Dr. Laura J Rediehs
St. Lawrence University News
Submitted by lrediehs on Wed, 05/07/2008 - 08:53.
Associate Professor and Chair
Courses I teach regularly:
Introduction to Peace Studies, Reasoning, Ethical Theory, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Metaphilosophy
My research interests:
History of Philosophy of Science, Scientific Realism, Science and Religion, Incommensurability, Philosophy of Peace
Sample student projects I have supervised:
Pursuing the Ideal: An Updated Kantian Cosmopolitanism & Ethics for the 21st Century
Realism, Anti-Realism and Naturalized Philosophy in a Model-Based Philosophy of Science
Seeing Fish and Birds: A Philosophical Thesis on True Knowledge and Rationality
Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work:
Essay on "Evil" in Collateral Language, ed. Collins and Glover, 2002
"Where Quakerism and Philosophy Meet: The Ethical Ideal of Respect" in Quaker Higher Education, 2008
Ways I offer service to my discipline and/or the University:
Coordinator of the Peace Studies Program
Member of Faculty Council
My hobbies and/or personal interests:
I play historical flutes and recorders with St. Lawrence's Early Music Ensemble.
My current projects:
"Quaker Epistemology: A Different Kind of Empiricism?"
"Truth and Nonviolence: Living Experimentally in Relation to Truth"
Book: "Radical Respect"
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