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Curriculum Vita (Abridged)
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Education | Appointments | Awards | Books | Essays | Presentations
EDUCATION  [top]
Ph.D. (Philosophy) 1990, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 
BA  (Anthropology and Philosophy) 1983, University of Wisconsin, Madison 
ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS  [top]
Emory University
    Associate Dean, James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies, 2007-2011
 
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS  [top]
Emory University
    Professor of Philosophy, since 2011
    Associate Professor of Philosophy, 1999-2011
    Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1993-1999

    Affiliated faculty, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, since 2006
Michigan State University
    Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1990-1993
 
AWARDS  [top]
Fulbright Scholar, University of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, 2011-2012 
Masse-Martin/NEH Distinguished Teaching Chair, Emory University 2006-2010 
Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, Emory University, 2004 
Excellence in Teaching Award, Emory University, 1997 
BOOKS  [top]
Nursing Knowledge: Science, Practice, and Philosophy, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
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Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, Mark Risjord and Stephen Turner (eds.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006. Volume 15 in the series Handbook of Philosophy of Science, D.M. Gabbay, J. Woods, and P. Thagard (series editors). 885 pages. Phil of Anthro and Soc cover
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Woodcutters and Witchcraft: Rationality and Interpretive Change in the Social Sciences, Buffalo: State University of New York Press, 2000 Woodcutters and Witchcraft cover
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SELECTED ESSAYS  [top]
"Nursing Science," Philosophy of Medicine, Fred Gifford (ed.), Amsterdam: Elsevier, forthcoming. In the series Handbook of Philosophy of Science, D.M. Gabbay, J. Woods, and P. Thagard (series editors) penultimate draft pdf
"In response to: Duncan C., Duff Cloutier J. and Bailey P.H. (2009) In response to: Risjord M. (2009) Rethinking concept analysis.," Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65 (9): 1987-1989 (2009) Published version
"Rethinking Concept Analysis," Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65 (3): 684-691 (2009) Published version
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"Who are 'We'? Dissolving the Problem of Cultural Boundaries," The Modern Schoolman, 84: 205-216 (2007) penultimate draft pdf
"Scientific Change as Political Action: Franz Boas and the Anthropology of Race," Philosophy of Social Science 37(1): 24-45 (2007) Published version
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"Race and Scientific Reduction," Establishing Medical Reality: Methodological and Metaphysical Issues in Philosophy of Medicine, Harold Kincaid and Jennifer McKitrick (eds.). New York: Springer Publishing Company (2007). Pages 65-82 penultimate draft pdf
"Evolution and the Kantian Worldview," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 44: 72-84 (2006). penultimate draft pdf
"Ethnography and Culture: A Hundred Years of Co-Evolution," Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, Mark Risjord and Stephen Turner (eds.), Amsterdam: Elsevier (2006), pp 399 – 428. In the series Handbook of Philosophy of Science, D.M. Gabbay, J. Woods, and P. Thagard (series editors) 
"Actions, Reasons, and Causal Explanations," Philosophy of Social Science, 35 (3): 294-306 (2005). Published version
"The Limits of Cognitivism in Anthropology," Philosophical Explorations, 7 (3): 281-297 (2004). penultimate draft pdf
"A New Foundation for Methodological Triangualtion," with Margret Moloney and Sandra Dunbar, Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 34 (3): 269-275 (2002)  
"Should Medicine be Colorblind? The Significance of Race in Diagnosis and Medical Research" The Academic Exchange, April/May 2002, pp. 7, 11 
"When IRBs Disagree: A Case Study on Waiving Parental Consent for Sexual Health Research on Adolescents" IRB: Ethics & Human Research, 24 (2): 8-14 (2002). 
"Methodological Triangulation in Nursing Research" with Margret Moloney and Sandra Dunbar, Philosophy of Social Science, 31 (1): 40-59 (2001).
Reprinted in: Malcolm Williams (ed.), Philosophical Foundations of Social Research Methods, London: Sage Publications (2005), and in Alan Bryman (ed.), Mixed Methods, London: Sage Publications (2006)
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"The Politics of Explanation and the Origins of Ethnography". Perspectives on Science, 8 (1) : 29-51 (2000). 
"Functional and Intentional Action Explanations," Philosophy of Science, 66 (Proceedings) : S299-S313 (1999) conference pdf
"Relativism and the Possibility of Criticism" Cogito, 12 (2): 155-160 (1998). 
"Norms and Explanation in the Social Sciences" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 29 (2): 223-237 (1998). 
"Meaning, Belief and Language Acquisition" Philosophical Psychology, 9 (4): 465-475 (1996). 
"Wittgenstein's Woodcutters: The Problem of Apparent Irrationality" American Philosophical Quarterly, 30 (3): 247-258 (1993). 
"Relativism and the Social Scientific Study of Medicine" Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 18 (2): 195-212 (1993). 
"Is There Such a Thing as a Language?" with Dorit Bar-On, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 22 (2): 161-188 (1992). 
"Further Reflections on the Sensible Foundation: Replies to Leavitt and Griffin" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 22 (4): 665-672 (1991). 
"The Sensible Foundation of Mathematics: A Defense of Kant's View" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 21 (1): 123-143 (1990). 
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS   [top]
2011
  • "Nursing Research in Post-Positivist Perspective," Annual Doctoral Students Meeting, Lisbon, Potrugal
  • "What Happened to the Problem of Apparent Irrationality?" Individual and Collective Rationality, Nice, France
2010
  • "Nursing and Human Freedom," The 14th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference, Vancouver, Canada
  • "Models of Culture," The Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham
2009
  • "Secret Springs and Principles: Mechanism and Holism in Nursing Research," The 13th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference, Brighton, England
  • "Why a Nurse Knows Better: Standpoint Epistemology and Nursing Science," The 2nd Biennial Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice, Minneapolis, MN
2008
  • "Perception, Action, Agency, and Practice," Symposium on Intentionality, Teleology, and Practical Reason, American Philosophical Association - Eastern Division
  • "Race, Knowledge, and Social Role," New Perspectives on Race, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
  • "Why a Nurse Knows Better: Standpoint Epistemology and the Nursing Role," Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
  • "Toward a Philosophy of Nursing: Models, Theories, and Values," The Combined 12th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference and 15th New England Nursing Knowledge Conference, Boston, MA
2007
  • "The Nursing Standpoint," 11th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference, Dundee, Scotland.
  • "Standpoint Epistemology and the Nursing Profession" James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
2006
  • "Who are 'We'? Dissolving the Problem of Cultural Boundaries," Comment on Ed Minar, Interpersonal Perspectives and Knowledge, 7th Annual Henle Conference, University of St. Louis.
  • "The Politics of Explanation Revisited: Boas, Race, and Scientific Value Critique," Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Santa Cruz, CA.
  • "Scientific Change as Political Action: Franz Boas and the Anthropology of Race," Plenary Session, The Social Sciences and Democracy: A Philosophy of Science Perspective, Gent University, Belgium
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