Dr. Joseph Wilson

Dr. Joseph Wilson
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Expertise:

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Environmental Philosophy
  • Historical Science
  • Models in Science

Education:

  • Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Colorado, 2020
  • B.A., Philosophy and Sociology, University of California, 2010

2024 Curriculum Vitae

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About Dr. Joseph Wilson

Dr. Wilson joined Fort Lewis College in 2024 as Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. He spends a lot of time thinking and writing about philosophical issues in climate science, both as it pertains to the future with climate models and to the past with climate proxies like tree rings and ice cores. Recently, he has also been thinking about how scientific practice resembles aesthetic practices, like the production of art and the playing of games, and why this is a good thing for science. You can find his work in a variety of philosophical and scientific journals, including Synthese, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Climate of the Past, Perspectives on Science, and Frontiers in Climate.

Selected publications: 

Modeling the Measurement of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Measurement – Frontiers in Climate 2024

Paleoclimate Analogues and the Threshold Problem – Synthese 2023

Stable Isotopes in Unstable Times: Harold Urey’s paleothermometer and the nature of proxy measurement – Extinct: the Philosophy of Paleontology Blog 2023

Proxy Measurement in Paleoclimatology (with G. Boudinot) – European Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2022