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alan w. richardson<\/p>\n

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CONTACT INFORMATION
\n<\/strong>Department of Philosophy
\nUniversity of British Columbia
\nVancouver, BC\u00a0 V6T 1Z1
\nCANADA
\n+604.822.3967 (office)
\nalanr@mail.ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION
\n<\/strong>Professor (since 2003)<\/p>\n

EDUCATION
\n<\/strong>Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1990
\nM.A., Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1985
\nM.S.Ed. Mathematics Education, University of Pennsylvania, 1982
\nB.A., Philosophy and Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania, 1981<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS
\n<\/strong>Book Authored
\n<\/strong>Carnap’s Construction of the World<\/em>. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x + 242 pages.<\/p>\n

Books Edited
\n<\/strong>A.W. Carus, Michael Friedman, Wolfgang Kienzler, Alan Richardson and Sven Schlotter. ed.\u00a0The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap. Volume One: Early Writings<\/em>. Chicago: The Open Court, forthcoming.<\/p>\n

Uebel, Thomas and Alan Richardson, ed.\u00a0The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism<\/em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xi + 430 pages.<\/p>\n

Hardcastle, Gary and Alan Richardson, ed.\u00a0Logical Empiricism in North America<\/em>. Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science. Vol. 18. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. xxix+293 pages.<\/p>\n

Giere, Ronald and Alan Richardson, ed.\u00a0Origins of Logical Empiricism<\/em>. Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science. Vol. 16. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. vii+392 pages.<\/p>\n

Special Issues of Journals
\n<\/strong>Philosophy of Science<\/em>, December 2010. Topic: Symposium Papers at PSA 2008.<\/p>\n

Philosophy of Science<\/em>, December 2009. Topic: Contributed Papers to PSA 2008.<\/p>\n

With Judy Z. Segal,\u00a0Configurations<\/em>, Spring 2003. Topic: Scientific Ethos: Authority, Authorship, and Trust in the Sciences<\/p>\n

With Don Howard,\u00a0Perspectives on Science<\/em>, Spring 2003. Topic: Papers from HOPOS 2002.<\/p>\n

With Ernie Hamm,\u00a0Studies in History and Philosophy of Science<\/em>, December 2001. Topic: Measurement of the People, for the People, by the People.<\/p>\n

Journal Articles
\n<\/strong>\u201cBut What Then Am I, This Inexhaustible, Unfathomable Historical Self?\u201d\u00a0SYNTHESE<\/em>,\u00a0 178 (2010): 143-154″Scientific Philosophy as a Topic for History of Science”.\u00a0Isis<\/em>. 99.1 (2008): 88 – 96.<\/p>\n

“Solomon’s Science Without Conscience”.\u00a0Perspectives on Science<\/em>. 16.3 (2008): 246 – 252.<\/p>\n

“‘The Tenacious, Malleable, Indefatigible, and Yet, Eternally Modifiable Will’: Hans Reichenbach’s Knowing Subject”.Proceedings of Aristotelian Society<\/em>. 79 (Supplementary Volume 2005): 73 – 87.<\/p>\n

“Reichenbach’s Disease and Mirowski’s Theory of Knowledge? Or, Will to Power as Philosophy of Science”.\u00a0STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE<\/em>. 36 (December 2005): 744 – 753.<\/p>\n

Hamm, Ernst, Alan Richardson and Catherine Crawford. “Stephen Straker, 1942-2004”.\u00a0ISIS<\/em>. 96.4 (December 2005): 615 – 617.<\/p>\n

Richardson, Alan and Miriam Solomon. “A Critical Context for Longino’s Critical Contextual Empiricism”. 2005.\u00a0Studies in History and Philosophy of Science<\/em>. (2005): 211 – 222.<\/p>\n

“Robert K. Merton and Philosophy of Science”.\u00a0SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE<\/em>. (2004): 855 – 858.<\/p>\n

