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Broadly speaking, I am interested in the ways in which science, as a productive activity, is socially organized and interacts with other kinds of activities and organizations, such as social movements, the state, and the market. I am specifically interested in the problem of distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate kinds of influence on science. I also have related interests in the problems of complex evidence and uncertainty. …
Note: I don't really use this site, and recently many of my papers have been outside of academic philosophy. Check my ORCID profile for a more reliable list of publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7945-4416
Broadly speaking, I am interested in the ways in which science, as a productive activity, is socially organized and interacts with other kinds of activities and organizations, such as social movements, the state, and the market. I am specifically interested in the problem of distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate kinds of influence on science. I also have related interests in the problems of complex evidence and uncertainty. Policy-relevant science is often complex — involving multiple different research methods and kinds of evidence — contested for political reasons, and uncertain to some degree or another. What kinds of conclusions can we legitimately draw from complex, contested, and uncertain research? How should this research be used to inform good policymaking?
As of September 2015, I am a Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, working in the Chemical Safety for Sustainability Program at the US Environmental Protection Agency. From August 2013 through August 2015, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rotman Institue of Philosophy at Western University in London, Ontario. I finished my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, in April 2012.
