WEBPAGE

http://astro.temple.edu/~msolomon

EDUCATION

1976-79 Newnham College , Cambridge University . BA in Natural Sciences with First Class Honours.

1979-86 Harvard University . PhD in Philosophy awarded November 1986.

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION

Quine's Point of View (November 1986) Advisors: Burton Dreben, Warren Goldfarb, Hilary Putnam.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Philosophy of science, philosophy of medicine, epistemology, medical ethics

AREAS OF COMPETENCE

History of science (especially twentieth century), feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology/mind, history of analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, logic, history of modern philosophy, ethics.

ACADEMIC AWARDS

Scholarships and Prizes, Newnham College , Cambridge University 1977-80.

Bechtel Prize for the best essay in philosophy, Harvard University , 1986.

Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati , 1987.

Taft Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati , 1988, 1990.

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania, 1990-1.

Participant, NEH Summer Institute, "Science as Cultural Practice," Summer 1991.

Summer Research Fellowship, Temple University , 1992, 1993, 1999, 2002

NEH Fellowship for University Teachers, 1994-5.

Dibner Institute Resident Fellow, 1994-5.

Research and Study Leave, Temple University , Fall 1996 and Fall 2005

POSITIONS HELD

1981-86 Teaching Fellow, Harvard University , Department of Philosophy.

1984-86 Nonresident Tutor in Philosophy, Adams House, Harvard University

1986-91 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, University of Cincinnati . Tenure-track. (On leave 1990-91.)

1990-91 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania .

1991-94 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Temple University . Tenure-track. Tenure awarded July 1, 1994

1993- Affiliated Professor of Women's Studies, Temple University

Spring 1994 Instructor in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania

(teaching a graduate seminar in Philosophy of Science)

1994-2003 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Temple University (on leave 1994-5, at the Dibner Institute, MIT, on an NEH Fellowship for University Teachers)

2003- Professor of Philosophy, Temple University

Summer 2003 Instructor at the Center of Bioethics , University of Pennsylvania

(teaching a graduate seminar on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics)

July 2007 Lecturer at Vienna International Summer University (teaching a graduate seminar

on Consensus in Science)

2007- Affiliated Professor at Institute on Disabilities, Temple University

PUBLICATIONS (all single authored except where noted)

Books

Social Empiricism , MIT Press ( Bradford Books), October 2001.

Edited Collections

• Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology 2:1 (June 2005). Guest editor for special issue on the topic of Rationality.

• Philosophy of Science 72:5 (December 2005). Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers.

• Philosophy of Science 73:5 (December 2006). Proceedings of the 2004 Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia Papers

Articles

• "Quine's Point of View," Journal of Philosophy , Vol. 86 No. 3, March 1989, pp. 113-136.

• "On Putnam's Argument for the Inconsistency of Relativism," The Southern Journal of Philosophy , Vol. 28, No. 2, Summer 1990, pp. 213-220

• "Apriority and Metajustification in BonJour's Structure of Empirical Knowledge ," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Vol. L, No. 4., June 1990, pp. 767-777.

• "Extensionality, Underdetermination and Indeterminacy," Erkenntnis 33, November 1990, pp. 211-221.

• "Scientific Rationality and Human Reasoning," Philosophy of Science 59:3 (1992), pp. 439-455.

• "Social Empiricism," Nous 28:3 (1994), pp. 325-343

• "A More Social Epistemology," in Fred Schmitt (ed.) (1994) Socializing Epistemology (Roman and Littlefield), pp. 217-233.

• "The Pragmatic Turn in Naturalistic Philosophy of Science," Perspectives on Science , Vol. 3, No. 2 (1995) pp. 206-230.

• "Legend Naturalism and Scientific Progress". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 26:2 , (1995) pp. 205-218.

• "Multivariate Models of Scientific Change". PSA 1994 , Volume II, pp. 287-297.

• "Naturalism and Generality". Philosophical Psychology , 8:4 (1996) pp. 353-363.

• “Social Epistemology,” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Supplement (1996), pp. 546-548.

• “Information and the Ethics of Information Control in Science,” Perspectives on Science 4:2 (1996), pp. 195-206.

• “Happily Ever After With Consensus?” Feneomenologia e societa 21:1 (1998), pp. 58-65; a special issue devoted to social epistemology.

• "Frank Sulloway's Born to Rebel ," Philosophy of Science 65:1 (1998), pp. 171-181.

• "Consensus in Science" Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 10 , ed. Tian Yu Cao (2001), pp. 193-204. Bowling Green , KY : Philosophy Documentation Center .

• "It Isn't the Thought That Counts," Argumentation 15:1 (2001), pp. 67-76. Special issue edited by Eugene Garver on new topics in critical thinking.

• “The Whiptail Lizard Reconsidered,” Perspectives on Science 11:3 (2003), pp. 316-323.

• “A Critical Context for Longino's Critical Contextual Empiricism”. With Alan Richardson ( University of British Columbia ). Review essay on Helen Longino's The Fate of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2002), Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science 36:1 (2005), pp. 211-222.

• “ Groupthink versus The Wisdom of Crowds : The Social Epistemology of Deliberation and Dissent.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2006) , Volume XLIV, Supplement (special issue on Social Epistemology based on the Spindel Conference, September 2005), pp. 28-42.

• “Social Epistemology,” (expansion and update of article for first edition) in Borchert, Donald, ed. Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2 nd edition. Detroit : Macmillan Reference USA , 2006, pp. 83-87.

• “Norms of Epistemic Diversity,” Episteme 3:1 (2006), pp. 23-36. Special issue edited by Alison Wylie on “Epistemic Diversity and Dissent” and based on the Episteme conference, June 2006.

• “Situated Cognition,” invited paper for the Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science: A Volume of the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Series , eds. Paul Thagard, Dov Gabbay and John Woods. Elsevier, 2006. pp. 413-428.

• “The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences,” invited paper for Establishing Medical Reality: Methodological and Metaphysical Issues in Philosophy of Medicine eds. Harold Kincaid and Jennifer McKitrick. Springer, 2007. pp. 167-177.

• “Social Epistemology of Science,” forthcoming in Establishing a Consensus Agenda for K-12 Science Inquiry, edited by Richard A. Duschl and Richard E. Grandy, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, NL, 2007 .

• “STS and Social Epistemology of Science,” submitted paper for the new Handbook of Science and Technology Studies . Forthcoming 2007.

• “Responses to Critics,” submitted paper in response to four papers on my book, Social Empiricism , published together as a symposium in Perspectives on Science , forthcoming Spring 2008.

Book Reviews and Invited Discussions

• Review of Roger Gibson, Enlightened Empiricism (University of Florida Press, 1987), Philosophical Review , Vol. C, No. 3, July 1991, pp. 484-487.

• Review of W.V. Quine, Pursuit of Truth (Harvard University Press, 1990), Canadian Philosophical Reviews , Vol XI, No. 4, August 1991, pp. 284-6.

• Review of John R. Anderson, The Adaptive Character of Thought (Erlbaum, 1990), Philosophical Psychology , Vol. 6, No. 1 pp. 97-99.

• "Making Meaning: A Response to Chokr," Social Epistemology Vol. 7, No. 4 (1993).

• "Sizing up Science: A Response to Fuller," Informal Logic , Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter 1994) pp. 55-58.

• Review of Stephen Stich, The Fragmentation of Reason (MIT, 1990), Informal Logic , Vol. 16, No. 2 (Spring 1994) pp. 137-140.

• Discussion of Alison Gopnik, "The Scientist as Child," Philosophy of Science 63:4 (1996) pp. 547-551.

• Review of Edwin Hutchins, Cognition in the Wild (MIT 1995), Philosophy of Science 64:1 (1997) pp. 181-2.

• Review of Susan Sherwin (ed.) The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy (Temple University Press, 1998) Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 25:3 (2000), pp. 604-606.

• Review of James Robert Brown, Who Rules in Science: An Opinionated Guide to the Science Wars (Harvard University Press, 2001) ISIS 93:3 (2002), pp.542-543 .

• Review of Alvin I. Goldman, Pathways to Knowledge: Public and Private ( Oxford University Press, 2002), Philosophy of Science 70:2 (2003), pp. 452-454.

• “Messing With Common Sense.” Review of Susan Haack, Defending Science—Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism (Prometheus Books, 2003) Science 305:5680 (2004) , pp. 44-45 .

• “On Smell and Scientific Practice.” Review of Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Farber and Farber, 2006). Science 313:5788 (2006), pp. 763-4.

Work in Progress

• “Standpoint Theory and Creativity”

• “System Error and Responsibility in Health Care”

• “The Importance of Community: A Journey Through Orthodox Judaism,” autobiographical essay accepted for The Costs of Autonomy: Personal Essays on the Morality of Religious Indoctrination eds. Peter Caws and Stefani Jones

PRESENTATIONS

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

• Comment on Andrew Ward, "Davidson, Animals and Believings," at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Chicago , April 30, 1987.

