Sessional Lecturer, Arts and Science (IFP), Philosophy
Office: Chrysler Hall North, 2160
Email: doxlog1@uwindsor.ca
Phone: (519) 253-3000 ext. 2334
I am a sessional lecturer cross-appointed in Arts and Science and in Philosophy here at the University of Windsor. For Philosophy, I teach a variety of courses including ethics, symbolic logic, reasoning skills, philosophy of mind, and medical ethics. For the Interdisciplinary Arts and Science program, I teach Science, Ethics and Social Policy as well as Modes and Methods of Inquiry. I am also training to be a biologist as a part-time graduate student in Biological Sciences.
Research
I have a diverse range of research interests in both arts and science. I have had a paper on reasoning in medicine accepted for the ISSA conference in Amsterdam this summer (2014), and I am second author on an article on species extinction to be published in an upcoming volume of Ecological Informatics. In the past, I have also published on formal logic and philosophy of language.
Publications
2014 "A machine learning approach to an investigation of the reasons behind species extinction". Mashayekhi M, MacPherson B, Gras R. Journal of Ecological Informatics
2014 "A Multi-Perspective Approach to Medical Argumentation" in the Proceedings of the ISSA
2013 "The Incompleteness Problem for a Virtue-Based theory of argumentation" in the Proceedings of the OSSA
2011 Reply to “Deepening Disagreement in Engineering Education” in the Proceedings of the OSSA
2009 “Commentary on: Juho Ritola’s “The Objective and the Subjective Account of Begging the Question” in the Proceedings of the OSSA
2007 “Commentary on Claudio Duran: “Bi-Logic and Multi-Modal Argumentation: Understanding Emotional Arguments” in the Proceedings of the OSSA
2002 "Artificial Arguing: Allow Arguers to Fend for Themselves" in the Proceedings of the OSSA
2000 “Egocentric Omniscience and Self-Referential Belief” in the Journal of Philosophical Research
1999 “Three Misrepresentations of Logic” in the Journal of Informal Logic
1998 "The Place of Formal Logic in Critical Thinking Courses" in the Journal of Thought
1997 “A Challenge to the Kripke/Putnam Distinction Between Epistemic and Metaphysical Necessity” in the Southwest Philosophy Review, pp. 113 - 128.
1995 “Formalizing Informal Logic” in the Proceedings of the ISSA, volume II, pp. 366 - 373.
1993 “Is it Possible that Belief Isn’t Necessary?” in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 34, 1993, pp. 12 - 28.
Papers Delivered at Conferences
2014 (July) “A Multi-Perspective Approach to Medical Argumentation” in the Proceedings of the ISSA
May, 2013 “The Incompleteness Problem for a Virtue-Based theory of argumentation” in the Proceedings of the OSSA
June, 2012 “Comparison of phylogenies constructed from cytB, COI and whole mitochondrial genome sequences to distinguish true tuna species from related species” delivered at the Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes (EEEF) conference
May, 2011 Reply to “Deepening Disagreement in Engineering Education” in the Proceedings of the OSSA
June 2009 “Commentary on: Juho Ritola’s “The Objective and the Subjective Account of Begging the Question” in the Proceedings of the OSSA
June 2007 Commentary on Duran’s paper “Bi-Logic and Multi-Modal Argumentation: Understanding Emotional Arguments” at OSSA
June 2001 Artificial Arguing: Allow Arguers to Fend for Themselves" at the OSSA conference, University of Windsor
June 1995 “Has Logic Been Intensionally Misrepresented by Feminist Critics?” delivered at the CPA Meetings in Montreal, Quebec
December 1995 “Has Logic Been Intensionally Misrepresented by Feminist Critics?” delivered at the APA Eastern Division Meetings in New York, NY
June 1994 “Formalizing Informal Logic” delivered at the International Symposium for the Study of Argumentation in Amsterdam
December 1993 “Is it Possible that Cats are Robots?” delivered at the APA Eastern Division Meetings in Atlanta, GA
December 1992 “An A Priori Proof of Metaphysical Realism” delivered at the APA Eastern Division Meetings in Washington, D.C.
June 1991 “What Properties Can and Cannot Do” delivered in June, 1991 at the CPA Meetings in Kingston, Ontario
December 1990 “Believing in Possibility” delivered at the APA Eastern Division Meetings in Boston, MA
June 1989 “An Indexical Theory of Propositions for Belief Logic” delivered at the CPA Meetings in Quebec City, Quebec
Teaching Awards
2014 Opus Faculty Award (awarded in March 2014)
2013 Opus Faculty Award (awarded in March 2013)