MATTHEW H. SLATER
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About Me

MatthewPlato and Kant occasionally speak to me.
I'm originally from Portland, Oregon. I went to Dartmouth as a biochemistry major fully intending to go into biomedical research, but defected to philosophy late in the game. Trading the bucolic small-town living for the big city, I entered Columbia University for my Ph.D., where I studied logic, metaphysics, and (building on my scientific training from college) the philosophy of science.

I returned west for my first tenure-track appointment, at the University of Idaho, in the lovely inland northwest where I stayed for three years before moving east again to teach at Bucknell. I was tenured at Bucknell in 2013 and promoted to Professor in 2018.

Aside from philosophy, I'm a committed though mediocre basketball and tennis player (and watcher), an avid guitar and piano player (and listener), a single-malt scotch, wine, and beer enthusiast, and a serious/amateur photographer (if that's a thing).

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  • Home
  • Teaching
    • Current and Future Courses >
      • PHIL 103: Logic
    • Previous Courses >
      • RESC 098: Revolutions in Scientific Understanding
      • PHIL 100: Philosophy in Film
      • PHIL 100: Belief & Reality
      • UNIV 200: Climate Change
      • PHIL 201: Symbolic Logic
      • PHIL 220: Philosophy of Science
      • PHIL 222: Analytic Philosophy
      • PHIL 224: Epistemology
      • PHIL 268: Science in the Public Eye
      • PHIL 272: Philosophy of Biology
      • PHIL 311: Socializing Epistemology
    • Student Resources >
      • Writing Resources
      • Presentation Advice
      • Recommendations
    • Calendar
  • Research
    • Books >
      • Are Species Real?
      • The Nature of Biological Kinds
    • Published & Forthcoming
    • Current Projects
    • The Production of Public Understanding of Science
  • Personal
  • Photography
  • Blog