• "On the Supposed Inconsistency of Relativism," presented at the Ohio Philosophical Association Meetings, held at Ohio Wesleyan University , April 8, 1989.

• "Metajustification and Apriority in BonJour's The Structure of Empirical Knowledge ," presented at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Chicago , April 28, 1989.

• "On Putnam's Argument for the Inconsistency of Relativism," presented at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, Atlanta , December 29, 1989.

• "Cognitive Bias and the Distribution of Cognitive Effort," presented at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Louisville Kentucky , April 12, 1990.

• Comment on Dale Holt, "Deterministic Chaos: The Worm in Newton 's Apple," presented at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, New Orleans , April 27, 1990.

• "Naturalized Epistemology and the Psychology of Scientific Change," invited paper presented at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meetings, Symposium on Naturalized Philosophy of Science, San Francisco , March 30, 1991.

• Discussant on paper by Marshall Sahlins and Werner Sollars at a conference "National Identity and Cultural Diversity". Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, Villanova University , March 7 1992.

• "Cognition and Consensus in Scientific Change," presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meetings, Montreal , Canada , June 8 1992.

• "Social Empiricism," presented at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, Washington DC , December 28, 1992.

• "Is There An Invisible Hand Of Reason?" invited paper presented at an international research conference "Non-Formal Foundations of Reason" in Newcastle , Australia , August 2-6, 1993.

• "Happily Ever After With Consensus?" presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, November 19, 1993.

• "Critical Response to Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science (Oxford, 1993)," invited paper presented at an Author Meets Critics session, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meetings, Los Angeles, California, March 30-April 2 1994.

• "Information and the Ethics of Information Control in Science," presented at a workshop on Ethical Issues in Science, organized by the International Council of Scientific Unions, at the British Society for the Philosophy of Science meetings, London , September 24, 1994.

• "Multivariate Models of Scientific Change," presented at an invited symposium, "Integrating Cognitive and Social Models of Science," Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, New Orleans , Louisiana , October 15 1994.

• "Multivariate Models of Scientific Change," presented at an invited symposium "The Limits of Scientific Analysis" of the Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science, January 16 1994.

• Invited presentation on medical decision making at the first consensus conference on the Development of Guidelines for Trauma Care, Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, Baltimore MD/Washington DC, October 12-13, 1995.

• Invited Participant at an American Association for Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Rational Agency, to present my work on "social empiricism". Cambridge , MA , Nov 10-12, 1995.

• "It Isn't the Thought That Counts," presented at an invited symposium at the Central APA 1996 Meetings sponsored by the Association of Informal Logic and Critical Thinking. Chicago , IL , April 24, 1996.

• "Situatedness and Specificity," talk presented at an invited symposium on situated cognition at the Eastern APA 1996 Meetings, Atlanta GA , December 29 1996.

• Discussion of Frank Sulloway's Born to Rebel (Pantheon, 1996), invited talk for the Conference on Methods, New York City , May 3 1997.

• "Consensus in Science," presented at an invited symposium at the World Congress of Philosophy in Boston , MA , August 13, 1998.

• Organizer and Discussant, symposium on "The Medical Consensus Conference," at the Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Kansas City, MO, October 23 1998.

• "The Medical Consensus Conference," presented at an invited symposium "Cancer Policy Wars: What's Science Got Ta' Do With It?" at the American Anthropology Association meetings in Philadelphia , PA , December 5 1998.

• "Epistemic Justice," invited paper presented at a working conference "Feminism and Naturalism" in St Louis , MO , September 24 1999.

• “The Ethical Perspective,” invited paper presented in a panel discussion, “Medical Errors: the Push for Public Disclosure—Helpful or Harmful?” at a conjoint meeting of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery and the American College of Surgeons , Metropolitan Philadelphia Chapter. May 1, 2000.

• “Complex Ethical Issues in Gene Therapy,” invited paper presented at a symposium at the Annual North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference, Baltimore , MD , November 12, 2000.

• Critical Response to Ronald Giere, Science Without Laws (University of Chicago Press, 1999), invited paper presented at an Author Meets Critics Session at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, Chicago , IL , April 27, 2002.

• “The Epistemology of Consensus Conferences in Medicine,” presented at the Philosophy Affinity Group meeting, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Meeting, Baltimore , MD , October 25 2002.

• “The Whiptail Lizard Reconsidered,” presented at the Society for Social Studies of Science Meetings, Milwaukee , Wisconsin , November 11, 2002.

• Commentator on Ernan McMullin, “Values and Natural Science” at the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Conference, Science, Values and Society , Swarthmore College , PA , March 22, 2003.

• Critical Response to Helen Longino, The Fate of Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2002), invited paper presented at an Author Meets Critics Session at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meetings, Pasadena, CA, March 28, 2004.

• “Social Epistemology of Science,” invited paper presented at Inquiry Conference on Developing a Consensus Research Agenda in Science Education (NSF Sponsored, held at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education), February 17, 2005.

• “Norms of Epistemic Diversity,” invited paper presented at Episteme Third Annual Conference, Toronto , Ontario , June 2 2006.

• “The Role of Consensus Conferences in an Age of Evidence Based Medicine,” paper presented at a workshop “Three Epistemological Paradigms in Medical Research” at the Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, Vancouver , BC , November 2 2006.

• “Response to Critics,” paper presented at a panel, “A More Social Epistemology: Decision Vectors, Epistemic Fairness and Consensus in Solomon's Social Empiricism ” at the Society for Social Studies of Science Meetings, Vancouver , BC , November 3, 2006.

• “Standpoint Theory and Creativity,” paper presented at a panel, “Is Standpoint Theory a Resource for Feminist Epistemology,” Society for Analytic Feminism session at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meetings, December 29, 2006.

• Discussant at symposium “Sex Differences and Evolutionary Psychology” at the Academy of Management Annual Meetings , Philadelphia PA , August 6, 2007.

• “Recent Epistemological Paradigms in Clinical Medicine,” invited paper presented at a conference “Future Horizons for Philosophy of Medicine” organized by the Boston Colloquium for History and Philosophy of Science, September 25, 2007.

• “Recent Epistemological Paradigms in Clinical Medicine, Part II: Narrative Medicine,” presented at a symposium “Ways of Knowing in Clinical Medicine” at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Meetings, Washington DC, October 21, 2007.

Papers Presented at Academic Institutions

• "Rationality and Human Reasoning," invited paper presented to Department of Philosophy, Columbia University , May 3, 1990.

• "Naturalized Epistemology and the Psychology of Scientific Change," invited paper presented at the Friday Colloquium Series, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania , February 22, 1991.

• "Rationality, Heuristics and Interests in the Recent Revolution in Geology," invited paper presented at the Wednesday Seminar Series, Center for the Study of Science in Society, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University , April 3, 1991.

• "Naturalized Epistemology and the Psychology of Scientific Change," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland , April 29, 1991.

• "Social Empiricism," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania , April 10 1992.

• "The Pragmatic Turn in Naturalistic Philosophy of Science," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia , December 4 1992.

• "Social Empiricism," invited paper presented to the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics, January 11, 1993.

• "Maps as Models: Response to Ronald Giere, 'Determinate Models of an Indeterminate Reality,'" invited commentary presented at the Seventeenth Annual Greensboro Symposium in Philosophy, March 20, 1993.

• "Scientific Decision Making and Social Epistemology: Evaluation of Scientific Change in the Development of Genetics and the Plate Tectonics Revolution," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at StonyBrook, September 30 1993.

• "A More Social Epistemology: Scientific Change in the Recent Revolutions in Geology and Genetics," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy and the Westminster Institute, University of Western Ontario, March 4, 1994.

• "Is There an Invisible Hand of Reason?" invited paper presented to the Cognitive Science Forum, University of Waterloo , March 7, 1994.

• "Gender in Accounts of Scientific Progress," invited paper presented to the Feminist Inquiry Seminar, Dartmouth University , May 12, 1994.

• "A More Social Epistemology: Scientific Change in the Recent Revolutions in Geology and Genetics," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth University , May 13, 1994.

• "Is There An Invisible Hand of Reason? Social and Psychological Factors in the Plate Tectonics Revolution and the History of Genetics," invited paper presented at the Dibner Institute, lunchtime colloquium, October 18, 1994.

• "Is There An Invisible Hand of Reason? Social and Psychological Factors in the Plate Tectonics Revolution and the History of Genetics," invited paper presented to the Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania , November 21 1994.

• "Is There An Invisible Hand of Reason? Social and Psychological Factors in the Plate Tectonics Revolution and the History of Genetics" invited paper presented at a conference on Social Epistemology at the University of Utah , Jan 26-28, 1995.

• "Social Empiricism as Social Epistemology," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, Brandeis University , February 23 1995.

