Dr. Jonathan Y. Tsou

I am Professor of Philosophy, the Marvin and Kathleen Stone Distinguished Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Science, and the Director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (CVMST) at University of Texas at Dallas (Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology). I received my Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 2008, where I wrote a philosophy of psychiatry dissertation under the direction of William C. Wimsatt, Robert J. Richards, and Ian Hacking. In 2008-09, I was a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University of British Columbia. Prior to joining UT Dallas in 2022, I was Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. In 2021, I was awarded the Louis Thompson Distinguished Undergraduate Teacher Designation by Iowa State University for outstanding undergraduate teaching over an extended period.

I am a philosopher of science with broad and interdisciplinary research interests. In addition to general philosophy of science issues (e.g., natural kinds, causation, underdetermination, values in science), I have special interests in philosophy of psychiatry (and philosophy of psychology). I also have longstanding research interests in the history of 20th century philosophy of science (especially Carnap, Kuhn, and Quine). I am author of Philosophy of Psychiatry (Cambridge University Press, 2021), co-author (with Jennifer Radden) of the "Mental Disorder (Illness)" entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, co-editor (with Flavia Padovani and Alan Richardson) of Objectivity in Science (Springer, 2015), co-editor (with Gregory J. Robson) of Technology Ethics (Routledge, 2023), and co-editor (with Jamie Shaw and Carla Fehr) of Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism (Springer, 2025).

I am a member of the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) and the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable (POSS-RT). I am a member of the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP) and the Editorial Advisory Board for Philosophy of Medicine. In 2014-17, I was a member of the American Philosophical Association (APA) Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies.