alan w. richardson
CONTACT INFORMATION
Department of Philosophy
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1
CANADA
+604.822.3967 (office)
alanr@mail.ubc.ca
CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION
Professor (since 2003)
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1990
M.A., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1985
M.S.Ed. Mathematics Education, University of Pennsylvania, 1982
B.A., Philosophy and Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 1981
PUBLICATIONS
Book Authored
Carnap’s Construction of the World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 242 pages.
Books Edited
A.W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, Alan Richardson and Sven Schlotter. ed. The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap. Volume One: Early Writings. Chicago: The Open Court, forthcoming.
Uebel, Thomas and Alan Richardson, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 430 pages.
Hardcastle, Gary and Alan Richardson, ed. Logical Empiricism in North America. Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science. Vol. 18. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. xxix+293 pages.
Giere, Ronald and Alan Richardson, ed. Origins of Logical Empiricism. Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science. Vol. 16. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. vii+392 pages.
Special Issues of Journals
Philosophy of Science, December 2010. Topic: Symposium Papers at PSA 2008.
Philosophy of Science, December 2009. Topic: Contributed Papers to PSA 2008.
With Judy Z. Segal, Configurations, Spring 2003. Topic: Scientific Ethos: Authority, Authorship, and Trust in the Sciences
With Don Howard, Perspectives on Science, Spring 2003. Topic: Papers from HOPOS 2002.
With Ernie Hamm, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, December 2001. Topic: Measurement of the People, for the People, by the People.
Journal Articles
“But What Then Am I, This Inexhaustible, Unfathomable Historical Self?” SYNTHESE, 178 (2010): 143-154″Scientific Philosophy as a Topic for History of Science”. Isis. 99.1 (2008): 88 – 96.
“Solomon’s Science Without Conscience”. Perspectives on Science. 16.3 (2008): 246 – 252.
“‘The Tenacious, Malleable, Indefatigible, and Yet, Eternally Modifiable Will’: Hans Reichenbach’s Knowing Subject”.Proceedings of Aristotelian Society. 79 (Supplementary Volume 2005): 73 – 87.
“Reichenbach’s Disease and Mirowski’s Theory of Knowledge? Or, Will to Power as Philosophy of Science”. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. 36 (December 2005): 744 – 753.
Hamm, Ernst, Alan Richardson and Catherine Crawford. “Stephen Straker, 1942-2004”. ISIS. 96.4 (December 2005): 615 – 617.
Richardson, Alan and Miriam Solomon. “A Critical Context for Longino’s Critical Contextual Empiricism”. 2005. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. (2005): 211 – 222.
“Robert K. Merton and Philosophy of Science”. SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE. (2004): 855 – 858.
“Conceiving, Experiencing, and Conceiving Experiencing: Neo-Kantianism and the History of the Concept of Experience”. TOPOI: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY. (2003): 55 – 67.
“Narrating the History of Reason Itself: Kuhn, Friedman, and a Constitutive A Priori for the 21st Century”. Perspectives on Science. (2003): 253 – 274.
“The Geometry of Knowledge: Becker, Carnap and Lewis and the Formalization of the Philosophy in the 1920s”. STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. (2003): 165 – 182.
“Engineering Philosophy of Science: Logical Empiricism and American Pragmatism in the 1930s”. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. (2002): S36 – S47.
“Science as Will and Representation: Carnap, Reichenbach, and Sociology of Science”. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. (2000): S151 – S162.
“Toward a History of Scientific Philosophy”. Perspectives on Science. (1997): 418 – 451.
“Two Dogmas about Logical Empiricism: Carnap and Quine on Logic, Epistemology, and Empiricism “. Philosophical Topics. (1997): 145 – 168.
“Explanation: Pragmatics and Asymmetry”. PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES. (1995): 109 – 129.
“The Limits of Tolerance: Carnap’s Logico-Philosophical Project in Logical Syntax”. Proceedings of Aristotelian Society. (Supplementary Volume, 1994): 67 – 82.
“Logical Idealism and Carnap’s Construction of the World”. SYNTHESE. (1992): 59 – 92.
“Metaphysics and Idealism in the Aufbau”. Grazer Philosophische Studien. (1992): 45 – 72.
“The Vienna Circle”. Encyclopedia of Semiotics. Ed. Paul Bouissac and . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 629 – 631.
Book Chapters
“Ernst Cassirer and Michael Friedman: Kantian or Hegelian Dynamics of Reason?”. Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge. Ed. Michael Dickson and Mary Domski. Chicago: The Open Court, 2010. 279-294.
