Phillip Honenberger – Curriculum Vitae
Contact
Department of Philosophy
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Central Desert Complex #4
Las Vegas, NV 89154
phillip.honenberger@unlv.edu / philliphonenberger@gmail.com
Website www.philliphonenberger.com
Personal citizen, U.S.A.
Born 9 January, 1982 in Virginia, USA
Research and Teaching Specialization
philosophy of science, history of science, philosophy of biology,
history of modern European philosophy (Kant to present)
Academic Employment
2018- Instructor of Philosophy, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
2016-2018 NSF (Nat.Sci.Foundation) “Science, Technology and Society” Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (2017-2018)
Dept. of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College (2016-2017)
2014-2016 Fellow-In-Residence and Program Coordinator
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2012-2014 Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Rowan University
2007-2012 Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
Education
2005-2013 Ph.D., Philosophy, Temple University; M.A., Philosophy, Temple University
1999-2003 B.A., Philosophy and Music, College of William and Mary
Dissertation
Title:: Mediating Life: Animality, Artifactuality, and the Distinctiveness of the Human in the
Philosophical Anthropologies of Scheler, Plessner, Gehlen and Mead
Major Advisor: Joseph Margolis
Committee: Espen Hammer, Richard Schacht, Miriam Solomon
Publications
Books – edited and editorial assistance
1. Phillip Honenberger (editor), Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology: Nature, Life, and the Human between Transcendental and Empirical Perspectives. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
2. (forthcoming) Helmuth Plessner, The Stages of Organic Life and the Human: Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology. Translated by Millay Hyatt. Editorial assistance by Phillip Honenberger. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2019.
Journal Articles
8. “Darwin Among the Philosophers: Hull and Ruse on Darwin, Herschel, and Whewell,” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Fall 2018
7. with Michael Dietrich. "Duhem's Problem Revisited: Logical versus Epistemic Formulations and Solutions." Synthese. Fall 2018.
6. “Grene and Hull on Types and Typological Thinking in Biology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 50: 13-25, 2015.
5. “Animality, Sociality, and Historicity in Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 23 (5): 707-729, 2015.
4. “The Poverty of Neo-Pragmatism: Rorty, Putnam, and Margolis on Realism and Relativism,” Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 2: Pragmatism, Metaphysics, and Culture – Reflections on the Philosophy of Joseph Margolis, ed. Dirk-Martin Grube and Robert Sinclair, 76-99.
3. “History, Before and Beyond the Limit,” Journal of the Philosophy of History 4 (3-4): 274-295, 2011.
2. “Ethics, Hermeneutics, and Eudaimonics,” International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2): 243-256, 2010.
1. “Le Nègre et Hegel: Fanon on Hegel, Colonialism, and the Dialectics of Recognition,” Human Architecture: Journal of the Archeology of Self-Knowledge 5, Summer 2007: 153-162.
Book Chapters
4. “Introduction,” Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, ed. P. Honenberger. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
3. “Naturalism, Pluralism, and the Human Place in the Worlds,” Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, ed. P. Honenberger. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
2. Phillip Honenberger and Allan Megill, and contributions from J. Dukes, J. Reich, J. Norman, S. Shepard, and H. Bracken, “Conversazione per storici e filosofi sulla natura della spiegazione storica” [Abductive Inference and Historiography: A Conversation for Historians and Philosophers]
Theorie del Pensiero Storico, ed. D. Bondi and G. Belloni. Edizioni Unicopli, 69-99, 2014.
1. Allan Megill, Stephen Shepard, and Phillip Honenberger, “What Did the Neighbors Know about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings? A Case Study in Historical Epistemology,” in A. Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: An Historian’s Guide to Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007: 125-150.
Entries in Reference Works
3. (forthcoming) “Marjorie Grene,” Plessner-Handbook: Leben, Werk, Wirkung, ed. Joachim Fischer. J.B. Metzler, 2018.
2. “Hull, David Lee (1935-2010),” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John Shook. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
1. “Keller, Evelyn Fox (1936- ),” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John Shook. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Book Reviews and Review Essays
4. “From Species to Classification and Back Again.” Review Essay of Richard A. Richards’ Biological Classification: A Philosophical Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Metascience 26 (3): 493-497, 2017.
