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Brief Biography: Mariam Thalos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1993, and taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, before joining the faculty at Utah in 2001. Her research focuses on foundational questions in the sciences, especially the physical, social and decisional sciences, as well as on the relations amongst the sciences, and the relation between the sciences and common sense. She is the author of numerous articles on causation, explanation and how relations between micro and macro are handled by a range of scientific theories, as well as articles in political philosophy, epistemology, logical paradox and feminism. She is a former fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University, and the Tanner Humanities Center. She is currently writing two books: The Natural History of Knowledge, and The Natural History of the Will. Courses: Professor Thalos will be holding a fellowship in Fall 2003. During Spring 2004 she will teach Honors 4474-Colors, Categories and Paradoxes, and Philosophy : Science and Society Some Recent Publications: “From Human Nature to Moral Philosophy,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, forthcoming in 2003. Probability is the Very Guide of Life: The Philosophical Uses of Chance, edited with Henry Kyburg, Jr.  Illinois: Open Court, 2003. “Searle's Foole: How a Constructionist Account of Society Cannot Substitute for a Causal One,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology , 62 (1),  2003, 105-122.  This is a special issue of the AJES, on John Searle’s Construction of Social Reality, and appears simultaneously in book form. “The Reduction of Causal Processes,” Synthese, 131 (2002), 99-128. “Explanation is a Genus: On the Varieties of Scientific Explanation,” Synthese, 130 (2002), 317-354. “Degrees of Freedom in the Social World: Towards a Systems Analysis of Decision,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 7 (1999), 453-77.
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