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Associate Professor, Philosophy
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Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Presentations
- Institutions and the Scientific Research Agenda: Why citizen review might beat peer review.
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Presented, 2022.
- Global Change and Sustainability Center Seminar Series: Whose Anthropocene?
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Presented, 2021.
- Philosophy in the City: Sanctuary Cities—Managing immigrant wildlife in the urban ecosystem.
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Presented, 2021.
- LSE Conjectures and Refutations: Landfills deserve love, too.
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Presented, 2020.
- Digital Matters Research Symposium: Whose Anthropocene.
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Presented, 2020.
- Guy F. Atkinson Distinguished Lecture Series: Whose Anthropocene?
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Presented, 2020.
- Simpson Center for the Humanities Seminar: A conversation about biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
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Presented, 2018.
- Utah Environmental Humanities Seminar: Waiting for the Anthropocene.
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Presented, 2018.
- Diverse Voices in Philosophy, Stanford: Waiting for the Anthropocene.
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Presented, 2017.
- New York Philosophy of Language Workshop: Metalinguistic judgments as scientific evidence.
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Presented, 2015.
- Public Philosophy Network: Invasion biology and conservation decision-making.
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Presented, 2021.
- Killing cats to save finches: perspectives on invasive species and conservation ethics: A consideration of the place of “native species” and “invasive species” in urban ecology.
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Presented, 2019.
- International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology: In what sense does language evolve?
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Presented, 2017.
- Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach: Where’s the biology in cognitive science?
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Presented, 2015.
- International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology: The most dismal part of the dismal science: the role of environmental economics in conservation planning.
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Presented, 2015.
- UPenn Workshop in History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science: How (not to)/(to not) study cognitive variation.
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Presented, 2015.
- Women in the History of Philosophy: Philosophical readings of Cavendish’s literary works.
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Presented, 2014.
- International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology: Save the planet, eliminate biodiversity.
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Presented, 2013.
- UPenn Workshop in History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science: Why formal semantics can’t be agnostic about the ontology of language.
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Presented, 2013.
- UPenn Workshop in History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science.
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Presented, 2012.
- Stegner Center Annual Symposium: Panel on Local solutions on the Wasatch Front.
Other,
Presented, 2020.
- Park City Film Series Panel: “Anthropocene: the Human Epoch”.
Other,
Presented, 2019.
- Dissoi Logoi Panel: Rhetorical Ethics in the Digital Age.
Other,
Presented, 2019.
- California Philosophy Workshop: Commentary on O’Connor's "Testing the Red King Hypothesis".
Other,
Presented, 2018.
- GPPC Workshop on Interdisciplinary Philosophy: Commentary on Machery: The Evolution of Morality.
Other,
Presented, 2013.
- Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology: ‘Public health crises’ are a public health crisis: Against public health approaches to behavioral addiction.
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Presented, 2022.
- Philosophy of Science Association: Deep sediments; shallow time.
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Presented, 2021.
- Philosophy in the Wild: Novel ecosystems—a 'license to trash nature,' or the tool we need to naturalize trash?
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Presented, 2022.
- SSoCIA 2020: We come in peace...but shouldn’t advertise it.
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Presented, 2020.
- Rocky Mountain Ethics: What’s wrong with racial dogwhistles?
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Presented, 2020.
- Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium: What’s wrong with dogwhistles?
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Accepted, 2020.
- Workshop on Experimental Philosophy of Science: Experimenting on scientific corpora.
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Presented, 2019.
- Philosophy of the City: Against ecological nativism in the urban community.
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Presented, 2019.
- American Association of Physics Teachers: The ethics of communicating complexity.
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Presented, 2019.
- International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology: Restoration, Regeneration, and Novel Ecosystems.
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Presented, 2019.
- 11th Barcelona Workshop, Issues in Conceptual Ethics: Are housecats and pigeons ‘native species’ in the urban ecosystem—Re-engineering scientific concepts to deal with global change.
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Presented, 2019.
- Agent-Based Models in Philosophy: Prospects and Limitations; Working with very little: what do we get out of neutral models?
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Presented, 2019.
- Philosophy of Science Association: Mineral Misbehavior.
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Presented, 2018.
- Rocky Mountain Ethics: Be ye therefore like the hypocrites.
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Presented, 2018.
- Society for Philosophy and Psychology: "Informal replication" is precisely the oxymoron it seems to be.
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Presented, 2018.
- Computational Modeling in Philosophy: Some Good Reasons to Attend Your Own Funeral—Against Scientific Stubbornness.
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Presented, 2018.
- Workshop: Linguistic Intuitions, Evidence, and Expertise: A non-evidential case for the use of intuitions in linguistics.
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Presented, 2017.
- Evolang: Skepticism towards skepticism towards computer simulation in evolutionary linguistics.
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Presented, 2016.
- Metaphor in Use: Linguistic patterns and linguistic rules.
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Presented, 2015.
- Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy: Modeling the evolution of language with and without much empirical data.
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Presented, 2014.
- Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Workshop: Why not all evidence is scientific evidence.
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Presented, 2014.
- Philosophy of Science Association: Can intuitions be empirical evidence? The reliability of semantic intuitions.
Poster,
Presented, 2016.
- NSF IGERT 2013 Poster and Video Competition: Ambiguous Signaling in Evolutionary Game Theory.
Poster,
Presented, 2013.
Publications
- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Biodiversity Eliminativism. Routledge.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). How we can make good use of linguistic intuitions, even if they aren’t good evidence. OUP.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Natural diversity. Springer.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). What is Language. Ergo.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). COVID-19, other zoonotic diseases and wildlife conservation. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). We Come in Peace? A Rational Approach to METI. Space Policy.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Santana, C. (2014). Ambiguity in cooperative signaling. Philosophy of Science, 81(3), 398-422.
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- Diane Pataki (date unknown). Ethical considerations of urban ecological design and planning experiments. Plants, People, Planet.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Biodiversity is a chimera and chimeras aren't real. Biology & Philosophy.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). The value of and in novel ecosystem(s). Biology and Philosophy.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Why not all evidence is scientific evidence. Episteme.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). What's wrong with dogwhistles. Social Philosophy.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Let’s not agree to disagree: the role of strategic disagreement in science. Synthese.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Waiting for the Anthropocene. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Mineral Misbehavior. Foundations of Chemistry. 1-11.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Santana, C. (2015). ‘Two Opposite Things Placed Near Each Other, are the Better Discerned’: Philosophical Readings of Cavendish's Literary Output. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 23(2), 297-317.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Santana, C. (2014). Save the planet: eliminate biodiversity. Biology & Philosophy, 29(6), 761-780. Chicago.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Why recognizing the Anthropocene Age doesn’t matter”. OUP Blog.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Conflict Exploration: The case of cats in Australia. Exploring Conservation Conflict Blog.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Mining History. Expositions.
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- Karen Kovaka (date unknown). Kovaka, K., Santana, C., Patel, R., Akçay, E., & Weisberg, M. (2016). Agriculture increases individual fitness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Santana, C., & Weisberg, M. (2014). Group-level traits are not units of selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(03), 271-272.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Santana, C., Patel, R., Chang, S., & Weisberg, M. (2016). When is the spread of a cultural trait due to cultural group selection? The case of religious syncretism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Review of Philosophy and Climate Science. Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews.
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- Santana, C. (date unknown). Holocene Book Review: Urgency in the Anthropocene. The Holocene.
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- Carlos Santana (date unknown). Book Review: Thinking Through Climate Change, by Adam Briggle. Quarterly Review of Biology.
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