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Sharyn
Clough: Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1997 History and Philosophy
of Science (interdisciplinary, between the Departments of Philosophy, History
and Women's Studies),
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
M.A. 1989 Social Scientific Study of
Religion, (Department of Religious Studies), University of Calgary, Calgary,
AB.
B.A. (Hons.) 1987 Social Psychology
(Department of Psychology), University of Calgary, Calgary, AB.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2006+ Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Oregon
State University.
2003-2006, Assistant
Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Oregon State University.
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2002-2003, Research
Fellow, Dept of Philosophy, University of Tennessee.
1998-2003, Assistant
Professor, Dept of Philosophy & Religion, Rowan University.
1996 - 1998, Adjunct
Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Le Moyne College, Syracuse.
1996 (Spring),
Adjunct Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Hamilton College.
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Areas of Research Specialisation:
Philosophy
of Science¬Ý
Epistemology
Contemporary
Pragmatism¬Ý
Feminist
Theory
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Areas
of Competence:
Philosophy
of Language/Mind
¬ÝPhilosophy
of Biology
¬ÝInformal and Formal Logic
African
Philosophy
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¬ÝCourses Taught: Upper-division/Graduate
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Philosophy of Science
Advanced Epistemology & Metaphysics Philosophy
of Artificial Intelligence
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Feminism, Knowledge,
and Science
History
& Phil. of the Vienna Circle
Philosophy
and Religion
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Courses
Taught: Lower-division
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Intro.
to Philosophy
Feminism
and Philosophy
Intro.
to Epistemology & Metaphysics
Informal Logic/Critical Thinking
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Formal
Logic
World
Religions
American
Philosophy
History
of Philosophy (Ancient)
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BOOKS PUBLISHED
Monograph:
Beyond Epistemology:
A Pragmatist Approach to Feminist Science Studies. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield (2003).
Reviews of Beyond Epistemology have appeared
in Metascience,¬Ý Women's
Review of Books, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Contemporary
Pragmatism, National Women's
Studies Association Journal,
Querelles Net,
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy, Newsletter for the Society for the Advancement
of American Philosophy, the APA Newsletter for Feminism and Philosophy, and Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review.¬Ý
Edited Collection:
Siblings Under
the Skin: Feminism, Social Justice and Analytic Philosophy. Aurora, Colorado: Davies Publishing (2003).
The collection appears as part of the series Critical Studies
in the Humanities, edited
by Victor Taylor.
The collection has been reviewed in Philosophy
of Science.
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ESSAYS PUBLISHED
Journal
Articles:
2008. "Solomon's Empirical/Non-Empirical Distinction
and the Proper Place of Values in Science" as part of the symposium "A More
Social Epistemology: Decision Vectors, Epistemic Fairness, and Consensus
in Solomon's Social Empiricism," Perspectives
in Science, 16 (3): 265-279.
2008. Co-authored with Bill Loges. "Racist Beliefs
as Objectively False Value Judgments: A Philosophical and Social-Psychological
Analysis," The Journal of Social Philosophy
39 (1): 77-95. PDF available here.
2006. "Uses of Value Judgments in Science: Getting
to the Point." Commentary on Andersen's "Uses of Value Judgments," MIT On-line Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy,
Vol. 2.1 (https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/SGRP/January+2006+Symposium+I+%28Anderson%29).
2006.
"On the Very Idea of a Feminist Epistemology of Science: Response to Commentators
on Beyond Epistemology: A Pragmatist Approach
to Feminist Science Studies," Metascience
15(1): 27-37.(PDF of commentaries
and response available here).
2004. "Having It All: Naturalized Normativity
in Feminist Science Studies," Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy
19(1): 102-118.
2002. "What is Menstruation For? On the Projectibility
of Functional Predicates in Menstruation Research," Studies in the History
and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 33(4): 719-732. (PDF
of essay is available here).
1999. "Marking our Territory: Demarcation Debates
in the Philosophy of Science and the Role of Feminist Science Criticism,"
co-authored with Edrie Sobstyl, in Pre/Text Electra(lite), vol. 2.1, Special Issue on Women, Science and
Technology. (Essay link to be available soon.)
1998. "A Hasty Retreat from Evidence: The Recalcitrance
of Relativism in Feminist Epistemology," Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy 13(4): 88 -111
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Book Chapters and Entries:
(forthcoming). "Radical Interpretation, Social Location, and Science." In
New Perspectives on the Work of Donald
Davidson (full title TBA), ed. Jeffrey Malpas, MIT Press.
(forthcoming). "The Objectivity of Feminist Values and Their Place in Science."