“Conceiving, Experiencing, and Conceiving Experiencing: Neo-Kantianism and the History of the Concept of Experience”.\u00a0TOPOI: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY<\/em>. (2003): 55 – 67.<\/p>\n

“Narrating the History of Reason Itself: Kuhn, Friedman, and a Constitutive A Priori for the 21st Century”.\u00a0Perspectives on Science<\/em>. (2003): 253 – 274.<\/p>\n

“The Geometry of Knowledge: Becker, Carnap and Lewis and the Formalization of the Philosophy in the 1920s”.\u00a0STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE<\/em>. (2003): 165 – 182.<\/p>\n

“Engineering Philosophy of Science: Logical Empiricism and American Pragmatism in the 1930s”.\u00a0PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE<\/em>. (2002): S36 – S47.<\/p>\n

“Science as Will and Representation: Carnap, Reichenbach, and Sociology of Science”.\u00a0PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE<\/em>. (2000): S151 – S162.<\/p>\n

“Toward a History of Scientific Philosophy”.\u00a0Perspectives on Science<\/em>. (1997): 418 – 451.<\/p>\n

“Two Dogmas about Logical Empiricism: Carnap and Quine on Logic, Epistemology, and Empiricism “.\u00a0Philosophical Topics<\/em>. (1997): 145 – 168.<\/p>\n

“Explanation: Pragmatics and Asymmetry”.\u00a0PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES<\/em>. (1995): 109 – 129.<\/p>\n

“The Limits of Tolerance: Carnap’s Logico-Philosophical Project in Logical Syntax”.\u00a0Proceedings of Aristotelian Society<\/em>. (Supplementary Volume, 1994): 67 – 82.<\/p>\n

“Logical Idealism and Carnap’s Construction of the World”.\u00a0SYNTHESE<\/em>. (1992): 59 – 92.<\/p>\n

“Metaphysics and Idealism in the Aufbau”.\u00a0Grazer Philosophische Studien<\/em>. (1992): 45 – 72.<\/p>\n

“The Vienna Circle”.\u00a0Encyclopedia of Semiotics<\/em>. Ed. Paul Bouissac and . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 629 – 631.<\/p>\n

Book Chapters
\n<\/strong>\u201cErnst Cassirer and Michael Friedman: Kantian or Hegelian Dynamics of Reason?\u201d.\u00a0Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge<\/em>. Ed. Michael Dickson and Mary Domski. Chicago: The Open Court, 2010.\u00a0 279-294.<\/p>\n

“Carnapian Pragmatism”.\u00a0The Cambridge Companion to Carnap<\/em>. Ed. Michael Friedman and Richard Creath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 295 – 315.<\/p>\n

“Philosophy of Science in America”.\u00a0Oxford Handbook of American Philosophy<\/em>. Ed. Cheryl Misak. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 339-374.<\/p>\n

“‘That Sort of Everyday Image of Positivism’: Thomas Kuhn and the Decline of Logical Empiricist Philosophy of Science”.The Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism<\/em>. Ed. Alan Richardson and Thomas Uebel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 346 – 369.<\/p>\n

“‘The Fact of Science’ and the Critique of Knowledge: Exact Science as Problem and Resource in Marburg Neo-Kantianism”.\u00a0The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science<\/em>. Ed. Michael Friedman and Alfred Nordmann. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 211 – 226.<\/p>\n

“Freedom in a Scientific Society: Reading the Context of Reichenbach Contexts”.\u00a0Revisiting Discovery and Justification<\/em>. Ed. Jutta Schickore and Friedrich Steinle. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. 41 – 54.<\/p>\n

“Introduction”.\u00a0Experience and Prediction<\/em>. Ed. Hans Reichenbach. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2006. vii – xxxviii.<\/p>\n

“Performing Bullshit and the Post-Sincere Condition”.\u00a0Bullshit and Philosophy<\/em>. Ed. Gary Hardcastle and George Reisch. Chicago, IL: The Open Court, 2006. 83 – 97.<\/p>\n