“Carnapian Pragmatism”. The Cambridge Companion to Carnap. Ed. Michael Friedman and Richard Creath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 295 – 315.
“Philosophy of Science in America”. Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy. Ed. Cheryl Misak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 339-374.
“‘That Sort of Everyday Image of Positivism’: Thomas Kuhn and the Decline of Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science”.The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism. Ed. Alan Richardson and Thomas Uebel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 346 – 369.
“‘The Fact of Science’ and the Critique of Knowledge: Exact Science as Problem and Resource in Marburg Neo-Kantianism”. The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Ed. Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 211 – 226.
“Freedom in a Scientific Society: Reading the Context of Reichenbach Contexts”. Revisiting Discovery and Justification. Ed. Jutta Schickore and Friedrich Steinle. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. 41 – 54.
“Introduction”. Experience and Prediction. Ed. Hans Reichenbach. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. vii – xxxviii.
“Performing Bullshit and the Post-Sincere Condition”. Bullshit and Philosophy. Ed. Gary Hardcastle and George Reisch. Chicago, IL: The Open Court, 2006. 83 – 97.
“Rational Reconstruction”. The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 2 of 2. Ed. Sahotra Sarkar and Jessica Pfeifer. London: Routledge, 2006. 681 – 685.
“Tractatus Comedo-Philosophicus”. Monty Python and Philosophy. Ed. Gary Hardcastle and George Reisch. Chicago: The Open Court, 2006. 217 – 229.
“Tolerating Semantics: Carnap’s Philosophical Point of view”. Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena. Ed. Steven Awodey and Carsten Klein. Chicago: The Open Court, 2004. 63 – 78.
“Logical Empiricism, American Pragmatism, and the Fate of Scientific Philosophy in North America”. Logical Empiricism in North America. Ed. Gary Hardcastle and Alan Richardson. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 1 – 24.
“The Scientific World Conception: Logical Positivism, 1914-1945”. The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870-1945. Ed. Thomas Baldwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 391 – 400.
“Philosophy as Science: The Modernist Agenda of Philosophy of Science, 1900-1950”. In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. Vol. 2 of 2. Ed. P Gardenfors, J Wolenski and K Kijania-Placek. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002. 621 – 639.
“Rudolf Carnap, 1891-1970”. American Philosophers before 1950. Vol. 270. Ed. P Dematties. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 2002. 67 – 82.
“Tolerance, Internationalism, and Scientific Community in Philosophy: Political Themes in Philosophy of Science, Past and Present”. Philosophy of Science and Politics. Ed. Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler. Vienna: Springer, 2002. 65 – 89.
“How to Be a Good Non-Naturalist: Epistemology as Rational Reconstruction in Carnap and his Predecessors”.Rationality, Realism, Revision: Proceedings of the Third International Congress of the Society for Analytic Philosophy. Ed. Julian Nida-Rumelin and . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2001. 856 – 861.
“From Epistemology to the Logic of Science: Carnap’s Philosophy of Empirical Knowledge in the 1930s”. Origins of Logical Empiricism. Ed. Ronald Giere and Alan Richardson. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 309 – 332.
“Philosophy of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions: Remarks on the VPI Program for Testing Philosophies of Science”. Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. Vol. 1 of 2. 1992. 36 – 46.
“How Not to Russell Carnap’s Aufbau”. Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990. Vol. 1 of 2. 1990. 3 – 14.
Richardson, John and Alan Richardson. “On Predicting Pragmatic Relations”. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 1990. 498 – 508.
Plus roughly fifteen book reviews in venues such as Science, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Philosophy in Review,Philosophical Books, Philosophy of Science, and Isis.
