Bio
Jack Powers is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Western National Insurance in Minnesota. He earned his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. His philosophical research focuses on conceptual and ethical issues in biological and environmental science. His doctoral project investigated relationships between scientific descriptions and ethical and epistemic values. He uses research on the controversial herbicide, atrazine, as a case study. His dissertation work was supported in part by the Tom Lapic Memorial Fellowship of Social Justice.
Selected Publications
Powers, J. (2016) The Inductive Risk of “Demasculinization.” In K. Elliot and T. Richards (eds.), Exploring Inductive Risk. Oxford University Press.
Powers, J. (2013). Finding Ernst Mayr’s Plato. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 44(4), 714-723.
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