“Rational Reconstruction”.\u00a0The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia<\/em>. Vol. 2 of 2. Ed. Sahotra Sarkar and Jessica Pfeifer. London: Routledge, 2006. 681 – 685.<\/p>\n

“Tractatus Comedo-Philosophicus”.\u00a0Monty Python and Philosophy<\/em>. Ed. Gary Hardcastle and George Reisch. Chicago: The Open Court, 2006. 217 – 229.<\/p>\n

“Tolerating Semantics: Carnap’s Philosophical Point of view”.\u00a0Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena<\/em>. Ed. Steven Awodey and Carsten Klein. Chicago: The Open Court, 2004. 63 – 78.<\/p>\n

“Logical Empiricism, American Pragmatism, and the Fate of Scientific Philosophy in North America”.\u00a0Logical Empiricism in North America<\/em>. Ed. Gary Hardcastle and Alan Richardson. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 1 – 24.<\/p>\n

“The Scientific World Conception: Logical Positivism, 1914-1945”.\u00a0The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870-1945<\/em>. Ed. Thomas Baldwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 391 – 400.<\/p>\n

“Philosophy as Science: The Modernist Agenda of Philosophy of Science, 1900-1950”.\u00a0In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science<\/em>. Vol. 2 of 2. Ed. P Gardenfors, J Wolenski and K Kijania-Placek. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002. 621 – 639.<\/p>\n

“Rudolf Carnap, 1891-1970”.\u00a0American Philosophers before 1950<\/em>. Vol. 270. Ed. P Dematties. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli, Clark, Layman, 2002. 67 – 82.<\/p>\n

“Tolerance, Internationalism, and Scientific Community in Philosophy: Political Themes in Philosophy of Science, Past and Present”.\u00a0Philosophy of Science and Politics<\/em>. Ed. Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler. Vienna: Springer, 2002. 65 – 89.<\/p>\n

“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<\/em>. Ed. Julian Nida-Rumelin and . Berlin: De Gruyter, 2001. 856 – 861.<\/p>\n

“From Epistemology to the Logic of Science: Carnap’s Philosophy of Empirical Knowledge in the 1930s”.\u00a0Origins of Logical Empiricism<\/em>. Ed. Ronald Giere and Alan Richardson. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 309 – 332.<\/p>\n

“Philosophy of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions: Remarks on the VPI Program for Testing Philosophies of Science”.\u00a0Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992<\/em>. Vol. 1 of 2. 1992. 36 – 46.<\/p>\n

“How Not to Russell Carnap’s Aufbau”.\u00a0Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990<\/em>. Vol. 1 of 2. 1990. 3 – 14.<\/p>\n

Richardson, John and Alan Richardson. “On Predicting Pragmatic Relations”.\u00a0Proceedings of the 16th Annual Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society<\/em>. 1990. 498 – 508.<\/p>\n

Plus roughly fifteen book reviews in venues such as\u00a0Science<\/em>,\u00a0Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<\/em>.\u00a0Philosophy in Review<\/em>,Philosophical Books<\/em>,\u00a0Philosophy of Science<\/em>, and\u00a0Isis.<\/em><\/p>\n

PRESENTATIONS (since 1996)
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invited<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Science as Motive, Constraint, and Goal in Early Logical Empiricism <\/strong>and\u00a0Toward an Explanatory History of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>The University of New Mexico Department of Philosophy
\nAt: <\/em>The O\u2019Neill Lectures in History of Philosophy
\nDate: <\/em>April 2011<\/p>\n

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
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>The Boston Colloquium in Philosophy of Science
\nAt:<\/em> The Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
\nDate: <\/em>October 2010<\/p>\n

Carnap\u2019s Place in the History of Analytic Philosophy
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>Conference on Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism
\nAt: <\/em>University of Vienna
\nDate<\/em>: June 2010<\/p>\n

