I am Associate Professor in the Dept. of Philosophy, Core member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy and Associate Member of the Brain and Mind Institute at Western. I have a PhD in HPS (2007) and an MS in Neuroscience (2003) from the University of Pittsburgh. While an MS student in neuroscience, I worked in a cognitive neurobiology laboratory and ran in vivo electrophysiology and biochemical experiments to investigate the role of a protein kinase (extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)) in LTP in the rodent hippocampus. This experience sparked my interest in experiments and in philosophy of science in practice, and my published work f…

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