PRESENTATIONS (since 1996)
Invited
Science as Motive, Constraint, and Goal in Early Logical Empiricism and Toward an Explanatory History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Presented to: The University of New Mexico Department of Philosophy
At: The O’Neill Lectures in History of Philosophy
Date: April 2011
American Philosophers of Science at Work in the 1950s: Philipp Frank, Ernest Nagel, and the Prospects for an Empirical History of Philosophy of Science in America
Presented to: The Boston Colloquium in Philosophy of Science
At: The Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
Date: October 2010
Carnap’s Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy
Presented to: Conference on Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism
At: University of Vienna
Date: June 2010
Carnap’s Logical Empiricism as Philosophy of Science and as Analytic Philosophy
Presented to: University of California at Berkeley Working Group in History, Philosophy, Logic, and Methodology of Science
At: Working Group Colloquium
Date: April 2010
Carnap’s Logical Empiricism as Philosophy of Science and as Analytic Philosophy
Presented to: Indian University History and Philosophy of Science Department
At: Alberto Coffa Lecture
Date: April 2010
Carnap’s Logical Empiricism as Philosophy of Science and as Analytic Philosophy
Presented to: UBC-SFU-UW Philosophy of Science Working Group
At: Annual Meeting, Peter Wall Institute, UBC
Date: April 2010
From the Icy Slopes of Logic: Toward Interdisciplinary Science Studies at Glacial Speed
Presented to: Science Studies in Context
At: UCSD Science Studies Program
Date: March 2010
Logic as Technology; Metalogic as Metrology: Taking Carnap’s Instrumentalism Seriously
Presented to: Conference on Carnap’s Philosophy
At: University of Paris/Sorbonne
Date: May 2009
Logical Postivism as Scientific Philosophy
Presented To: University of Nevada at Reno Philosophy Department
At: Leonard Lecture
Date Presented: April 2009
A Role for Thomas Kuhn in the History of Philosophy of Science
Presented To: Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens
At: T.S. Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Impact, Relevance, and Open Issues, Athens
Date Presented: Aug, 2008
Hans Reichenbach’s Philosophical Modernism
Presented To: Bogazici University Department of Philosophy
At: A Philosophers of Science in Istanbul: Hans Reichenbach, Istanbul, Turkey
Date Presented: May, 2008
On the Rhetoric of Failure and the Maintenance of Trust
Presented To: University of Tennessee Philosophy Department
At: Philosophy Department Colloquium,
Date Presented: Nov, 2007
Has Philosophy of Science Completely Lost Its Mind?
At: Philosophy Department Colloquium, UBC, British Columbia, Canada
Date Presented: Oct, 2007
Has Philosophy of Science Completely Lost Its Mind?
At: Philosophy Colloquium, Kansas State, Kansas, United States
Date Presented: Apr, 2007
The Place of Logical Empiricism in American Philosophy of Science, Past and Future
Presented To: University of San Francisco
At: Philosophy Department Colloquium, San Francisco, California, United States
Date Presented: Feb, 2007
Whither Philosophy of Science: Logical and Empiricism and Philosophy of Science in the Early Twenty-First Century
Presented To: UCI Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
At: UC, Irvine
Date Presented: Mar, 2006
Einstein Among the Philosophers
Presented To: TriUMF Public Lecture Series
At: TriUMF (The Tri-University Meson Factory)
Date Presented: Nov, 2005
Manufacturing Minds: Logical Technology and Mental Discipline in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain
Presented To: 19th-Century Studies
At: Green College, UBC
Date Presented: Oct, 2005
‘The Tenacious, Malleable, Indefatigible, and Yet, Eternallly Modifiable Will’: Hans Reichenbach’s Knowing Subject
Presented To: The Mind Association and Aristotelian Society
At: The Joint Session of the Mind Association and Aristotelian Society, Manchester, United Kingdom
Date Presented: Jul, 2005
On Taking Logical Empiricism as a Science Seriously: Metrology, Metalogic, and the Technologies of Philosophy
Presented to: Workshop “ON Knowledge at the Origins of the Analytic/Continental Split”
At: University of Leiden
Date: July 2005
One Hundred Years of Scientific Philosophy
Presented To: UCLA Department of Philosophy
At: The Hans Reichenbach Lecture, UCLA
Date Presented: Jun, 2005
Synthesizing ‘Analytic Philosophy’: Historical Remarks on a Curious Name
Presented To: British Society for the History of Philosophy
At: Varieties of Analysis: Conceptions of Analysis in the History of Philosophy, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Date Presented: Mar, 2005
Epistemic Freedom and Rational Control: The Contexts of Reichenbach’s Contexts
Presented To: CU HPS Interest Group
At: History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium, University of Colorado, Colorado, United States
Date Presented: Feb, 2005
Reason, Logic, and History: Logical Empiricism and Knowing How
Presented To: Center for Cognitive Science
At: Reasoning, Rationality and Know How, CSU Long Beach, California, United States
Date Presented: Feb, 2005
