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Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Mind/ Cognitive Science, History of Analytic Philosophy

Areas of Competence: Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Technology

Academic Appointments

• Director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (CVMST), University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, 2023-present.

• The Marvin and Kathleen Stone Distinguished Professor of Humanities in Medicine and Science, University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, 2022-present.

• Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, 2022-present. 

• Professor of Philosophy, Iowa State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2021-2022.

• Associate Professor of Philosophy (awarded early tenure), Iowa State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2014-2021.

• Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), Iowa State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2009-2014.

• SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy, 2008-2009.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Chicago, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, 2001-2008 (degree conferred June 2008). Dissertation: "The Reality and Classification of Mental Disorders" (Advisors: William C. Wimsatt, Robert J. Richards, and Ian Hacking)

• M.A., University of Western Ontario, Philosophy, 2000-2001 (degree conferred October 2001)

• B.A. (First Class Honors), Simon Fraser University, Philosophy Major, Psychology Honors, 1993-2000 (degree conferred October 2000)

Coursework

Publications

Books

• Tsou, Jonathan Y., Shaw, Jamie, and Fehr, Carla (eds.) (forthcoming/ under contract). Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown. Cham: Springer. (PDF) (TOC)

• Robson, Gregory J., and Tsou, Jonathan Y. (eds.) (2023). Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings. New York: Routledge. (PDF)

• Tsou, Jonathan Y. (2021). Philosophy of Psychiatry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)

• Padovani, Flavia, Richardson, Alan, and Tsou, Jonathan Y. (eds.) (2015). Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 310. Cham: Springer. (PDF)

Journal Articles

• (2023). The Contrast Class for Madness and Mental Disorder. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology 30(4): 323-235. (PDF)

• (2022). Biological Essentialism, Projectable Human Kinds, and Psychiatric Classification. Philosophy of Science, 89(5): 1155-1165. (PDF)

• (2021). Function, Dysfunction, and the Concept of Mental Disorder. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 28(4): 371-375. (PDF)

• (2020). Social Construction, HPC Kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 50(2): 115-137. (PDF)

• (2016). Natural Kinds, Psychiatric Classification and the History of the DSM. History of Psychiatry, 27(4): 406-424. (PDF)

• (2013). Depression and Suicide are Natural Kinds: Implications for Physician-Assisted Suicide. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 36(5-6): 461-70. (PDF)

• (2012). Distinguishing Non-Conceptual Content from Non-Syntactic Propositions: Comment on Fuller. Southwest Philosophy Review, 28(2): 53-57. (PDF)

• (2012). Intervention, Causal Reasoning, and the Neurobiology of Mental Disorders: Pharmacological Drugs as Experimental Instruments. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 43(2): 542-551. (PDF)

• (2011). The Importance of History for Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Case of the DSM and Psychiatric Classification. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 5(3): 446-470. (PDF)

• (2010). Putnam's Account of Apriority and Scientific Change: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest. Synthese, 176(3): 429-445. (PDF)

• (2007). Hacking on the Looping Effects of Psychiatric Classifications: What Is an Interactive and Indifferent Kind? International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 21(3): 329-344. (PDF)

• (2006). Genetic Epistemology and Piaget's Philosophy of Science: Piaget vs. Kuhn on Scientific Progress. Theory & Psychology, 16(2): 203-224. (PDF)

• (2003). The Justification of Concepts in Carnap's Aufbau. Philosophy of Science, 70 (4): 671-689. [Winner of the 2003 PSA Graduate Student Essay Award] (PDF)

• (2003). A Role for Reason in Science. Critical Notice of Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason (Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2001). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 42(3): 573-598. (PDF)

• (2003). Reconsidering Feyerabend's "Anarchism." Perspectives on Science, 11(2): 208-235. (PDF)

• Alexander, Bruce K., and Tsou, Jonathan Y. (2001). Prospects for Stimulant Maintenance in Vancouver, Canada. Addiction Research & Theory, 9(2): 97-132. (PDF)

