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Education

PhD in Philosophy (University of Western Ontario)

MA and BA in Philosophy (91TV)

Research Interests 

Philosophy of science, science policy, history of philosophy of science, environmental philosophy

91TV 

Jamie began a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Philosophy at 91TV in 2026 as a part of the SSHRC-funded project entitled “Epistemic Corruption” supervised by Professors Sergio Sismondo and Daryn Lehoux. Prior to this, he was a postdoc at Leibniz University, Hannover and at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. His research primarily centers around science funding policy, engaging in questions relating to the use of peer review in evaluating research promise. This engagement is inspired by the pluralism advocated by Paul Feyerabend. Beyond this, his research draws upon historical research on figures such as Feyerabend, Thomas Kuhn, Arne Naess, and Michael Polanyi. His research also involved a perennial interest in environmental philosophy, with a focus on practices involving regenerative agriculture. His dissertation, A Pluralism Worth Having: Feyerabend’s Well-Ordered Science, was completed in 2018 at the University of Western Ontario under the supervision of Kathleen Okruhlik. 

Publications 

Edited Volumes

Tsou, J., Shaw, J. & Fehr, C. 2025. Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science.

Shaw, J. & Bschir, K. 2021. Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Papers. Cambridge University Press.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles 

Shaw, J. 2025. “Funding Big Science: Managing Diversity, Social Responsibility, and Limited Resources.” European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 15(74).

Shaw, J. 2024. “Bias, Lotteries, and Affirmative Action in Science Funding Policy.” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

Shaw, J. 2023. “Peer Review, Innovation, and Predicting the Future of Science: The Scope of Lotteries in Science Funding Policy.” Philosophy of Science, 90(5): 1297-1306.

Shaw, J. 2023. “Peer Review in Funding-by-Lottery: A Systematic Overview and Expansion.” Research Evaluation, 32(1): 86-100.

Shaw, J. 2022. “There and Back Again: Revisiting Vannevar Bush, the Linear Model, and the Freedom of Science.” Research Policy, 51(10), 104610.

Shaw, J. 2022. “On the Very Idea of Pursuitworthiness.” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 19: 103-112.

Shaw, J. 2021. “Feyerabend’s Well-Ordered Science: How an Anarchist Distributes Funds.” Synthese, 68: 419-449.

Shaw, J. 2017. “Was Feyerabend an Anarchist? The Structure(s) of ‘Anything Goes’.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Part A, 64: 11-21.

Selected Book Chapters

Shaw, J. 2026. “The Values of Science Funding Institutions” in K. Elliott & T. Richards (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Values in Science. New York: Routledge, pp. 281-293.

Shaw, J. 2025. “The Limits of Ethical Pluralism: Mill, Feyerabend, and Experiments of Living” in J. Tsou, J. Shaw, & C. Fehr (eds.), Values, Pluralism, and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Matthew J. Brown. Boston Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, pp. 23–44

Shaw, J. 2025. “Funding Priorities and Climate Change: Lessons from Agriculture and Action-Oriented Science” in D. Maier, J. Donahuser, & M. Weber (eds.), Disruptive Innovations and the Environmental Crisis: Ethical, Practical, and Sociopolitical Concerns. Routledge Press, pp. 144–165.

Shaw, J. 2024. “The Impact of Science Funding Policy on Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, in K. B. Wray (ed.). Structure of Scientific Revolutions at 60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 37-52.

Desjardins, E., Shaw, J., Barker, G., Bzovy, J. 2019. “Geofunctions, Pluralism, and Environmental Management”, in T. DesRoches, B. Williston, & F. Jankunis (eds.) From the North of 49: New Perspectives in Canadian Environmental Philosophy. Montreal: McGill-91TV Press, pp. 234-264.

Popular Articles

Shaw, J. 2025. “The High Priests of Science are Holding it Hostage.” IAI News. https://iai.tv/articles/the-high-priests-of-science-are-holding-it-hostage-auid-3250?_auid=2020