Neo-Kantianism in the History of Philosophy of Science: Some Larger Themes
At: Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge, University of South Carolina, South Carolina, United States
Date Presented: Oct, 2004
How to Logicize with a Hammer: Remarks on Technology as an Underdeveloped Hermeneutic Theme in History of Logic
At: Philosophy of Technology Workshop, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
Date Presented: Sep, 2004
Philosophy as Science; Philosophers as Scientists: Some Remarks on Taking Scientific Philosophy Seriously (Invited, Keynote)
Presented To: International Society for History and Philosophy of Science
At: HOPOS 2004, University of San Francisco, California, United States
Date Presented: Jun, 2004
New Technologies of Emptiness: Sketches Toward a History of Nineteenth-Century Logic
At: History and Philosophy of Science Program Colloquium, Notre Dame University, Indiana, United States
Date Presented: Apr, 2004
The Many Unities of Science
At: Workshop on Pluralism in Science, Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota
Date Presented: Oct, 2002
Logical Empiricism and the Plot to Overthrow the US Government
At: UBC Philosophy Department Colloquium
Date Presented: Sep, 2001
I’m sorry…What was the question? Once more of Kuhn and Logical Empiricism
At: Vienna Circle Conference, University of Vienna
Date Presented: Jul, 2001
Narrating the History of Reason Itself
At: Presented at a session devoted to responses by Rob DiSalle (Philosophy, UWO) and me to an invited lecture by Michael Friedman (History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana U), Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Notre Dame University; Philosophy Department Colloquium, Duke University
Date Presented: Apr, 2001
Viewing PUS through the Lens of Science Studies
At: UBC Green College Science and Society Group Lecture
Date Presented: Mar, 2001
‘The Fact of Science’ and Erkenntniskitik: Exact Science as Problem and Resource in Marburg Neo-Kantianism
At: Conference on Kant and the Exact Sciences, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
Date Presented: Nov, 2000
Where is Philosophy German? Locating the Vienna Circle
At: UBC Germanic Studies Department Colloquium
Date Presented: Oct, 2000
Philosophy as Science, Philosophers as Scientists
At: UBC Department Colloquium
Date Presented: Sep, 2000
Tolerance, Internationalism, and Scientific Community in Philosophy
At: HOPOS 2000, Vienna, Austria
Date Presented: Jul, 2000
Philosophy as Science: The Modernist Agenda of Philosophy of Science, 1900-1950
At: 11th International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Date Presented: Aug, 1999
A Hundred Years of Philosophy of Science
At: 11th International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, Poland
Date Presented: Aug, 1999
What Isn’t Objective? Considerations from Historical Epistemology
At: Green College, UBC
Date Presented: Oct, 1998
Intuitionism in Carnap’s “Logical Syntax of Language”
At: Carnap Workshop, University of Quebec at Montreal
Date Presented: Jun, 1998
‘A synthesis in the Garb of an Analysis’: Rational Reconstruction and the Logic of Science in Carnap
At: Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
Date Presented: May, 1998
American Pragmatism,Logical Empiricism, and the Fate of Scientific Philosophy in America
At: Science Studies Colloquium, Univeristy of Minnesota; Philosophy Department Colloquia, Stanford University; Conference of Logical Empiricism in North America, Harvard University; UBC Philosophy Department Colloquium; Philosophy Department Colloquium, University of Calgary
Date Presented: 1998
How to be a Good Non-Naturalist
At: 3rd Biennial Meeting of the Gesellschaft fuer Analytische Philosophie, Munich
Date Presented: Sep, 1997
Toward a History of Scientific Philosophy
At: Green College Symposium, UBC; Department Colloquia, University of Washington; Macalaster College
Date Presented: 1996
Two Dogmas about Logical Empiricism
At: Department Colloquium, University of Wisconsin; Verein Rudolf Carnap Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ; Philosophy Department Colloquia, University of Victoria; McGill University
Date Presented: 1996
Contributed
Structural Objectivity and the “Emotional Needs” of Philosophy: Logical Empiricism as Virtue Epistemology
Presented to: International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
At: HOPOS 2010, Central European University, Budapest
Date: June 2010
The Virtue Epistemology of Logical Positivist Structural Objectivity
Presented To: The Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science
At: CSHPS 2009 Annual Meeting, Carleton University, Ottawa
Date: June 2009
A Neglected Pragmatist Alternative? Edgar Singer, C. West Churchman, Russell Ackoff and ‘American Experimentalism’
Presented To: Philosophy of Science Association
At: PSA 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Date Presented: Nov, 2008
Edgar A. Singer, Jr, and American Experimentalism: From Philosophy of Science to Social Science, 1930-1955
Presented To: History of Science Society
At: HSS 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Date Presented: Nov, 2008