Book Chapters

• (forthcoming). Feyerabend's Realism and Expansion of Pluralism in the 1970s. In Jonathan Y. Tsou, Jamie Shaw, and Carla Fehr (eds.), Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Cham: Springer. (PDF)

• (forthcoming). Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry. In Flavia Padovani and Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Handbook of the History of Philosophy of Science. Routledge. (PDF)

• (forthcoming). Philosophical Naturalism and Empirical Approaches to Philosophy. In Marcus Rossberg (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Analytic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)

• (2024). The Ambiguous Legacy of Kuhn's Structure for Normative Philosophy of Science. In K. Brad Wray (ed.), Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60 (pp. 217-234). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (PDF)

• Tsou, Jonathan Y., and Padgett Walsh, Kate (2023). Ethical Theory and Technology. In Gregory J. Robson and Jonathan Y. Tsou (eds.), Technology Ethics: A Philosophical Introduction and Readings (pp. 62-72). New York: Routledge. (PDF)

• (2019). Philosophy of Science, Psychiatric Classification, and the DSM. In Şerife Tekin and Robyn Bluhm (eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry (pp. 177-196). London: Bloomsbury. (PDF)

• (2017). Pharmacological Interventions and the Neurobiology of Mental Disorders. In Ioan Opris and Manuel F. Casanova (eds.), The Physics of the Mind and Brain Disorders: Integrated Neural Circuits Supporting the Emergence of Mind (pp. 613-628). Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems, vol. 11. Cham: Springer. (PDF)

• (2015). Reconsidering the Carnap-Kuhn Connection. In William J. Devlin and Alisa Bokulich (eds.), Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50 Years On (pp. 51-69). Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 311. Cham: Springer. (PDF)

• Tsou, Jonathan Y., Richardson, Alan, and Padovani, Flavia (2015). Introduction: Objectivity in Science. In Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson, and Jonathan Y. Tsou (eds.), Objectivity in Science: New Perspectives from Science and Technology Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol. 310 (pp. 1-15). Cham: Springer. (PDF)

• (2015). DSM-5 and Psychiatry's Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Approaches to Psychiatric Classification. In Steeves Demazeux and Patrick Singy (eds.), The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel (pp. 43-62). Dordrecht: Springer. (PDF)

• (2013). Origins of the Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness: Evolutionary Answers to Chalmers' Hard Problem. In Liz Swan (ed.), Origins of Mind (pp. 259-269). Dordrecht: Springer. (PDF)

Book Reviews

• (2021). The Social Construction of Human Categories. Review of Ásta, Categories We Live By: The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). Metascience, 30(1): 115-118 (PDF).

• (2017). The Social Construction of Real Human Kinds. Review of Ron Mallon, The Construction of Human Kinds (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Metascience, 26(3): 467-470. (PDF)

• (2010). Review of Rachel Cooper, Classifying Madness: A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 61(2): 453-457. (PDF)

• (2009). Review of Lennart Nordenfelt, Rationality and Compulsion: Applying Action Theory to Psychiatry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Journal of Applied Philosophy, 26(4): 415-418. (PDF)

• (2009). Defining Mental Disorder. Review of Derek Bolton, What is Mental Disorder? An Essay in Philosophy, Science, and Values (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Metascience, 18(2): 251-255. (PDF)

• (2008). Review of Dominic Murphy, Psychiatry in the Scientific Image (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006). Philosophical Psychology, 21(1): 133-137. (PDF)

• (2007). Review of George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). British Journal for the History of Science, 40(1): 153-155. (PDF)

• (2007). Review of Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters (eds.), Science, Values, and Objectivity (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). Metaphilosophy, 38(1): 127-133. (PDF)

• (2006). Review of Paolo Parrini, Wesley C. Salmon, and Merrilee H. Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 45(4): 808-810. (PDF)

• (2005). Review of Gary L. Hardcastle and Alan W. Richardson (eds.), Logical Empiricism in North America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). Philosophy of Science, 72(4): 634-637. (PDF)

• (2005). Review of Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (eds.), History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002). British Journal for the History of Science, 38(3): 355-356. (PDF)

• (2005). Review of Steve Awodey and Carsten Klein (eds.), Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena (Chicago: Open Court, 2004). International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 19(2): 213-216. (PDF)

Academic Awards and Honors

• The Louis Thompson Distinguished Undergraduate Teacher Designation for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching: Awarded by Iowa State University, 2021.

• Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award for outstanding undergraduate teaching over an extended period of time: Awarded by Iowa State University, 2021.

• Publication Subvention Grant For Scholarly Works: Awarded by Iowa State University, 2021. 

• Publication Support (Key Challenges Within a Free Society Project) for the edited volume, Technology Ethics (co-edited with Gregory Robson): Awarded by the John Templeton Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies, 2021. 

• Nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Award, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University, 2021.

• Honorarium: Awarded by the Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis, Presentation in the History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM) Series, 2020.

• LAS Travel and Research Grant: Awarded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), Iowa State University, 2019.

• Faculty Professional Development Assignment (FPDA): Awarded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), Iowa State University, 2018.

• Nominated for Early Achievement in Teaching Award, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University, 2013-2014.

• LAS Small Grant: Awarded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University, 2013.

• Foreign Travel Grant: Awarded by the Faculty Senate Committee on Recognition and Development, Iowa State University, 2011, 2013.

• CEAH Research Grant: Awarded by the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Iowa State University, 2011.

• NSF/ PSA Travel Grant: Awarded by the Philosophy of Science Association, 2008.

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies: Awarded by the University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy, 2008-2009.

• Franke Institute for the Humanities Doctoral Fellowship: Awarded by the University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, 2007-2008.

• Honorarium: Awarded by the Nassau University Medical Center for Psychiatry Grand Rounds Lecture, 2007.

• Doolittle-Harrison Travel Fellowship: Awarded by the University of Chicago, Office of Graduate Affairs, 2006.

• Fishbein Fellowship (2 years): Awarded by the University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, 2005-2007.

• Humane Studies Fellowship (2 years): Awarded by the Institute for Humane Studies, 2005-2007.

• 2003 PSA Graduate Student Essay Prize: Awarded by the Philosophy of Science Association for the essay "The Justification of Concepts in Carnap's Aufbau", 2003.

• SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (4 years): Awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2001-2005.

• University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship (4 years): Awarded by the University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, 2001-2005. 

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship: Awarded by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities, 2001-2002. (declined)

• President's Scholarship for Graduate Study: Awarded by the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Graduate Studies, 2000-2001.

• Golden Key International Honour Society, Simon Fraser University Chapter.

• Simon Fraser University Honor Roll, Fall 1998, Spring 1998, Spring 2000.

• Certificate of Distinction: Awarded by SFU Department of Philosophy, highest standing in Leibniz (PHIL 332), Summer 2000.

• Certificate of Distinction: Awarded by SFU Department of Philosophy, highest standing in Locke & Berkeley (PHIL 353), Spring 2000.

• Certificate of Distinction: Awarded by SFU Department of Philosophy, highest standing in Philosophy of Science (PHIL 341), Spring 1999.

• Certificate of Merit: Awarded by SFU Department of Philosophy, second highest standing in Natural Deductive Logic (PHIL 210), Fall 1998.

Presentations

• Hacking on Looping Effects and Kinds of People. 5th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Texas at Dallas, April 2024 (invited).

• Hacking on Looping Effects and Kinds of People: Instability and Stability in the Classification of Human Types. Perspectives on the Philosophy of Ian Hacking International Workshop, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, November 2023 (invited).

• Psychiatry and Epistemic Injustice. Biennial Sharma Lecture, University of Waterloo, Department of Philosophy (Waterloo, ON, Canada), September 2023 (invited).

• Psychiatry and Epistemic Injustice. Values in Science Research Laboratory, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, September 2023 (invited).

• Feyerabend's Pluralist Realism in the 1970s. Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference (VMST-11). Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, May 2023 (refereed).

