Miriam Solomon, PhD

Professor of Philosophy, Temple University, Philadelphia PA 19122

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Miriam Solomon is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and Director of Graduate Studies.  She is a graduate of Cambridge University (BA in Natural Sciences, 1979) and Harvard University (PhD in Philosophy, 1986).  She is the author of Social Empiricism (MIT Press, 2001), editor of several special journal issues, and author of papers in epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine and biomedical ethics.

Her research interests are in philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, history of science, epistemology, gender and science and biomedical ethics. She is currently writing a book on evidence-based medicine, medical consensus conferences, narrative medicine and translational medicine, provisionally titled Unfinished Pluralism: Beyond the Art and Science of Medicine.

Professor Solomon is on the editorial board of Philosophy of Science and a member of the APA Committee on the Status of Women. She serves on the Temple University Hospital Ethics Committee and is on the Steering Committee for the new Temple Center for Urban Bioethics and the Humanities.

RESEARCH

TEACHING

  • Fall 2009, Ethics in Medicine (syllabus to be posted in August)
  • Other courses taught regularly: Philosophy of Science, Science in Context, Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Genetic Controversies, Senior Seminar

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Philosophy Department
Temple University 022-32
Philadelphia , PA 19122

Office Phone: 215-204-9629 (including voicemail); Fax: 215-204-6266

E-mail: msolomon@temple.edu
E-mail is the best way to reach me. I usually answer within 48 hours.

 

This web page last revised: June 23, 2009