Carnap\u2019s Logical Empiricism as Philosophy of Science and as Analytic Philosophy
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>University of California at Berkeley Working Group in History, Philosophy, Logic, and Methodology of Science
\nAt: <\/em>Working Group Colloquium
\nDate: <\/em>April 2010<\/p>\n

Carnap\u2019s Logical Empiricism as Philosophy of Science and as Analytic Philosophy
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>Indian University History and Philosophy of Science Department
\nAt: <\/em>Alberto Coffa Lecture
\nDate<\/em>: April 2010<\/p>\n

Carnap\u2019s Logical Empiricism as Philosophy of Science and as Analytic Philosophy
\n<\/strong>Presented to<\/em>: UBC-SFU-UW Philosophy of Science Working Group
\nAt: <\/em>Annual Meeting, Peter Wall Institute, UBC
\nDate<\/em>: April 2010<\/p>\n

From the Icy Slopes of Logic: Toward Interdisciplinary Science Studies at Glacial Speed
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>Science Studies in Context
\nAt<\/em>: UCSD Science Studies Program
\nDate<\/em>: March 2010<\/p>\n

Logic as Technology; Metalogic as Metrology: Taking Carnap\u2019s Instrumentalism Seriously
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>Conference on Carnap\u2019s Philosophy
\nAt<\/em>: University of Paris\/Sorbonne
\nDate<\/em>: May 2009<\/p>\n

Logical Postivism as Scientific Philosophy
\n<\/strong>Presented To:<\/em> University of Nevada at Reno Philosophy Department
\nAt:<\/em> Leonard Lecture
\nDate Presented:<\/em> April 2009<\/p>\n

A Role for Thomas Kuhn in the History of Philosophy of Science<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Department of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Athens
\nAt: <\/em>T.S. Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions: Impact, Relevance, and Open Issues, Athens
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Aug, 2008<\/p>\n

Hans Reichenbach’s Philosophical Modernism<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Bogazici University Department of Philosophy
\nAt: <\/em>A Philosophers of Science in Istanbul: Hans Reichenbach, Istanbul, Turkey
\nDate Presented: <\/em>May, 2008<\/p>\n

On the Rhetoric of Failure and the Maintenance of Trust
\n<\/strong>Presented To: <\/em>University of Tennessee Philosophy Department
\nAt: <\/em>Philosophy Department Colloquium,
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2007<\/p>\n

Has Philosophy of Science Completely Lost Its Mind?<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Philosophy Department Colloquium, UBC, British Columbia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 2007<\/p>\n

Has Philosophy of Science Completely Lost Its Mind?<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Philosophy Colloquium, Kansas State, Kansas, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Apr, 2007<\/p>\n

The Place of Logical Empiricism in American Philosophy of Science, Past and Future<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>University of San Francisco
\nAt: <\/em>Philosophy Department Colloquium, San Francisco, California, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Feb, 2007<\/p>\n

Whither Philosophy of Science: Logical and Empiricism and Philosophy of Science in the Early Twenty-First Century<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>UCI Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
\nAt: <\/em>UC, Irvine
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Mar, 2006<\/p>\n

Einstein Among the Philosophers<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>TriUMF Public Lecture Series
\nAt: <\/em>TriUMF (The Tri-University Meson Factory)
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2005<\/p>\n

Manufacturing Minds: Logical Technology and Mental Discipline in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>19th-Century Studies
\nAt: <\/em>Green College, UBC
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 2005<\/p>\n

‘The Tenacious, Malleable, Indefatigible, and Yet, Eternallly Modifiable Will’: Hans Reichenbach’s Knowing Subject<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>The Mind Association and Aristotelian Society
\nAt: <\/em>The Joint Session of the Mind Association and Aristotelian Society, Manchester, United Kingdom
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jul, 2005<\/p>\n

