Matthew J Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5361-5143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Scaffolding in the engineering lab
This cognitive-ethnographic study investigates how learning processes unfold in engineering research labs. We observed several instances of advisor-student interactions that resemble the instructional strategy of scaffolding. Interestingly, the advisor neither knew about the scaffolding strategy nor intended to use it. We described this unplanned scaffolding as an organic scaffolding. From our observations, we found that the advisor continuously …
Introduction to the Symposium “Horizons Unseen
Reintroducing Dewey’s Re-Introduction to Experience and Nature
This paper revaluates Dewey’s famous, unfinished Re-Introduction to Experience and Nature, edited by his close assistant Joseph Ratner. Here we contrast Ratner’s claims from his two editorial notes from the first volume of The Later Works with the archival manuscripts in the Special Collections Research Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Despite Ratner’s claims that there are two installments of Dewey’s Re-Introduction to Experien…
‘It’s up to the managers’
Studies show that engineering students are open to discussion of ethics; however, their overall understanding of it tends to be narrow and their engagement decreases over the course of their education and professionalization. Students' initial willingness to engage seems to get deterred, leading to concerns about their ability to deploy ethical reasoning in engineering practice. Using a qualitative approach to observe and analyze students' group …
Public Trust of Experts in Democratic Societies
It is commonly thought that there is a crisis of public trust in scientific experts. The traditional role of the expert as passing down the knowledge required to inform the public and resolve policy disputes faces both empirical and conceptual challenges. Relying on earlier ideas of Mary Parker Follet and John Dewey concerning the roles of experts in democratic decisionmaking, we propose an approach to rebuilding trust involving non-hierarchical …
For values in science
There is a near consensus among philosophers of science whose research focuses on science and values that the ideal of value-free science is untenable, and that science not only is, but normatively must be, value-laden in some respect. The consensus is far from complete; with some regularity, defenses of the value-free ideal (VFI) as well as critiques of major arguments against the VFI surface in the literature. I review and respond to many of th…
The Validity of the Argument from Inductive Risk
Joyce Havstad has argued in this journal that the argument from inductive risk is deductively valid and sound. As far as we know, this is the best reconstruction of the argument in the literature. Unfortunately, it suffers from a small flaw that renders the argument invalid. We identify this flaw, show that it is superficial, and show that a small amendment to the argument rescues the claim of its validity
A spatial modeling approach to estimating bike share traffic volume from GPS data
Mary Parker Follett as Integrative Public Philosopher
Mary Parker Follett was a feminist-pragmatist American philosopher, a social-settlement worker, a founding figure in the community centers movement, a mediator of labor disputes, and a theorist of political and social organization and management. I argue that she is a model for a certain kind of public philosopher, and I unpack the respects in which she serves as such a model. I emphasize both her virtues as a public thinker and the role played i…
Guiding Engineering Student Teams’ Ethics Discussions with Peer Advising
Route choice of bike share users
Ethics as a rare bird
Engineering ethics cannot be reduced to the ethics of individual engineers but must be considered in situ, within the sociocultural and environmental contexts of a research or design project. We studied teams in academic engineering research laboratories and how they understood and practiced ethics in their own work. Problems arise for ethnographic methods for researching this aspect of engineering ethics; namely, voluntary ethics discussions rar…
Weaving Value Judgment into the Tapestry of Science
I critically analyze
Inductive Risk, Deferred Decisions, and Climate Science Advising
This chapter discusses the philosophical viability of Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch’s proposed pragmatic-enlightened model of science advising, as well as the practical application of their proposed model to the case of climate science advising. Edenhofer and Kowarsch’s model makes central use of a cartographic metaphor—one in which scientists and policymakers craft and consider different scientific routes to various value-laden ethical, p…
Introduction
The abundant world
John Dewey's pragmatist alternative to the belief-acceptance dichotomy
Quantum frames
A Review of The Cambridge Companion to Dewey
Values in Science beyond Underdetermination and Inductive Risk
Proponents of the value ladenness of science rely primarily on arguments from underdetermination or inductive risk, which share the premise that we should only consider values where the evidence runs out or leaves uncertainty; they adopt a criterion of lexical priority of evidence over values. The motivation behind lexical priority is to avoid reaching conclusions on the basis of wishful thinking rather than good evidence. This is a real concern,…
Models and perspectives on stage
Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Determinacy Problem
Carlo Rovelli's relational interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that a system's states or the values of its physical quantities as normally conceived only exist relative to a cut between a system and an observer or measuring instrument. Furthermore, on Rovelli's account, the appearance of determinate observations from pure quantum superpositions happens only relative to the interaction of the system and observer. Jeffrey Barrett ([1999]) has…
Values in Science beyond Underdetermination and Inductive Risk
Proponents of the value ladenness of science rely primarily on arguments from underdetermination or inductive risk, which share the premise that we should only consider values where the evidence runs out or leaves uncertainty; they adopt a criterion of lexical priority of evidence over values. The motivation behind lexical priority is to avoid reaching conclusions on the basis of wishful thinking rather than good evidence. This is a real concern,…
Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Determinacy Problem
Carlo Rovelli's relational interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that a system's states or the values of its physical quantities as normally conceived only exist relative to a cut between a system and an observer or measuring instrument. Furthermore, on Rovelli's account, the appearance of determinate observations from pure quantum superpositions happens only relative to the interaction of the system and observer. Jeffrey Barrett ([1999]) has…
Introduction
John Dewey's pragmatist alternative to the belief-acceptance dichotomy
Models and perspectives on stage
Route choice of bike share users
The abundant world
For values in science
There is a near consensus among philosophers of science whose research focuses on science and values that the ideal of value-free science is untenable, and that science not only is, but normatively must be, value-laden in some respect. The consensus is far from complete; with some regularity, defenses of the value-free ideal (VFI) as well as critiques of major arguments against the VFI surface in the literature. I review and respond to many of th…
Weaving Value Judgment into the Tapestry of Science
I critically analyze
Models and perspectives on stage
Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Determinacy Problem
Carlo Rovelli's relational interpretation of quantum mechanics holds that a system's states or the values of its physical quantities as normally conceived only exist relative to a cut between a system and an observer or measuring instrument. Furthermore, on Rovelli's account, the appearance of determinate observations from pure quantum superpositions happens only relative to the interaction of the system and observer. Jeffrey Barrett ([1999]) has…
Values in Science beyond Underdetermination and Inductive Risk
Proponents of the value ladenness of science rely primarily on arguments from underdetermination or inductive risk, which share the premise that we should only consider values where the evidence runs out or leaves uncertainty; they adopt a criterion of lexical priority of evidence over values. The motivation behind lexical priority is to avoid reaching conclusions on the basis of wishful thinking rather than good evidence. This is a real concern,…
Quantum frames
A Review of The Cambridge Companion to Dewey
John Dewey's pragmatist alternative to the belief-acceptance dichotomy
Introduction
The abundant world
Inductive Risk, Deferred Decisions, and Climate Science Advising
This chapter discusses the philosophical viability of Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch’s proposed pragmatic-enlightened model of science advising, as well as the practical application of their proposed model to the case of climate science advising. Edenhofer and Kowarsch’s model makes central use of a cartographic metaphor—one in which scientists and policymakers craft and consider different scientific routes to various value-laden ethical, p…
Weaving Value Judgment into the Tapestry of Science
I critically analyze
Ethics as a rare bird
Engineering ethics cannot be reduced to the ethics of individual engineers but must be considered in situ, within the sociocultural and environmental contexts of a research or design project. We studied teams in academic engineering research laboratories and how they understood and practiced ethics in their own work. Problems arise for ethnographic methods for researching this aspect of engineering ethics; namely, voluntary ethics discussions rar…
Guiding Engineering Student Teams’ Ethics Discussions with Peer Advising
Route choice of bike share users
Mary Parker Follett as Integrative Public Philosopher
Mary Parker Follett was a feminist-pragmatist American philosopher, a social-settlement worker, a founding figure in the community centers movement, a mediator of labor disputes, and a theorist of political and social organization and management. I argue that she is a model for a certain kind of public philosopher, and I unpack the respects in which she serves as such a model. I emphasize both her virtues as a public thinker and the role played i…
A spatial modeling approach to estimating bike share traffic volume from GPS data
The Validity of the Argument from Inductive Risk
Joyce Havstad has argued in this journal that the argument from inductive risk is deductively valid and sound. As far as we know, this is the best reconstruction of the argument in the literature. Unfortunately, it suffers from a small flaw that renders the argument invalid. We identify this flaw, show that it is superficial, and show that a small amendment to the argument rescues the claim of its validity
For values in science
There is a near consensus among philosophers of science whose research focuses on science and values that the ideal of value-free science is untenable, and that science not only is, but normatively must be, value-laden in some respect. The consensus is far from complete; with some regularity, defenses of the value-free ideal (VFI) as well as critiques of major arguments against the VFI surface in the literature. I review and respond to many of th…
Scaffolding in the engineering lab
This cognitive-ethnographic study investigates how learning processes unfold in engineering research labs. We observed several instances of advisor-student interactions that resemble the instructional strategy of scaffolding. Interestingly, the advisor neither knew about the scaffolding strategy nor intended to use it. We described this unplanned scaffolding as an organic scaffolding. From our observations, we found that the advisor continuously …
Introduction to the Symposium “Horizons Unseen
Reintroducing Dewey’s Re-Introduction to Experience and Nature
This paper revaluates Dewey’s famous, unfinished Re-Introduction to Experience and Nature, edited by his close assistant Joseph Ratner. Here we contrast Ratner’s claims from his two editorial notes from the first volume of The Later Works with the archival manuscripts in the Special Collections Research Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Despite Ratner’s claims that there are two installments of Dewey’s Re-Introduction to Experien…
‘It’s up to the managers’
Studies show that engineering students are open to discussion of ethics; however, their overall understanding of it tends to be narrow and their engagement decreases over the course of their education and professionalization. Students' initial willingness to engage seems to get deterred, leading to concerns about their ability to deploy ethical reasoning in engineering practice. Using a qualitative approach to observe and analyze students' group …
Public Trust of Experts in Democratic Societies
It is commonly thought that there is a crisis of public trust in scientific experts. The traditional role of the expert as passing down the knowledge required to inform the public and resolve policy disputes faces both empirical and conceptual challenges. Relying on earlier ideas of Mary Parker Follet and John Dewey concerning the roles of experts in democratic decisionmaking, we propose an approach to rebuilding trust involving non-hierarchical …
Epistemology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Philosophy of science (6 works) · Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (6 works)