Carla Fehr
Associate Professor
(Wolfe Chair in Science and Technology Studies)

Office: HH 367
Extension: 31386
Email: carla.fehr@uwaterloo.ca
Webpage: http://sciencetechsociety.uwaterloo.ca/index.html

Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology, Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Feminist Science Studies, Philosophy of Science

Academic Biography
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Selected Publications
Fehr, C., 2012,  “Feminist Engagement with Evolutionary Psychology, Hypatia, 27 (1): 50–72.

Fehr, C., 2011. "Feminist Philosophy of Biology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming.

Fehr, C., 2011. “What is in it for me? The benefits of diversity in scientific communities,” in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge, ed. Heidi Grasswick, Dordrecht: Springer.

Fehr, C. and Plaisance, K., 2010, “Socially relevant philosophy of science (SRPOS): An introduction,” Synthese, 177 (3): 301-492.

Fehr, C., 2008, “Feminist perspectives on philosophy of biology,” Oxford Handbook on the Philosophy of Biology, Michael Ruse, ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fehr, C., 2008, “Thinking ecologically about Bison,” Ethics, Place and Environment, 2008 11(1), 56-65.

Fehr, C., 2007, “Are smart men smarter than smart women? The epistemology of ignorance, women and the production of knowledge,” The 'Woman Question' and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge Production in America, Ann Mari May, ed., Edward Elgar: Northampton, MA and Cheltenham, UK.

Schutler, D., Clark, R., Fehr, C. and Diamond, A., 2006, "Time and recruitment costs as currencies in manipulation studies on the costs of reproduction: Evidence from Tree Swallows,” Ecology, November 2006 87(11): 2938–2946.

Fehr, C., 2006, “Explanations of the evolution of sex: A plurality of local mechanisms,” Scientific Pluralism, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, eds. Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, C. Kenneth Waters, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Fehr, C. and Rausher, M., 2004, “Effects of variation at the flower-color A locus on mating system parameters of Ipomoea purpurea,” Molecular Ecology 13 (7): 1839-1847.

Fehr, C., 2004, “Feminism and science: Mechanism without reductionism,” National Women’s Studies Association Journal, 16:1, 136-156.   Reprinted in Jill M. Bystydzienski and Sharon R. Bird (eds.)  Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

Fehr, C., 2001, “Pluralism and sex: More than a pragmatic issue,” Philosophy of Science, 68, S237-S250.

Fehr, C., 2001, “The evolution of sex: Domains and explanatory pluralism,” Biology and Philosophy, 16:2 145-170.

Editing - Plaisance, K. and Fehr, C., 2010, Socially relevant philosophy of science, Synthese, special issue, 177 (3).

Selected Grants, Fellowships, & Awards
National Science Foundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award, co-Principal Investigator, 2006-2011, $3,300,000

“Pragmatic mechanism and explanatory pluralism,” National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Studies Scholar Award, Principal Investigator, 2005, $73,000

“Perspectives on Molecular Evolution,” May 19-26 2004, Dibner Biological Seminar, Dibner Institute, MIT, Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory

“Ovarian authority: Credibility of women studying female reproduction,” Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Grant, Summer 2004

“Feminist Epistemologies Seminar,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Pennsylvania State University, 2003

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post Graduate Fellowship, 1996­-1998

Teaching Awards
ISU Foundation Award for Early Excellence in Teaching
Shakeshaft Master Teacher Award

Current Research
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Recent Graduate Supervision & Teaching
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