On Taking Logical Empiricism as a Science Seriously: Metrology, Metalogic, and the Technologies of Philosophy
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>Workshop \u201cON Knowledge at the Origins of the Analytic\/Continental Split\u201d
\nAt<\/em>: University of Leiden
\nDate:<\/em> July 2005<\/p>\n

One Hundred Years of Scientific Philosophy<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>UCLA Department of Philosophy
\nAt: <\/em>The Hans Reichenbach Lecture, UCLA
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 2005<\/p>\n

Synthesizing ‘Analytic Philosophy’: Historical Remarks on a Curious Name<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>British Society for the History of Philosophy
\nAt: <\/em>Varieties of Analysis: Conceptions of Analysis in the History of Philosophy, St Catherine’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Mar, 2005<\/p>\n

Epistemic Freedom and Rational Control: The Contexts of Reichenbach’s Contexts<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>CU HPS Interest Group
\nAt: <\/em>History and Philosophy of Science Colloquium, University of Colorado, Colorado, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Feb, 2005<\/p>\n

Reason, Logic, and History: Logical Empiricism and Knowing How<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Center for Cognitive Science
\nAt: <\/em>Reasoning, Rationality and Know How, CSU Long Beach, California, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Feb, 2005<\/p>\n

Neo-Kantianism in the History of Philosophy of Science: Some Larger Themes<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge, University of South Carolina, South Carolina, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 2004<\/p>\n

How to Logicize with a Hammer: Remarks on Technology as an Underdeveloped Hermeneutic Theme in History of Logic<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Philosophy of Technology Workshop, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Sep, 2004<\/p>\n

Philosophy as Science; Philosophers as Scientists: Some Remarks on Taking Scientific Philosophy Seriously<\/strong> (Invited, Keynote)<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>International Society for History and Philosophy of Science
\nAt: <\/em>HOPOS 2004, University of San Francisco, California, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 2004<\/p>\n

New Technologies of Emptiness: Sketches Toward a History of Nineteenth-Century Logic<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>History and Philosophy of Science Program Colloquium, Notre Dame University, Indiana, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Apr, 2004<\/p>\n

The Many Unities of Science<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Workshop on Pluralism in Science, Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 2002<\/p>\n

Logical Empiricism and the Plot to Overthrow the US Government<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>UBC Philosophy Department Colloquium
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Sep, 2001<\/p>\n

I’m sorry…What was the question? Once more of Kuhn and Logical Empiricism<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Vienna Circle Conference, University of Vienna
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jul, 2001<\/p>\n

Narrating the History of Reason Itself<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>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
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Apr, 2001<\/p>\n

Viewing PUS through the Lens of Science Studies<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>UBC Green College Science and Society Group Lecture
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Mar, 2001<\/p>\n

‘The Fact of Science’ and Erkenntniskitik: Exact Science as Problem and Resource in Marburg Neo-Kantianism<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Conference on Kant and the Exact Sciences, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2000<\/p>\n

Where is Philosophy German? Locating the Vienna Circle<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>UBC Germanic Studies Department Colloquium
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 2000<\/p>\n

Philosophy as Science, Philosophers as Scientists<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>UBC Department Colloquium
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Sep, 2000<\/p>\n

Tolerance, Internationalism, and Scientific Community in Philosophy<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>HOPOS 2000, Vienna, Austria
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jul, 2000<\/p>\n

Philosophy as Science: The Modernist Agenda of Philosophy of Science, 1900-1950<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>11th International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Aug, 1999<\/p>\n

A Hundred Years of Philosophy of Science<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>11th International Congress for Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Cracow, Poland
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Aug, 1999<\/p>\n

What Isn’t Objective? Considerations from Historical Epistemology<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Green College, UBC
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 1998<\/p>\n

Intuitionism in Carnap’s “Logical Syntax of Language”<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Carnap Workshop, University of Quebec at Montreal
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 1998<\/p>\n

