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Mary A. Domski
University of New Mexico Department of Philosophy
MSC 03 2140 Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Office Phone: (505) 277-2405 Email: mdomski@unm.edu
Web Page: http://www.unm.edu/~mdomski
APPOINTMENTS
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Associate Professor of Philosophy 2011 –
Assistant Professor of Philosophy 2005 – 2011
California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA
Assistant Professor of Philosophy 2003 – 2005
EDUCATION
Indiana University, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Bloomington, IN June 2003
Ph.D. in the History and Philosophy of Science
Dissertation: Geometry and Experimental Method in Locke, Newton, and Kant
Directed by Michael Friedman
Indiana University, Department of Philosophy, Bloomington, IN May 2002
M.A. in Philosophy
University of Leeds, School of Philosophy, Leeds, England Sept 1999
M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science (Distinction)
University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education, Philadelphia, PA May 1998
M.S.Ed. in Secondary Education (Mathematics) with Distinction
University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia, PA May 1997
B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy & Science
Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Distinction in Philosophy & Science
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Major Areas of Interest: History of Early Modern Philosophy; Newtonian Science and the Scientific
Revolution; Kant
Other Areas of Interest:
EDITED COLLECTIONS
Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Mathematics; Science and Religion
2. Newton and Newtonianism, special 50 th anniversary issue of The Southern Journal of Philosophy
(September 2012), Volume 50, Issue 3. Contributors: Mary Domski, Janet Folina, Michael Friedman,
Andrew Janiak, Hylarie Kochiras, Peter Machamer, J.E. McGuire, Eric Schliesser, and Marius Stan.
1. (with Michael Dickson) Discourse on a New Method: Reinvigorating the Marriage of History and Philosophy
of Science. Open Court Press, September 2010 (ISBN: 978-0-8126-9662-2). This collection honors
Michael Friedman’s influential work in history and philosophy of science and includes twenty-six
original papers, one of which is Friedman’s book-length concluding essay, “Synthetic History
Reconsidered.”
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PAPERS
15. “Kant and Newton on the A Priori Necessity of Geometry.” Forthcoming in Studies in History
and Philosophy of Science.
14. “Observation and Mathematics.” In The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Seventeenth
Century (Oxford University Press, 2013), edited by Peter Anstey, pp. 144-168.
13. “Mediating Between Past and Present: Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural
Realism.” In Philosophy and Its History: New Essays on the Methods and Aims of Research in the History of
Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2013), edited by Mogens Laerke, Justin E. H. Smith, and Eric
Schliesser, pp. 278-300.
12. “Newton and Proclus: Geometry, Imagination, and Knowing Space.” The Southern Journal of
Philosophy (September 2012) 50/3: 389-413.
11. “Newton and Newtonianism.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy (September 2012) 50/3: 363-69.
10. “Locke’s Qualified Embrace of Newton’s Principia.” In Interpreting Newton: Critical Essays
(Cambridge University Press, 2012), edited by Andrew Janiak and Eric Schliesser, pp. 48-68.
9. “Descartes’ Mathematics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Winter 2011 edition), Edward N.
Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL = .
8. “Kant on the Imagination and Geometrical Certainty.” Perspectives on Science (Dec 2010), 18/4: 409-
431.
7. (with Michael Dickson) “Discourse on a New Method, Or a Manifesto for a Synthetic Approach
to History and Philosophy of Science.” In Discourse on a New Method (Open Court, 2010), edited by
Mary Domski and Michael Dickson, pp. 1-20.
6. “Newton as Historically-Minded Philosopher.” In Discourse on a New Method (Open Court, 2010),
edited by Mary Domski and Michael Dickson, pp. 65-89.
5. “Newton’s Empiricism and Metaphysics.” Philosophy Compass (July 2010) 5/7: 525-534.
4. “The Intelligibility of Motion and Construction: Descartes’ Early Mathematics and Metaphysics,
1619-1637.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (2009) 40: 119-130.
3. “The Transcendental and the Geometrical: Kant’s argument for the Infinity of Space.” Law and
Peace in Kant’s Philosophy: Proceedings of the Tenth International Kant Congress (Walter de Gruyter, 2008),
Vol 2: 149-160.
