Publications
Smith, Adam C. & Downes, Stephen M. (2023). Shallow versus Deep Genetic Causes (commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46: e201.
Santana, Carlos, Smith, Adam C., Petrozzo, Katie, & Halm, Derek. (2023). The Irrationality of Stand Your Ground: Game Theory on Self-Defense. Moral Philosophy & Politics, 10(2): 387-404. [note: I am one of the authors who favors a return to Duty to Retreat laws]
Under Review
Topic: Emergency & Disaster Managment and Justice
Topic: Definitions of Health and Healthcare Justice
Topic: GWAS, Genetic Causation, & Inductive Risk (with Hannah Allen)
Works in Progress
Politically Legitimate Values in Science Policy Advising:
A Feminist Public Reason View
I combine a feminist account of public reason with work in feminist philosophy of science to provide a good guide for politically legitimate values that can be used by scientists when giving policy advice. This view has many things going for it: (1) provides a strong basis for public trust by calling on scientists to use only politically legitimate values; (2) provides a good justification for forbidding sexist, racist, and other similar values; (3) prevents policies from discriminating against, subordinating, or oppressing minority groups or those with minority views; and (4) guarantees that scientists' political conceptions of justice will be in agreement with the public's political conceptions of justice on the most fundamental issues, lessening the possible disagreement between the public's values and the scientists' values.
Standpoint Theory & Science Policy: Indigenous Peoples & Wildfire Management
In this paper I apply work in feminist philosophy of science and feminist epistemology to the topic of science policy advising for wildfire management policies. More specifically, I use standpoint theory to argue for a greater inclusion of and collaboration with Indigenous peoples in wildfire management policymaking. Indigenous peoples have experience-based expertise and unique standpoints that will result in better science and better science policy. We have good epistemological/scientific and moral and political reasons to include Indigenous peoples' knowledge and values in fire policies. I examine a recent British Columbia law as a case study, Bill 31-2023: Emergency and Disaster Management Act.
Smith, Adam C. & Downes, Stephen M. (2023). Shallow versus Deep Genetic Causes (commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46: e201.
Santana, Carlos, Smith, Adam C., Petrozzo, Katie, & Halm, Derek. (2023). The Irrationality of Stand Your Ground: Game Theory on Self-Defense. Moral Philosophy & Politics, 10(2): 387-404. [note: I am one of the authors who favors a return to Duty to Retreat laws]
Under Review
Topic: Emergency & Disaster Managment and Justice
Topic: Definitions of Health and Healthcare Justice
Topic: GWAS, Genetic Causation, & Inductive Risk (with Hannah Allen)
Works in Progress
Politically Legitimate Values in Science Policy Advising:
A Feminist Public Reason View
I combine a feminist account of public reason with work in feminist philosophy of science to provide a good guide for politically legitimate values that can be used by scientists when giving policy advice. This view has many things going for it: (1) provides a strong basis for public trust by calling on scientists to use only politically legitimate values; (2) provides a good justification for forbidding sexist, racist, and other similar values; (3) prevents policies from discriminating against, subordinating, or oppressing minority groups or those with minority views; and (4) guarantees that scientists' political conceptions of justice will be in agreement with the public's political conceptions of justice on the most fundamental issues, lessening the possible disagreement between the public's values and the scientists' values.
Standpoint Theory & Science Policy: Indigenous Peoples & Wildfire Management
In this paper I apply work in feminist philosophy of science and feminist epistemology to the topic of science policy advising for wildfire management policies. More specifically, I use standpoint theory to argue for a greater inclusion of and collaboration with Indigenous peoples in wildfire management policymaking. Indigenous peoples have experience-based expertise and unique standpoints that will result in better science and better science policy. We have good epistemological/scientific and moral and political reasons to include Indigenous peoples' knowledge and values in fire policies. I examine a recent British Columbia law as a case study, Bill 31-2023: Emergency and Disaster Management Act.