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Jacqueline Anne Sullivan Assistant Professor Email: jas1@uab.edu |
Academic Appointments
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Primary Academic Appointment, August 2007-present: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham Secondary Academic Appointment, November 2007-present: Department of Neurobiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham |
Areas of Specialization |
Philosophy of Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Competence |
History and Philosophy of Psychology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Biology, Bioethics |
Education |
Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, 2007. Graduate Student Trainee Certificate. Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) Certificate Program, University of Pittsburgh, 2007. M.S. Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, 2001-2003. B.A. Philosophy (with high honors), Clark University, 1991-1995 (with second semester of junior year abroad at Centre International D'Etudes Francaises, Universite De Bourgogne (CIEF), Dijon, France and receipt of Certificat Pratique de Langue Francaise (May 1994).). |
Publications |
(with Harold Kincaid) Medical Models of Addiction in What is Addiction? Harold Kincaid, David Spurrett and Peter Collins (eds.), MIT Press (December 2009). (2009) The multiplicity of experimental protocols: A challenge to reductionist and non-reductionist models of the unity of neuroscience. Synthese 167: 511-539. (2008) Memory consolidation, multiple realizations and modest reductions. Philosophy of Science, Vol. 75, No. 5: 501-513. |
Recent Talks |
Learning and Its Representation II. Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting. (Pittsburgh, PA, November 2008). Learning and Its Representation. Workshop: Turtles All the Way Down: Philosophical Approaches to Minds, Brains and Multiplicity. (McMicken College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Philosophy, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, October, 2008). Mind as Matter: Challenges to the New Physicalism. Philosophy Speaker Series. (Clark University, Worcester, MA, September 2008). Testing the Limits of Neuroepistemology. 44th Annual Philosophy Colloquium on the work of Patricia and Paul Churchland. (University of Cincinnati, Department of Philosophy, Cincinnati, OH, May 2008). The multiplicity of experimental protocols: A challenge to reductionist and non-reductionist models of the unity of neuroscience. Neuroscience and the Mind-Brain Relation Workshop. (Centenary College, Shreveport, LA, October 2007). Extending Mechanistic Claims Beyond the Neurobiological Laboratory. Workshop on Neural Mechanisms, Explanation and Reduction in the Neurosciences. (Center for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, September 2007). Reliability, Validity and The Experimental Process: A Neurobiological Case Study. First Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice. (University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, August 2007). |
Recent Courses Taught |
Epistemology. Instructor. An upper level undergraduate course in which a number of representative positions from standard and naturalized epistemology on the issues of knowledge and epistemic justification are investigated and contrasted. (Spring 2008) Bioethics. Instructor. An introduction to biomedical ethics. (Spring 2008) Philosophy of Mind. Instructor. An upper level undergraduate survey course in which various positions occupied on the nature of the mind-brain relationship, mental causation and the nature of consciousness are evaluated and contrasted. (Fall 2007) Contemporary Moral Issues. Instructor. An introduction to contemporary issues in ethics. (Fall 2007) |
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