2. “Construction without Spatial Constraints: A Reply to Emily Carson.” Locke Studies: An Annual
Journal of Locke Research (2006) 6: 85-99.
1. “The Constructible and Intelligible in Newton’s Philosophy of Geometry.” Philosophy of Science
(2003) 70 (5): 1114-1124.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
4. “Physics” (co-authored with Peter Machamer) for The Descartes Lexicon (Cambridge University
Press), edited by Larry Nolan.
3. “Newton’s Mathematics and Empiricism” for The Oxford Handbook of Newton, edited by Eric
Schliesser and Chris Smeenk.
2. “Deducing and Inducing from the Phenomena: A Fresh Look at the Philosophy of Science in
Newton’s General Scholium” for a volume marking the 300 th anniversary of the General Scholium,
edited by Stephen Snobelen.
1. Manuscript provisionally titled Descartes and Newton on Mathematics, Metaphysics and Method.
Focuses on the interplay of mathematics, metaphysics, and natural philosophy in Descartes’ and
Newton’s works and aims to shed light on their struggles to offer a metaphysics and a method for
natural philosophy that are appropriate to their mathematical views of nature.
REVIEWS
9. Essay Review of Steffen Ducheyne’s The Main Business of Natural Philosophy: Isaac Newton’s Natural-
Philosophical Methodology (2012) and William Harper’s Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data into
Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology (2011). Forthcoming (fall 2013) in HOPOS: The Journal of the
International Society of History of Philosophy of Science.
8. Review of Peter Machamer and J.E. McGuire, Descartes’s Changing Mind (Princeton University
Press, 2009). HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society of History of Philosophy of Science (spring 2011)
1(1): 162-165.
7. Review of Niccolò Guicciardini, Isaac Newton on Mathematical Certainty and Method (The MIT Press,
2009). Canadian Journal of History (Winter 2010) 45: 614-617.
6. Review of D. Garber and B. Longuenesse (eds.), Kant and the Early Moderns (Princeton University
Press, 2008). Mind (April 2010), 119 (474): 478-481.
5. Review of Andrew Janiak, Newton as Philosopher (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Early Science
and Medicine (2009) 14: 590-592.
4. “Evolving maths”: Review of Peter S. Rudman, How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years
(Prometheus Books, 2007). Endeavour (2008) 32: 39-41.
3. Review of Michael Ben-Chaim, Experimental Philosophy and the Birth of Empirical Science: Boyle, Locke,
Newton (Ashgate Publishing, 2004). Early Science and Medicine (2006) 11 (1): 122-126.
2. Review of J. Buchwald and I. Bernard Cohen (eds.), Isaac Newton’s Natural Philosophy (Cambridge:
MIT Press, March 2004, Paperback edition). Physics in Perspective (2005) 7 (3): 377-380.
1. Review of Lorenzo Magnani, Philosophy and Geometry: Theoretical and Historical Issues (New York:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001). Philosophy of Science (2004) 71 (3): 412-415.
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PRESENTATIONS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES (* indicates refereed paper)
*24. “Newton and Proclus on the Geometry of Absolute Space”
Ninth International Congress of HOPOS, The International Society for the History of
Philosophy of Science, 21-24 June 2012, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
23. Comments on “Friedman’s Dynamics of Reason and Galileo’s Archimedean Approximation”,
APA Eastern Division Meeting, 27-30 Dec 2010, Boston, MA
*22. “Newton’s Empiricism in Cartesian Context: Revisiting the Argument for Space in De
Gravitatione”
Integrated History and Philosophy of Science - &HPS3, IU- Bloomington, 23-26 Sept 2010
21. “Unity as Natural, Reason as Divine: The Beauty of Systems in Seventeenth Century Natural
Philosophy”
Keynote Address for the American Society of Aesthetics, Rocky Mountain Division
Meeting, 9 July 2010, Santa Fe, NM
*20. “The Mathematics and Metaphysics of Descartes’ Mature Philosophy”
HOPOS, The International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science Eighth
Biennial Congress, 24-27 June 2010, Budapest, Hungary.
