We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of an edited book that features selected papers from the 11th Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology conference (VMST-11), which celebrated Professor Matthew J. Brown’s contributions to the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (CVMST) as its former director (2011-2022). In line with the mission of the CVMST, this volume features the work of junior scholars and authors from underrepresented groups in philosophy. The book is edited by Jonathan Y. Tsou, Jamie Shaw, and Carla Fehr.
The book is under contract with Springer in the prestigious Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science book series. It will be published as:
Tsou, Jonathan Y., Shaw, Jamie, and Fehr, Carla (eds.). Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Cham: Springer.
The tentative table of contents is below:
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Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism:
Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown
Edited by Jonathan Y. Tsou, Jamie Shaw, and Carla Fehr
Contents
Introduction
PART I: Mill, Feyerabend, and Pluralism
Chapter 1: John Stuart Mill, the Marketplace, and the Democratization of Science
Kathleen Okruhlik (University of Western Ontario)
Chapter 2: Feyerabend’s Experiments in Living: The Limits of Pluralism
Jamie Shaw (Leibniz University Hannover/ University of Toronto)
Chapter 3: Feyerabend’s Realism and Expansion of Pluralism in the 1970s
Jonathan Y. Tsou (University of Texas at Dallas)
PART II: Dewey, Pragmatism, and Communities
Chapter 4: Quine, Dewey, and the Pragmatist Tradition
Don Howard (University of Notre Dame)
Chapter 5: Science in Dewey’s Great Community
Paul Howatt (Indiana University)
Chapter 6: Dismantling the Deficit Model of Science Communication Using Ludwik Fleck’s
Theory of Thinking Collectives
Victoria Min-Yi Wang (University of Toronto)
PART III: Values in Socially Relevant Contexts
Chapter 7: Who the Computer Sees: Race, Gender, and AI
Carla Fehr (University of Waterloo)
Chapter 8: Conceptions of Machine Learning: Limitations and Weaknesses from the Viewpoint of Ethics
Britta Anne Bolander (University of Utah)
Chapter 9: An Algorithm in Doctor’s Clothing: Anchoring Trust Appropriately in AI Healthcare Deployment
Emily LeRosa (Michigan State University)
Chapter 10: Hermeneutical Pluralism in Psychiatry: Lessons from Spectrum 10K
Bennett Knox (University of Utah)
Part IV: Moral Imagination
Chapter 11: Commentary on Moral Imagination
Janet A. Kourany (University of Notre Dame)
Chapter 12: Pragmatism, Moral Imagination, and Existential Choices
P. D. Magnus (University of Albany, State University of New York)
Chapter 13: Brown’s Pragmatic Theory of Values and the Challenges of Commercial Science
Manuela Fernández Pinto (University of the Andes)
Part V: The Value Free Ideal, Inductive Risk, and Epistemic Priority
Chapter 14: A History of Metaethics and Values in Science
Paul L. Franco (University of Washington)
Chapter 15: Science, Values, and Action Guidance: Can We Stop Talking about the Value Free Ideal?
Greg Lusk (Durham University)
Chapter 16: Characterizing the Value-Free Ideal: From a Dichotomy to a Multiplicity
Kevin C. Elliott (Michigan State University)
Chapter 17: Inquiry and Epistemic Priority
Kareem Khalifa (UCLA), Jared Millson (Rhodes College), and Mark Risjord (Emory University)
Part VI: Reflections by Matthew J. Brown
Chapter 18: TBA
Matthew J. Brown (South Illinois University)