Associate Professor in Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
Andrea Sullivan-Clarke is an Associate Professor at Indiana University Bloomington (IU) in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine with a joint appointment in the Native American & Indigenous Studies (NAIS) Program.
Her research focuses in on the social dynamics of knowledge generation communities, to include the Indigenous communities of Turtle Island (North America). Sullivan-Clarke has published and presented on scientific reasoning and practice, notably the use of analogical reasoning and its influence on the work of Charles Darwin and 19th century science on human difference.
A first-generation college student and member of the Wind clan of the Muscogee Nation, Sullivan-Clarke has published on various topics relevant to Indigenous communities, such as land acknowledgement statements, allyship, and settler ignorance. She is the editor of Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to Indigenous Philosophies of Turtle Island (Broadview Press, 2023), an anthology for non-Indigenous instructors who want to teach Indigenous Philosophy.
“ Strategic ignorance, is it appropriate for Indigenous resistance?” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 27(1), 78–93.
“Do the Objections of Darwin’s Critics Indicate the Use of a Proportional Analogy in the Origin?” Metascience. 31, 145-149.
“Misled by Metaphor: The Problem of Ingrained Analogy,” Perspectives on Science 27 (2), March-April 2019, 153-170.
“On the Causal Efficacy of Natural Selection: A Response to Richards’ Critique of the Standard Interpretation of the Origin,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44 (2013) 745–755
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