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Jean Miller
   
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Jean is a Ph.D. graduate student in Science and Technology Studies. Her main areas of interest are philosophy of science and epistemology of experiment. She is currently working on her dissertation tentatively titled, "Observation and Experiment in the Natural and Social Sciences". Her thesis was "Enlightenment: Error & Experiment, Henry Cavendish's Electrical Experiments" (1997, Virginia Tech). Jean received her Bachelor's degree from the College of Charleston, Charleston, S.C. She has had positions as a Teaching Assistant and Instructor in Virginia Tech's Philosophy Department (1995-2002), and as an Instructor at Roanoke College, Department of Religion and Philosophy (1999-2001). She has also done copy editing, research and grading for several faculty members at Virginia Tech as well as served as the main assistant for three National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) summer institutes held at Virginia Tech.


Publications:

- Co-editor of Global Ethics (2002). Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
- Chapter 8 (with Tom Frost): Replication and arguing from error; and Chapter 8.3: Rejoinder in The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations edited by Mark Taper and Subhash Lele, Universiity of Chicago Press (2004)


 

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