3. “Eccentric Investigations of (Post-)Humanity.” Review Essay of Jos de Mul (ed.), Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology. Amsterdam University Press, 2014. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (1): 56-76, 2016.
2. Review of Julie Zahle and Finn Collin (eds.), Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science (Springer, 2014). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/), October 2014.
1. Review of Edward Skidelsky, Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture (Yale University Press, 2010). Metaphilosophy 41 (1): 239-243, 2010.
Works In Progress
3. (in progress) with Evelyn Brister. "Contributor Sections and Scientific Collaboration"
2. (in progress) “Phylogenetic Taxonomy and HGT: Reconcilable Tension or Grounds for Taxonomic Revolution?”
1. (in progress) with Michael Dietrich. “What is Philosophy of Biology?: A Data-Driven Account”
Presentations (Select)
Invited Presentations / Colloquium Presentations
7. "Excentric Naturalism." Workshop on HPS and Philosophical Anthropology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, June 2018.
6. "What is Philosophy of Biology?: A Data-Driven Account." Zentrum fuer Literatur und Kulturforschung, Berlin, Germany, June 2018.
5. “What is Philosophy of Biology?: A Data-Driven Account.” University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science, Lunch Talk Series, April 2018.
4. “Darwin’s Debts and Credits to Philosophy of Science: A Historiographic Re-evaluation.” Dartmouth College EEES (Ecology, Evolution, Ecosystems and Society), Lunch Talk Series, October 2016.
3. “Naturalism, Pluralism, and Anthropology: Field Notes on the Human ‘Place’ in Nature.” Colloquium on Pragmatism and Philosophical Anthropology. University of Potsdam, Germany, Summer 2014.
2. “Grene and Hull on Typological Thinking in Biology.” Rowan University, “Theorizing at Rowan” series, March 2014.
1. “Grene and Hull on Typological Thinking in Biology.” Richard Stockton College, Phi Sigma Tau Speaker Series, November 2013.
Conference Presentations
18. "Phylogenetic Taxonomy and HGT: Irreconcilable Tension or Grounds for Taxonomic Revolution?" SPSP (Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice), Ghent, Belgium, July 2018.
17. Evelyn Brister and Phillip Honenberger, “Text Analysis of Contributor Sections and Scientific Collaboration.” University of Pittsburgh, LEAHPS conference (Learning from Empirical Approaches to History and Philosophy of Science), Pittsburgh, April 2018.
16. “A Study of Scientific Collaborations, with Lessons Drawn from [the journal] Nature.” ISHPSSB (International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology), Sau Paulo, Brazil, July 2017.
15. “Debating Darwin’s Debt to Philosophy.” SPSP (Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice), Glassboro, New Jersey, June 2016.
14. “Hull and Ruse on Positivism, Historicism, and Darwin’s Debt to Philosophy.” ISHPSSB (International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology), Montreal, Canada, July 2015.
13. “Marjorie Grene, David Hull, and the Origins of the ‘New’ Philosophy of Biology. Introductory Symposium, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (now CHSTM), September 2015.
12. “Grene and Hull on Type-Concepts in Biology.” HOPOS (History of Philosophy of Science), Ghent, Belgium, July 2014.
11. “Methodological Naturalism and ‘the Human Place in Nature’.” APA (American Philosophical Association), Eastern Division, group program, Baltimore, December 2013.
10. “The Substantive and Methodological Integration of Biology, Anthropology, and Philosophy in Helmuth Plessner’s Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch.” ISHPSSB (International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology), Montpellier, France, 2013
9. “The Poverty of Neo-Pragmatism.” The Metaphysics of Culture: The Philosophy of Joseph Margolis, Helsinki Institute for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland, May 2013.
8. “Re-evaluating Classical Philosophical Anthropology, 1927-1940.” International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2012.
7. “The Problem of Mediation in a Philosophical Anthropology.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences Roundtable, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 2012.
6. “To What Questions Does Philosophical Anthropology Provide an Answer?” Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Consortium, September 2011.
5. “Human Nature and Natural Selves.” Temple Univ. Graduate Student Works-in-Progress Series, 2010.
4. “Austere Realism and the Ontology of Institutions.” CHAT (Center for the Humanities at Temple) Fellows Colloquium, 2009.
3. “Brandom’s Idealist Thesis: What’s the Idea?” APA (American Philosophical Association), Eastern Division, 2007 (General Program)
2. “Reflections on the Heideggerian Paradigm in Recent French Philosophy.” Fordham University Graduate Student Conference, 2007.
1. “Fanon, Hegel, and the Dialectics of Recognition.” University of Massachusetts, Boston, 4th Annual Social Theory Forum, 2007.
Poster Presentations
3. with Evelyn Brister. "Contributor Sections and Scientific Collaboration." Philosophy of Science Association. Seattle, Washington, November 2018.
2. "Modeling Interdisciplinary Collaborations between Biologists and Philosophers, 1950-2000." Philosophy of Science Association. Atlanta, Georgia, November 2016.
1. "Identifying and Modeling Interdisciplinary Collaborations between Biologists and Philosophers, 1950-2000." Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice. Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, June 2016.
Courses Taught (Select)
10. PHIL 242 - Ethics for Engineers and Scientists (x2)
University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 2018
9. PHIL 102 - Critical Thinking & Reasoning (x2)
University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 2018
8. Philosophy and Society online (x2)
Rowan University, 2016
7. The Meaning of the Arts (x1)
Temple University, 2012
6. Philosophy of Science online (x2)
Rowan University, 2015
5. Philosophy of Science (x8)
Rowan University, 2012-2015
4. Philosophy of the Human (x2)
Temple University, 2011
3. Philosophy of Mind (x2)
Temple University, 2008-2009
2. Introduction to Symbolic Logic (x2)
Temple University, 2007
Rowan University, 2013
1. Introduction to Philosophy (x10)
Temple University, 2007-2012
Rowan University, 2012-2015
Grants and Awards:
7. Visiting Research Fellow. Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, Germany. May-June
2018. Airfare, lodging, per diem.
6. Michael Dietrich (PI) and Phillip Honenberger (Postdoc, Co-PI).
National Science Foundation “Science, Technology and Society” Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Title: “A Social and Historical Study of Interdisciplinary Collaborations Between Biologists and
Philosophers,” 2016-2018. $175,000
5. NSF (Nat.Sci.Foundation) Travel Grant to HOPOS 2014. $400 travel expenses
4. NSF (Nat.Sci.Foundation) Travel Grant to HOPOS 2012. $400 travel expenses
3. Graduate Associateship, CHAT (Center for the Humanities at Temple), 2008-2009. $500
2. Temple University, College of Liberal Arts Fund for Graduate Excellence, travel grant (6x), 2006-2009. $500 each
1. Akademos / Textbook X essay competition, 2nd place. $250 in books
Professional Activities:
Sessions Organized
4. Organizer, “Collaboration in Contemporary Bioscience: Sociological and Philosophical Approaches,”
ISHPSSB 2017
3. Organizer of bi-weekly History of Biology Works-In-Progress Workshop, Consortium for History of
Science, Technology and Medicine, January-July 2015
2. Organizer of double session, “Philosophical Anthropology I” and “Philosophical Anthropology II,”
for ISHPSSB 2013
1. Organizer of session, “Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology” for APA Eastern Division,
December 2013 (group session w/ Society for Humanist Philosophers)
Reviews for Journals
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; Synthese; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Journal of the American Philosophical Association; Human Studies (x4); Theory, Culture, and Society (x3)
Reviews for Book Publishers
Palgrave MacMillan, Rowman and Littlefield / Lexington Books, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
Reviews for Funding Organizations
National Science Foundation – Science, Technology, and Society program
Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (fellowship applications)
Other Service
5. Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft, 2017-
4. Member, Membership Development and Diversity Committee, ISHSSPB (International Society for
History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology), 2015-
3. Session Chair, PSA (Philosophy of Science Association), “Natural Kinds: The Case of Species,”
November 2016
2. Co-organizer (with Matt Lund) of Rowan University Dean’s Lecture, Spring 2013: Miriam Solomon
1. Graduate Student Representative, Department of Philosophy, Temple University, 2010-2011
Professional Society Memberships
American Philosophical Association (APA), 2007-2013
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), 2012-
International Society for the History of International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies
of Biology (ISHPSSB), 2013-
Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), 2015-
Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), 2016-
Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft, 2016-
Working Group Memberships
Member, History and Philosophy of Science Working Group, CHSTM, 2012-
Member, History of Biological Sciences Working Group, CHSTM, 2015-
