Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada

Office: 1240 Social Sciences
Phone: (403) 220-2828
Fax: (403) 289-5698
Email: mdelehan@ucalgary.ca

Education

Ph.D., History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
M.Sc., Microbiology, University of British Columbia
B.Sc., Cell Biotechnology, University of Alberta

Areas of Interest

Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Medicine
Epistemology

Selected Publications

"Perceiving Causation Via Videomicroscopy" (2007) Philosophy of Science 74(5):996-1006.

"Emergent Properties and the Context Objection to Reduction",  Biology and Philosophy (2005) 20(4):715-734.

"Fluorescent-activated cell-sorting analysis of intracellular interferon-γ and interleukin-4 in fresh and frozen human peripheral blood T-helper cells", Wound Repair and Regeneration (2005) 13: 441-449 (second author, with R. T. Kilani, Shankowsky, H., Ghahary, A., Scott, P., and Tredget, E.E.)

Review of Evelyn Fox Keller, Making Sense of Life (2004) “What counts
as an explanation?” Metascience (2003) 12 :393-396.