jamie shaw philosophy

About Me

I am currently an instructor at Victoria College, at the University of Toronto. Prior to this I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institut für Philosophie at Leibniz Universität Hannover on a project entitled "A Philosophical Approach to Biasing Mechanisms in Scientific Research" and a SSHRC sponsored postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. Before this, I completed my PhD at the University of Western Ontario in 2018. My dissertation is entitled: A Pluralism Worth Having: Feyerabend's Well-Ordered Science supervised by Kathleen Ohruhlik. I am currently on the governing board of the Consortium Socially Relevant Philosophy of/in Science and Engineering) and a North American representative of the Forum for Advancing Science and Education Through Philosophy. I was also on the International Steering Committee for the Paul K. Feyerabend Centennial Foundation.

I was born in Ottawa, Ontario in 1990 and grew up just outside the city in a small town called Constance Bay. I then moved to Newmarket, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto, in 1997. I had many hobbies growing up from sport cars, paleontology, astronomy, to music and sports. I competed in many kinds of sports including baseball, basketball, and TaeKwon-Do where I earned my 3rd degree black belt (in 2006) and won the International championship in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1999 (picture is of me after the tournament). Later in life, I got into Brazilian Ju-Jitsu and Kickboxing. I also play guitar, bass (not well), and have recorded about 20 songs (here is a link to my SoundCloud), some originals and some covers, and have been 'working on' (for about 15 years now) a concept album modelled after the Who's masterpiece Tommy.