Daniel J. Hicks
Associate Professor of Philosophy
University of California, Merced
Areas of interest
Philosophy: philosophy of science, ethics,
social and political philosophy
Science and Technology Studies: science
policy, environmental policy
Data Science: text mining, bibliometrics,
philosophy of statistical modeling
Professional appointments
2023-
Associate Professor of
Philosophy University of California, Merced (Department
of Philosophy; Affiliate Faculty, Public Health Graduate Group;
Affiliate Faculty, Health Sciences Research Institute)
2019-2023
Assistant Professor of
Philosophy University of California, Merced (Department
of Cognitive Science)
2017-2019
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of California, Davis (Data Science Intiative)
2015-2017
Science and Technology Policy
Fellow American Assocation for the Advancement of Science
(2015-16: Hosted by the Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical
Safety for Sustainability Program; 2016-17: Hosted by the National
Science Foundation, National Robotics Initiative)
2013-2015
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Western Ontario (Rotman Institute of Philosophy)
2012-2013
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Notre Dame (College of Arts and Letters and
Department of Philosophy)
Education
2012
PhD, Philosophy University of
Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
2003
MS, Mathematics University of
Illinois, Chicago (Chicago, IL)
2002
BS, Mathematics + Politics and
Government University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA)
Peer-reviewed publications
2.
Contreras Kallens, P., Hicks, D. J.,
& Jennings, C. D. (2022). Networks in philosophy: Social
networks and employment in academic philosophy.
Metaphilosophy,
53(5), 653–684.
https://doi.org/10.1111/meta.12591
3.
Hicks, D. J. (2022). When Virtues are
Vices: ’Anti-Science’ Epistemic Values in Environmental Politics.
Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology,
14(0, 0).
https://doi.org/10.3998/.2629
7.
Hicks, D. J., Magnus, P. D., &
Wright, J. (2020). Inductive Risk, Science, and Values: A Reply to
MacGillivray.
Risk Analysis,
40(4), 667–673.
https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.13434
8.
Hicks, D. J. (2020). Census Demographics
and Chlorpyrifos Use in California’s Central Valley, 2011–15: A
Distributional Environmental Justice Analysis.
International
Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
17(7, 7), 2593.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072593
9.
Hicks, D. J., Coil, D. A., Stahmer, C.
G., & Eisen, J. A. (2019). Network analysis to evaluate the
impact of research funding on research community consolidation.
PLOS ONE,
14(6), e0218273.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218273
10.
Fernández Pinto, M., & Hicks, D. J.
(2019). Legitimizing Values in Regulatory Science.
Environmental Health Perspectives,
127(3),
035001.
https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP3317
13.
Hicks, D. J., Stahmer, C., & Smith,
M. (2018). Impacting Capabilities: A Conceptual Framework for the
Social Value of Research.
Frontiers in Research Metrics and
Analytics.
https://doi.org/10.3389/frma.2018.00024
14.
Hicks, D. J. (2018). Inductive Risk and
Regulatory Toxicology: A Comment on de Melo-Martín and Intemann.
Philosophy of Science,
85(1), 164–174.
https://doi.org/10.1086/694771
17.
Hicks, D. J., & Stapleford, T. A.
(2016). The Virtues of Scientific Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue
Ethics, and the Historiography of Science.
Isis,
107(3), 449–472.
https://doi.org/10.1086/688346
18.
Hicks, D. J. (2015). Epistemological
depth in a GM crops controversy.
Studies in History and
Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of
Biological and Biomedical Sciences,
50, 1–12.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.02.002
Other scholarly products
4.
Stapleford, T. A., & Hicks, D. J.
(2021). Seeing Science as a Communal Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue
Ethics, and the Study of Science. In E. Ratti & T. A.
Stapleford (Eds.),
Science, Technology, and Virtues:
Contemporary Perspectives. Oxford University Press.
https://books.google.com?id=R30_EAAAQBAJ
6.
Brister, E., & Hicks, D. J. (2020).
Contributions of Women to Philosophy of Science: A Bibliometric
Analysis. In S. Crasnow & K. Intemann (Eds.), The
Routledge Handbook of Feminist Philosophy of Science.
Routledge.
13.
Hicks, D. (2013). Paul Pojman (ed): Food
ethics, Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Boston, Massachusetts, 2012,
199 pp, ISBN 9781111772307 David Kaplan (ed): The philosophy of
food, University of California Press, Berkeley, California, 2012,
320 pp, ISBN 9780520269330.
Agriculture and Human Values,
30(4), 657–658.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-013-9468-0
14.
Hicks, D. J. (2012). Scientific
Practices and Their Social Context. U. of Notre Dame.
Public talks and publications
Students
- Emilio Lobato (UC Merced, Ph.D., co-advisor)
- Daisy Underhill (UC Davis, Ph.D., prospectus committee
member)
- Aaron Chavez (UC Davis, Ph.D., prospectus committee
member)
- Dennis Perez (UC Merced, M.A., committee member)
- Anthony Sainez (UC Merced, undergraduate, research
supervisor)
- Kaeda Sabrewing (UC Merced, undergraduate, research
supervisor)