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2Geographically gated communities: collective participation, marginalization, and the importance of shared valuesIn Kendy Hess, Violetta Igneski & Tracy Lynn Isaacs (eds.), Collectivity: Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2018.
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A way forward for citizen science : taking advice from a madmanIn Karim Bschir & Jamie Shaw (eds.), Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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21Understanding the role of wrongdoing in technological disasters: Utilizing ecofeminist philosophy to examine commemorationStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 87 (C): 158-167. 2021.
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64Extended Mechanistic Explanations: Expanding the Current Mechanistic Conception to Include More Complex Biological SystemsJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 48 (4): 517-534. 2017.Mechanistic accounts of explanation have recently found popularity within philosophy of science. Presently, we introduce the idea of an extended mechanistic explanation, which makes explicit room for the role of environment in explanation. After delineating Craver and Bechtel’s account, we argue this suggestion is not sufficiently robust when we take seriously the mechanistic environment and modeling practices involved in studying contemporary complex biological systems. Our goal is to extend th…Read more
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18The Attenuated Ramblings of a MadmanPolish Journal of Philosophy 3 (2): 67-85. 2009.The slogan ‘anything goes’ first appears in Paul Feyerabend’s book Against Method at the end of the first chapter. Since that time, philosophical literature has been peppered with criticism and cries of outrage towards Feyerabend’s call for anarchy. Many have speculated on what exactly was meant by the slogan and even more philosophers and scientists have quickly discarded Feyerabend’s antidote as the obvious ramblings of a madman.In this essay, I will argue that Paul Feyerabend does not promote…Read more
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Southern Connecticut State UniversityDepartment of Philosophy
Department of HistoryAssociate Professor
Davis, California, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |
Philosophy of Science, Misc |