*19. “Newton’s Empiricism in Cartesian Context: Revisiting the Argument for Space in De
Gravitatione”
Newton and Empiricism Conference, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of
Pittsburgh, 9-11 April 2010
*18. “Newton's Empiricism and the Emanation of Space in De Gravitatione”
History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, 19-22 November 2009, Phoenix, AZ
17. “Locke’s Qualified Embrace of Newton’s Principia”
SPAWN 2009: Nature and Purpose in Early Modern Philosophy, 9-12 August 2009,
Syracuse, NY
16. Comments on “Metaphysical Principles and Newton's Problem about Gravity”
APA Eastern Division Meeting, 27-30 Dec 2008, Philadelphia, PA
*15. “Locke and Kant on Synthesis and Imagination in Mathematics”
HOPOS, The International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science Seventh
Biennial Congress 18-21 June 2008, Vancouver, British Columbia
*14. “The God of Geometry, The God of Matter”
&HPS1: First Conference in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science, 11-13 October
2007, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
*13. “Newton as Historically-Minded Philosopher”
Newton and/as Philosophy Conference, 21-25 June 2007, Leiden University,
The Netherlands
*12. “Construction without Spatial Constraints: Locke on Geometrical Reasoning”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, 3-8 April 2007, San Francisco, CA
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*11. “Newton, Locke, and the Mathematical Nature of Natural Philosophy”
History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, 2-5 Nov 2006, Vancouver, BC
*10. “Locke and Newton on Induction, Deduction, and the Method of Natural Philosophy”,
HOPOS, The International Society for the History of the Philosophy of Science Sixth
Biennial Congress, 14-18 June 2006, Paris, France
9. Comments on “Consciousness and Reflection in Locke’s Essay: Solving the Problem of
Incoherence”
APA Pacific Division Meeting, 22-26 March 2006, Portland, OR
*8. “The Transcendental and the Geometrical: Kant’s argument for the Infinity of Space”
Tenth International Kant Congress, 4-9 September 2005, University of São Paulo, São
Paulo, Brazil
7. “How to Bring Newton to Bear on Modern Philosophy: The Case of Locke”
The Southern California Philosophy Conference, 30 October 2004, UC, Irvine
*6. “The Geometry of the Principia: Understanding Newton’s Public Claims in the Preface”
Fifth British-North American Joint Meeting of the British Society of the History of Science
(BSHS), the Canadian Society of the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), and the
History of Science Society (HSS), 5-7 August 2004, Halifax, Nova Scotia
*5. “Practice meets Ontology: Newton’s Historical Philosophy of Geometry”
The History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Working Group Fifth Biennial
Congress, 24-27 June 2004, San Francisco, CA
*4. “The Cataract and the Fudge Factor: Newton’s Strategies for Fitting Theory to Experiment”,
History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting, 20-23 November 2003, Cambridge, MA
*3. “‘The Empiricism of Locke and Newton’: Suggestions for a Reappraisal”
APA Central Division Meeting, 23-26 April 2003, Cleveland, OH
*2. “Constructibility and Intelligibility in Newton’s Philosophy of Geometry”
Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Eighteenth Biennial Meeting, 7-11 Nov 2002,
Milwaukee, WI
*1. “Newton’s Philosophy of Geometry”
The History of the Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Working Group Fourth Biennial
Congress, 21-23 June 2002, Montreal, Canada
INVITED TALKS & COLLOQUIUM PRESENTATIONS
22. “Kant and Newton on the A Priori Necessity of Geometry.”
German Philosophy Workshop, Dept. of Philosophy, U. of Chicago, 12 April 2013.
21. “Newton’s Mathematics and Empiricism.”
Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, Dept. of Philosophy, U. of Chicago, 11 April 2013.
The Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, 22 March 2013
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20. “Descartes’ Mathematical Physics: A Reassessment.”
University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy, 11 January 2013
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Philosophy, 14 September 2012.
19. “Newton and Proclus: Understanding the Geometry of Absolute Space.”
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 24 January 2012.
