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[kartherine]Katherine Furman is the Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. Prior to this she was the director of
the MA in Health and Society at University College Cork in Ireland. She works
broadly on Philosophy and Health policy, with a special interest in
relationships between experts and laypeople, and on health policy development.
She did her PhD in Philosophy at the London School of Economics on AIDS
denialism in South Africa.



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[Gerd]Gerd Gigerenzer is Director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy and
founder of the Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) Center at the Max Planck
Institute for Human Development. He is former Professor of Psychology at the
University of Chicago and John M. Olin Distinguished Visiting Professor,
School of Law at the University of Virginia. In addition, he is Member of the
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences and
Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the University
of Basel and the Open University of the Netherlands, and is Batten Fellow at
the Darden Business School, University of Virginia. Awards for his work
include the AAAS Prize for the best article in the behavioral sciences, the
Association of American Publishers Prize for the best book in the social and
behavioral sciences, the German Psychology Award, and the Communicator Award
of the German Research Foundation. His award-winning popular books Calculated
Risks, Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, and Risk Savvy: How
to make good decisions have been translated into 21 languages. His academic
books include Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart, Rationality for Mortals,
Simply Rational, and Bounded Rationality (with Reinhard Selten, a Nobel
Laureate in economics). Together with the Bank of England, he is working on
the project Simple heuristics for a safer world. Gigerenzer has trained U.S.
federal judges, German physicians, and top managers in decision making and
understanding risks and uncertainties. The Swiss Duttweiler Institute has
distinguished Gigerenzer as one of the top-100 Global Thought Leaders
worldwide.

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[sean]Sean A. Valles, PhD is an Associate Professor with an appointment in the
Michigan State University Lyman Briggs College and the Department of
Philosophy (where he is also Associate Chair). His research spans a range of
topics in the philosophy of population health, from the use of evidence in
medical genetics to the roles played by race concepts in epidemiology. He is
author of the 2018 book, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a New
Public Health Era. He is also co-editor (with Quill R. Kukla) of the Oxford
University Press book series, "Bioethics for Social Justice.
http://seanvalles.com/



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[john]John Dupr is President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association.
His research has covered a wide range of topics in the philosophy of biology,
including taxonomy and the species problem, causation, microbiology and
genomics. His recent work has promoted a radically processual understanding of
living systems. From 2012-18, he held a European Research Council Advanced
Investigator Award for the project, A Process Ontology for Contemporary
Biology. Since 2002 he has been director of Egenis, The Centre for the Study
of Life Sciences, which he established in that year with a grant from the
Economic and Social Research Council, UK. His books include Everything Flows:
Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (co-edited with Daniel Nicholson,
2018); Processes of Life (2012); Genomes and What to Make of Them (with Barry
Barnes 2008); Darwins Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (2003); Humans and
Other Animals (2002); Human Nature and the Limits of Science (2001); and The
Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science
(1993). Dupr is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science and an Honorary International Member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.



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Executive Director

Philosophy of Science Association

Co-Director, Human Context of Science and Technology

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Baltimore, MD 21250

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