saint Louis University, Philosophy Department Colloqium, September 2008
"Making Models Count" Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, February 2008
"Picking Between Different Notions of Well-Being in Science and in Life" Washington University in St Louis, Psychology Department Brown Bag Series, February 2008
"Well-Being and Practical Interests" The Subjective Well-Being Workshop, University of Alabama, Birmingham, February 2008
"Making Models Count" University of Missouri, Columbia, Philosophy Department Colloquium, October 2007
"Comments on Dina Garmong’s “Toward a more robust theory of well-being”" Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis TN, February 2007
"Making Models Count" New York University, Philosophy Department Colloquium, January 2007
"Measuring Happiness Accurately", Washington University in St Louis, September 2006
"Connecting Rational Choice Models to the Real World" Washington University, PNP Works in Progress Series, December 2005
"Connecting Economic Models to the Real World" University of Cyprus, September 2005
"Subjective Well-Being and Kahneman’s ‘Objective Happiness’", Cognitive Brown Bag, Psychology Department, UC – San Diego, February 2005
"Subjective Well-Being and Kahneman’s ‘Objective Happiness’", Experimental Philosophy Lab, UC – San Diego, October 2004
"Connecting Rational Choice Models to the Real World", Experimental Philosophy Lab, UC – San Diego, April 2004
"Comments on Mark Couch’s “Functional Properties and Causal Relevance”", April 2003, UC–San Diego Graduate Philosophy Conference
"Mill’s Dilemma and the Proper Place of Game Theory in Social Science", Science Studies Program Colloquium, UC–San Diego, October 2003
Scholarships and Awards:
Internal Research Grant, UM St Louis Winter/Spring 2009
National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2004-2005
Philosophy Teaching Assistant of the Year, UCSD, 2003 Inaugural award
Dissertation Fellowship, Philosophy Department, UCSD, 2005-6
Dissertation Fellowship, Center For Humanities, UCSD, Winter 2005
NSF Dissertation Fellowship, Science Studies Program, UCSD, Fall 2004
Global Supplementary Grant Program Scholarship, Open Society Institute, 2000-2003
Foreign Tuition Scholarship, University of California San Diego, 2001-2004
Frederic and Clara Wall Scholarship, The International Center, UCSD, 2002-3, 2004
Intercollege, Cyprus, Academic Merit Scholarship 1995-1998
Teaching:
Happiness and the Meaning Of Life, UMSL Winter 2010 (introductory), Fall 2010 (advanced)
Feminism and Science, UMSL Fall 2009
Philosophy of Science, UM St Louis Fall 2007, Winter 2008, Winter 2010
Philosophy of Social Science (advanced undergraduates and graduate students), UM St Louis, Winter 2008, Fall 2009
Current Controversies in Cognitive Science: Happiness (advanced undergraduates and graduate students), Washington University in St Louis, Spring 2007
Problems in Philosophy (introductory metaphysics), Washington University in St Louis, Spring 2007
Proseminar: Theories of Happiness and Well-being (seminar for incoming Master’s students), University of Missouri, St Louis, Fall 2006, Fall 2007
Logic and Decision Making (lower division course), UC San Diego, Spring 2006
Games and Decisions (upper division course), UC San Diego, Spring 2006
Service:
Director for Part-Time Faculty, UMSL Philosophy Department
Fall Research Panel, UMSL, Fall 2009
Serving on advisory board for Handbook of Philosophy of Social Science, Sage 2009.
Organized a Works in Progress speaker series at Washington University in St Louis, Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology program 2006-2007
Organized an Author Meets Critics Session on Francesco Guala’s Methodology of Experimental Economics, Pacific APA 2007
Organized and ran the UCSD Philosophy of Science Reading Group 2003-5
Referee: Mind, Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Economics and Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, International Studies for the Philosophy of Science, Journal of Economic Methodology, Society for Exact Philosophy, Science and Public Policy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Palgrave Macmillan, Revista Theoria, Cambridge Journal of Economics
Languages:
English (fluent)
French (good reading and satisfactory writing and speaking, spent one year as an exchange student in Toulouse, France, completed Le Français du Baccalauréat at Lycée Pierre d’Aragon 1993-1994)
Russian (native language)