18. “Descartes, Newton, and the Mathematical Character of Natural Philosophy”
Workshop on “Knowledge, Representation, and Proof in the Modern Era,” University of
Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 3 November 2011
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, 18 February 2011
Dean’s Lecture, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, NM, 22 October 2010
17. “Difference, Disunity, and the Dialogue between Past and Present”
Philosophy and Its History: A Workshop on Methods, Aims, and New Directions in Early
Modern Philosophy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 29-30 October 2011
16. “God and Nature in Seventeenth Century Science”
University of New Mexico, Chemical Engineering Seminar Series, 5 March 2010
15. “The Dynamical Interplay of Mathematics and Metaphysics in Descartes’ Corpus”
Duke University, Department of Philosophy, 4 April 2009
14. “Kant on Imagination and Geometrical Certainty”
Workshop on Geometrical Thinking at the University of Nancy, France, Sponsored by the
Ideals of Proof Project directed by Michael Detlefsen, 15-16 December 2008
13. “The Mathematical Character of Descartes’ Early Metaphysics”
University of New Mexico, Department of Philosophy, 21 September 2007
12. “Naturalism, Nominalism, and the Mathematical Treatment of Nature: Reconsidering Locke’s
Relationship to Newton”
UC, San Diego History of Philosophy Roundtable, 23 Feb 2007
11. “Newton and Locke on the Mathematical Nature of Natural Philosophy”
University of Houston, Department of Philosophy, 31 March 2006
10. “Doing Philosophy Historically: Newton’s Appeal to Ancient Mathematical Wisdom”
University of New Mexico, Department of Philosophy, 31 March 2005
9. “Newton and Descartes on Math and Method”
Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Philosophy, 11 February 2005
Syracuse University, Department of Philosophy, 21 January 2005
8. “Kant’s Critique of Socratic Eudaimonism”
University of Massachusetts, Boston, Plato Seminar, 7 February 2005
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7. “Reconciling the Historical Conflict between Science and Religion”
College of William and Mary, Philosophy Club, 4 February 2005
6. “What Newton saw (and Locke didn’t) in the Theory of Ideas”
CSU, Fresno, Department of Philosophy, 11 November 2004
5. “Philosophy Meets Geometry: Re-figuring Newton’s Place in the Modern Period”
Temple University, Department of Philosophy, 4 October 2004
4. “Newton and Descartes on Fitting Geometry with Natural Philosophy”
California Institute of Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, 29 March 2004
Indiana University, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 22 March 2004
3. “Beyond Form and Content: Lessons from Newton’s Philosophy of Geometry”
University of South Carolina, Department of Philosophy, 13 February 2004
2. “Error & Method in Newton’s Philosophy of Experiment: The Efflux of Water & the Speed of
Sound”
CSU, Fresno, Department of Philosophy, 2 October 2003
1. “The Marriage of Mathematics and Experience: Newton’s Challenge to Locke’s Theory of Ideas”
Hanson Lecture. Indiana University, History & Philosophy of Science, 7 Feb 2003
California State University, Fresno, January 2003
Macalester College, January 2003
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, January 2003
OTHER PRESENTATIONS
11. “Academic Publishing in Graduate School and Beyond”
Panel participant, University of New Mexico, 1 April 2011
10. “Paradigm Shifts and the Course of Science: From Aristotle to Newton to Einstein”
Albuquerque Institute for Mathematics and Science (AIMS) @ UNM, 4 November 2010
9. “The Benefits of a Graduate Education in History and Philosophy of Science”
Panel participant, Indiana University – Bloomington, 23 September 2010
8. “The Value of Philosophy: A 21 st Century Perspective”
Address for the 2010 UNM Philosophy Department Convocation Ceremony, 15 May 2010
7. “God and Nature in the Seventeenth Century”
Lecture for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of New Mexico, 10 Feb 2010
6. “Living Philosophically and Transforming the Planet”
Address for the 2009 UNM Philosophy Department Convocation Ceremony, 16 May 2009
5. “Newton’s Empiricism and Absolute Space”
Graduate seminar on Newton and Leibniz, Duke University, 3 April 2009
4. “Space and time from Newton to Einstein”
Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Albuquerque, NM, March 2008
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3. “Unity, Disunity and the Fear of Meaninglessness: Comments on Hitchcock’s The Birds”
UNM Philosophy Club, 31 Oct 2006; CSU, Fresno, Philosophy Film Forum, 13 May 2004
2. “Psychology: Science or Philosophy?”