‘A synthesis in the Garb of an Analysis’: Rational Reconstruction and the Logic of Science in Carnap<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>May, 1998<\/p>\n

American Pragmatism,Logical Empiricism, and the Fate of Scientific Philosophy in America<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>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
\nDate Presented: <\/em>1998<\/p>\n

How to be a Good Non-Naturalist<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>3rd Biennial Meeting of the Gesellschaft fuer Analytische Philosophie, Munich
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Sep, 1997<\/p>\n

Toward a History of Scientific Philosophy<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Green College Symposium, UBC; Department Colloquia, University of Washington; Macalaster College
\nDate Presented: <\/em>1996<\/p>\n

Two Dogmas about Logical Empiricism<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Department Colloquium, University of Wisconsin; Verein Rudolf Carnap Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ; Philosophy Department Colloquia, University of Victoria; McGill University
\nDate Presented: <\/em>1996<\/p>\n

Contributed<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Structural Objectivity and the \u201cEmotional Needs\u201d of Philosophy: Logical Empiricism as Virtue Epistemology
\n<\/strong>Presented to: <\/em>International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
\nAt<\/em>: HOPOS 2010, Central European University, Budapest
\nDate<\/em>: June 2010<\/p>\n

The Virtue Epistemology of Logical Positivist Structural Objectivity
\n<\/strong>Presented To:<\/em> The Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science
\nAt: <\/em>CSHPS 2009 Annual Meeting, Carleton University, Ottawa
\nDate: <\/em>June 2009<\/p>\n

A Neglected Pragmatist Alternative? Edgar Singer, C. West Churchman, Russell Ackoff and ‘American Experimentalism’<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Philosophy of Science Association
\nAt: <\/em>PSA 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2008<\/p>\n

Edgar A. Singer, Jr, and American Experimentalism: From Philosophy of Science to Social Science, 1930-1955<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>History of Science Society
\nAt: <\/em>HSS 2008, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2008<\/p>\n

Recovering an American Philosophy of Science: Edgar A. Singer\u2019s Work in Philosophy of Science, 1894 to 1955 <\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
\nAt: <\/em>HOPOS 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 2008<\/p>\n

Logic as Technology, Metalogic as Metrology: Taking Carnap\u2019s Instrumentalism Seriously <\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
\nAt: <\/em>HOPOS 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 2008<\/p>\n

‘Mommy, are you going to die?\u2019 Individual Suffering and Public Responsibility in the Canadian SARS Commission Final Report, Spring of Fear<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Society for the Social Studies of Science, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 2007<\/p>\n

On the Rhetoric of Failure and the Maintenance of Trust<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Situating Science Cluster
\nAt: <\/em>Trust in Science, CBC Broadcast Centre, Toronto
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 2007<\/p>\n

Solomon’s Science Without Conscience<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Society for the Social Studies of Science
\nAt: <\/em>Society for the Social Studies of Science, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2006<\/p>\n

Daedalus and the Labyrinth of History: Logical Empiricist Unity and American Pluralism<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Philosophy of Science Association
\nAt: <\/em>Philosophy of Science Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2006<\/p>\n

Realisms, New and Critical<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>International Society for History of Philosophy of Science
\nAt: <\/em>International Society for History of Philosophy of Science, Paris, France
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 2006<\/p>\n

Mind the World Order: Liberation (Anti-)Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Philosophy of Science Association
\nAt: <\/em>PSA 2004, Austin, Texas, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2004<\/p>\n

Managing Expertise in Times of Crisis: Ignorance Management and Public Proof during the SARS Outbreak in Canada<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Society for the Social Studies of Science\/ European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
\nAt: <\/em>SSSS\/EASST 2004, Paris, France
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Aug, 2004<\/p>\n

Committing Empiricism on Historical Grounds: History and Rationality in van Fraassen’s The Empirical Stance<\/strong>
\nPresented To: <\/em>Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science
\nAt: <\/em>CSHPS 2004, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 2004<\/p>\n

