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Education 2000-2006, University of Illinois at Chicago, Ph.D.
2003, London School of Economics, Visiting scholar at the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, September to December.
1995-1999, University of Sheffield, B.A. ,awarded June 1998; M.A., awarded September 1999. .
Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology
Areas of Competence: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science.
Publications and Presentations Journal Articles‘Two Arguments for Realism Unified,' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, forthcoming.
'On the Predilections for Predictions,’ British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 59 (2008).
‘Accommodation and Prediction: The Case of the Persistent Head,’ British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, (57) 2006.
Book reviewsReview of Eric Barnes’ The Paradox of Predictivism, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. Review of Kyle Stanford’s Exceeding Our Grasp, in Philosophy of Science (75), 2008.
PresentationsFeb 2010, ‘A Likely Explanation: IBE as a Guide to Better (but not more probable) Hypotheses,’ to be presented at Central APA, Chicago.
November 2009, ‘A Surprise for Horwich,’ at the Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville.
March 2009, ‘Resisting Underdetermination: Caught Between the Data and the Deep Blue Sea,’ invited as part of an workshop organized by the Centre for the Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh, on underdetermination.
November 2008, ‘On the Confirmatory Value of Precision: Making a Case for Inference to Best Explanation,’ at the Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville.
November 2008, ‘Explaining Past Successes in Virtue (and Despite of) Particular Theoretical Commitments,’ at the Philosophy of Science Association Conference, Pittsburgh.
April 2008, ‘Explaining Scientific Success Realistically,’ at the Central APA, Chicago. April 2007, Response to Brad Wray’s paper ‘The Real Value of Prediction,’ at the Pacific APA.
February 2007, Response to Tim Lyons’ paper ‘Non-Competitor Conditions and Truth Candidacy in the Scientific Realism Debate,’ at the Midsouth Philosophy Conference.
February 2006, ‘The Gene and the Phlogiston: A tale of two unobservable entities,’ East Tennessee State University.
October 2005, ‘Progress and Preservation: how the history of science should be brought to bear on the scientific realism debate,’ Arkansas State University.
March 2005, ‘What’s all the Fuss about Novel Phenomena?’ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate Philosophy Conference.
Courses Taught: Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Logic, Science and the Modern World, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Biology, Symbolic Logic, Philosophy of Biology, Great Ideas in Science
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