Last updated 5/23/19
Employment
Yonsei University (Underwood International College) | Seoul, South Korea
2015-Present | Assistant Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
Visiting Appointments
Oxford University (Center for Evidence Based Medicine) | Oxford, United Kingdom
2018-2021 | Visiting Research Fellow (Green Templeton College | Oxford)
Cambridge University (Leverhulme Center for the Future of Intelligence) | Cambridge, United Kingdom
2019 (summer) | Visiting Research Fellow
Michigan State University (Dept. of Philosophy & Center for Interdisciplinarity) | East Lansing, USA
2019 (winter) | Visiting Scholar
Ludwig Maximilian University (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) | Munich, Germany
2016 (winter) & 2017 (winter) | Senior Fellow
Education
University of California | Irvine, CA
2015 | Ph.D., Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
Dissertation: The Fundamental Antagonism: Science and Commerce in Medical Epistemology
2015 | M.A., Mathematical Behavioral Science
York University | Toronto, Ontario
2008 | M.A., Clinical Developmental Psychology
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI
2002 | B.A. with High Distinction, Biopsychology and Cognitive Science
AOS
History and Philosophy of Medicine; Social Epistemology; Science and Values
AOC
Feminist Epistemology; Philosophy of Psychiatry; History of Science; Logic; Medical Ethics (Research)
Publications
Journal Articles
2019. Bruner & Holman “Self-correction in science: Meta-analysis, bias, and social structure” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
2019. Grim, Singer, Bramson, Holman, McGeehan, & Berger. Diversity, Ability, and Expertise in
Epistemic Communities. Philosophy of Science, 86, 98-123.
2019. Jung, Grim, Singer, Bramson, Berger, Holman, & Kovaka. “A multidisciplinary understanding of polarization” American Psychologist, 74(3), 301-314.
2018. Holman. In Defense of Meta-analysis. Synthese. doi: 10.1007/s11229-018-169-2
2018. Heneghan, Aronson, Spencer, Holman, Mahtani, Perera, & Onakpoya. Hormone pregnancy tests and
the risk of congenital abnormalities: a systematic review and meta-analysis. F1000.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.16758.1
2018. Holman & Elliott. The Promise and Perils of Industry-funded Science. Philosophy Compass, 13,
e12544. doi: 10.1111/phc3.1254
2018. Singer, Bramson, Grim, Holman, Jung, Kovaka, Ranginani, & Berger. Rational Social and
Political Polarization. Philosophical Studies. doi: 10.1007/s11098-018-1124-5
2018. Holman & Geislar. Sex Drugs and Corporate Ventriloquism: How to Evaluate Science Policies Intended to Manage Industry Bias. Philosophy of Science, 85, 869-881.
2018. Holman, Berger, Singer, Grim, & Bramson. Diversity and Democracy: Agent-based Modeling
in Political Philosophy. Historical Social Research, 43, 259-84.
2017. Holman & Bruner. Experimentation by Industrial Selection. Philosophy of Science, 84, 1008-1019.
2017. Holman. Philosophers on Drugs. Synthese, doi: 10.1007/s11229-017-1642-2
2017. Bramson, Grim, Singer, Berger, Sack, Fisher, Flocken, & Holman. Understanding Polarization:
Meaning, Measures, and Model Evaluation. Philosophy of Science, 84, 115-159.
