Dr. Aliya Dewey to Join Faculty, Starting Fall 2025
After a year as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for the Philosophy of Science, Dr. Aliya Dewey will join the Philosophy Faculty in Fall 2025. She specializes in the philosophy of cognitive science (neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence), and the philosophy of biology from the perspective of general philosophy of science and metanormative theory. Her research focuses on mechanistic explanation, functional analysis, and experimental design in neuroscience, psychology, and AI. A recurring theme in her work is that objective norms are indispensable to scientific inquiry because they direct us to explain success and failure in different ways. She completed her PhD at the University of Arizona in philosophy with doctoral minors in neuroscience and cognitive science in Spring 2023. Before she joins UTEP in Fall 2025, she will have held postdoctoral fellowships at the Centre for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh and at the Centre for Philosophy & Artificial Intelligence Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.