Curriculum Vitae

Educational History

University of California, San Diego 2003-2009
Ph.D. in Philosophy, June 2009

Dissertation: Science and Experience: A Deweyan Philosophy of Science
Advisors: Paul Churchland, Nancy Cartwright

M.A. in Philosophy, June 2006

Georgia Institute of Technology 1999-2003
B.S. Physics, Highest Honors, May 2003
Minor: Cognitive Science

Employment History

The University of Texas at Dallas
    • Director, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology – 2011-present
    • Affiliate Faculty, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences – 2011-present
    • Assistant Professor of Philosophy, School of Arts and Humanities – 2009-present
    • Affiliate Faculty, Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology – 2009-2010

Research and Teaching Areas

Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science, American Philosophy (Pragmatism)
Areas of Competency
Epistemology, Philosophy of Technology, Social and Political Philosophy, Science and Technology Studies, History of Psychology

Professional recognitions and honors

  • Travel Award, Foundations of the Formal Sciences VII, October 2008
  • Visiting Scholar, Center for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics, Spring 2007
  • Travel Award, UK-European Foundations of Physics Conference at Leeds, March 2007
  • UCSD Philosophy Department Grad Student Travel Grant, Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2007
  • Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, UCSD, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Winter 2008
  • UCSD Summer Research Assistantship in Philosophy, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
  • UCSD Philosophy Department Grad Student Fellowship, 2003-2004
  • Research Experience for Undergraduates (NSF), School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Summer 2001

Professional Memberships and Affiliations

  • Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at UT-Dallas 2009-Present
  • Philosophy of Science Association 2008-Present
  • American Philosophical Association 2008-Present
  • Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 2010-Present
  • North Texas Philosophical Association 2010
  • Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts 2010-Present
  • Cognitive Science Society 2012-present
  • International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2012-present
  • Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at UCSD 2004-Present
  • Distributed Cognition – HCI Lab at UCSD 2007-2009

Achievements in Original Investigation

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • Genuine Problems and the Significance of Science (2010), Contemporary Pragmatism 7(2). 9,972 words.
  • Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Determinacy Problem (2009), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 60(4):679-695. 7,112 words.
  • Models and Perspectives on Stage: Remarks on Giere’s Scientific Perspectivism (2009), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 40:2 pp. 213-220. 7,246 words [with response by Giere, pp. 221-223]

Articles in Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings

  • Science as Socially Distributed Cognition: Bridging Philosophy and Sociology of Science (2011), Foundations of the Formal Sciences VII: Bringing together Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Karen François, Benedikt Löwe, Thomas Müller, and Bart van Kerkhove (eds), v. 32 of Studies in Logic. Accepted August 2009. 5,416 words.
  • Picky Eating is a Moral Failing, (2007) Food & Philosophy: Eat, Think, and Be Merry, F. Allhoff and D. Monroe (eds), Blackwell. 6,004 words.

Book Reviews

  • Review: Philip Kitcher, Science in a Democratic Society. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. (7 March 2012). http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/29284-science-in-a-democratic-society/2,868 words.
  • Review: A Companion to Pragmatism, ed. John R. Shook and Joseph Margolis (2011) The Pluralist 6(2): 101-103. 1,049 words.
  • Review of Mark B. Brown’s Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation (2010) Isis 101:3, 686–687. 784 words.
  • Good News from Analytic Philosophy! (2010) Review of Anti-Individualism by Sanford Goldberg, Mind, Culture, and Activity 17:3, 293-294. 1,018 words.
  • On What Quine Is, (2006) Review of The Cambridge Companion to Quine, ed. Roger F. Gibson, Jr. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 13:4, 339–343. 2,661 words.

Articles Accepted for Publication

  • John Dewey’s Logic of Science. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 2(2), October 2012. Accepted May 2012. 21,174 words.
  • with Erik Jensen, Nathan King, and Jeremy Prince, Review: The Cambridge Companion to Dewey, ed. Molly Cochran. Mind, Culture, and Activity. Accepted August 2011. 1,410 words.
  • Science and Democracy in International Relations. In Ralston, S. J., editor, Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations: Essays for a Bold New World. Lexington Books. Accepted July 2011. 9,655 words.
  • “Values in Science beyond Underdetermination and Inductive Risk,” Philosophy of Science. Accepted June 2012. 5,000 words
  • “The Democratic Control of the Scientific Control of Politics.” In Dennis Dieks and Vassilios Karakostas, editors, Recent Progress in Philosophy of Science: Perspectives and Foundational Problems. (Selected Proceedings of the European Philosophy of Science Association 2011.) Accepted August 2012. Dordrecht: Springer. 5,547 words.