Member, Microbial Biology and Evolution lab (director: Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva), Dartmouth College, 2016-2017
Languages:
English (native); German (intermediate); French (intermediate)
Additional Skills:
MySQL; Python; QGIS (Geographical Information Systems / Mapping); Cytoscape (network analysis); Excel, Powerpoint, Word
References:
Michael Dietrich
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
1017 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA USA 15260
413-330-6463, mdietrich@pitt.edu
Hans-Peter Krüger
Professor fur Politische Philosophie / Philosophische Anthropologie, Universität Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 11, Raum 2.14, Potsdam, Germany 14469
0331 977-1332, krueghp@uni-potsdam.de
Matt Lund* (*Teaching Reference)
Professor of Philosophy, Rowan University
Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies
Bunce Hall, 3rd Floor, Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ, 08028
856-256-4500 ex. 4539, lund@rowan.edu
Joseph Margolis
Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy
Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University
Anderson Hall 727, 1114 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA USA 19122
215-462-1556, josephmargolis455@hotmail.com
Allan Megill
434 Nau Hall, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA 22903
434- 924-6414, megill@virginia.edu
Lenny Moss
Prof. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy University of Exeter
Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, UK, EX4 4RJ, lenny.moss@exeter.ac.uk, dcimorse@icloud.edu
Betty Smocovitis
Professor of History / Professor of Biology
Department of Biology, University of Florida, Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL USA 32611
352-392-9647, bsmocovi@ufl.edu
Miriam Solomon
Professor of Philosophy
Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University
Anderson Hall 729, 1114 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA USA 19122
215-204-9629, msolomon@temple.edu
John Zammito
John Antony Weir Professor, Department of History, Rice University
317 Humanities Building, Houston, TX USA 77005
713-348-2453, zammito@rice.edu
Contact
Department of Philosophy
University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Central Desert Complex #4
Las Vegas, NV 89154
phillip.honenberger@unlv.edu / philliphonenberger@gmail.com
Website www.philliphonenberger.com
Personal citizen, U.S.A.
Born 9 January, 1982 in Virginia, USA
Research and Teaching Specialization
philosophy of science, history of science, philosophy of biology,
history of modern European philosophy (Kant to present)
Academic Employment
2018- Instructor of Philosophy, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
2016-2018 NSF (Nat.Sci.Foundation) “Science, Technology and Society” Postdoctoral Fellowship
Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (2017-2018)
Dept. of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College (2016-2017)
2014-2016 Fellow-In-Residence and Program Coordinator
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
2012-2014 Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Rowan University
2007-2012 Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Temple University
Education
2005-2013 Ph.D., Philosophy, Temple University; M.A., Philosophy, Temple University
1999-2003 B.A., Philosophy and Music, College of William and Mary
Dissertation
Title:: Mediating Life: Animality, Artifactuality, and the Distinctiveness of the Human in the
Philosophical Anthropologies of Scheler, Plessner, Gehlen and Mead
Major Advisor: Joseph Margolis
Committee: Espen Hammer, Richard Schacht, Miriam Solomon
Publications
Books – edited and editorial assistance
1. Phillip Honenberger (editor), Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology: Nature, Life, and the Human between Transcendental and Empirical Perspectives. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
2. (forthcoming) Helmuth Plessner, The Stages of Organic Life and the Human: Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology. Translated by Millay Hyatt. Editorial assistance by Phillip Honenberger. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2019.
Journal Articles
8. “Darwin Among the Philosophers: Hull and Ruse on Darwin, Herschel, and Whewell,” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. Fall 2018
7. with Michael Dietrich. "Duhem's Problem Revisited: Logical versus Epistemic Formulations and Solutions." Synthese. Fall 2018.
6. “Grene and Hull on Types and Typological Thinking in Biology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 50: 13-25, 2015.
5. “Animality, Sociality, and Historicity in Helmuth Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 23 (5): 707-729, 2015.
4. “The Poverty of Neo-Pragmatism: Rorty, Putnam, and Margolis on Realism and Relativism,” Nordic Studies in Pragmatism 2: Pragmatism, Metaphysics, and Culture – Reflections on the Philosophy of Joseph Margolis, ed. Dirk-Martin Grube and Robert Sinclair, 76-99.
