I welcome private and public nominations for my weekly, most-underrated philosopher of the week entry! (I have received a few promising entries.) Here are the rules: 1. no dead people; 2. no people currently or about to be employed in a Leiter top 50 (or equivalent) department (even thought these are also filled with underrated folk); 3. no former dissertation advisors, or other teachers from graduate school; 4. no former students; 5. No untenured folk. 6. Excellence in more than one AOS. (That is I want to recognize *interesting* philosophers, not just hyperspecialized ones!)
Most previous winners were folk that I have had some significant intellectual connection with at one point or another. This week's winner, Lisa Gannett, who teaches at Saint Mary's University in Halifax in Canada, I know primarily through her writing. Her work is at the intersection of philosophy of biology/science, philosophy of race, science/values (no doubt, in part, informed by some healthy feminism). Her most famous (and widely cited) paper brilliantly blends philosophy of biology, history of biology, and moral philosophy. It should be an example to all philosophers of science who want to ask critical questions about where science might head (and it is a useful corrective to to those philosophers of science, who think there is a trade-off between technical and historical knowledge). Another of her papers shows that pragmatist philosophy of science is alive and kicking.
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