Articles Under Review

  • with Joyce C. Havstad, The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Feminist Pragmatist Perspective, Submitted March 2012. 8,059 words.
  • “The Source and Status of Values for Socially Responsible Science.”

Works in Progress (Edited Volume)

  • Reassessing Paul Feyerabend, ed. M.J. Brown and I.J. Kidd. Tentative Contributors: Matthew J. Brown, Paul Churchland, Matteo Collodel, Robert Farrell, Stefano Gattei, Ron Giere, Helmut Heit, Struan Jacob, Ian James Kidd, Philip Kitcher, Martin Kusch, Gonzalo Munévar, Eric Oberheim, and John Preston. Due October 2012.

Presentations

Invited and Refereed

  • 6-7 June 2013 – Cognitive Attitudes and Values in Science– ZiF, Bielefeld University (invited)
  • 20-23 February 2013 – Symposium on “Philosophy of Science and Political Engagement” – Central APA, New Orleans, LA (invited)
  • 15-17 November 2012 – “Values in Science beyond Underdetermination and Inductive Risk” – Philosophy of Science Association, San Diego, CA
  • 28 September 2012 – “Science in a Precarious World” – Feyerabend 2012 – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (invited)
  • 13 June 2012 – Values in Science beyond Underdetermination and Inductive Risk – Social Relevance of Philosophy of Science – ZiF, Bielefeld University (invited)
  • 6 April 2012 – Author Meets Critics Session on Janet Kourany’s Philosophy of Science After Feminism – American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) (invited)
  • 31 March 2012 – Quine is Not a (Deweyan) Pragmatist – Pragmatism in the Philosophy of Science Conference – University of San Francisco (invited)
  • 10 February 2012 – Values in Science: Beyond Underdetermination and Inductive Risk – University of Texas at Arlington Philosophy Department (invited)
  • 5 October 2011 – Democratic Control of the Scientific Control of Politics – European Philosophy of Science Association, Athens, Greece
  • 27 May 2011 – Democratic Control of the Scientific Control of Politics – Society for Philosophy and Technology Conference
  • 3 April 2011 – Democratic Control of the Scientific Control of Politics – Three Rivers Philosophy Conference on Science, Knowledge, and Democracy, University of South Carolina
  • 31 October 2010 – Love Slaves and Wonder Women: Values and Popular Culture in the Psychology of W.M. Marston– Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
  • 17 October 2010 – From the Experimenter’s Regress to Evidence-Based Policy: The Functional Complexity of Scientific Evidence – Philosophy of Scientific Experimentation: A Challenge to Philosophy of Science – Center for Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh
  • 15 July 2010 – Love Slaves and Wonder Women: Values and Popular Culture in the Psychology of W.M. Marston– UT-Arlington Summer Seminar in Mind, Cognition, and Neuroethics (invited)
  • 9 April 2010 – Love Slaves and Wonder Women: Values and Popular Culture in the Psychology of W.M. Marston– North Texas Philosophical Association
  • 20-22 November 2009 – A Centennial Retrospective of John Dewey’s The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy– 150 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Impact on the Humanities and the Social Sciences
  • 22-24 October 2009 – Dewey on Science– John Dewey’s 150th Birthday Celebration: An International Conference on Dewey’s Impact on America and the World
  • 25 July 2009 – Wonder Woman: William Moulton Marston’s Psychological Technology– SDCC Comic Arts Conference
  • 19 June 2009 – Genuine Problems and the Significance of Science– Northeast Pragmatism Group Conference on Pragmatism & Science
  • 8-12 April 2009 – Evidence in John Dewey’s Theory of Inquiry– American Philosophical Association – Pacific Division, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Graduate Session
  • 6 November 2008 – Scientific Significance and Genuine Problems: Fundamental Troubles in Kitcher’s Social theory of Science– Symposium: Pragmatism at the Interface of Science and Politics – Philosophy of Science Association
  • 22 October 2008 – Science as Socially Distributed Cognition: Bridging Philosophy and the Sociology of Science– Foundations of the Formal Sciences VII: Bringing together Philosophy and Sociology of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • 12 October 2008 – Inquiry, Evidence, and Experiment: The ‘Experimenters’ Regress’ Dissolved– CU Boulder Regional Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science
  • 26 July 2008 – Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? The Problem of Vigilante Justice in Watchmen(with Adam Streed) – Comic Arts Conference
  • 28 July 2007 – Identities in Crisis: Why Was Crisis on Infinite Earths Needed?– Comic Arts Conference (at San Diego Comic-Con International)
  • 7 June 2007 – Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Determinacy Problem– Oxford Philosophy of Physics Workgroup
  • 18 April 2007 – Models and Perspectives on Stage: Remarks on Giere’s Scientific Perspectivism– ZEWW Seminar, Leibniz University Hannover
  • 30 March 2007 – Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Determinacy Problem– UK/Europe Foundation of Physics Conference at Leeds University
  • 30 September 2006 – Rovelli’s relational interpretation of Quantum Mechanics– Southern California Philosophy of Physics Workgroup

