Rena Goldstein
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
Professional Profile
Professor Goldstein earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, in 2022. She specializes in social and applied epistemology. Her current research centers on the epistemic systems of 20th-century philosophers Quine and Wittgenstein as she works to square their contributions to holistic systems with empirical accounts of bias. Find out more about her published work www.renabgoldstein.com.
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Medical Humanities
- Medical Epistemology
- Contemporary Moral Problems
- Controversial Ethics
- Puzzles and Paradoxes
- Introduction to Philosophy
- Academic Writing
- First Year Seminar
- Critical Thinking & Baby Logic
Research
- Goldstein, R. “Holistic Similarities Between Quine and Wittgenstein.” Philosophical Investigations, July 26, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/phin.12405
- Goldstein, R. “Epistemic Disadvantage.” Philosophia, January 6, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-021-00465-w.
- Sarnecka, Silva, Vickers, Coon, Goldstein, & Rouder “The Writing Workshop,” Innovative Higher Education (2022), https://rdcu.be/cFkVh.
- Goldstein, R. B., & Vickers, D. (2022, December 16). “The writing workshop”: Increasing representation in philosophy. Blog of the APA. https://blog.apaonline.org/2022/12/22/the-writing-workshop-increasing-representation-in-philosophy/
- Goldstein, R. “Jewish Injustice: on the role of women witnesses.” Tikkun, May 2, 2022. https://www.tikkun.org/jewish-injustice/.
- Goldstein, R. “Reconceptualizing Civic Competence in the Digital Age,” in Snow, N.E., & Vaccarezza, M.S. (Eds.). (2021). Virtues, Democracy, and Online Media: Ethical and Epistemic Issues (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003083108.
- Goldstein, R. “You are Only as Good as You are Behind Closed Doors,” in Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.5840/p42020348
- Goldstein, R. "Patriotic Education in a Global Age by Randall Curren & Charles Dorn," in Educational Theory, vol. 69, no. 5 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12393.
Recent Conferences
- 2024. Philosophy of Science and Epistemology, Hong Kong. "Wading in the Frog Pond: Judgmental Hinges and Justification in Science"
- 2023. Philosophy of Education, Wisconsin. "Survivor Bias and Epistemic Disadvantage."
- 2023. Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh. "A Stereotypical Hinge Framework."
- 2023. North American Association for Philosophy & Education, Mundelein, Illinois. "Stereotyping in the Classroom"
- 2022. 3rd Hinge Epistemology Conference: Hinge Epistemology and Religious Belief, NOVA University of Lisbon – School of Social Sciences and Humanities. University, Portugal. "A Stereotypical Hinge Framework."
- 2022. University of California, Irvine. "Epistemic Injustice in the Medical Context."
- 2022. American Philosophical Association Central Division, Chicago, Illinois, February 2022."Studying Educational Equity Through Qualitative Research"