Curriculum Vitae Jonathan Y. Tsou Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Iowa State University 402 Catt Hall Ames, Iowa 50011 AOS: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Mind/ Cognitive Science, History of Analytic Philosophy/ Philosophy of Science AOC: Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Philosophy of Biology Academic Employment   

Associate Professor of Philosophy (awarded early tenure), Iowa State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2014-present. Assistant Professor of Philosophy (tenure-track), Iowa State University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, 2009-2014. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy, 20082009.

Education

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Ph.D., University of Chicago, Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, 2001-2008. Dissertation: “The Reality and Classification of Mental Disorders” (Advisors: William C. Wimsatt, Robert J. Richards, and Ian Hacking) M.A., University of Western Ontario, Philosophy, 2000-2001. B.A. (First Class Honors), Simon Fraser University, Philosophy (Major) and Psychology (Honors), 1993-2000.

Publications Edited Book 

Padovani, Flavia, Richardson, Alan, and Tsou, Jonathan Y. (eds.) (forthcoming). Objectivity in Science: Approaches to Historical Epistemology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Dordrecht: Springer.

Journal Articles 

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(2013). “Depression and Suicide are Natural Kinds: Implications for Physician-Assisted Suicide.” International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 36 (5-6): 61-70. (2012). “Intervention, Causal Reasoning, and the Neurobiology of Mental Disorders: Pharmacological Drugs as Experimental Instruments.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 43 (2): 542-551. (2011). “The Importance of History for Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Case of the DSM and Psychiatric Classification.” Journal of the Philosophy of History, 5 (3): 446-470. (2010). “Putnam’s Account of Apriority and Scientific Change: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest.” Synthese, 176 (3): 429-445. 1

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(2007). “Hacking on the Looping Effects of Psychiatric Classifications: What Is an Interactive and Indifferent Kind?” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 21 (3): 329-344. (2006). “Genetic Epistemology and Piaget’s Philosophy of Science: Piaget vs. Kuhn on Scientific Progress.” Theory & Psychology, 16 (2): 203-224. (2003). “The Justification of Concepts in Carnap’s Aufbau.” Philosophy of Science, 70 (4): 671689. (2003). “A Role for Reason in Science.” Critical Notice of Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason (Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2001). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 42 (3): 573-598. (2003). “Reconsidering Feyerabend’s ‘Anarchism’.” Perspectives on Science, 11 (2): 208-235. (2001). “Prospects for Stimulant Maintenance in Vancouver, Canada.” Addiction Research & Theory, 9 (2): 97-132. (co-authored with Bruce K. Alexander)

Book Chapters

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(forthcoming). “Reconsidering the Carnap-Kuhn Connection.” In William J. Devlin and Alisa Bokulich (eds.), Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50 Years on. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Dordrecht: Springer. Tsou, Jonathan Y., Richardson, Alan, and Padovani, Flavia (forthcoming). “Introduction: Objectivity in Science.” In Flavia Padovani, Alan Richardson, and Jonathan Y. Tsou (eds.), Objectivity in Science: Approaches to Historical Epistemology. Dordrecht: Springer. (forthcoming). “DSM-5 and Psychiatry’s Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Approaches to Psychiatric Classification.” In Steeves Demazeux and Patrick Singy (eds.), The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel. Dordrecht: Springer. (2013). “Origins of the Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness: Evolutionary Answers to Chalmers’ Hard Problem.” In Liz Swan (ed.), Origins of Mind (pp. 259-269). Dordrecht: Springer.

Discussion Note

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(2012). “Distinguishing Non-Conceptual Content from Non-Syntactic Propositions: Comment on Fuller.” Southwest Philosophy Review, 28 (2): 53-57.

Book Reviews

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(2010). Review of Rachel Cooper, Classifying Madness: A Philosophical Examination of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Dordrecht: Springer, 2005). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 61 (2): 453-457. (2009). Review of Lennart Nordenfelt, Rationality and Compulsion: Applying Action Theory to Psychiatry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). Journal of Applied Philosophy, 26 (4): 415418. (2009). “Defining Mental Disorder.” Review of Derek Bolton, What is Mental Disorder? An Essay in Philosophy, Science, and Values (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). Metascience, 18 (2): 251-255. (2008). Review of Dominic Murphy, Psychiatry in the Scientific Image (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006). Philosophical Psychology, 21 (1): 133-137. (2007). Review of George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). British Journal for the History of Science, 40 (1): 153-155.

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(2007). Review of Peter Machamer and Gereon Wolters (eds.), Science, Values, and Objectivity (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004). Metaphilosophy, 38 (1): 127-133. (2006). Review of Paolo Parrini, Wesley C. Salmon, and Merrilee H. Salmon (eds.), Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003). Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 45 (4): 808-810. (2005). Review of Gary L. Hardcastle and Alan W. Richardson (eds.), Logical Empiricism in North America (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). Philosophy of Science, 72 (4): 634-637. (2005). Review of Michael Heidelberger and Friedrich Stadler (eds.), History of Philosophy of Science: New Trends and Perspectives (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002). British Journal for the History of Science, 38 (3): 355-356. (2005). Review of Steve Awodey and Carsten Klein (eds.), Carnap Brought Home: The View from Jena (Chicago: Open Court, 2004). International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 19 (2): 213-216.

