Moira Howes has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). She says:
I am a philosopher of science who regularly practices “Armchair Science.” After my BSc in biology and eight months in an immunology Master’s program, I defected to the arts so to study the conceptual foundations of science and problems in scientific reasoning. I am currently working on intellectual virtue and character in the sciences, with a specific focus on how the promotion, clarification and cultivation of intellectual virtue might solve two problems: first, the rather low quality of public debate about science and the need for better public policy about science; and second, some philosophical problems concerning scientific objectivity. My critical work on scientific reasoning has thus far only annoyed one or two scientists — or so I think.
Moira Howes, Ph.D, LFHCfS
Chair, Department of Philosophy
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