• Are Depression and Anxiety the Same Biological Kind? Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), in the Invited Symposium: Philosophy of Psychiatry (Organizer: Christopher Pincock), Denver, CO, February 2023 (invited).

• Are Depression and Anxiety the Same Biological Kind?  Values in Science Research Laboratory, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, February 2023 (invited).

• The DSM, Diagnostic Kinds, and Levels of Psychiatric Classification. Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2022). In the Cognate Society Session (AAPP: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry: Psychiatric Practice and Philosophy of Psychiatry (Organizer: Miriam Solomon), Pittsburgh, PA, November 2022 (refereed).

• The DSM, Diagnostic Kinds, and Level of Psychiatric Classification.  Values in Science Research Laboratory, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, September 2022 (invited).

• The Demise of Logical Empiricism and the Ambiguous Legacy of Kuhn's Structure for Normative Philosophy of Science. Thomas Kuhn's Philosophy of Science: In Honour of the 100th Year of His Birth. Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark), June 2022 (invited).  

• Biological Essentialism and the Projectability of Psychiatric Categories. Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2020/ 2021), in the Symposium: Pluralism in Psychiatric Research: Insights from Philosophy of Science (Organizers: Şerife Tekin and Muhammad Ali Khalidi), Baltimore, MD, November 2021 (refereed).

• Natural Kinds, Projectability, and Levels of Psychiatric Classification. Webinar in Philosophy of Psychiatry. Université du Québec à Montréal (Montreal, QC, Canada), Department of Philosophy, October 2021 (invited). 

• Biological Essentialism, HPC Kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories. History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HPSM) Series. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO), Department of Philosophy, September 2020 (invited). 

• Biological Essentialism and the Projectability of Psychiatric Categories. Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), in the Invited Symposium: Philosophy of Psychiatry (Organizer: Sarah Robins), Chicago, IL, February 2020 (invited).

• Skepticism about Psychiatry/ Defining Mental Disorder. Executive Committee Meeting for the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP), Peer Review Scholarship Salon (San Antonio, TX), October 2019 (invited).

• Social Construction, HPC Kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories. Asian Conference on the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Nankai University (Tianjin, China), June 2019 (refereed).

• Hacking on Looping Effects and Kinds of People: Instability and Stability in the Classification of Human Types. The Philosophy of Medicine and Mental Health Conference, University of Nebraska at Omaha (Omaha, NE), April 2019 (invited).

• Social Construction, HPC Kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories. Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, University of Vermont (Burlington, VT), April 2019 (refereed).

• Hacking on Looping Effects and Kinds of People: Instability and Stability in the Classification of Human Types. The Philosophy of Ian Hacking Conference, The Hungarian Academy of the Sciences (Budapest, Hungary), March 2019 (invited).

• Social Construction, HPC Kinds, and the Projectability of Human Categories. Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2018), Seattle, WA, November 2018 (refereed).

• Asian and Asian American Philosophers: Issues and Challenges. Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Seattle, WA, USA, in the APA Committee Session: The Current State of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers (Organized by Jonathan Y. Tsou), April 2017 (invited).

• Hempel's Account of Psychiatric Taxonomy: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest. Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP), Atlanta, GA, May 2016 (refereed). 

• Cross-Cultural Research, the Naturalness of Mental Disorders, and Culture-Bound Syndromes. Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP), Toronto, ON, Canada, May 2015 (refereed).

• Hempel's Account of Psychiatric Taxonomy: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest. Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), Brock University (St. Catharines, ON, Canada), May 2014 (refereed).

• DSM-5 and Psychiatry's Second Revolution: Theoretical vs. Descriptive Approaches to Psychiatric Classification. Conference of the Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada), June 2013 (refereed).

• Reconsidering the Carnap-Kuhn connection. Annual SFU Philosophy Alumni Conference, Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada), Department of Philosophy, March 2013 (invited).

• Reconsidering the Carnap-Kuhn Connection. Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2012), San Diego, CA, November 2012 (refereed).