Academic Awards and Honors (select list)

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Nominated for Early Achievement in Teaching Award, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University, 2013-2014. LAS Small Grant (Value: $1250 US): Awarded by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Iowa State University, 2013. Foreign Travel Grant (Value: $773 US): Awarded by the Faculty Senate Committee on Recognition and Development, Iowa State University, 2011, 2013. CEAH Research Grant (Value: $5,000 US): Awarded by the Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities, Iowa State University, 2010. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies (Value: $35,000 CAN): Awarded by the University of British Columbia, Department of Philosophy, 2008-2009. Franke Institute for the Humanities Doctoral Fellowship (Value: Tuition Waiver + $22,900 US Stipend + $4,000 US Supplemental Grant): Awarded by the University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, 2007-2008. (selective fellowship among all humanities Ph.D. candidates at the University of Chicago) Honorarium (Value: $400 US): Awarded by the Nassau University Medical Center for Psychiatry Grand Rounds Lecture, 2007. Fishbein Fellowship (Value: $14,000 US per year): Awarded by the University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, 2005-2007.

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Humane Studies Fellowship (Value: $8,000 US per year): Awarded by the Institute for Humane Studies, 2005-2007.

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PSA Graduate Student Essay Prize (Value: $250 US): Awarded by the Philosophy of Science Association for the essay “The Justification of Concepts in Carnap’s Aufbau”, 2003. SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (Value: $17,700 CAN per year over 4 years): Awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2001-2005. University of Chicago Unendowed Fellowship (Value: Tuition waiver + $10,000 US stipend per year over 4 years): Awarded by the University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, 20012005. (stipend reduced due to SSHRC Fellowship) Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Value: $15,000 CAN): Awarded by the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities, 2001-2002. (declined) President’s Scholarship for Graduate Study (Value: $18,840 CAN): Awarded by the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Graduate Studies, 2000-2001.

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Recent Presentations (select list)

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“Hempel’s Account of Psychiatric Taxonomy: Its Historical and Contemporary Interest.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), Brock University (St. Catharine’s, ON, Canada), May 2014 (refereed). “DSM-5 and Psychiatry’s Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Systems of Psychiatric Classification.” Fourth Biennial Conference of the Society of Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada), June 2013 (refereed). “Reconsidering the Carnap-Kuhn Connection.” Twenty-Third Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA), San Diego, USA, November 2012 (refereed); Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), University of King’s College (Halifax, NS, Canada), June 2012 (refereed). “Intervention, Causal Reasoning, and the Neurobiology of Mental Disorders: Pharmacological Drugs as Experimental Instruments.” The Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science Biological Interest Group (BIG), University of Minnesota (Minnesota, MN, USA), September 2011 (invited); Third Biennial Conference of the Society of Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), University of Exeter (Exeter, UK), June 2011 (refereed). “Psychiatric Kinds, Looping Effects, and Stable Targets: Are Any Mental Disorders Natural Kinds?” Twenty-First Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA 2008), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, November 2008 (refereed). “Why Depression is Not a Disease.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS), Concordia University (Montreal, QC, Canada), May 2010 (refereed). “DSM and the Exclusion of Etiology: An Argument for a Causal System of Psychiatric Classification.” Science and Society Speaker’s Series, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada), January 2009 (invited). “Critical Psychiatry in the 21st Century: Szasz, Laing, and Scheff Revisited.” Psychiatry Grand Rounds Lecture, Nassau University Medical Center (East Meadow, NY), Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, February 2007 (invited).

Commentaries (select list) 

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Şerife Tekin, “Operationalizing the Self in Scientific Psychiatry: Perils and Promises.” Early Career Scholars Conference in Philosophy of Psychiatry: Overcoming Mind-Brain Dualism in 21st Century Medicine, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), November 2014 (invited commentator). Timothy Fuller, “Non-Conceptual Content: The Richness Argument and Early Visual Processing.” 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society (SWPS), Austin, TX, USA, November 2011. Moderator and organizer of a public outreach panel “Harm Reduction and Scientific Objectivity”. As part of the Objectivity in Science conference at University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada), June, 2010. Paul Hoyningen-Huene, “Systematicity: The Nature of Science.” History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2006. Michael Friedman, Dynamics of Reason, Guest lecture sponsored by the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science and the Fishbein Center, University of Chicago, March 2002.

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Teaching Experience Instructor at Iowa State University   

Philosophy of Technology (PHIL 343): Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Fall 2014. Philosophy of Science (PHIL 380): Fall 2011, Fall 2014. Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 201): Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014.

Graduate Supervision at Iowa State University 

Committee Member: Mary Speckhard, MA Thesis, Department of English, Program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication, 2012-2013.

Instructor Elsewhere    

Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science (PHIL 360A, HIST 393), University of British Columbia, Spring 2009. Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 343), Simon Fraser University, Spring 2009. Philosophy of Mind (PHIL 451A), University of British Columbia, Fall 2008. Issues in the Philosophy of Psychiatry (HIPS 29403), University of Chicago, Fall 2004.

Professional Activities     

Committee Member: American Philosophical Association (APA) Committee on Asian and AsianAmerican Philosophers and Philosophies, 2014-2017. Faculty Mentor: Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), 2013-present. Referee (journals): Philosophy of Science, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Synthese, Erkenntnis, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Perspectives on Science, Philosophical Psychology, and Theory & Psychology. Referee (other): Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting (CPA 2010), National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant Proposal. Member of Organizing Committee: Objectivity in Science Conference (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 2010).

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