Miriam Solomon

Professor of Philosophy
Director of Graduate Studies

B.A., Cambridge University, 1979
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1986

Professor Solomon works in the areas of philosophy of science, social epistemology, medical epistemology, medical ethics and gender and science. Professor Solomon is on the editorial board of Philosophy of Science and on the Committee on the Status of Women of the American Philosophical Association. She is active on the Temple University Hospital Ethics Committee.

Selected Recent Bibliography

• Social Empiricism (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 2001).
• 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.
• “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.
• STS and Social Epistemology of Science,” submitted paper for the new Handbook of Science and Technology Studies.  Forthcoming 2007.

 

Recent Courses

Science in Context
Philosophy of Science
Ethics in Medicine
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Genetic Controversies
Consensus in Science

Contact Information
Office: 750 Anderson Hall

Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
1114 W. Berks Street
Anderson Hall, 7th Floor
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 204-9629

Personal Web Page:  http://astro.temple.edu/~msolomon
E-mail Address:  msolomon@temple.edu