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James Tabery, PhD

Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department
University of Utah 
Salt Lake City, Utah

Correspondence: Philosophy Tanner Humanities Building 215 S Central Campus Dr. Rm 402 Salt Lake City, Utah   84112 Phone numbers: (office): 581-8362 Office: CTIHB 411 Mail to: tabery@philosophy.utah.edu

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Education  Training

      Degrees:

• 2007 PhD History and Philosophy of Science University Of Pittsburgh
• 2007 MA Bioethics University of Pittsburgh
• 2000 BS Biology Fairfield University
• 2000 BA Philosophy Fairfield University
  

Honors / Awards Since 2000

• 2004 Philosophy Of Science Graduate Student Essay Award -Philosophy Of Science Association

Present Positions / Appointments

• Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Utah
  Current Courses:
  
  PHIL 3520 Bioethics (Fall 2008)
  PHIL 3310-1 Science and Society
  PHIL 5350-1 Topics Phil Science
  PHIL 6350-1 Topics Phil Science
  

Interests

• Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
  Research Keywords: Bioethics (6); History of Biology (2); Medical Ethics (4); Philosophy of biology (7); Philosophy of Science (11); Applied Ethics (9); Epistemology (5); Ethics (14); Genetics (6);

Selected Publications

Publications:

Tabery, James (2009), "From a Genetic Predisposition to an Interactive Predisposition: Rethinking the Ethical Implications of Screening for Gene-Environment Interactions", Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 34: 27-48. 

Tabery, James (2008), "R. A. Fisher, Lancelot Hogben, and the Origin(s) of Genotype-Environment Interaction", Journal of the History of Biology 41: 717-761. 

Tabery, James and Charles W. Mackett (2008), "The Ethics of Triage in the Event of an Influenza Pandemic", Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 2: 114-118. 

Darden, Lindley and James Tabery (Spring 2005), “Molecular Biology,” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), available online at http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molecular-biology/Griffiths,

Paul E. and James Tabery (2008), “Behavioral Genetics and Development: Historical and Conceptual Causes of Controversy,” New Ideas in Psychology 26: 332-352. 

Tabery, James (2007), “Biometric and Developmental Gene-Environment Interactions: Looking Back, Moving Forward,” Development and Psychopathology 19: 961-976.

Tabery, James (2006), “Looking Back on Lancelot’s Laughter: The Lancelot Thomas Hogben Papers, University of Birmingham, Special Collections,” Mendel Newsletter 15: 10-17.

Synthesizing Activities and Interactions in the Concept of a Mechanism, Philosophy of Science 71(1): 1-15 2004

The 'Evolutionary Synthesis' of George Udny Yule, Journal of the History of Biology 37(1): 73-101 2004