In La Contingenza dei Fatti e l'Oggettivita
dei Valori (The Contingency of Facts and the Objectivity
of Values), ed. Giancarlo Marchetti. Roma: Editrice Armando Armando s.r.l.
Additional contributors: David Copp,
Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, Ruth Anna Putnam, Nicholas Rescher, Barry
Stroud, Kenneth Taylor, Vivian Walsh.
(forthcoming). "Drawing Battle Lines and Choosing Bedfellows: Rorty, Relativism,
and Feminist Strategy." In Feminist Interpretations
of Richard Rorty, ed. Marianne Janack, Penn State Press.
2003. "Davidson and Wittgenstein on Knowledge,
Communication and Social Justice," co-authored with Jonathan Kaplan, in A
House Divided: Analytic and Continental Philosophy, ed. Carlos Prado, Amherst: Humanities Books.
2001. "Donald Davidson," in The Routledge
Encyclopedia of Postmodernism,
eds. Charles E. Winquist and Victor Taylor. London: Routledge.
2001. "Science," in The Routledge Encyclopedia
of Postmodernism, eds. Charles
E. Winquist and Victor Taylor. London: Routledge.
1999. "Quine and Davidson
at the World Congress of Philosophy," American Philosophical Association
Newsletters 99 (1): 57-58.
Review Articles:
2008. "Sandra Harding's Science and Social Inequality," Hypatia 23 (2): 197-201.
2007. "Lorraine Code's Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic
Location," Notre Dame Philosophical
Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=8645).
2006. "Truth and Predication by
Donald Davidson," Newsletter for the Society
for the Advancement of American Philosophy, vol. 105, pp. 59-61.
2006. "Meta-Scrutiny: A Review of Pinnick, Koertge
and Almeder's Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology,"¬Ý
American Philosophical Asociation Newsletters
6 (1): 11-13.
2004. "Joseph Rouse's How Scientific Practices
Matter" Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1410).
2004. "Virginia Valian on the Advancement of
(Some) Women," Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 19 (2): 150-151.
2004. "Mary Midgley's The
Myths We Live By," Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=1384).
2003. "Re-valuing Rationality: A review of Engendering Rationalities,"¬Ý Speculative
Philosophy:The Journal of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 17(4): 319-320.
2001.
"Thinking Globally, Progressing Locally: Harding and Goonatilake on Global
Science," Social Epistemology 15(4): 379-383 (Click here for a copy of the review).
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CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
Panel
Discussions of Beyond Epistemology:
2004, 1st Biennial Meeting of the Society for Feminist Epistemologies,
Methodologies, Metaphysics andScience Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Panelists: Elizabeth Potter, Catherine Hundelby, Moira Howes, and Nancy
McHugh.
2004, 11th Biennial Symposium of the International Association of Women
Philosophers, Goteborg, Sweden.
Panelists: Kristen Intemann, Sharon Crasnow, and Kristina Rolin.
Peer-reviewed Conference Papers:
2007. "Triangulation, Social Location and Ophthalmology: Do You See What
I See?" 2nd Biennial Meeting of the Association
of Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies
(FEMMSS), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
-also presented at the International Society
for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science, Exeter
University, Exeter, UK;
- and the Society for the Social Studies
of Science, Montreal, PQ.
2006. "Solomon's Empirical/Non-Empirical Distinction and the Proper Place
of Values in Science," for the panel "A More Social Epistemology: Decision
Vectors, Epistemic Fairness, and Consensus in Solomon's Social Empiricism," Society for the Social Studies of Science, Thirtieth
Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
2006. "Drawing Battle Lines and Choosing Bedfellows:
Rorty, Relativism and Feminist Strategy." Society for Women in Philosophy, Pacific Division Spring Conference, UCLA, CA.
2004, "Matters of Fact, Value and More," 1st
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies,
Metaphysics andScience Studies,University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2003, "Re-examining the Role of Epistemology
in Feminist Science Studies: The Case of Solomon's Social Empiricism," Society
for Women in Philosophy, Pacific
Division Annual Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
2003, "Naturalized Normativity: A Pragmatic Prescription
for Science Studies," Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, 30th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
2001, "Crossing the Great Divide: A Naturalised
Prescription for Re-fusing the Fact/Value Split within Contemporary Science
and Science Studies."¬Ý Center for Ethics and Values in the Sciences, for the conference "Value-Free Science: Ideal
or Illusion?"¬Ý University of Alabama, Birmingham, AB.
1999, "Out-Naturalising the Naturalists," Canadian
Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Annual Conference, Universite de Sherbrooke,
Sherbrooke, PQ.
1998, "Models for Feminist Epistemology: Quine,
Davidson or Rorty?" International Association of Women Philosophers, Eighth Annual Symposium, "Lessons from the
Gynaeceum," University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA.
