Faculty
Brown, Matthew
Assistant Professor , HUHI/HIST/ATEC
Office: JO 4.120
Phone: 972-883-2536
Email: mattbrown@utdallas.edu
Web Site: http://www.utdallas.edu/~mattbrown/
Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Science, American Pragmatism, Philosophy of Technology, Cognitive Science, Science and Technology Studies
Education: PhD, Philosophy, University of California-San Diego, 2009
MA, Philosophy, University of California-San Diego, 2006
BS, Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003
The main currents of his philosophical research are in contemporary debates in philosophy of science and in the study of the history of American philosophy, especially the work of John Dewey. In philosophy of science, he focuses on the area of science and values, including the relationships between science and public policy and science and technology. He is most interested in John Dewey's work in logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, and political philosophy.
He also works in cognitive science. His interests are in theories of mind and cognition as embodied, socially and technologically situated and distributed, and culturally and historically constituted. Such ideas have a long history going back at least to Dewey and Heidegger. He is deeply interested in the relation between descriptive psychology and normative theories of logic and rationality. He is also keenly interested in applying these ideas to the study of science, which I regard as a socially constituted and technologically mediated process of knowledge-making.
He also has some interest in Comics Studies and Pop Culture Studies.
Sample Publications:
Science as Socially Distributed Cognition: Bridging Philosophy and Sociology of Science (forthcoming) Foundations of the Formal Sciences VII, Studies in Logic
Models and Perspectives on Stage (2009) Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science A, Volume 40, Issue 2, pp. 213-220
Relational Quantum Mechanics (forthcoming 2009) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science [journal link]