Dana Tulodziecki - College of Arts and Sciences - University of ...

Department of Philosophy
University of Missouri-Kansas City
222 Cockefair Hall
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
Dana Tulodziecki
Curriculum Vitae
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4304 Oak Street, #2S
Kansas City, Missouri 64111
Telephone: +1-816-216-7239
Cell Phone: +1-646-696-7434
Email: tulodzieckid@umkc.edu
Academic Appointments __________________________________________________
Visiting Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
(September 2011—May 2012)
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri—Kansas City
(August 2007—present)
Education ______________________________________________________________
Columbia University, Department of Philosophy, New York, NY, USA
Ph.D. 2007 (with distinction)
M.Phil. 2002
M.A. 2001
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Department of Philosophy, Logic, and
Scientific Method, London, U.K.
M.Sc. History and Philosophy of Science 1999
B.Sc. Philosophy (First Class Honours) 1998
Dissertation_____________________________________________________________
Realism, Underdetermination, and Method: Considerations on Knowledge and Experience
Committee: Philip Kitcher (Advisor), David Albert, Achille Varzi
Areas of Specialisation ____________________________________________________
Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophy of Science
Areas of Competence _____________________________________________________
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Logic, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Medicine, History
of Ethics and Political Philosophy
Publications ____________________________________________________________
‘Underdetermination, Methodological Practices, and Realism’, Synthese (forthcoming)
‘Shattering the Myth of Semmelweis’, Philosophy of Science (forthcoming)
‘Epistemic Virtues and the Success of Science’, in A. Fairweather (Ed.) Virtue Scientia: Bridges
between Philosophy of Science and Virtue Epistemology, Synthese Library, Springer (forthcoming)
‘Epistemic Equivalence and Epistemic Incapacitation’, British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science, 63: 2 (2012), 313—328

‘Principles of Reasoning in Historical Epidemiology’, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice,
18:5 (2012), 968—973
‘A Case Study in Explanatory Power: John Snow’s Conclusions about the Pathology and
Transmission of Cholera’, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences,
42: 3 (2011), 306—316
‘Breaking the Ties: Epistemic Significance, Bacilli, and Underdetermination’, Studies in History
and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 38:3 (2007), 627—641
Book Review:
‘Scientific Realism and the Colours of Dinosaurs’, Review of Derek Turner, Making
Prehistory: Historical Science and the Scientific Realism Debate, Metascience, 17:2 (2008),
323—326
Translations ____________________________________________________________
English translation of Thomas Pogge (1998), ‘Gleiche Freiheit für alle?’, in Otfried Höffe
(ed.), John Rawls: Eine Theorie der Gerechtigkeit, Berlin: Akademie Verlag 1998, 149-168
[‘Equal Liberty for All?’, in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (2004), 266-281]
English translation of Thomas Pogge (2001), Internationale Gerechtigkeit: Ein
universalistischer Ansatz, in Karl Graf Ballestrem (ed.), Internationale Gerechtigkeit
(Opladen: Leske und Budrich 2001), 31-54 [‘A Universalistic Approach to International
Justice’ in Giuseppe Zaccaria (ed.), International Justice and Interpretation, Münster: LIT
Verlag 2002]
Presentations____________________________________________________________
1. ‘Shattering the Myth of Semmelweis’, Philosophy of Science Association Biannual Meeting, San
Diego, November 2012
2. ‘Theoretical Virtues and the Success of Science’, Society for Exact Philosophy, Ohio State
University, October 2012
3. ‘Another Look at Semmelweis’, Special Colloquium: Realism and Method – the Case of
Semmelweis, University of Bern, Switzerland, July 2012 (invited)
4. ‘Theoretical Virtues and the Success of Science’, Workshop on Theoretical Virtues in Theory-
Choice, University of Konstanz, Summer 2012 (invited)
5. ‘The Epistemology of Inference’, University College London, February 2012 (invited)
6. ‘Epistemic Virtues and Underdetermination’, Center for Philosophy of Science WIP group,
Pittsburgh, December 2011
7. ‘Another Look at Semmelweis’, Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh,
October 2011 (invited)
8. ‘Linking Theoretical Virtues and Truth’, British Society for Philosophy of Science, University of
Sussex, U.K., July 2011 (unable to attend due to illness)
9. ‘Towards an Epistemology of Scientific Practice’, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice,
Exeter, U.K., June 2011
10. ‘The Varieties of Epistemic Equivalence’, Society for Exact Philosophy, Kansas City, MO,
March 2010
11. ‘Methodological Practices, Realism, and Underdetermination’, Colloquium Presentation at
Kansas State University, Philosophy Department, December 2009 (invited)
12. ‘John Snow vs. the Miasma Theory of Disease’, History of Science Society Annual Meeting,
Phoenix, AZ, November 2009
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13. ‘Reasoning about Cholera’, 25th Boulder Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science,
Boulder, CO, October 2009
14. ‘The Inferential Practices of John Snow’, Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice,
Minneapolis, MN, June 2009
15. ‘John Snow vs. the Miasma Theory of Disease’, Midwest Junto for the History and Philosophy of
