Francis Cabrera.

Francis J. Cabrera

Adjunct Faculty

Department
Philosophy
Email
francis_cabrera@uml.edu
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Expertise

Philosophy of Science; Epistemology; Technology Ethics; Engineering Ethics

Education

  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018
  • M.A. in Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
  • B.A. in Philosophy & Spanish, Muhlenberg College, 2012

Selected Publications

  • 2025. “William Herschel’s Defense of Speculative Inquiry,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 113 (C): 13-23.
  • 2025. “On the Synthesis of Historical Linguistics and Cognate Disciplines” in The Bloomsbury Handbook of Big History: The Philosophy of the Historical Sciences, 335-356.
  • 2024. “Modeling Action: Recasting the Causal Theory” (with Megan Fritts). Analytic Philosophy.
  • 2022. “A Rawlsian Solution to the New Demarcation Problem,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 52(8): 810-827.
  • 2022. “Inference to the Best Explanation: An Overview.” In: Magnani, L. (eds) Handbook of Abductive Cognition. Springer, Cham.