CSU, Fresno, Honors Seminar in the Department of Psychology, 4 May 2005
1. “The Epistemological Foundations of Structural Realism: Poincaré and the Structure of
Relations”
University of Leeds, Workshop for Research in History & Philosophy of Science, May 2000
ORGANIZED & CO-ORGANIZED CONFERENCES
5. Southwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, founded and organized (until 2011) with Donald
Rutherford. Organized with Ericka Tucker in 2013 and 2014. Meetings held at the University of
New Mexico (Feb 2006, Feb 2010, Feb 2014), the University of California, San Diego (Feb 2007),
San Francisco State University (Feb 2008), Caltech (Feb 2009), and Cal Poly Pomona (Dec 2011,
Feb 2013).
4. Annual Philosophy Student Conferences at the University of New Mexico, 2006-2011. Assisted UNM
students with general planning, funding applications, and arranging keynote speakers.
3. Life among the Living: Perspectives on our Human Stance towards Nature. 3 April 2005 at The Pines
Resort and Conference Center in Bass Lake, CA. A one day retreat focusing on the relationship
between humans and nature. Keynote: Donald Rutherford.
2. Voicing Ideas, organized with Mariana Anagnostopoulos; a conference for undergraduate
Philosophy majors at CSU, Fresno. 12 March 2005, Alice Peters Auditorium, CSU, Fresno.
1. Synthesis and the Growth of Knowledge, organized with Michael Dickson. 1-3 October 2004, University
of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. A conference examining Michael Friedman’s work and ideas on
the relationship between the history of philosophy and the history of science. Web site:
http://www.cas.sc.edu/phil/friedman2004.php
ORGANIZED CONFERENCE SESSIONS (all refereed)
8. “Reflections on Michael Friedman’s Kant and the Exact Sciences” for the Ninth International
Congress of HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 21-24
June 2012, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Speakers: Emily Carson, Robert DiSalle, and Marius Stan. Respondent:
Michael Friedman.
7. “Newton’s Place in the Rationalist Tradition” for the Ninth International Congress of HOPOS,
The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 21-24 June 2012, Halifax, Nova
Scotia; Speakers: Mary Domski, Janet Folina, Eric Schliesser.
6. “Cartesian Metaphysics in Natural Philosophical Context: Descartes on Mathematics, Medicine,
and Meteorology” for the Eighth International Congress of HOPOS, The International Society for
the History of Philosophy of Science, 24-27 June 2010, Budapest, Hungary; Speakers: Mary Domski,
Gideon Manning, Craig Martin, Commentator: Daniel Garber.
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5. “The Historical Ancestry of Kant’s Mathematics” for the Seventh International Congress of
HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 18-21 June 2008,
Vancouver, British Columbia; Speakers: Mary Domski, Alison Laywine, Daniel Sutherland.
4. “Situating Newton in Philosophical Context” for the History of Science Society (HSS) Annual
Meeting, 2-5 November 2006, Vancouver, British Columbia; Speakers: Mary Domski, Andrew Janiak,
Eric Schliesser, Commentator: Daniel Garber.
3. “Situating Newton in Philosophical Context” for the Sixth International Congress of HOPOS,
The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 14-18 June 2006, Paris, France;
Speakers: Mary Domski, Andrew Janiak, Eric Schliesser, Commentator: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
2. “Newton the Philosopher” for the Fifth Biennial Congress of HOPOS, The International Society
for the History of Philosophy of Science, 24-27 June 2004, San Francisco, CA; Speakers: Mary
Domski, Andrew Janiak, George Smith.
1. “Revisiting the Experiments in the Principia” for the History of Science Society (HSS) 2003
Annual Meeting, 20-23 November 2003, Cambridge, MA; Speakers: Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mary
Domski, George Smith, Commentator: Alan Shapiro.
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
9. Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, January – April 2012.
8. NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, 12 July – 6 Aug 2010, Princeton, NJ
“Descartes, Galileo, Hobbes: Philosophy and Science, Politics and Religion during the Scientific
Revolution”; Directors: Daniel Garber and Roger Ariew
7. Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant, October 2007 – August 2009
Ethics Education in Engineering and Science (EESE) Program
Title: Ethics Fellows Pilot Program; Awarded $100,000 Concept Grant, 15 Sept 2007
6. NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers, 5-30 July 2004, Madison, WI
“The Intersection of Philosophy, Science and Theology in the Seventeenth Century”
Directors: Steven Nadler and Donald Rutherford
5. Women in Science Fellowship, Indiana University, 1999-2004
4. APA Graduate Student Travel Stipend (Central APA Meeting), April 2003
3. National Science Foundation Travel Grant, PSA Meeting, 2002 and 2004; HSS Meeting, 2003
2. Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Travel Grant, Spring 2002 & 2003
1. HPSC Departmental Travel Grant, Indiana University, Spring 2002 & 2003
AWARDS & HONORS
9. Winner of the 2011 UNM Alumni Association’s Faculty Teaching Award, Awarded February 2011
Annual award for outstanding teaching and service to students among UNM faculty
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8. Winner of the 2009 Award for Teaching Excellence, Awarded April 2009
University of New Mexico, College of Arts and Sciences
7. UNM Office of Graduate Studies Feature Faculty Member, Spring 2008
Faculty Research Profile posted on OGS web site for work on the NSF-sponsored Ethics Fellows
Pilot Program (http://www.unm.edu/grad/profiles/mdomski.html)
6. Winner of the University of New Mexico 2006-2007 Outstanding Teacher of the Year, Awarded April 2007
University-wide award for teaching excellence among tenured & non-tenured faculty
5. Nominee for the Jan and Bud Richter Award of Excellence in Education for Faculty, March 2005
California State University, Fresno
4. Eighth Annual Reception and Exhibit of Faculty Publications in the Madden Library, March 2005
Honoree from the Department of Philosophy at CSU, Fresno
3. Victor A. Thoren Graduate Student Research Fellowship, May 2003
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
2. Mikal Lynn Sousa Award for Excellence in Graduate Scholarship, March 2003
College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University
1. Norwood Russell Hanson Distinguished Graduate Essay, Spring 2002
Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University
UNIVERSITY LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
a) University of New Mexico
Undergraduate Courses:
3. Intro to Philosophical Problems (numerous sections since spring 2006)
2. Modern Philosophy/Descartes to Kant (numerous sections since fall 2005)
1. Philosophy of Science (spring 2007)
Undergraduate/Graduate Seminars:
5. Descartes and Newton (fall 2012)
4. Kuhn’s Revolution in Philosophy of Science (fall 2011)
3. Seventeenth Century Math & Metaphysics (fall 2009)
2. Descartes (spring 2007; section restricted to graduate students)
1. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason (fall 2005, fall 2008, fall 2010)
Independent Studies:
3. Singer and Kant on poverty (fall 2009)
2. Descartes to Locke (summer 2007)
1. Kant’s First Critique (spring 2007)
Graduate Reading Groups:
3. Martin Heidegger’s Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (2006 with Iain Thomson)
2. Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals (summer 2006)
1. Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason (fall 2006 with Fred Schueler)
Graduate Advising:
4. Member, PhD committee (Philosophy); Topic: Skepticism in Indian Philosophy
3. Member, PhD committee (English); Title: The Path to Personal Salvation: The Hermetic Trope of
Self-Mastery in Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton (defended April 2010)
2. Chair, MA committee; Topic: Descartes’ Infinite God (defended July 2008)
1. Member, MA committee; Topic: Kant and Kierkegaard (defended July 2007)
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) California State University, Fresno
Undergraduate Courses:
5. Methods of Reasoning 2. Philosophy of Science
4. Critical Thinking in the Classroom 1. Science and Religion (Honors section)
3. Bacon to Kant
Independent Studies:
4. Kant’s First Critique 2. Topics in Philosophy of Science
3. Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex 1. Topics in Philosophy of Physics
c) Indiana University, Bloomington, History and Philosophy of Science
Undergraduate Courses, Instructor:
2. The Pyrrhonists, the Poets, and the Post-moderns (fall 2002/spring 2003)
Self-designed course focused on the critical reaction to science offered by Ancient Skeptics,
poets of the Romantic period, and Post-modern philosophers of science.
