Kristin Shrader-Frechette
O'Neill Family Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Professor of Biological Sciences
Contact Information
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
100 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
E-Mail: kshrader@nd.edu
Homepage: www.nd.edu/~kshrader
Office:211 Malloy
Office Hours: 2:00 - 3:30 Tuesdays; 2:00-3:00 Wednesdays or by appointment
Education:
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Areas of Interest:
Ethics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Science,
Quantitative Risk Assessment
Selected Bibliography
Recent Articles:
- "Using Metascience to Improve Dose-Response Curves in Biology," Philosophy of Science 71, no. 5 (2004): 1026-1037
- "Measurement Problems and Florida Panther Models," Southeastern Naturalist 3, no. 1 (2004): 37-5
- "Comparativist Rationality and Epidemiological Epistemology," Topoi 2 (September-October 2004): 153:163
Books:
- Environmental Justice (2003)
- Technology and Values, coed. (1997)
- The Ethics of Scientific Research (1994)
- Method in Ecology with E. McCoy (1993)
- Burying Uncertainty: Risk and the Case Against Geological Disposal of Nuclear Waste(1993)
- Policy for Land: Law and Ethics, with L. Caldwell (1993)
- Expert Judgment in Assessing Radwaste Risks (1992)
- Risk and Rationality (1991) ed.
- Nuclear Energy and Ethics (1991)
- Risk Analysis and Scientific Method (1985)
- Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology (1985)
- Four Methodological Assumptions in Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis (1983)
- Nuclear Power and Public Policy (1981, 1991)
- Environmental Ethics (1981)
Additional Information:
Shrader-Frechette has served on many boards/committees of the US National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Association, and the World Congress of Philosophy. Her work has been translated into 12 languages, and she has lectured to the national academies of science of 3 nations. Past-President of the Risk Analysis and Policy Association (RAPA), the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), and the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE), she chairs the U.S. EPA Bioethics Committee and serves on the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board. Her research has been funded continuously by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for 23 years; her current $224,000 NSF grant is on ethical/methodological problems in radiation physics.
