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Alexandra E. Bradner
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Alexandra Bradner teaches courses in philosophy of science, epistemology, metaphysics, philosphy of biology, and feminist philosophy, among other topics, and is especially interested in strategies for teaching philosophical writing.
She joined the department in 2005 after completing her Ph.D. at Northwestern University under the direction of David Hull with a thesis titled, The End of Explanation, which makes the Pyrrhonian argument that pragmatic theories of explanation remain unconstrained without accounts of explanatory rejection. She is interested in the study of explanation throughout the disciplines, but topics of particular interest include: styles of explanation, inference-to-the-best-explanation arguments for scientific realism, the illocutionary theory of explanation, and moral explanation.