1. Scientific Reasoning (fall 2001/spring 2002)
Undergraduate Courses, Teaching Assistant:
3. Scientific Reasoning (fall 1999)
2. Quantum Mysteries for Everyone (fall 2000)
1. Rational Decision-Making (spring 2001)
d) University of Leeds, School of Philosophy, 1998-1999
Tutor/Teaching Assistant: Led discussion sections for Philosophy of Science, The Mind, Reason and
Argument, Ethics, Philosophy of Psychology, Theoretical Philosophy
Grader: Full-year, upper-level undergraduate seminar on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
UNIVERSITY & DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
a) University of New Mexico
Service to the Department of Philosophy
12. Graduate Director: August 2012 to present
11. Outcomes Assessment Coordinator: March 2008-September 2012
10. Undergraduate Advisor: August 2005-August 2008, January 2010-December 2011
9. Graduate Placement Director: August 2008-January 2010
8. Member of Search Committees for Tenure-Track Positions: Fall 2007, Fall 2010, Fall 2011
7. Faculty Advisor for the Undergraduate Philosophy Club: September 2005-August 2008
6. Led Session of the Proseminar for first-year graduate students: 2005-2010
5. Departmental Representative at UNM Senior Day: Fall 2006
4. Member of the Speakers Committee: Fall 2006, 2007, & 2008
3. Member of the Search Committee for a Lecturer: Summer 2006
2. Member of the Graduate Admissions Committee: Spring 2006, Spring 2013
1. Member of the Search Committee for a Tenure-Track Position: Fall 2005
Service to UNM
4. Member of UNM’s Ethics Advisory Roundtable: August 2008 to present
3. Member of the College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award Review Committee: 2010
2. Member of the OSET Teaching Award Review Committee: 2009
1. Judge for the UNM Undergraduate Research & Creativity Symposium: 2005 & 2007
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) California State University, Fresno
Service to the Department of Philosophy
5. Member of the Search Committee for a Lecturer in History of Philosophy: Spring 2005
4. Advisor for the Undergraduate Philosophy Club: October 2004 to May 2005
3. Colloquia Organizer: August 2004 to May 2005
2. Member of the Search Committee for Lecturer in Religious Studies: Spring 2004
1. Departmental Webmaster: August 2003 to May 2005
Service to CSU, Fresno
1. Member of the CSU, Fresno Academic Senate: September 2003 to May 2005
LANGUAGES
2. German (speaking and reading)
1. Latin (basic reading)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS
6. American Philosophical Association (APA)
5. Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (APMP)
4. History of Science Society (HSS)
3. HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science
2. North American Kant Society (NAKS)
1. Philosophy of Science Association (PSA)
OTHER EXPERIENCE & SERVICE
5. Member of the Steering Committee for HOPOS, the International Society for the History of
Philosophy of Science, December 2008 to present (elected to a second 3-year term in Jan 2012).
4. Referee for:
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2007) │Continuum Publishing (2012) │ European Journal for
Philosophy of Science (2012) │ Historia Mathematica (2009) │ HOPOS, The Journal of the International Society
for the History of Philosophy of Science (2011) │ International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (2008) │
Journal of the History of Philosophy (2009, 2011) │ Journal of Philosophical Research (2012) │ The National
Science Foundation (twice in 2011) │ Philosophia (2012) │ Philosophy of Science (2004, 2006) │ Oxford
University Press (2007, 2012) │ Routledge (2013) │ Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
(2013) │ Synthese (2010) │ Theoria (2008) │ Thomson-Wadsworth (2006) │World Book Encyclopedia
(2005)
3. Chair for conference sessions at the Pacific APA (2005, 2011), Central APA (2005), the HOPOS
Congress (2008, 2012), and the PSA annual meeting (2004).
2. Volunteer for Albuquerque Reads; spent one hour a week in Atrisco Elementary School tutoring
two first grade students in basic reading skills (September 2006 to May 2007).
1. Faculty member for the Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs; taught middle school and high
school level mathematics and history of science classes (1998-2002).
Last Updated: 28 June 2013
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