Biography:

Heather Douglas will be joining MSU’s Department of Philosophy as an Associate Professor in the Fall of 2018. Her research focuses on the relationship between science and democracy, including the role of social and ethical values in science, She is interested in how citizens can and should interact with science, including the bases for citizens’ trust in scientists. She has also worked on the nature of objectivity in science and how to weigh complex, non-convergent sets of evidence.