Associate Professor; Chair of the Department of Communication, Design and Culture
Department of Culture, Media, and Performance
Courses
- Philosophy of Mind
- Epistemology (origin, nature, methods and limits of human knowledge)
- Philosophy of Science
- Medical Ethics
- Science, Technology and Society
- Social and Political Philosophy
- Ethics
- 16th- to 18th-century Philosophy
- Perspectives in Philosophy
- Honors: Commentaries on Technology
Publications
- The Scientific Use of Representation and Function : Avoiding Explanatory Vacuity Synthese (March 2008, Volume 161, Number 1)
- Physical Explanations and Biological Explanations, Empirical Laws and A Priori Laws, Biology and Philosophy (June 2009, Volume 24, Number 3)
Research Interests
- Reductionism and the unity of the sciences
- B.A.: English Literature, Arizona State University
- M.A.: Philosophy, Arizona State University
- Ph.D.: Philosophy, University of Arizona