Epistemic Freedom and Rational Control: The Contexts of Reichenbach’s Contexts<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Oviedo, Spain
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Aug, 2003<\/p>\n

Sociology of Philosophy: An Ecological Approach<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 2003<\/p>\n

Radical Disinterpretation: Algebraic Logic and the Symbolic Mind<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>History of Science Society Meetings, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2002<\/p>\n

‘But these are merely scholars and specialists themselves…’: The Persuasive Failure of the Scientific Philosophers<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Society for the Social Sciences Meetings, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2002<\/p>\n

The Pragmatic and the Empirical A Priori: Pragmatism’s Resources for Relativizing the A Priori<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>HOPOS 2002, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 2002<\/p>\n

Kuhn’s Structure and Logical Empiricism: Beyond Epic, Tragedy, Irony, and Farce<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Meetings, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>May, 2002<\/p>\n

Philosophy of Science as Social Philosophy: American Pragmatism in the 1930s<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2000<\/p>\n

The Insecure Path of a Science: Kant and the Development of Logic in the 19th Century<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>History of Science Society Meetings, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Nov, 2000<\/p>\n

Revolution Here Now: Logical Empiricism in Its Place and Time<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>HOPOS 2000, Vienna, Austria
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jul, 2000<\/p>\n

Peace Without Victory in Science Studies: From War Economy to Economy in Kind<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science Meetings, Sherbrooke, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 1999<\/p>\n

The Geometry of Knowledge: Lewis, Becker, and Carnap and the Formalization of Philosophy in the 1920s<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Canadian Philosophical Association Meetings, Sherbrooke, Canada
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Jun, 1999<\/p>\n

Logical Empiricism and the Sociology of Science<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Kansas City
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Oct, 1998<\/p>\n

‘A Synthesis in the Garb of an Analysis’: Rational Reconstruction and the Logic of Science in Carnap<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>Second International Conference on the History of Philosophy of Science, Notre Dame University
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Mar, 1998<\/p>\n

Two Dogmas about Logical Empiricism<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meetings, Berkeley, California, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Mar, 1997<\/p>\n

Toward a History of Scientific Philosophy<\/strong>
\nAt: <\/em>First International Conference on History of Philosophy of Science, Roanoke, Virginia, United States
\nDate Presented: <\/em>Mar, 1996<\/p>\n

SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
\n<\/strong>Academic Administrative Positions
\n<\/strong>Chair, Science and Technology Studies Graduate Committee, July 2009-
\nGraduate Advisor, Department of Philosophy, 2008-2011.<\/p>\n

Offices Held
\n<\/strong>HOPOS, Steering Committee Member, 2005-2006; President, 2007-2008; Past President 2009-2010<\/p>\n

Conference Organizing
\n<\/strong>Co-Chair, Program Committee, HOPOS 2012
\nChair, Local Organizing and Program Committees, \u201cObjectivity in Science,\u201d UBC, June 2010
\nChair, Program Committee, PSA 2008
\nChair, Local Organizing Committee, HOPOS 2008
\nChair, Program Committee, CSHPS 2003
\nCo-Chair, Program Committee, HOPOS 2002<\/p>\n

Grant Adjudication
\n<\/strong>Chair, Hampton Fund Research Fund Committee, UBC, 2004-2008
\nMember, National Science Foundation (USA), Science and Technology Studies Panel, 1999-2001<\/p>\n

External Tenure and Promotion Assessments
\n<\/strong>10 files since 2004<\/p>\n

External Department Reviewing
\n<\/strong>Department of Philosophy, University of Washington, 2007<\/p>\n

External Teaching
\n<\/strong>University of Vienna Summer University, Vienna Circle Institute, Instructor, July 2009<\/p>\n

GRADUATE SUPERVISIONS
\n<\/strong>PhD
\n<\/strong>Completed: Yoshi Ogawa, Philosophy, 2002
\nCurrent: Jill Fellows, Philosophy; Christopher French, Philosophy<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

