Draft:Angela Potochnik

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Angela Potochnik is an American Philosopher. She is a professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, where she also serves as the Founder and Director of the Center for Public Engagement with Science.{{Cite web|url=https://ucengagingscience.org/people/|title=People + Partners|date=April 12, 2019|website=UC Center for Public Engagement with Science}}{{Cite web|url=https://ucengagingscience.org/|title=UC Center for Public Engagement with Science|date=November 5, 2024|website=UC Center for Public Engagement with Science}}{{Cite web |language=en |title=About the Editors |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/public-engagement-with-science/about-the-editors |website=cambridge.org}}{{cite web | url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/awareness-of-our-biases-is-essential-to-good-science/ | title=Awareness of Our Biases is Essential to Good Science | website=Scientific American }}{{cite web | url=https://iai.tv/articles/constructing-an-ideal-reality-auid-1642?_auid=2020 | title=Simple solutions, dangerous realities | Angela Potochnik | date=23 September 2020 }}https://www.fox19.com/2025/02/18/kids-learn-about-science-engineering-majors-uc/. Her research addresses the nature of science and its successes, the relationships between science and the public, and methods in science, especially biology. Potochnik is one of the associate editors of Philosophy of Science {{cite web | url=https://www.philsci.org/editors.php | title=Editors - Philosophy of Science Association }} and has served on the editorial boards of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy since 2018 {{cite web | url=https://plato.stanford.edu/board.html | title=Editorial Board (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) }}, Biology and Philosophy since 2020 {{cite web | url=https://link.springer.com/journal/10539/editorial-board | title=Biology & Philosophy }}, and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science since 2023 {{cite web|access-date=January 28, 2025 |language=en |title=Editorial Board Members {{!}} Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/studies-in-history-and-philosophy-of-science/about/editorial-board |website=sciencedirect.com}}

Potochnik earned her PhD from Stanford University in 2007.[https://researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/potochaa Angela Potochnik | Professional Summary] in researchdirectory.uc.edu She is the author of Idealization and the Aims of Science (2017){{Cite book|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo27128726.html|title=Idealization and the Aims of Science|first=Angela|last=Potochnik|publisher=University of Chicago Press}} and Science and the Public (2024){{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/science-and-the-public/F068224306AE6FE86D7CA0757948D137|title=Science and the Public|first=Angela|last=Potochnik|date=March 16, 2024|journal=Elements in the Philosophy of Science|via=www.cambridge.org|doi=10.1017/9781009049474|isbn=978-1-009-04947-4 }} and coauthor of Recipes for Science: an introduction to scientific methods and reasoning (2018, 2nd Ed. 2024){{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Recipes-for-Science-An-Introduction-to-Scientific-Methods-and-Reasoning/Potochnik-Colombo-Wright/p/book/9781032290966?srsltid=AfmBOoqQROy4AzlVxgy_lxo9EfGqApv5ArvzrhJip5SNrhd5u0iu0XNw|title=Recipes for Science: An Introduction to Scientific Methods and Reasoning|website=Routledge & CRC Press}}.{{cite web | url=https://www.philscicomm.com/interviews/angela-potochnik-and-melissa-jacquart | title=PhilSciComm - Angela Potochnik and Melissa Jacquart }}

Publications

Potochnik, A. (2024). Science and the Public. Elements in the Philosophy of Science.
Potochnik, A. (2021). Our world isn't organized into levels.
Potochnik, A. (2011). A Neurathian conception of the unity of science. Erkenntnis, 74, 305-319.
Potochnik, A. (2020). Idealization and many aims. Philosophy of science, 87(5), 933-943.
Potochnik, A., & Sanches de Oliveira, G. (2020). Patterns in cognitive phenomena and pluralism of explanatory styles. Topics in Cognitive Science, 12(4), 1306-1320.
Potochnik, A., Colombo, M., & Wright, C. (2018). Recipes for science: an introduction to scientific methods and reasoning. Routledge.
Potochnik, A. (2017). Idealization and the Aims of Science. University of Chicago Press.Reviews of Idealization and the Aims of Science
{{Cite journal |last=Boem |first=Federico |date=2019 |title=Review of Idealization and the aims of science |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/45410909 |journal=History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=1–5 |jstor=45410909 |issn=0391-9714}}
{{Cite journal |last=Burnston |first=Daniel C. |date=2019 |editor-last=Potochnik |editor-first=Angela |title=Review of Angela Potochnik's Idealization and the Aims of Science |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26859199 |journal=Philosophy of Science |volume=86 |issue=3 |pages=577–583 |doi=10.1086/703574 |jstor=26859199 |issn=0031-8248}}
Potochnik, A. (2016). Scientific explanation: Putting communication first. Philosophy of Science, 83(5), 721-732.
Potochnik, A. (2015). The diverse aims of science. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 53, 71-80.
Potochnik, A. (2015). Causal patterns and adequate explanations. Philosophical Studies, 172, 1163-1182.
Potochnik, A., & McGill, B. (2012). The limitations of hierarchical organization. Philosophy of Science, 79(1), 120-140.
Potochnik, A. (2010). Levels of explanation reconceived. Philosophy of science, 77(1), 59-72.

References

External Links

[https://www.angelapotochnik.com/ Angela Potochnik's Website]