Recovering an American Philosophy of Science: Edgar A. Singer’s Work in Philosophy of Science, 1894 to 1955
Presented To: International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
At: HOPOS 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date Presented: Jun, 2008
Logic as Technology, Metalogic as Metrology: Taking Carnap’s Instrumentalism Seriously
Presented To: International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
At: HOPOS 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date Presented: Jun, 2008
‘Mommy, are you going to die?’ Individual Suffering and Public Responsibility in the Canadian SARS Commission Final Report, Spring of Fear
At: Society for the Social Studies of Science, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date Presented: Oct, 2007
On the Rhetoric of Failure and the Maintenance of Trust
Presented To: Situating Science Cluster
At: Trust in Science, CBC Broadcast Centre, Toronto
Date Presented: Oct, 2007
Solomon’s Science Without Conscience
Presented To: Society for the Social Studies of Science
At: Society for the Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date Presented: Nov, 2006
Daedalus and the Labyrinth of History: Logical Empiricist Unity and American Pluralism
Presented To: Philosophy of Science Association
At: Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date Presented: Nov, 2006
Realisms, New and Critical
Presented To: International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
At: International Society for History of Philosophy of Science, Paris, France
Date Presented: Jun, 2006
Mind the World Order: Liberation (Anti-)Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
Presented To: Philosophy of Science Association
At: PSA 2004, Austin, Texas, United States
Date Presented: Nov, 2004
Managing Expertise in Times of Crisis: Ignorance Management and Public Proof during the SARS Outbreak in Canada
Presented To: Society for the Social Studies of Science/ European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
At: SSSS/EASST 2004, Paris, France
Date Presented: Aug, 2004
Committing Empiricism on Historical Grounds: History and Rationality in van Fraassen’s The Empirical Stance
Presented To: Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
At: CSHPS 2004, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada
Date Presented: Jun, 2004
Epistemic Freedom and Rational Control: The Contexts of Reichenbach’s Contexts
At: 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo, Spain
Date Presented: Aug, 2003
Sociology of Philosophy: An Ecological Approach
At: Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Presented: Jun, 2003
Radical Disinterpretation: Algebraic Logic and the Symbolic Mind
At: History of Science Society Meetings, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Date Presented: Nov, 2002
‘But these are merely scholars and specialists themselves…’: The Persuasive Failure of the Scientific Philosophers
At: Society for the Social Sciences Meetings, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Date Presented: Nov, 2002
The Pragmatic and the Empirical A Priori: Pragmatism’s Resources for Relativizing the A Priori
At: HOPOS 2002, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Date Presented: Jun, 2002
Kuhn’s Structure and Logical Empiricism: Beyond Epic, Tragedy, Irony, and Farce
At: Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date Presented: May, 2002
Philosophy of Science as Social Philosophy: American Pragmatism in the 1930s
At: Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date Presented: Nov, 2000
The Insecure Path of a Science: Kant and the Development of Logic in the 19th Century
At: History of Science Society Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date Presented: Nov, 2000
Revolution Here Now: Logical Empiricism in Its Place and Time
At: HOPOS 2000, Vienna, Austria
Date Presented: Jul, 2000
Peace Without Victory in Science Studies: From War Economy to Economy in Kind
At: Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Meetings, Sherbrooke, Canada
Date Presented: Jun, 1999
The Geometry of Knowledge: Lewis, Becker, and Carnap and the Formalization of Philosophy in the 1920s
At: Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Sherbrooke, Canada
Date Presented: Jun, 1999
Logical Empiricism and the Sociology of Science
At: Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Kansas City
Date Presented: Oct, 1998
‘A Synthesis in the Garb of an Analysis’: Rational Reconstruction and the Logic of Science in Carnap
At: Second International Conference on the History of Philosophy of Science, Notre Dame University
Date Presented: Mar, 1998
Two Dogmas about Logical Empiricism
At: American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, Berkeley, California, United States
Date Presented: Mar, 1997
Toward a History of Scientific Philosophy
At: First International Conference on History of Philosophy of Science, Roanoke, Virginia, United States
Date Presented: Mar, 1996
SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Academic Administrative Positions
Chair, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Committee, July 2009-
Graduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy, 2008-2011.