Unrefereed Papers, In-house Talks, Graduate Student Conferences, and Comments

  • September 2011 – Wonder Woman in Love – Comics and Popular Arts Conference, Atlanta, GA
  • 6 September 2009 – Wonder Woman: William Moulton Marston’s Psychological Technology – Comics and Popular Arts Conference, Atlanta, GA
  • 18 April 2009 – Construction and Realism in John Dewey’s Philosophy of Science– UCSD Philosophy Graduate Symposium on the work of Peter Godfrey-Smith
  • 8-12 April 2009 – Comment: on Scientific Explanation, Understanding, and Knowledge– American Philosophical Association – Pacific Division
  • 31 August 2008 – Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? The Problem of Vigilante Justice in Watchmen(with Adam Streed) – Dragon*Con Academic Mini-Conference
  • 3 June 2008 – Comment: Kochan on Popper’s ‘Communitarianism’ – Canadian Philosophical Association Congress 2008
  • 31 May 2008 – Experimental Philosophy: Past, Present, and Future– UCSD Philosophy Graduate Symposium on the work of Shaun Nichols
  • 25 January 2008 – John Dewey’s Theory of Inquiry– UCSD History of Philosophy Roundtable
  • 15 November 2007 – The Pattern of Inquiry– UCSD Graduate Philosophy Colloquium
  • 16 March 2007 – Elements of a Pragmatist Theory of Social Inquiry– Brennan Graduate Student Conference on Social Inquiryin memory of Hans Seigfried, Loyola University Chicago
  • 12 March 2007 – Elements of a Pragmatist Theory of Social Inquiry– UCSD Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
  • 6 February 2007 – Elements of a Pragmatist Theory of Social Inquiry– UCSD Graduate Philosophy Colloquium
  • 16 October 2006 – Dewey’s Art as Experience– UCSD Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
  • 22 April 2006 – Emotion and Evaluative Inquiry(with Adam Streed) – Normativity & Sentiment: A Graduate Conference with Justin D’Arms, UCSD
  • 12 May 2006 – To See Like a Child: John Dewey, the Tao, and Nonconceptual Experience – UCSD History of Philosophy Roundtable
  • 18 February 2005 – A Deweyan Inquiry into Rorty’s Attack on Inquiry into Inquiry– UCSD History of Philosophy Roundtable
  • 9 February 2005 – Cultural-Historical Theories of Mind– UCSD Experimental Philosophy Lab
  • 26 January 2005 – Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Determinacy Problem– UCSD All Grad Research Symposium
  • 27 April 2004 – Using Cash-Value Analysis in Historical Exegesis, The Yaffe-Rickless Debate as an Application– UCSD Graduate Philosophy Colloquium Series
  • 30 August 2002 – Subjectivity, Process, and Consciousness in Cognitive Science– Georgia Tech Cognitive Science Brownbag Colloquium Series

Public Lectures (Invited)

  • 23 Februrary 2012 – Science, Ethics, and Democracy – UTD Center for BrainHealth
  • 3 November 2011 – Medical Ethics and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks– Mountain View College
  • 27 September 2011 – Wonder Woman as Psychological Technology – UTD Technology on Tap – Trinity Hall Irish Pub, Dallas
  • 19 June 2011 – Wonder Woman and Science – Fellowship of Freethought, Dallas
  • 27 November 2010 – Science, Values, and Democracy – North Texas Mensa Regional Gatherting
  • 17 May 2010 – Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology – Richardson Rotary Club