• "Is There An Invisible Hand of Reason?" invited paper presented to the Program in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Boulder , March 2, 1995.

• "Social Empiricism as Social Epistemology," invited paper presented at the Joint Seminar for History of Twentieth Century Science, Harvard University , April 26 1995.

• "Social Empiricism as Social Epistemology," invited paper presented at the University of Michigan Spring Colloquium , March 16 1996.

• “Whig Realism,” invited paper presented at the Graduate Center , City University of New York, November 12 1997.

• “Social Empiricism,” invited paper presented at City College , City University of New York, November 13, 1997.

• "Whig Realism," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, University of Georgia , January 29, 1999.

• "Consensus in Science," invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis , Sept 23 1999.

• “Consensus in Science,” invited paper presented in the lecture series of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh , January 19, 2001.

• “Consensus in Science,” invited paper presented at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota , March 16, 2001.

• “The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences,” invited paper presented at the School of Public Policy , Georgia Institute of Technology, December 5, 2003.

• “The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences,” invited paper presented at a conference on Philosophical Issues in the Biomedical Sciences at the University of Alabama , Birmingham , May 14 2004.

• “The Social Epistemology of NIH Consensus Conferences,” invited paper presented to the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University , February 9, 2005.

• “ Groupthink versus The Wisdom of Crowds : The Social Epistemology of Deliberation and Dissent,” invited paper presented at the University of Memphis Department of Philosophy Spindel Conference on Social Epistemology, September 30, 2005.

• “Epistemic Diversity or Epistemic Randomness? (Or, More on the Invisible Hand of Reason),” invited paper presented to the History and Philosophy of Science Program, Notre Dame University, March 30, 2006.

TEACHING

Courses Taught in the Past Five Years

Undergraduate level: Science in Context

Honors course: Science in Context

Honors course: Genetic Controversies

Philosophy of Science

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (cross-listed with Women's Studies)

Ethics in Medicine

Feminist Issues in Bioethics (cross-listed with Women's Studies)

Senior Seminar

Graduate level: Philosophy of Science

Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science

Ethics in Medicine

Feminist Bioethics (at the University of Pennsylvania Center For Bioethics)

Consensus in Science (at the University of Vienna , Vienna International Summer University )

Awards for Teaching Excellence/Teaching Development

Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard University , 1983.

Temple University Teaching Fellow, 1993-4 (Lilly Endowment)

SERVICE

Service to the Profession

(1) Publications

Referee for Journals: Philosophical Psychology , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , Nous , Social Epistemology , Philosophy of Science , Studies in History and Philosophy of Science , Metaphilosophy , Cognitive Science , APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, Medical Decision Making, Hypatia, Social Theory and Practice, Synthese, Bioscience, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Perspectives on Science, Journal of Social Philosophy, Polish Journal of Philosophy, Cognitive Systems Research, Philosophy Compass, Episteme..

Referee for Publishers: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Basil Blackwell, MIT Press, Wadsworth

Editorial Board , Social Epistemology , 1991-4

Editorial Board , Philosophy of Science , 1994-1999 (5 year term); 1999-2004 (5 year term); 2005-2009 (5 year term).

Editorial Board , Episteme (2002 on)

Guest Editor , Episteme (Summer 2005 issue and associated conference)

(2) Conferences

Program Committee , Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, 1994.

Co-Chair, Program Committee , Society for Philosophy and Psychology Meetings, 1995.

Advisory Committee for the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, in the area of epistemology, 1995-6

Program Committee, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1997 and 1998 meetings.

Chair of Program Committee, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, 1998 meeting.

Chair of Program Committee , Philosophy of Science Association Meetings, 2004.

(3) Grant Review

Member of Advisory Panel, Science and Technology Studies Program, National Science Foundation, Spring 1996.

External evaluator for grant proposals, Science and Technology Studies Program, National Science Foundation (ongoing).

Member of Advisory Panel, Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence Program, National Science Foundation, August 1998.

Member of Advisory Panel, Science and Technology Studies Program, National Science Foundation, Fall 2002-Fall 2005 (3-year term)

(4) Other

Honors Examiner in philosophy, Swarthmore College , May 1993.

Executive Committee of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 1995-8 (three year term)

External referee for tenure process (philosophy departments in several other institutions)

Vice-Chair, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, 2003-4

Co-Chair, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium Philosophy of Science Discussion Group 2002-2006.

Advisory Committee to the Philosophy of Science Association Governing Board, 2004-5

APA Committee on the Status of Women, 2006-9 (three-year term)

Chair, Nominating Committee of the Philosophy of Science Association Jan 2006-Dec 2007 (two-year term)

External Evaluator for the Philosophy Department, City College of New York , March 2006.

Co-chair, Philosophy of Science Association Women's Caucus, January 2007-December 2008.

Service to Temple University

1996-97 Academic Priorities Committee (Provostial Appointment): subcommittee on non-funded research.

2/10/99 "Scientific Policy and Scientific Ethics," presentation to the research students and postdoctoral fellows at Temple University School of Medicine.

1999-2000 University committee to evaluate Dissertation Fellowship applications

1999 TAUP Representative

• TAUP Executive Committee (elected office)

2002- TAUP Women's Committee

2001- Temple Hospital Ethics Committee

2001- Temple Children 's Hospital Ethics Committee

2002-4 Presidential Committee to Review Personnel Policies

3/26/03 “Openness and Secrecy in Scientific Research,” presentation to the research students and postdoctoral fellows at Temple University School of Medicine

10/31/05 “Basics of Bioethics,” presentation to Temple Medical School first year class

2006- TAUP Work-Family Balance Committee

2006-9 Graduate Board (elected member)

10/25/06 “Ethics of Genetics and Biotechnology,” presentation to the Ethics Elective at Temple Medical School

10/30/06 “Basics of Bioethics,” presentation to Temple Medical School first year class

10/17/07 “Ethics of Genetics and Biotechnology,” presentation to the Ethics Elective at

Temple Medical School

Service to the College

Before 1991, service at University of Cincinnati . After 1991, service at Temple University .

1987-88 Space Committee, McMicken College of Arts and Sciences

3/19/92 Discussant for a presentation by 1992 College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellow, Professor Henry Slovitor, on "Applications and Implications of Artificial Blood Technology"

1992-7 Women's Studies Advisory Council

10/23/92 Talk to the Geology Department, "Scientific Decision Making".

9/27/95 Speaker at a brown bag lunch in the Women's Studies Department, discussing my research on gender and science.

1998-9 Dean's Committee to evaluate the Intellectual Heritage Program.

2000-3 Women's Studies Graduate Committee (three year term)

2002-5 Budget Priorities Committee, CLA (elected three year term)

• Research Incentive Fund Committee

2003-6 Academic Technology Committee (three year term)

2004-7 Council on Faculty Research (three year term)

2004-5 College Merit Committee (elected member)

2005-6 Coordinator, Medical Humanities Discussion Group

2005-6 College Merit Committee (appointed member)

2007-10 College Research and Study Leave Committee (elected member, three year term)

2007 Ad-hoc Promotion Committee, Department of Classics

Service to the Department

Before 1991, service in the Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati . From 1991 on, service in the Department of Philosophy, Temple University .

1986-87 Undergraduate Studies Committee

1987-88 Visiting Speakers Coordinator

1987-88 Departmental Hiring Committee

1988-89 Coordinator, 25th Annual Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Title of Colloquium: "Human Reasoning".

1989-90 Undergraduate Studies Committee

1991-92 Visiting Speakers Committee

1991-92 Departmental Hiring Committee

1991-92 Departmental Chair Search Committee

1991-92 Chair, Course Evaluation Questionnaire Committee

1992-93 Departmental Hiring Committee

1993-94 Visiting Speakers Committee

1995-96 Visiting Speakers Committee, Merit Committee

1996-97 Visiting Speakers Committee, Department Webmaster

1997- Departmental Webmaster

1998-9 Graduate Student Placement Director

• Graduate Student Placement Director, Chair of Reappointment Committee

2000-2001 Department Chair Search Committee, Chair of Reappointment Committee

2001-2002 Visiting Speakers Committee, Departmental Hiring Committee

• Visiting Speakers Committee

Spring 2003 Graduate Committee

• Chair, Philosophy of Mind Search Committee

2003-2004 Departmental Chair Search Committee

July 2004- Director of Graduate Studies (ongoing)

• Visiting Speakers Committee

Fall 2004 Chair, Ethics Search Committeee

• Chair, Personnel Committee

• Graduate Student Placement Committee

2005-2006 Personnel Committees

2006-2007 Graduate Student Placement Committee

2007-2008 Personnel Committees

2007-2008 Graduate Student Placement Committee

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Philosophical Association

Philosophy of Science Association

History of Science Society

Society for Social Studies of Science

American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

Society for Women in Philosophy

International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics

International Society for the Psychology of Science and Technology

Society for Analytic Feminism