Dr. Stephen Crowley joined the faculty of the Department of Philosophy at Boise
State University after completing his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Indiana University in 2006.
Dr. Crowley grew up in Adelaide, South Australia, and graduated from the University of
Adelaide where he focused on the study of Logic, before moving to the United States to
pursue graduate studies. His interests and studies include Epistemology, Philosophy of
Science, History and Sociology of Science, Philosophy of Mind/Psychology, Philosophy of
Logic, and Early Modern Philosophy. 

Articles

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Intuition & Calibration (with Jonathan M. Weinberg, Chad Gonnerman, Ian Vandewalker, and Stacey Swain), Essays in Philosophy (2012)

The practice of appealing to intuitive judgments concerning esoteric cases, long standard in analytic philosophy,...

 

NEH Panel: A Model for Philosophers, AAAI Publications, 2011 AAAI Fall Symposium Series (2011)

Cross-disciplinary research (CDR) is an increasingly important part of the contemporary research 'landscape'. Despite its...

 

Loose Constitutivity and Armchair Philosophy (with Jonathan M. Weinberg), Studia Philosophica Estonica (2009)

Standard philosophical methodology which proceeds by appeal to intuitions accessible "from the armchair" has come...

 

The X-Phi(les): Unusual Insights into the Nature of Inquiry (with Jonathan M. Weinberg), Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A (2009)

Experimental philosophy is often regarded as a category mistake. Even those who reject that view...

 

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How “Weak” Mindreaders Inherited the Earth (with Cameron Buckner, Adam Shriver, and Colin Allen), Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2009)

Carruthers argues that an integrated faculty of metarepresentation evolved for mindreading and was later exapted...

 

Contributions to Books

Animal Behavior (with Colin Allen), The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Biology (2008)
 

Presentations

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Epistemological Intervention and Cross-Disciplinary Research (with Ian O'Laughlin), Canadian Society for Epistemology, Annual Meeting (2008)
 

How Reliable is that Monkey?, Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (2007)