External Funding

Proposals Submitted

  • Science-Policy Interactions and Social Values: A Symposium
    • PI: Matthew J. Brown; co-PI: Magdalena Grohman, Richard Scotch
    • National Science Founcation
    • 3/1/2012-2/28/2013, $25,675
  • Science, Values and Democracy (Scholar’s Award)
    • PI: Matthew J. Brown
    • National Science Founcation
    • 1/1/2012-12/31/2014, $262,197
  • Science-Policy Interactions and Social Values: A Symposium
    • PI: Matthew J. Brown
    • National Science Founcation
    • 3/1/2012-2/28/2013, $24,970
  • Science, Values and Democracy (Scholar’s Award)
    • PI: Matthew J. Brown
    • National Science Founcation
    • 6/1/2011-5/31/2014, $273,471
  • Science, Values and Democracy (Scholar’s Award)
    • PI: Matthew J. Brown
    • National Science Founcation
    • 8/1/2011-7/31/2014, $262,196

Teaching

Doctoral advisement

  • Dissertations directed, in progress: 1
  • Committees served on, in progress: 2
  • External dissertation chair: 1

Masters advisement

  • Students advised: 1
  • Committees served on: 1
  • Faculty advisor for Arts & Humanities Graduate Student Association, 2010-2011

Undergraduate advisement

  • Students advised (honors thesis), Psychology: 1

Classroom Teaching

The University of Texas at Dallas
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, School of Arts and Humanities, Fall 2009-

American Pragmatism HUHI 6314 Fall 2012
Philosophy of Technology PHIL 4310
Comics Studies HUHI 6327 Spring 2012
Philosophy of Technology PHIL 4310
Science, Values, and Democracy HUHI 6305 Fall 2011
Intro to Philosophy PHIL 1301
Bioethics & Human Enhancement HUHI 6395 Spring 2011
Bioethics & the Human Cyborg PHIL 4380
John Dewey and American Philosophy HUHI 6314 Fall 2010
Philosophy of Technology (two sections) PHIL 4310
Classical American Philosophy (Pragmatism) HUHI 6314 Summer 2010
Philosophy of Technology PHIL 4380 Spring 2010
Creativity in Science and Technology HUHI 6305
Philosophy of Science PHIL 4380 Fall 2009
Science, Values, and Democracy HUHI 6305
University of California, San Diego
Instructor, Philosophy Department, Summer-Fall 2008

Logic and Decision-Making PHIL 12 Fall 2008
Existentialism PHIL 181 Summer 2008
Teaching Assistant, Philosophy Department, 2004-2008Intro to Philosophy-MetaphysicsPHIL 14Winter 2005Logic and Decision-MakingPHIL 12Fall 2004

Ethics and Society PHIL 27 Spring 2009
Intro to Philosophy-Theory of Knowledge PHIL 15 Spring 2008
Intro to Philosophy-Ethics PHIL 13 Fall 2006
The Nature of Philosophy (Intro) PHIL 1 Fall 2005
Ethics and Society PHIL 27 Spring 2005
Reader, Environmental Studies, Winter 2008

What Nature? Whose Nature? ENVR 102 Winter 2008
Teaching Assistant, Warren College Writing Program, 2005-2007

Science and Pseudo-Science WW 10B Spring 2006,Winter 2007
The Consciousness Debates WW 10A Fall 2006
The Warren Court WW 10A Fall 2005-Winter 2006
Georgia Institute of Technology
Head Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, 2002-2003
Teaching Assistant, Computer Science, Georgia Tech, 2001-2002

Professional Service

  • Referee: MIT Press (Philosophy and Cognitive Science Books), Philosophy of Science, British Journal for Philosophy of Science, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Social Epistemology, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophica, Spontaneous Generations, American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division meeting), Canadian Philosophical Association Congress
  • Member-at-Large, North Texas Philosophical Association 2010-2011
  • Conference Coordinator, Comics and Popular Arts Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, 2008-Present
  • Faculty Sponsor, Graduate Student Association, School of Arts and Humanities, UT Dallas 2010-2011
  • Committee on Learning Management Systems, UT Dallas, Fall 2010
  • Graduate Student Referee, Science, Technology, and Human Values 2007-08
  • UCSD Graduate Life Steering Committee, Summer 2008 – Spring 2009
  • Graduate Student Representative, UCSD Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Humanities, 2008
  • Organizing Committee, UCSD Philosophy Graduate Symposium 2008-2009
  • Department Representative, UCSD Graduate Student Association, 2008-2009
  • Representative-Alternate, UCSD Graduate Student Association, 2007-2008