3. “History, Before and Beyond the Limit,” Journal of the Philosophy of History 4 (3-4): 274-295, 2011.
2. “Ethics, Hermeneutics, and Eudaimonics,” International Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2): 243-256, 2010.
1. “Le Nègre et Hegel: Fanon on Hegel, Colonialism, and the Dialectics of Recognition,” Human Architecture: Journal of the Archeology of Self-Knowledge 5, Summer 2007: 153-162.
Book Chapters
4. “Introduction,” Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, ed. P. Honenberger. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
3. “Naturalism, Pluralism, and the Human Place in the Worlds,” Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology, ed. P. Honenberger. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
2. Phillip Honenberger and Allan Megill, and contributions from J. Dukes, J. Reich, J. Norman, S. Shepard, and H. Bracken, “Conversazione per storici e filosofi sulla natura della spiegazione storica” [Abductive Inference and Historiography: A Conversation for Historians and Philosophers]
Theorie del Pensiero Storico, ed. D. Bondi and G. Belloni. Edizioni Unicopli, 69-99, 2014.
1. Allan Megill, Stephen Shepard, and Phillip Honenberger, “What Did the Neighbors Know about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings? A Case Study in Historical Epistemology,” in A. Megill, Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: An Historian’s Guide to Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007: 125-150.
Entries in Reference Works
3. (forthcoming) “Marjorie Grene,” Plessner-Handbook: Leben, Werk, Wirkung, ed. Joachim Fischer. J.B. Metzler, 2018.
2. “Hull, David Lee (1935-2010),” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John Shook. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
1. “Keller, Evelyn Fox (1936- ),” Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, ed. John Shook. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Book Reviews and Review Essays
4. “From Species to Classification and Back Again.” Review Essay of Richard A. Richards’ Biological Classification: A Philosophical Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Metascience 26 (3): 493-497, 2017.
3. “Eccentric Investigations of (Post-)Humanity.” Review Essay of Jos de Mul (ed.), Plessner’s Philosophical Anthropology. Amsterdam University Press, 2014. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 46 (1): 56-76, 2016.
2. Review of Julie Zahle and Finn Collin (eds.), Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate: Essays in the Philosophy of Social Science (Springer, 2014). Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/), October 2014.
1. Review of Edward Skidelsky, Ernst Cassirer: The Last Philosopher of Culture (Yale University Press, 2010). Metaphilosophy 41 (1): 239-243, 2010.
Works In Progress
3. (in progress) with Evelyn Brister. "Contributor Sections and Scientific Collaboration"
2. (in progress) “Phylogenetic Taxonomy and HGT: Reconcilable Tension or Grounds for Taxonomic Revolution?”
1. (in progress) with Michael Dietrich. “What is Philosophy of Biology?: A Data-Driven Account”
Presentations (Select)
Invited Presentations / Colloquium Presentations
7. "Excentric Naturalism." Workshop on HPS and Philosophical Anthropology, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, June 2018.
6. "What is Philosophy of Biology?: A Data-Driven Account." Zentrum fuer Literatur und Kulturforschung, Berlin, Germany, June 2018.
5. “What is Philosophy of Biology?: A Data-Driven Account.” University of Pittsburgh, Center for Philosophy of Science, Lunch Talk Series, April 2018.
4. “Darwin’s Debts and Credits to Philosophy of Science: A Historiographic Re-evaluation.” Dartmouth College EEES (Ecology, Evolution, Ecosystems and Society), Lunch Talk Series, October 2016.
3. “Naturalism, Pluralism, and Anthropology: Field Notes on the Human ‘Place’ in Nature.” Colloquium on Pragmatism and Philosophical Anthropology. University of Potsdam, Germany, Summer 2014.
2. “Grene and Hull on Typological Thinking in Biology.” Rowan University, “Theorizing at Rowan” series, March 2014.
1. “Grene and Hull on Typological Thinking in Biology.” Richard Stockton College, Phi Sigma Tau Speaker Series, November 2013.
Conference Presentations
18. "Phylogenetic Taxonomy and HGT: Irreconcilable Tension or Grounds for Taxonomic Revolution?" SPSP (Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice), Ghent, Belgium, July 2018.
