Bio
Laura Cupples is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, and a member of the affiliated faculty for the Department of Women and Gender Studies. She holds a BS in Physics from Davidson College, and an MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. She previously held a postdoctoral research fellow position at Washington State University.
Interests
Dr. Cupples’ research interests include epistemology of disability, reproductive justice, critical metrology, and the intersection of science and values and health policy. She has recently taught courses in Bioethics, Philosophy of Science, and Contemporary Moral Problems.
Selected Publications
Colorafi, K., Cupples, L., Kallman, D. and Kennedy, J. 2021. “Disability stories: personal perspectives of people with disabilities on navigating the US health system.” Disability & Society, pp.1-23.
Cupples, Laura M. 2021. “Knowing with the Disability Community: Building a Disability Standpoint for Health Policy Research.” IJFAB: The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 14(2): 36-60.
Cupples, Laura M. 2020. “Disability, Epistemic Harms, and the Quality Adjusted Life Year.” IJFAB: The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics.
Cupples, Laura M. 2019. “Measure Development and the Hermeneutic Task.” Synthese, pp. 1-16.
Cupples, Laura M. 2017. “The Epistemological Roles of Models in Health Science Measurement” In McClimans, Leah (Ed.). Measurement in Medicine: Essays in Assessment and Evaluation. London: Rowman and Littlefield International.