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Marion started following the work of Barry Smith, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Institute of Philosophy.
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Post-Doc, Institute of Philosophy
King's College London, Department of Philospohy
University of London, Birkbeck College, Philosophy
Thesis Title: Human Kinds and Other Natural Kinds
About
From April 2012, I am a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (University of London) on an AHRC Project: Neuroscience and the Law (with Helen Beebee).
I have research interests that span a range of topics in the philosophy of science with a particular interest in the sciences of biology, psychiatry, and psychology. I am also interested in various intersections between general philosophy of science and ethics.
I recently completed my PhD at the Philosophy department at King’s College London (passed without corrections, December 2011). My supervisor was David Papineau and my examiners were Richard Samuels (Ohio) and Sarah Patterson (Birkbeck). My PhD thesis was about natural kinds in the life and human sciences. I discussed general philosophical issues related to the possibility and reality of such kinds, arguing particularly for the prominence of Ruth Millikan's historically grounded kinds. My thesis also considered specific case studies of natural kinds, from paradigmatic ones such as biological species to more "peripheral" cases like the rare child psychiatric disorder, 'pervasive refusal disorder'.
My interest in philosophy arose when I first took a philosophy class as part of studying Fine Arts (theatre) at York University (Toronto, Canada). I gained a BA (2006) and a MA (2007) both in theoretical philosophy from Stockholm University (Sweden). I also hold a Phil. Lic. (2009), equivalent to a MPhil, with a thesis on the ethics of nanotechnology from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden).
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