1997, "Feminist Pragmatism Applied: Functional
Explanation in the Philosophy of Biology and the New Debate about Menstruation."
Society for Women in Philosophy, Eastern Division APA Conference, Philadelphia,
PA.
1996, "The Politics of Feminist Science: A Davidsonian
Prescription," Society for Women in Philosophy, Eastern Division Annual Conference, SUNY, Stony
Brook, NY.
1995, "A Hasty Retreat from Evidence: Underdetermination
Theory in Longino and Keller," Dunning Trust Conference on "Gender, 'Race' and Science," Queen's University,
Kingston, ON.
1995, "Etiological vs. Non-Etiological
Accounts of Function: The Case of Menstruation," Canadian Society for
the History and Philosophy of Science, Annual Conference, Universite de Quebec a Montreal,
Montreal, PQ.
1995, "Feminist Science Criticism and the Problem
of Demarcation," co-authored with Edrie Sobstyl, for the conference "The
Women, Gender and Science Question," University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN.
1993, ’ÄúAntifoundationalism All the Way Down:
On Avoiding Inconsistency and Essentialism in Feminist Epistemology,’Äù Canadian
Society for Women in Philosophy, Annual Conference, University of Calgary,
Calgary, AB.
Invited Conference Papers/Presentations:
2008. ’ÄúGender and Germs: ’ÄòCultural’Äô Impacts on
’ÄòNatural’Äô Bodies.’Äù Between Nature and Culture:
After the Continental Analytic Divide. Conference sponsored by the
Dept. of Philosophy and the Dept. of German and Scandinavian Studies, University
of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
2007, ’ÄúA Feminist Farewell to Richard Rorty,’Äù Dept. of Philosophy; Dept.
of Women’Äôs Studies, SUNY Stony Brook, NY.
2006, "Drawing Battle Lines and Choosing Bedfellows:
Rorty, Relativism, and Feminist Strategy," Women’Äôs Studies Dept. Colloquium,
Lewis and Clark College, Lancaster, PA.
2006, "The Two-Body Problem," Annual Meeting
of the American Philosophical Association,
Pacific Division, Portland, PA.
2006,
"Drawing Battle Lines and Choosing Bedfellows: Rorty, Relativism and Feminist
Strategy," Department of Philosophy Speaker Series, Franklin and Marshall
College, Lancaster, PA.
2005, "Who Needs (Pragmatist) Epistemology? Part
I: Lessons from Contemporary Pragmatism; Part II: Lessons from Feminist Science
Studies," Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
2005, "The Objectivity of (Feminist) Values,"
Summer Workshop in Philosophy and Feminism, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, BC. ¬Ý
2004, "Feminist Values in Science: Good, Bad
or Neutral?" The Beyond Science and Values conference, Pennsylvania State University, College
Park, PA.
2004, Panel Discussant/Collaborator, "Representing
Genes Project: Conceptual Change in Biologists' Use of the 'Gene' Concept,"
University of Pittsburgh, funded by the NSF and other granting agencies,
principle investigators: Karola Stotz and Paul Griffiths.
2003, "Having It All: Naturalized Normativity
in Feminist Science Studies," Center for the Philosophy of Science, Colloquium Series, University of Pittsburgh,
PA.
2002, "Why Don't Men Menstruate? On the Projectibility
of Functional Predicates in Menstruation Research,"¬Ý Philosophy Colloquium
Series, William Paterson University,
Wayne, NJ; and in 2001, Women's Studies Speaker's Series, Rowan University.
2000, "Functionality and Design in the Philosophy
of Biology," for the Philosophy Colloquium Series, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
2000, "Richmond Campbell on the Coherence of
(Feminist) Empiricism," commentary, for the American Philosophical Association, Central Division Meeting, Chicago, IL.
1999, "Out-Naturalising the Naturalists" for
the conference "Feminism and Naturalism," University of St. Louis at Missouri.
1997, "Feminism and Science Studies," panel discussant
for the conference "enGendering Rationalities," University of Oregon, Eugene,
OR.
1997, "An Introduction to the Fact/Value Distinction,"
for philosophy faculty and students, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, and
also at Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH.
1994, "Lynn Hankinson Nelson and the Epistemic
Community" commentary, for the Canadian Philosophical Association, Annual Conference, University of Calgary, Calgary,
AB.
1993, "Just the Facts
Ma'am: Issues of Evidence and Essentialism in Feminist Critiques of Science,"
Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science, Annual
Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON.
1992, "The Woman Behind the 'Woman's Standpoint':
Just Who Do We Think She Is, Anyway?" for the Calgary Status of Women
Action Committee "Continuing
the Dialogue," conference, Calgary, AB.
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