Science, Kansas City, MO, March 2009
16. ‘Underdetermination, methodological practices, and the case of John Snow’, Workshop
'Underdetermination in Science' at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh,
Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009 (invited)
17. ‘The Dimensions of Underdetermination’, Southwest Philosophical Society Annual Meeting,
Kansas City, MO, November 2008
18. ‘Epistemic Equivalence and Epistemic Incapacitation’, British Society for the Philosophy of
Science Annual Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 2008
Teaching Experience _____________________________________________________
University of Missouri-KC
Upper-level courses:
Philosophy of Science
Epistemology
Metaphysics
Metaphysics and Epistemology
Lower-level courses:
Symbolic Logic ('Foundations of Logic and Scientific Method')
Great Minds
Other:
Independent Studies in Metaphysics and Epistemology
Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member: Melissa Menning (Department of Mathematics)
Columbia University
Contemporary Civilization I (Plato and the Hebrew Bible to Locke): Core
Curriculum of Columbia University, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, Fall 2006
Contemporary Civilization II (Hume to Rawls): Core Curriculum of Columbia
University, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007
Elementary Logic (teaching assistant, lower division), Achille C. Varzi, Spring 2002
Philosophy of Physics (teaching assistant, upper division), David Z. Albert, Fall 2001
Epistemology (teaching assistant, upper division), John D. Collins, Fall 2000
Fellowships & Awards ____________________________________________________
University of Missouri Research Board Grant ($10,000), Spring 2013
National Science Foundation Travel Grant (to present a paper at the Philosophy of Science Biannual
Meeting 2012)
Current nominee (decision in Spring 2013), UMKC Chancellor's Early Career Award for
Excellence in Teaching, Fall 2012
UMKC Student Life Award, Best Advisor, Spring 2011
Nominee, UMKC Chancellor’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching, Fall 2010
Nominee, UMKC Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, Spring 2010
UMKC Student Life Award, Best Faculty Advisor to a Student Society, Spring 2010
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National Science Foundation Travel Grant (to present a paper at the History of Science Society Annual
Conference 2009)
New Faculty Teaching Scholar (UMKC, 2008-2009)
Faculty Research Grant (UMKC), for the project “An examination of John Snow’s reasoning
concerning the nature and transmission of cholera”, December 2007
Finalist for Presidential Teaching Award, Columbia University, May 2007
Finalist for Contemporary Civilization Teaching Prize, Columbia University, May 2007
Lina Kahn Prize (Departmental award for best graduate paper in Metaphysics), May 2007
David Siff Prize (Departmental award for best paper in Philosophy of Science), May 2007
Lieberson Prize (Departmental award for the best graduate paper in Epistemology,
Metaphysics, or Philosophy of Science), May 2006
Columbia University Dissertation Fellowship, 2005–2006
Core Curriculum Summer Research Grant, Summer 2004, Summer 2005
Core Curriculum Preceptorship, 2003–2004, 2004–2005, 2006–2007
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Summer Research Award, Summer 2001
President’s Fellowship, 2000–2001, 2001–2002
Mellon Foundation Fellowship, 1999–2000
Columbia University Faculty Fellowship, 1999–2007
Service _________________________________________________________________
To the profession:
Referee for Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, International Studies in
the Philosophy of Science, Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics, Central States Philosophical Association,
Oxford University Press
Session Chair, Workshop on Ernest Sosa’s Contributions to Epistemology, Cologne, August
2010
To the department/college:
Recruitment and Retention Committee, Philosophy Department, Fall 2012-present
Student Fellowship Committee, 2011-present
Philosophy Department Hiring Committee, Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Student Service Award Committee, 2010-present
Director of Colloquium Series, 2009-present
Workshop director for Graduate School in Philosophy, 2009-present
Faculty Advisor Phi Sigma Tau, 2009-present
Faculty Advisor, Philosophy Squares, 2009- present
Reviewer, University of Missouri Research Board (UMRB), 2009 – present
Philosophy Department Library Representative, 2007-present
Philosophy Department Information Technology Liaison, 2007-present
At Columbia University/LSE
Graduate Student Representative to Philosophy Department Faculty (Columbia University),
1999–2000, 2000–2001, 2001–2002
Co-organiser of the first Columbia Graduate Philosophy Conference, 2000–2001
Reviewer for Columbia Graduate Conference, 2001
Reviewer for NYU/Columbia Graduate Conference, 2004
M.Sc. Graduate Student Representative (LSE), 1998–1999
Graduate Student Representative to University of London/LSE Library Committee, 1998–
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1999
Professional Affiliations ___________________________________________________
Philosophy of Science Association, British Society for Philosophy of Science, Society for
Exact Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Society for the Philosophy of
Science in Practice
Language Skills _________________________________________________________
German (native speaker), French (reading ability), Spanish (speaker and reader), Latin
qualification
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