Dr. Laura J Rediehs

St. Lawrence University

Associate Professor and Chair
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Education
Undergraduate: 
Earlham College, B.A., 1990
Graduate: 
University of Minnesota, M.A., 1995
University of Minnesota, Ph.D., 1998
Courses I teach regularly: 

Introduction to Peace Studies, Reasoning, Ethical Theory, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Science and Religion, Metaphilosophy

My research interests: 

History of Philosophy of Science, Scientific Realism, Science and Religion, Incommensurability, Philosophy of Peace

Sample student projects I have supervised: 

Realism, Anti-Realism and Naturalized Philosophy in a Model-Based Philosophy of Science

Seeing Fish and Birds: A Philosophical Thesis on True Knowledge and Rationality

Philosophy of Language

Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work: 

Essay on "Evil" in Collateral Language, ed. Collins and Glover, 2002

"Where Quakerism and Philosophy Meet: The Ethical Ideal of Respect" in Quaker Higher Education, 2008

Ways I offer service to my discipline and/or the University: 
Coordinator of the Peace Studies Program
My hobbies and/or personal interests: 

I play historical flutes and recorders with St. Lawrence's Early Music Ensemble.

My current projects: 
"Quaker Epistemology: A Different Kind of Empiricism?"
With Karen Johnson: papers on the language of "laws" and "theories" in science