• Reconsidering the Carnap-Kuhn Connection.  Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), University of King's College (Halifax, NS, Canada), June 2012 (refereed).

• Intervention, Causal Reasoning, and the Neurobiology of Mental Disorders: Pharmacological Drugs as Experimental Instruments. Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science Biological Interest Group (BIG) Meeting, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN), September 2011 (invited).

• Intervention, Causal Reasoning, and the Neurobiology of Mental Disorders: Pharmacological Drugs as Experimental Instruments. Conference of the Society of Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), University of Exeter (Exeter, UK), in the Symposium: Philosophy of Psychiatry in Practice: Steps towards an Adequate Theory of Psychiatric Classification (Organized by Lara Kutschenko and Kathryn Tabb), June 2011 (refereed).

• Psychiatric Classifications, Looping Effects, and Stable Targets: Are Any Mental Disorders Natural Kinds? Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), March 2011 (refereed).

• Why Depression is Not a Disease. Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), Concordia University (Montreal, QC, Canada), May 2010 (refereed).

• DSM and the Exclusion of Etiology: An Argument for a Causal System of Psychiatric Classification. UBC Science and Technology Studies Speaker's Series, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada), January 2009 (invited).

• Psychiatric Classifications, Looping Effects, and Stable Targets: Are Any Mental Disorders Natural Kinds? Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2008), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 2008 (refereed).

• Psychiatric Classifications, Looping Effects, and Stable Targets: Are Any Mental Disorders Natural Kinds? Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada), June 2008 (refereed).

• Critical Psychiatry in the 21st Century: Szasz, Laing, and Scheff Revisited. Psychiatry Grand Rounds Lecture, Nassau University Medical Center (East Meadow, NY), Department of Psychiatry & Psychology, February 2007 (invited).

• Putnam's Account of Apriority and Scientific Change: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest. Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France), June 2006 (refereed).

• Hacking on the Looping Effects of Psychiatric Categories: What is an Interactive and Indifferent Kind? Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), York University (Toronto, ON, Canada), May 2006 (refereed).

• Quine on Naturalism, Ontology, and Analyticity: Some Critical Remarks. Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), University of Western Ontario (London, ON, Canada), in the Symposium: Reconsidering Philosophical Naturalism (Organized by Dan McArthur), May 2005 (refereed).

• Putnam's Account of Apriority and Scientific Change: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest. Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), University of Western Ontario (London, ON, Canada), May 2005 (refereed).

• Some Critical Remarks on Derrida's Analysis of Foucault's Histoire de la folie and Freud. History of Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), October 2004 (invited).

• Reexamining the Roots of the Naturalist Turn in Philosophy of Science: An Argument Against 'Epistemology Naturalized.' Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), University of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA), June 2004 (refereed).

• Genetic Epistemology and Piaget's Philosophy of Science. Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MN, Canada), May 2004 (refereed).

• Values and Explanation in Psychology: The Case of 'Mental Illness.' St. Louis Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Saint Louis University (St. Louis, MO), Department of Philosophy, March 2004 (refereed).

• Values and Explanation in Psychology: The Case of 'Mental Illness.' Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS, Canada), May 2003 (refereed).

• Reconsidering the Conventionalist 'Explanation' of Analyticity: Did Quine Really Kill Carnap? History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), April 2003 (invited).

• The Justification of Concepts in Carnap's Aufbau. Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada), May 2002 (refereed).

• The Justification of Concepts in the Aufbau. Graduate Conference in Epistemology, University of Rochester (Rochester, NY, USA), Department of Philosophy, November 2001 (refereed).

• On the Problem of Free-Will: One Dogma of Psychology. Theory & Methods Seminar, Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC, Canada), Department of Psychology, February 2000 (invited).

Commentaries

• Derek Andrews, Natural Kinds and Social Factors: On the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders. Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), Université du Québec à Montréal (Montreal, QC, Canada), June 2018.

• Rick Morris, Stranger in a Strange Land: An Optimal-Environments Account of Evolutionary Mismatch. Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Chicago, IL, Februrary 2018.

• Eleanor Gilmore-Szott, Explanation for Informed Consent in Psychiatric Care. Reductionism and Integration, Bioethics and Behavior: A Conference Celebrating the Career of Kenneth F. Schaffner. Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), September 2016.

• Şerife Tekin, Operationalizing the Self in Scientific Psychiatry: Perils and Promises. Early Career Scholars Conference in Philosophy of Psychiatry: Overcoming Mind-Brain Dualism in 21st Century Medicine. Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA), November 2014.

• Timothy Fuller, Non-Conceptual Content: The Richness Argument and Early Visual Processing. Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society (SWPS), Austin, TX, November 2011.

• Jeff Kochan, Rouse on Science and Realism. Meeting of the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), Concordia University (Montreal, QC, Canada), May 2010.

• Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Systematicity: The Nature of Science. History & Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago  (Chicago, IL), October 2006.

• Deborah Coen, A Lens of Many Facets: Science Through a Family's Eyes. History of Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago  (Chicago, IL), March 2006.

• Harold Mah, Wild Analysis: Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, Liberal Crisis, and Historical Method. History of Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago  (Chicago, IL), October 2005.

• Jamie Cohen-Cole, Post World War II Social Science and the Values of Interdisciplinarity. History of Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago  (Chicago, IL), March 2005.

• William Sterner, An Exegesis of Aristotle's Use of a Definitory Dialectic of the Four Causes in the First Five Chapters of the Poetics. History of Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago (Chicago, IL), April 2004.

• Robert Perlman, The Evolution of Social Behavior: A Biblical View. History of Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago  (Chicago, IL), March 2002.

• Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason/ Parting of the Ways. History & Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago  (Chicago, IL), March 2002.

Teaching Experience

Instructor

• Topics in Philosophy of the Human Sciences - Graduate (PHIL 6390), University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2024.

• Topics in Philosophy of Science - Graduate (PHIL 6390), University of Texas at Dallas, Fall 2023.

• Philosophy of Race (PHIL 4332), University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2023.

• History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine (HIST 3228/ PHIL 3228), University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.

• Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry – Graduate (PHIL 6390), University of Texas at Dallas, Fall 2022.

• Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry (PHIL 389), Iowa State University, Fall 2017.

• Philosophy of Technology (PHIL 343), Iowa State University, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014. (Syllabus)

• Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 201), Iowa State University, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014. (Syllabus)

• Philosophy of Science (PHIL 380), Iowa State University, Fall 2011, Fall 2014. (Syllabus) 

• Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science (PHIL 360A, HIST 393), University of British Columbia, Spring 2009. (Syllabus)

• Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 343), Simon Fraser University, Spring 2009. (Syllabus)

• Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 451A), University of British Columbia, Winter 2008. (Syllabus)

• Issues in the Philosophy of Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology (HIPS 29403), University of Chicago, Fall 2004. (Syllabus)

Graduate Supervisor

• Independent Study: Philosophy of Physics (PHIL 8303), University of Texas at Dallas (Student: Lisa Whitsett), Spring 2023.

• Field Exam Preparation for History of Ideas (PHIL 8305), University of Texas at Dallas (Student: Elizabeth Escalante), Spring 2023.

• Ph.D. Thesis Committee Member, University of Texas at Dallas, School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology, History of Ideas (Student: Elizabeth Escalante), 2022-present.

• M.S. Thesis Committee Member, Iowa State University, Department of Information Systems (Student: Parth Schiralkar), Spring 2021.

• Ph.D. Thesis, Committee Member, University of California Santa Cruz, Department of Philosophy (Student: Lourdes Ortiz), 2016-2017.

• M.A. Thesis Committee Member, Iowa State University, Department of English, Program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication (Student: Mary Speckhard), 2012-2013.

• Independent Study: Ethics of Internet Privacy  (PHIL 590), Iowa State University (Student: Parth Shiralkar), Fall 2020.

• Independent Study: Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Science (PHIL 590), Iowa State University (Student: Andrei Migunov), Fall 2019.

Undergraduate Supervisor

• Independent Study: Philosophy of Cognitive Science (PHIL 490), Iowa State University (Student: Mirinda James), Spring 2017. (co-supervised with Stephen Biggs)

• Independent Study: Pragmatism (PHIL 490), Iowa State University (Student: Matthew Maxwell), Spring 2015.

• B.A. Thesis (HIPS 29900), University of Chicago (Student: Roshan Ahmed), Spring 2008. (co-supervised with Rachel Ponce)

• B.A. Thesis (HIPS 29900), University of Chicago (Student: Kathryn Tabb), Spring 2006.

• Reading & Research Course: Pragmatism & Philosophy of Science (HIPS 29700), University of Chicago (Students: Julia Hyland Bruno & Kathryn Tabb), Spring 2005. (Readings)

• B.A. Thesis (HIPS 29900), University of Chicago (Student: Jesson Yeh), Spring 2004.

• Reading & Research Course: Science & Religion (HIPS 29700), University of Chicago (Student: Jesson Yeh), Winter 2004.

Teaching Assistant

• Darwin's Origin of Species (CHSS 38400, HIPS 28400, HIST 25300/ 35303, PHIL 28500/ 38500), University of Chicago (Instructor: Robert Richards), Fall 2005.

• Genetics in an Evolutionary Perspective (PHIL 32201, BIOS 29288, CHSS 34201, HIPS 24101), University of Chicago (Instructor: William Wimsatt), Spring 2004.

• History & Philosophy of Psychology (CHSS 36900, HIPS 26901, HIST 25302/ 35302, PHIL 22810/ 32810), University of Chicago (Instructor: Robert Richards), Winter 2004.

• Science, Culture, & Society I: Ancient Greece (HIPS 17300, HIST 17300), University of Chicago (Instructor: Robert Richards), Fall 2003, Fall 2006.

• Science, Culture, & Society II: The Scientific Revolution (HIPS 17400, HIST 17400), University of Chicago (Instructor: Noel Swerdlow), Winter 2007.

• Reasoning & Critical Thinking: Introduction to Logic (PHIL 021), University of Western Ontario, Department of Philosophy (Instructor: John Thorp), Fall 2000, Winter 2001.

      (HIPS = Undergraduate program in History & Philosophy of Science)

Service at University of Texas at Dallas

UT Dallas

• Member: Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects (IRB), 2023-present.

Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology

• Member: Tenure Review Committee (Katherine Davies), 2024.

• Member: Mid-Probationary Review Committee (Brenda Gambol), 2024.

• Member: Promotion to Full Professor Committee (Eric Shlereth), 2024.

• Member: African America and African Diaspora Studies (AAADS) Minor Committee, 2024-present.

• Member: Faculty Personnel Review Committee, 2023-2024.

• Member: Mid-Probationary Review Committee (Songyao Ren), 2023-2024.

• Member: History and Philosophy Graduate Program Taskforce, 2023-present.

Other University Service

• Panelist: Movie Screening of "Origin" (Organizer: Kimberly Hill). Bass School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology and the Honors College, University of Texas at Dallas, February 2024.

• Faculty sponsor: Medical Humanities Club, 2023-present.
  
  

Service at Iowa State University

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS)

• Member: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, 2021-2022.

• Member: Liberal Arts and Sciences Honors Committee, 2019-2022.

• Chair, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Representative Assembly, 2016-2017.

• Vice-Chair, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Representative Assembly, 2015-2016.

• Executive Committee Member, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Representative Assembly, 2015-2017.

• Member, Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Representative Assembly, 2011-2017.

Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies

• Member: Preliminary Review Committee (Sarah Dees), 2021-2022.

• Member: Lecturer Review Committee (Kenneth Hobson), 2021-2022.

• Member: Post-Tenure Review Committee (Kate Padgett Walsh), 2021-2022.

• PRS Mediation Chair, 2021-2022.

