Presentations

• Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology: ‘Public health crises’ are a public health crisis: Against public health approaches to behavioral addiction . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/20/2022.
• Institutions and the Scientific Research Agenda: Why citizen review might beat peer review. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/08/2022.
• Philosophy of Science Association: Deep sediments; shallow time. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/14/2021.
• Public Philosophy Network: Invasion biology and conservation decision-making . Conference Paper, Presented, 10/23/2021.
• Global Change and Sustainability Center Seminar Series: Whose Anthropocene? Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/28/2021.
• Philosophy in the Wild: Novel ecosystems—a 'license to trash nature,' or the tool we need to naturalize trash? Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/19/2022.
• Philosophy in the City: Sanctuary Cities—Managing immigrant wildlife in the urban ecosystem . Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/07/2021.
• SSoCIA 2020: We come in peace...but shouldn’t advertise it . Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 12/08/2020.
• LSE Conjectures and Refutations: Landfills deserve love, too. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/03/2020.
• Digital Matters Research Symposium: Whose Anthropocene. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 09/01/2020.
• Rocky Mountain Ethics: What’s wrong with racial dogwhistles? Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/16/2020.
• Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium: What’s wrong with dogwhistles? Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 04/23/2020.
• Stegner Center Annual Symposium: Panel on Local solutions on the Wasatch Front. Other, Presented, 03/20/2020.
• Guy F. Atkinson Distinguished Lecture Series: Whose Anthropocene? Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/13/2020.
• Workshop on Experimental Philosophy of Science: Experimenting on scientific corpora. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/15/2019.
• Philosophy of the City: Against ecological nativism in the urban community. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/03/2019.
• Park City Film Series Panel: “Anthropocene: the Human Epoch”. Other, Presented, 09/25/2019.
• American Association of Physics Teachers: The ethics of communicating complexity. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/23/2019.
• International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology: Restoration, Regeneration, and Novel Ecosystems. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/10/2019.
• 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. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 05/31/2019.
• Dissoi Logoi Panel: Rhetorical Ethics in the Digital Age. Other, Presented, 04/05/2019.
• Agent-Based Models in Philosophy: Prospects and Limitations; Working with very little: what do we get out of neutral models? Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/21/2019.
• 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 . Conference Paper, Presented, 03/16/2019.
• Philosophy of Science Association: Mineral Misbehavior. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 11/03/2018.
• Simpson Center for the Humanities Seminar: A conversation about biodiversity in the Anthropocene. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/01/2018.
• Utah Environmental Humanities Seminar: Waiting for the Anthropocene. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/25/2018.
• California Philosophy Workshop: Commentary on O’Connor's "Testing the Red King Hypothesis". Other, Presented, 10/20/2018.
• Rocky Mountain Ethics: Be ye therefore like the hypocrites. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 08/09/2018.
• Society for Philosophy and Psychology: "Informal replication" is precisely the oxymoron it seems to be. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 07/13/2018.
• Computational Modeling in Philosophy: Some Good Reasons to Attend Your Own Funeral—Against Scientific Stubbornness. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/22/2018.
• Workshop: Linguistic Intuitions, Evidence, and Expertise: A non-evidential case for the use of intuitions in linguistics. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/25/2017.
• International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology: In what sense does language evolve? Conference Paper, Presented, 07/18/2017.
• Diverse Voices in Philosophy, Stanford: Waiting for the Anthropocene. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 05/12/2017.
• Philosophy of Science Association: Can intuitions be empirical evidence? The reliability of semantic intuitions . Poster, Presented, 11/03/2016.
• Evolang: Skepticism towards skepticism towards computer simulation in evolutionary linguistics. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/21/2016.
• New York Philosophy of Language Workshop: Metalinguistic judgments as scientific evidence. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/15/2015.
• Metaphor in Use: Linguistic patterns and linguistic rules. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 10/09/2015.
• Philosophy of Biology at Dolphin Beach: Where’s the biology in cognitive science? Conference Paper, Presented, 08/15/2015.
• 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. Conference Paper, Presented, 07/09/2015.
• UPenn Workshop in History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science: How (not to)/(to not) study cognitive variation. Conference Paper, Presented, 05/05/2015.
• Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy: Modeling the evolution of language with and without much empirical data. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 12/12/2014.
• Women in the History of Philosophy: Philosophical readings of Cavendish’s literary works. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/13/2014.
• Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Workshop: Why not all evidence is scientific evidence. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 04/12/2014.
• GPPC Workshop on Interdisciplinary Philosophy: Commentary on Machery: The Evolution of Morality. Other, Presented, 10/25/2013.
• International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology: Save the planet, eliminate biodiversity. Conference Paper, Presented, 07/11/2013.
• UPenn Workshop in History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science: Why formal semantics can’t be agnostic about the ontology of language. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/26/2013.
• NSF IGERT 2013 Poster and Video Competition: Ambiguous Signaling in Evolutionary Game Theory. Poster, Presented, 03/15/2013.
• UPenn Workshop in History, Sociology, and Philosophy of Science. Conference Paper, Presented, 04/20/2012.

