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Matthew J. Brown

Matthew Brown, Professor, Director of Center for Dewey Studies

Philosophy

Matthew J. Brown is the Jo Ann and Donald N. Boydston Chair in American Philosophy and Director of the Center for Dewey Studies. He is a pragmatist philosopher of science and historian of philosophy whose research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th century philosophy (especially John Dewey and American pragmatism, Marxism, and the history of philosophy of science) and on the intersection of science, values, and politics. He has also done theoretical and empirical research in cognitive science on the interaction of culture and cognition, as well as in the interdisciplinary field of comics studies. He is the author of Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020), which explores the role of values in science and the scientific basis of values from a broadly pragmatist perspective. Brown is the Editor of HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science. He has also edited or co-edited collections on Reappraising Feyerabend, More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, and John Dewey's Legacy for Philosophy of Education.
Matthew Brown matt.brown@siu.edu
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