• Member: Hiring Committee for Administrative Assistant Position, 2021.

• Member: Tenure Review Committee (Ranpal Dosanjh), 2020-2021.

• Assistant Chair, 2020-present.

• Member: Budget Committee, 2019-present.

• Diversity Representative, 2019-present.

• Chair: Recruitment and Retention Committee, 2017-2020.

• Chair: Lecturer Review Committee (Cullen Padgett Walsh), 2016-2017.

• Chair: Tenure Review Committee (David Marshall Miller), 2016-2017.

• Member: Tenure Review Committee (Stephen Biggs), 2015-2016.

• Member: Tenure Review Committee (Travis Chilcott), 2015-2016.

• Chair: Preliminary Review Committee (David Marshall Miller), 2014-2015.

• Member: Preliminary Review Committee (Elanor Taylor), 2014-2015.

• Continuous Improvement Plan Reporter for Philosophy of Technology (PHIL 343), 2014-present.

• Member: Lecturer Review Committee (Cullen Padgett Walsh), 2013-2014.

• Member: Socrates Prize Committee, 2011-2014.

• Member: Budget Committee, 2011-2016.

• Member: Lecturer Review Committee (Cullen Padgett Walsh), 2010-2011.

• Faculty-Student Relations Committee, 2010-2011.

• Speaker Series Committee, 2010-2011.

Other University Service

• Faculty Advisor for ISU Student Organization: Science for the People Club, 2021-2022.

• Participation in the ABET Accreditation of the Department of Computer Science, Reporter for Philosophy of Technology (PHIL 343) class, 2021-2022.

• Faculty Advisor for ISU Student Organization: The Ethics of Technology Club, 2019-2022.

• Faculty Advisor for ISU Student Organization: Woman's Alliance for Cybersecurity, 2017-2022.

• Participation in the ABET Accreditation of the Department of Computer Science, Reporter for Philosophy of Technology (PHIL 343) class, 2015-2016.

• Participation in the ABET Accreditation of the Department of Computer Science, Reporter for Philosophy of Technology (PHIL 343) class, 2009-2010.

Service to the Profession

• Member of the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, 2024-present.

• Member of the Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association (3 year term), 2023-present.

• Chair of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Archive Committee, 2023-present.

• Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Steering Group Committee for History and Philosophy of Science (Section L) , 2023-present. 

• External Reviewer for Faculty Tenure Case, University of Omaha Nebraska, Department of Philosophy, 2023. 

• Member of the Poster Forum Committee: Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2022), Pittsburgh, PA, 2022.

• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board: Philosophy of Medicine, 2021-present.

• Member of the Program Committee: Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2020/2021), Baltimore, MD, 2021.

• External Reviewer for Faculty Tenure Case, University of Victoria, Department of Philosophy, 2021.

• External Reviewer for Faculty Promotion Cases, University of Utah, Department of Philosophy, 2021. 

• Faculty Mentor: Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Underrepresented Philosophy of Science Scholars (UPSS) Program, 2019-present.

• Member of the Executive Council for the Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (AAPP), 2018-present.

• Member of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Archive Committee, 2018-2022.

• Panel Organizer: "The Current State of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers," APA Committee Session (APA Committee on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies), Seattle, WA, 2017.

• Member of Organizing Committee: HOPOS conference, post-Kant program committee, Minneapolis, MN, 2016.

• Member of the American Philosophical Association (APA) Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, 2014-2017.

• Panel Organizer: "Government Spying, Threats to Privacy and Your Rights Online," Iowa State University, Sponsored by the Digital Freedom Student Organization, 2014.

• Faculty Mentor: Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), 2013-2014.

• Member of Organizing Committee: Objectivity in Science Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 2010.

• Member of Organizing Committee: MEPHISTOS Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2006.

• Referee (journals): Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Erkenntnis, Philosophy Psychiatry & Psychology, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Perspectives on Science, Philosophical Psychology.

• Referee (other): Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting (CPA 2010), National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Proposal.

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