I currently serve on two supervisory committees in Philosophy at UBC (Roger Stanev and Max Weiss).<\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

MA
\n<\/strong>Completed: Kyla Dennedy, Philosophy, 2006; Sheldon Steed, Philosophy, 2002; Erica Foulkes, Philosophy, 1999; Adam Bradley, Philosophy, 1998; Shannon Shea, Philosophy, 1996
\nCurrent: Danielle Hallet, Interdisciplinary Studies (co-supervised with Robert Brain, History)<\/p>\n

GRANTS RECEIVED
\n<\/strong>Monism and The Monist: An Episode in American Scientific Philosophy<\/strong> (May, 2008 – Apr, 2010)
\n<\/strong>Project Description: <\/em>An examination of the work of Paul Carus, especially his editorship of the journal, The Monist.
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>UBC Hampton Fund
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$47,719 CDN
\nCo-investigators: <\/em>Robert Brain (Co-Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n

Situating Science Research Cluster Grant<\/strong> (Apr, 2007 – Mar, 2013)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$2,100,000 CDN
\nCo-investigators: <\/em>Gordon McOuat (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n

History and Philosophy of Science Research Cluster Grant<\/strong> (Oct, 2004 – Apr, 2005)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$30,000 CDN
\nCo-investigators: <\/em>Gordon McOuat (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n

Scientific Philosophy<\/strong> (May, 2001 – Apr, 2004)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$35,000 CDN<\/p>\n

Pain and Suffering and the Health of Canadians<\/strong> (2000 – 2001)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>Tri-Council
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$28,500 CDN
\nCo-investigators: <\/em>Judy Segal (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n

Scientific Philosophy<\/strong> (2000 – 2001)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>UBC Killam Fund
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$18,000 CDN<\/p>\n

Logical Empiricism in North America<\/strong> (1998)<\/strong>
\nProject Description: <\/em>Workshop Grant for Workshop at Harvard University’s History of Science Department
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>National Science Foundation
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$18,000 CDN
\nCo-investigators: <\/em>Gary Hardcastle (Principal Investigator)<\/p>\n

Scientific Philosophy<\/strong> (May, 1997 – Apr, 1999)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>UBC Hampton Fund
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$23,000 CDN<\/p>\n

Scientific Philosophy (1997 – 1998)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>NEH
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$6,000 CDN<\/p>\n

Neo-Kantianism in the 19th Century (1995 – 1996)<\/strong>
\nFunding Agency: <\/em>Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
\nStatus: <\/em>Received
\nTotal Amount: <\/em>$2,000 CDN<\/p>\n

DISTINCTIONS
\n<\/strong>Distinguished University Scholar<\/strong> (Jul, 2003 – present)
\n<\/strong>Type: <\/em>Distinction
\nAwarded By: <\/em>University of British Columbia<\/p>\n

Runner-Up, Canadian Philosophical Association\/Broadview Press Book Prize for “Carnap’s Construction of the World”<\/strong> (2003)<\/strong>
\nType: <\/em>Distinction
\nAwarded By: <\/em>Canadian Philosophical Association<\/p>\n

Killam Teaching Prize<\/strong> (2001)<\/strong>
\nType: <\/em>Teaching Award
\nAwarded By: <\/em>University of British Columbia
\nAmount: $<\/em>5000<\/p>\n

Killam Faculty Research Award<\/strong> (Jul, 2000 – Jun, 2001)<\/strong>
\nType: <\/em>Award
\nAwarded By: <\/em>UBC Killam Fund
\nAmount: $<\/em>18000<\/p>\n

Distinguished Scholar in Residence<\/strong> (Jan, 1999 – Dec, 1999)<\/strong>
\nType: <\/em>Distinction
\nAwarded By: <\/em>Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study
\nAmount: $<\/em>10000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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