2015. Holman & Bruner. The Problem of Intransigently Biased Agents. Philosophy of Science,
82, 956-968
2015. Holman. Why Most Sugar Pills are Not Placebos. Philosophy of Science, 82, 1330-1343.
2011. Holman. Restrictive Materialism and the Propositional Attitudes. Philosophia, 39, 61-70
Other Publications
2019. Holman. Humbug, the Council of Pharmacy and Chemistry, and the Origin of “the Blind Test”
of Therapeutic Efficacy. In Uncertainty in Pharmacology: Epistemology, Methods and Decisions. (Eds. B. Osimani and A. La Caze). Springer: Dordrecht
2019. Bruner & Holman. “Complicating Consensus” in Expert Disagreement and Measurement:
Philosophical Disunity in Logic, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. (Ed. L. Garbayo). Springer: Dordrecht
2019. Heneghan, Spencer, Holman & Onakpoya. Hormone pregnancy test use in pregnancy and risk of
abnormalities in the offspring: A systematic review protocol. CEBM March 25th 2019. https://www.cebm.ne/2019/03/hpt-protocol/
2018. Holman and Elliott. The Promise and Perils of Industry-funded Science (Teaching and Learning
Guide). Philosophy Compass, 13, e12549
2018. Holman, Bernecker, & Garbayo. Medical Knowledge in a Social World (Editorial
Introduction), Synthese
Presentations
“An agenda for the formal modeling of bias”
Biases in the Sciences, Munich, April 2019
“How to Brainwash Doctors”
Invited, Lyman Briggs College Speaker series, East Lansing, February 2019
“STS, Post-truth, and the Rediscovery of Bullshit”
Invited, Lyman Briggs Sociology of Science Works in Progress, East Lansing, February 2019
“The Case Against Big Sugar"
British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS), Oxford, July 2019
Modeling and Reasoning in the Sciences, Taipei, December 2018
“Self-correction in Science: Meta-analysis, Bias, and Social Structure”
*Philosophy of Science Bi-annual Conference, Seattle, November 2018
“Dimensions of Evidence and Criteria for Standards of Improvement”
Evidence Live, University of Oxford, June 2018
“Clinical Trials and the Origins of Pharmaceutical Fraud”
Invited, Michigan State University (Sociology of Medicine), East Lansing, February 2019
Invited, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 2018
*Making it up: Histories of Research Integrity and Fraud in Scientific Practice, Uppsala, April 2018
“Dr. Watson: The Impending Automation of Diagnosis and Treatment”
The International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Prague, August 2019
Invited, Michigan State University, East Lansing, February 2019
Philosophy of Science Bi-annual Conference, Seattle, November 2018
British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS), Oxford, July 2018
Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP), Ghent, June 2018
Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering (SRPoiSE), Atlanta, June 2018
Invited, CamPoS Seminar series, University of Cambridge, January 2018
Invited, Perspectives on the Forth Industrial Revolution, KAIST, Daejeon, November 2017
“Medical Knowledge is What Doctors Know
The International Philosophy of Medical Round Table, Paris, July 2019
Invited, University of Bristol, January 2018
“In Defense of Meta-analysis”
Invited, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 2018
Invited (Keynote), Issues in Medical Epistemology, Cologne, December 2017
“It’s Only a Model”
Models and Simulations 8, South Carolina, March 2018
The Risk and Science of Culture, University of Cambridge, April 2017
“Manufactured Values: Industry Front Groups, Looping Effects, and Regulatory Decisions”
Invited, University of Nottingham, February, 2017
Invited, Kings College London, February, 2017
Too Much Medicine, University of Oxford, April, 2017
“The Fundamental Antagonism: Veritism and Commerce in Medical Practice (1905-1920)”
Invited, The Philosophy of Industry-funded Science Workshop, Seoul, November 2017
Invited, Cambridge Philosophy of Medicine Reading Group, Cambridge, February 2017
“Diversity and Expertise in Epistemic Communities: What We Learn from Simulations”
*Invited, Topics in Scientific Philosophy Workshop, Irvine, February, 2018
Formal Epistemology Workshop, University of Washington, Seattle, May 2017
Invited, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, January 2017
“On the Preservation of Favored Professors in the Struggle for Tenure”
Invited, Science and Technology Policy Colloquium Series, KAIST, Daejeon, March 2017
Invited, Exploration and Epistemic Corruption in Science, Singapore, December 2016
Invited, National University Singapore, December 2016
“Group Polarization as a Limitedly Rational Response to Evidence”
*Invited, Argumentation and Opinion Dynamics, University of Karlsruhe, June 2017
Agent Based Modeling across Social Science, Economics, and Philosophy, Bamberg,
October 2016
*Decisions, Games and Logic, Ann Arbor, July 2016
“Measure and Countermeasures: How to Evaluate Policies in Industry-funded Science”
On the Limits of Knowing: Political Economy of Technoscience, Boston (MIT), August 2017
Philosophy of Science Bi-annual Conference, Atlanta, November 2016
Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia, Seoul, August 2016
Invited, University of Cambridge HPS, April 2016
Invited, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, January 2016
“Asymmetric Epistemic Arms Races”
Invited, Center for Humanities Engaging Science and Society Seminar Series, Durham, January 2017
Invited, Exploration and Epistemic Corruption in Science, Singapore, December 2016
SRPoiSE, 3rd annual meeting, Dallas, May 2016
Evidence, Inference, and Risk, Munich, March 2016
The Collaboration Conundrum, Notre Dame, Nov 2015
Science and Certainty, San Diego, May 2015
“Philosophers on Drugs”
Invited, University of College London, London, March 2017
Cologne Medical Epistemology Workshop, Cologne, October 2016
Medical Knowledge in a Social World, Irvine, March, 2016
SRPoiSE Annual Meeting, Detroit, March 2015
“Experimentation by Industrial Selection"
Invited, Center for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge, February 2017
Drug Safety, Probabilistic Causal Assessment, and Evidence Synthesis, Munich, January 2017
*Philosophy of Science Bi-annual Conference, Atlanta, November 2016
International Conference on Applied Ethics, Sapporo, Japan, October 2016
The Science of Evolution and Evolution of the Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, October 2016
*Rationality, Agency and Responsibility in Social Groups, Center for Applied Philosophy and
Public Ethics, Canberra Australia, November 2015.