Offices Held
HOPOS, Steering Committee Member, 2005-2006; President, 2007-2008; Past President 2009-2010
Conference Organizing
Co-Chair, Program Committee, HOPOS 2012
Chair, Local Organizing and Program Committees, “Objectivity in Science,” UBC, June 2010
Chair, Program Committee, PSA 2008
Chair, Local Organizing Committee, HOPOS 2008
Chair, Program Committee, CSHPS 2003
Co-Chair, Program Committee, HOPOS 2002
Grant Adjudication
Chair, Hampton Fund Research Fund Committee, UBC, 2004-2008
Member, National Science Foundation (USA), Science and Technology Studies Panel, 1999-2001
External Tenure and Promotion Assessments
10 files since 2004
External Department Reviewing
Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, 2007
External Teaching
University of Vienna Summer University, Vienna Circle Institute, Instructor, July 2009
GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS
PhD
Completed: Yoshi Ogawa, Philosophy, 2002
Current: Jill Fellows, Philosophy; Christopher French, Philosophy
I have served on the supervisory committee of another three successful PhD candidates in Philosophy at UBC (John McGuire, John Inglis, Athena Ogden), one student in Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC (Gerry Craddock), one student in Philosophy at Simon Fraser University (Robert Sinclair), and one student in Philosophy at Duke University (Todd Davis).
I currently serve on two supervisory committees in Philosophy at UBC (Roger Stanev and Max Weiss).
I have served as University Examiner for a PhD student in Resource Management and Environmental Studies at UBC (Alison Shaw), and as the external examiner for one PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Toronto (Michael Ashooh) and for one PhD student in Philosophy at McGill University (Lydia Patton).
MA
Completed: Kyla Dennedy, Philosophy, 2006; Sheldon Steed, Philosophy, 2002; Erica Foulkes, Philosophy, 1999; Adam Bradley, Philosophy, 1998; Shannon Shea, Philosophy, 1996
Current: Danielle Hallet, Interdisciplinary Studies (co-supervised with Robert Brain, History)
GRANTS RECEIVED
Monism and The Monist: An Episode in American Scientific Philosophy (May, 2008 – Apr, 2010)
Project Description: An examination of the work of Paul Carus, especially his editorship of the journal, The Monist.
Funding Agency: UBC Hampton Fund
Status: Received
Total Amount: $47,719 CDN
Co-investigators: Robert Brain (Co-Principal Investigator)
Situating Science Research Cluster Grant (Apr, 2007 – Mar, 2013)
Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Status: Received
Total Amount: $2,100,000 CDN
Co-investigators: Gordon McOuat (Principal Investigator)
History and Philosophy of Science Research Cluster Grant (Oct, 2004 – Apr, 2005)
Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Status: Received
Total Amount: $30,000 CDN
Co-investigators: Gordon McOuat (Principal Investigator)
Scientific Philosophy (May, 2001 – Apr, 2004)
Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Status: Received
Total Amount: $35,000 CDN
Pain and Suffering and the Health of Canadians (2000 – 2001)
Funding Agency: Tri-Council
Status: Received
Total Amount: $28,500 CDN
Co-investigators: Judy Segal (Principal Investigator)
Scientific Philosophy (2000 – 2001)
Funding Agency: UBC Killam Fund
Status: Received
Total Amount: $18,000 CDN
Logical Empiricism in North America (1998)
Project Description: Workshop Grant for Workshop at Harvard University’s History of Science Department
Funding Agency: National Science Foundation
Status: Received
Total Amount: $18,000 CDN
Co-investigators: Gary Hardcastle (Principal Investigator)
Scientific Philosophy (May, 1997 – Apr, 1999)
Funding Agency: UBC Hampton Fund
Status: Received
Total Amount: $23,000 CDN
Scientific Philosophy (1997 – 1998)
Funding Agency: NEH
Status: Received
Total Amount: $6,000 CDN
Neo-Kantianism in the 19th Century (1995 – 1996)
Funding Agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Status: Received
Total Amount: $2,000 CDN
DISTINCTIONS
Distinguished University Scholar (Jul, 2003 – present)
Type: Distinction
Awarded By: University of British Columbia
Runner-Up, Canadian Philosophical Association/Broadview Press Book Prize for “Carnap’s Construction of the World” (2003)
Type: Distinction
Awarded By: Canadian Philosophical Association
Killam Teaching Prize (2001)
Type: Teaching Award
Awarded By: University of British Columbia
Amount: $5000
Killam Faculty Research Award (Jul, 2000 – Jun, 2001)
Type: Award
Awarded By: UBC Killam Fund
Amount: $18000
Distinguished Scholar in Residence (Jan, 1999 – Dec, 1999)
Type: Distinction
Awarded By: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study
Amount: $10000