Publications

• Santana, C. (2022). The value of and in novel ecosystem(s). Biology and Philosophy. Published, 04/01/2022.
• Santana, C. (2022). “Why citizen review might beat peer review at identifying pursuitworthy scientific research” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Published, 04/01/2022.
• Santana, C. (2021). We Come in Peace? A Rational Approach to METI. Space Policy. Published, 08/01/2021.
• Pataki, D., Santana, C., Hinners, S., Felson, A., & Engebretson, J. (2021) “Ethical considerations of urban ecological design and planning experiments” Plants, People, Planet. Published, 06/03/2021.
• Santana, C. (2021). What's wrong with dogwhistles. Journal of Social Philosophy. Published, 03/25/2021.
• Santana, C. (2020) “COVID-19, other zoonotic diseases and wildlife conservation.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Published, 10/08/2020.
• Santana, C. (2020). “A non-evidential case for the use of intuitions in linguistics.” in Samuel Schindler, (ed.) Linguistic Intuions. Published, 10/24/2020.
• Santana, C. (2019) “Why recognizing the Anthropocene Age doesn’t matter” OUP Blog, guest post. Published, 12/16/2019.
• Santana, C. (2019) “Conflict Exploration: The case of cats in Australia” Exploring Conservation Conflict Blog. Published, 10/15/2019.
  https://medium.com/@ConservConflict/conflict-explo...
• Santana, C. (2019) “Holocene Book Review: Urgency in the Anthropocene.” The Holocene. Published, 09/12/2019.
• Santana, C. (2019). Let’s not agree to disagree: the role of strategic disagreement in science. Synthese. Published, 03/25/2019.
• Santana, C. (2019). “Mineral Misbehavior.” Foundations of Chemistry. Published, 03/01/2019.
  https://rdcu.be/boREy
• Santana, C. (2019). “Natural diversity.” in Casetta, Marques da Silva, and Vecchi (eds.) From Assessing to Conserving Biodiversity. Published, 09/28/2019.
• Santana, C. (2018). Mining History. Expositions. Published, 12/05/2018.
  https://expositions.journals.villanova.edu/article...
• Santana, C. (2018). Review of Philosophy and Climate Science. Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews. Published, 09/22/2018.
  https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/philosophy-and-climate-sc...
• Santana, C. (2018). Biodiversity is a chimera and chimeras aren't real. Biology & Philosophy. Published, 04/12/2018.
  https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.lib.utah.edu/art...
• Santana, C. (2018). Waiting for the Anthropocene. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Published, 03/14/2018.
  https://academic.oup.com/bjps/advance-article/doi/...
• Santana, C. (2017) “Why not all evidence is scientific evidence.” Episteme. Published, 03/27/2017.
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/episteme/a...
• Santana, C. (2016) “What is Language?” Ergo. Published, 11/07/2016.
  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ergo/12405314.0003.019...
• Santana, C. (2016) “Biodiversity Eliminativism.” in J. Garson, A. Plutynski, and S. Sarkar (eds.) Routledge Handbook for the Philosophy of Biodiversity. Published, 11/01/2016.
• Kovaka, K., Santana, C., Patel, R., Akçay, E., & Weisberg, M. (2016). Agriculture increases individual fitness. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39. Published, 06/30/2016.
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral...
• 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. Published, 03/09/2016.
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral...
• 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. Published, 02/04/2015.
  https://utah.academia.edu/CarlosSantana
• Santana, C. (2014). Ambiguity in cooperative signaling. Philosophy of Science, 81(3), 398-422. Published, 07/15/2014.
  https://utah.academia.edu/CarlosSantana
• Santana, C. (2014). Save the planet: eliminate biodiversity. Biology & Philosophy, 29(6), 761-780. Chicago. Published, 01/21/2014.
  https://utah.academia.edu/CarlosSantana
• Santana, C., & Weisberg, M. (2014). Group-level traits are not units of selection. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(03), 271-272. Published, 06/27/2014.
  https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral...
• Santana, C. forthcoming. “Book Review: Thinking Through Climate Change, by Adam Briggle.” Quarterly Review of Biology. Accepted, 03/30/2022.