*Invited, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, LMU, Munich, June 2015.
Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology, University of Texas, Dallas, May 2015
Preliminary Ideas Series, Institute of the Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS), March 2015
“Why Most Sugar Pills are Not Placebos”
International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Montreal, July 2015
Philosophy of Science Bi-annual Conference, Chicago, November 2014
IMBS Graduate Conference, May 2010
“Keeping Epistemic Justice Social: Why Credibility Excess Matters”
Invited, University of Ghent, Belgium, October 2016
Invited, University of Texas, El Paso, April, 2015
Understanding Epistemic Injustice Conference, Bristol, England, June 2014
“The Problem of Intransigently Biased Agents”
*Philosophy of Science Bi-annual Conference, Chicago, November 2014
Formal Epistemology Workshop, University of Southern California, June 2014
IMBS Graduate Luncheon Series, February 2014
“Health and Wealth: Methodological Sophistication and Market Forces in Evidence-based Medicine”
British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Sterling, Scotland, July 2012
IMBS Graduate Conference, May 2012
Works in Progress, UC Irvine, March 2012
Teaching Experience
Yonsei University, Seoul
History of Science and Technology; Feminist Epistemology, Social Epistemology; Philosophy of Medicine; The Dark Side of Medicine (Research Ethics); Mind, Brain & Mental Illness (Philosophy of Mind); Policy for Science & Science for Policy; Industry-funding & Scientific Research; The Demarcation Problem; Science and Values.
University of California, Irvine
Making of Modern Science; Mind, Brain & Mental Illness (Philosophy of Mind); Philosophy of Science.
Fellowships and Awards
Visiting Research Fellowship, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford (2018)
Consultant, “Crowdsourcing and Gatekeeping (Carusi & De Grandis)” Wellcome Trust Grant (2017)
Senior Fellowship, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian (2016)
Conference Organization Grants, Veritas Institute & UCI Medical Humanities Initiative (2015)
Kathy Alberti Award for Truly Outstanding Promise as a Professor, University of California (2015)
Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, University of California (2014)
Associate Dean's Fellowship, University of California (2012)
Lave Award for creative uses of mathematical modeling in the social sciences (2010)
MBS award for significant contributions to the mathematical behavioral sciences (2010)
University of California Social Science Merit Fellowship (2007-2013)
Service
Conference Organizer: Philosophy of Industry-funded Science Workshop (Seoul, 2017); Perspectives on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Daejeon, 2017); Drug Safety, Probabilistic Causal Assessment, and Evidence Synthesis (Munich, 2017); Cologne Medical Epistemology Workshop (2016); Medical Knowledge in a Social World (Irvine, 2016);
Program Committee: Bias in Science (Munich, 2019); Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology (Dallas, 2018); Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry (Bochum, 2017); Evidence, Inference, and Risk (Munich, 2016)
Editor: Philosophy of Medicine (Subject editor: clinical research, evidence-based medicine, values, politics, social epistemology); Synthese (Special Issue: Medical Knowledge in a Social World)
Referee: Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science; British Journal for Philosophy of Science; Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science; Synthese; Erkenntnis; HOPOS; Public Affairs Quarterly; Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biology and Biological Science; THEORIA; Foundations of Science
Professional Affiliation
Philosophy of Science Association
Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science
British Society for the Philosophy of Science
American Philosophical Association
References
Jeffrey Barrett | [email protected]
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine
Nancy Cartwright | [email protected]
Professor of Philosophy, University of Durham & University of California, San Diego
Brian Skyrms | [email protected]
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine & Stanford University
Kyle Stanford | [email protected]
Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine