MARK RISJORD
Curriculum Vita (Abridged)
 Revised November, 2008
Complete vita (pdf)
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, Graduate School, 2007-		 
FACULTY APPOINTMENTS  [top]
Emory University
    Associate Professor of Philosophy, since 1999
    Associate Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, since 2006
    Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1993 – 1999		 
Michigan State University
    Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1990-1993		 
AWARDS  [top]
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, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, Forthcoming
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. Check it out at Amazon.com
Woodcutters and Witchcraft: Rationality and Interpretive Change in the Social Sciences, Buffalo: State University of New York Press, 2000 Check it out at Amazon.com
ESSAYS  [top]
"Rethinking Concept Analysis," Journal of Advanced Nursing, forthcoming penultimate draft pdf
“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)
"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) penultimate draft pdf
"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). 
"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)		 penultimate draft pdf
"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). 
"Metaphysics, Method, and the Exact Sciences" Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 24 (3): 493-499 (1993). Essay review of Michael Friedman, Kant and the Exact Sciences (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).  
"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). 
PRESENTATIONS (Since 2000)  [top]
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.
  • “Nursing Knowledge and the Nursing Standpoint,” Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory Unversity, Atlanta Georgia.
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
2005
  • "Does Evolution Have a Place in the Kantian Classroom?" Comment on Robert Brandom, 2005 Spindel Conference, Memphis University.
2004
  • "Ethnography," New Directions in the Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology, Emory University.
  • "A Second Look at Explanation, Understanding,and Empathy," Society for Existentialism and Phenomenology, Memphis TN.
2003
  • "Boghossian’s Epistemology of Logic," Comment on Mike Veber, Southern Society for Psychology and Philosophy, Atlanta, GA.
  • "Remarks on Language, Culture, and the IRB Process," Emory University IRB Retreat, Emory University.
  • "Knowledge, Value, and Diagnosis," Keynote Lecture, 16th Annual Pennsylvania State Society for Higher Education Interdisciplinary Association for Philosophy and Religious Studies Conference, Slippery Rock University, PA.
  • "Actions, Reasons, and Causal Explanations," Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, University of Missouri St. Louis.
2002
  • "Comment on Nikolay Grinster 'Things Said (ta legomena) about Mysteries in Ancient Greece,'" Conference on the Mysteries: A Discussion Across the Disciplines, Emory University.
  • "The Limits of Cognitivism," Causation and Explanation in the Natural and Social Sciences 2002, University of Ghent, Belgium.
  • "Rule-Following in Social Science: Comments on Stueber, Henderson, and Roth," European Social Science and History Conference, The Hague, Netherlands.
  • "Unfolding the Double Hermeneutic," Society for Existentialism and Phenomenology, Chicago IL.
2001
  • Panelist for Emergency Medicine session at the American Association for Rhetoric of Science and Technology NCA Preconference, Atlanta GA.
  • "Patient’s Value and Physician’s Knowledge," Philosophy Department, Emory University.
  • "Patient’s Value and Diagnostic Reasoning," Value Free Science: Ideal or Illusion?, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
  • "From Woodcutters and Witchcraft to Nurses and Nursing Science," Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Emory University.
2000
  • "Cognitive Grammar and Speech Acts: A Debate on Possible Problems and Solutions," with A. Cienki, The 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary.
  • "Remarks on Harley," History of Medicine Workshop on "History, Constructivism, and Mind-Body Medicine: Some Theoretical Perspectives," Emory University.
  • "Methodological Triangulation in Nursing Research," with M. Moloney and S. Dunbar, Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, University of Missouri St. Louis.

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