Matthew J. Working on the psychonic theory of consciousness and the DISC theory of emotions.
Faculty Member, Arts and Humanities
University of Texas at Dallas, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
University of Texas at Dallas, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology
Director, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology
Thesis Title: Science and Experience: A Deweyan Philosophy of Science
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About
I received my Ph.D. in Philosophy in Spring 2009 at the University of California, San Diego. As of Fall 2009, I am teaching in the School of Arts & Humanities at UT Dallas.
The main currents of my philosophical research revolve around the relations between science, technology, values, and politics. In addition to addressing these issues as they appear in recent debates in philosophy of science, I also look at them through the study of the history of classical American philosophy, especially the work of John Dewey, for whom such concerns were paramount. These currents exist in healthy interaction: my dissertation attempted to provide a picture of Dewey's philosophy of science and the light it could shed on recent quandaries.
In philosophy of science, I have also done some work on the nature of evidence, models and perspectivism, pluralism, and the philosophy of Paul Feyerabend.
I also work in cognitive science. My interests here are in theories of mind and cognition as embodied, socially and technologically situated and distributed, and culturally and historically constituted. Such ideas have a long history going back at least to Dewey and Heidegger. I am deeply interested in the relation between descriptive psychology and normative theories of logic and rationality. I am also keenly interested in applying these ideas to the study of science, which I regard as a socially constituted and technologically mediated process of knowledge-making.
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