17. Evelyn Brister and Phillip Honenberger, “Text Analysis of Contributor Sections and Scientific Collaboration.” University of Pittsburgh, LEAHPS conference (Learning from Empirical Approaches to History and Philosophy of Science), Pittsburgh, April 2018.
16. “A Study of Scientific Collaborations, with Lessons Drawn from [the journal] Nature.” ISHPSSB (International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology), Sau Paulo, Brazil, July 2017.
15. “Debating Darwin’s Debt to Philosophy.” SPSP (Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice), Glassboro, New Jersey, June 2016.
14. “Hull and Ruse on Positivism, Historicism, and Darwin’s Debt to Philosophy.” ISHPSSB (International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology), Montreal, Canada, July 2015.
13. “Marjorie Grene, David Hull, and the Origins of the ‘New’ Philosophy of Biology. Introductory Symposium, Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science (now CHSTM), September 2015.
12. “Grene and Hull on Type-Concepts in Biology.” HOPOS (History of Philosophy of Science), Ghent, Belgium, July 2014.
11. “Methodological Naturalism and ‘the Human Place in Nature’.” APA (American Philosophical Association), Eastern Division, group program, Baltimore, December 2013.
10. “The Substantive and Methodological Integration of Biology, Anthropology, and Philosophy in Helmuth Plessner’s Die Stufen des Organischen und der Mensch.” ISHPSSB (International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology), Montpellier, France, 2013
9. “The Poverty of Neo-Pragmatism.” The Metaphysics of Culture: The Philosophy of Joseph Margolis, Helsinki Institute for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, Finland, May 2013.
8. “Re-evaluating Classical Philosophical Anthropology, 1927-1940.” International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2012.
7. “The Problem of Mediation in a Philosophical Anthropology.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences Roundtable, Lincoln, Nebraska, March 2012.
6. “To What Questions Does Philosophical Anthropology Provide an Answer?” Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Consortium, September 2011.
5. “Human Nature and Natural Selves.” Temple Univ. Graduate Student Works-in-Progress Series, 2010.
4. “Austere Realism and the Ontology of Institutions.” CHAT (Center for the Humanities at Temple) Fellows Colloquium, 2009.
3. “Brandom’s Idealist Thesis: What’s the Idea?” APA (American Philosophical Association), Eastern Division, 2007 (General Program)
2. “Reflections on the Heideggerian Paradigm in Recent French Philosophy.” Fordham University Graduate Student Conference, 2007.
1. “Fanon, Hegel, and the Dialectics of Recognition.” University of Massachusetts, Boston, 4th Annual Social Theory Forum, 2007.
Poster Presentations
3. with Evelyn Brister. "Contributor Sections and Scientific Collaboration." Philosophy of Science Association. Seattle, Washington, November 2018.
2. "Modeling Interdisciplinary Collaborations between Biologists and Philosophers, 1950-2000." Philosophy of Science Association. Atlanta, Georgia, November 2016.
1. "Identifying and Modeling Interdisciplinary Collaborations between Biologists and Philosophers, 1950-2000." Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice. Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, June 2016.
Courses Taught (Select)
10. PHIL 242 - Ethics for Engineers and Scientists (x2)
University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 2018
9. PHIL 102 - Critical Thinking & Reasoning (x2)
University of Nevada - Las Vegas, 2018
8. Philosophy and Society online (x2)
Rowan University, 2016
7. The Meaning of the Arts (x1)
Temple University, 2012
6. Philosophy of Science online (x2)
Rowan University, 2015
5. Philosophy of Science (x8)
Rowan University, 2012-2015
4. Philosophy of the Human (x2)
Temple University, 2011
3. Philosophy of Mind (x2)
Temple University, 2008-2009
2. Introduction to Symbolic Logic (x2)
Temple University, 2007
Rowan University, 2013
1. Introduction to Philosophy (x10)
Temple University, 2007-2012
Rowan University, 2012-2015
Grants and Awards:
7. Visiting Research Fellow. Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin, Germany. May-June
2018. Airfare, lodging, per diem.
6. Michael Dietrich (PI) and Phillip Honenberger (Postdoc, Co-PI).
National Science Foundation “Science, Technology and Society” Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Title: “A Social and Historical Study of Interdisciplinary Collaborations Between Biologists and
Philosophers,” 2016-2018. $175,000
5. NSF (Nat.Sci.Foundation) Travel Grant to HOPOS 2014. $400 travel expenses
4. NSF (Nat.Sci.Foundation) Travel Grant to HOPOS 2012. $400 travel expenses
3. Graduate Associateship, CHAT (Center for the Humanities at Temple), 2008-2009. $500
2. Temple University, College of Liberal Arts Fund for Graduate Excellence, travel grant (6x), 2006-2009. $500 each
1. Akademos / Textbook X essay competition, 2nd place. $250 in books
Professional Activities:
Sessions Organized
4. Organizer, “Collaboration in Contemporary Bioscience: Sociological and Philosophical Approaches,”
ISHPSSB 2017
3. Organizer of bi-weekly History of Biology Works-In-Progress Workshop, Consortium for History of
Science, Technology and Medicine, January-July 2015
2. Organizer of double session, “Philosophical Anthropology I” and “Philosophical Anthropology II,”
for ISHPSSB 2013
1. Organizer of session, “Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology” for APA Eastern Division,
December 2013 (group session w/ Society for Humanist Philosophers)
Reviews for Journals
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences; Synthese; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Journal of the American Philosophical Association; Human Studies (x4); Theory, Culture, and Society (x3)
Reviews for Book Publishers
Palgrave MacMillan, Rowman and Littlefield / Lexington Books, Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities
Reviews for Funding Organizations
National Science Foundation – Science, Technology, and Society program
Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (fellowship applications)
Other Service
5. Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft, 2017-
4. Member, Membership Development and Diversity Committee, ISHSSPB (International Society for
History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology), 2015-
3. Session Chair, PSA (Philosophy of Science Association), “Natural Kinds: The Case of Species,”
November 2016
2. Co-organizer (with Matt Lund) of Rowan University Dean’s Lecture, Spring 2013: Miriam Solomon
1. Graduate Student Representative, Department of Philosophy, Temple University, 2010-2011
Professional Society Memberships
American Philosophical Association (APA), 2007-2013
International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), 2012-
International Society for the History of International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies
of Biology (ISHPSSB), 2013-
Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), 2015-
Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), 2016-
Helmuth Plessner Gesellschaft, 2016-
Working Group Memberships
Member, History and Philosophy of Science Working Group, CHSTM, 2012-
Member, History of Biological Sciences Working Group, CHSTM, 2015-
Member, Microbial Biology and Evolution lab (director: Prof. Olga Zhaxybayeva), Dartmouth College, 2016-2017
Languages:
English (native); German (intermediate); French (intermediate)
Additional Skills:
MySQL; Python; QGIS (Geographical Information Systems / Mapping); Cytoscape (network analysis); Excel, Powerpoint, Word
References:
Michael Dietrich
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
1017 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA USA 15260
413-330-6463, mdietrich@pitt.edu
Hans-Peter Krüger
Professor fur Politische Philosophie / Philosophische Anthropologie, Universität Potsdam
Am Neuen Palais 10, Haus 11, Raum 2.14, Potsdam, Germany 14469
0331 977-1332, krueghp@uni-potsdam.de
Matt Lund* (*Teaching Reference)
Professor of Philosophy, Rowan University
Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies
Bunce Hall, 3rd Floor, Rowan University
201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ, 08028
856-256-4500 ex. 4539, lund@rowan.edu
Joseph Margolis
Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy
Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University
Anderson Hall 727, 1114 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA USA 19122
215-462-1556, josephmargolis455@hotmail.com
Allan Megill
434 Nau Hall, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA USA 22903
434- 924-6414, megill@virginia.edu
Lenny Moss
Prof. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy
Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy University of Exeter
Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, UK, EX4 4RJ, lenny.moss@exeter.ac.uk, dcimorse@icloud.edu
Betty Smocovitis
Professor of History / Professor of Biology
Department of Biology, University of Florida, Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL USA 32611
352-392-9647, bsmocovi@ufl.edu
Miriam Solomon
Professor of Philosophy
Dept. of Philosophy, Temple University
Anderson Hall 729, 1114 W. Berks Street, Philadelphia, PA USA 19122
215-204-9629, msolomon@temple.edu
John Zammito
John Antony Weir Professor, Department of History, Rice University
317 Humanities Building, Houston, TX USA 77005
713-348-2453, zammito@rice.edu