Resume

• 2009

  GoodLife Fitness

  University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

  Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

  University of Toronto

  TimePlan Education Group Limited

  University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

  Teaching Assistant

  Led tutorials

  graded essays and exams

  assisted students with understanding course material and developing reading comprehension and writing skills. \n\nCourses: \nKnowledge and Reality

  PHL232 (Summer 2014)\nIntroduction to Philosophy

  PHL105 (2011-14)\nBioethics

  PHL201 (Summer 2013)\nScientific Revolutions II

  HPS211 (Spring 2007

  Spring 2011)\nHistory of Evolutionary Biology II

  JHE355 (Spring 2010)\nMethodology

  Theory and Practice in the Natural Sciences

  VIC171 (2008-09)\nGenes

  Genetics and Biotechnology

  HMB201 (Fall 2008)

  University of Toronto

  Teaching Associate

  University of Cambridge

  Visiting Assistant Professor

  University of Pittsburgh

  GoodLife Fitness

  Writing Clinician

  Assisted undergraduate students taking courses in History and Philosophy of Science with essay writing

  helping them get started

  write an outline and improved drafts.

  University of Toronto

  Postdoctoral Fellow

  University of Pittsburgh

  TimePlan Education Group Limited

  Hampshire

  UK

  Worked as a supply teacher in 2007 in various secondary schools in Hampshire before taking a long-term occasional position as a Key Stage 3 (Years 7

  8 and 9) teacher at Everest Community College (Basingstoke

  UK)

  teaching Mathematics and Literacy.

  Secondary School Teacher

  Co-coordinated and designed second-year undergraduate Introductory Philosophy of Science course (HPS250). Duties included writing and delivering weekly lectures

  writing and delivering assignments and exams

  meeting with teaching assistants and students.

  University of Toronto

  Course Instructor

  Lectured and led weekly tutorial sessions for the Development of Western Thought II (HUM200)

  working in a team with four other instructors. Developed course material

  assisted students with course material and developing reading and writing skills

  administered exams.

  Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

• 2006

  Polish

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Philosophy of Science

  University of Toronto

• 2002

  Honours Bachelor of Science

  Mathematics

  History and Philosophy of Science

  Biology

  Varsity Blues Rowing (2006 - 2010)

  University of Toronto

• Critical Thinking

  Theory

  University Teaching

  Education

  Scientific Writing

  Public Speaking

  History

  Higher Education

  Editing

  Qualitative Research

  Courses

  Teaching

  Philosophy Of Science

  Bioethics

  Science

  Lecturing

  Research

  Successful visual epistemic representation

  In this paper

  I characterize visual epistemic representations as concrete two- or three-dimensional tools for conveying information about aspects of their target systems or phenomena of interest. I outline two features of successful visual epistemic representation: that the vehicle of representation contain sufficiently accurate information about the phenomenon of interest for the user's purpose

  and that it convey this information to the user in a manner that makes it readily available to her. I argue that actual epistemic representation may involve tradeoffs between these features and is successful to the extent that they are present.

  Successful visual epistemic representation

  In this paper

  I take scientific models to be epistemic representations of their target systems. I define an epistemic representation to be a tool for gaining information about its target system and argue that a vehicle’s capacity to provide specific information about its target system—its informativeness—is an essential feature of this kind of representation. I draw an analogy to our ordinary notion of interpretation to show that a user’s aim of faithfully representing the target system is necessary for securing this feature.

  Epistemic representation

  informativeness and the aim of faithful representation

  The structures of protein and DNA were discovered primarily by means of synthesizing component-level information about bond types

  lengths

  and angles

  rather than analyzing X-ray diffraction photographs of these molecules. In this paper

  I consider the synthetic and analytic approaches to exemplify alternative heuristics for approaching mid-twentieth-century macromolecular structure determination. I argue that the former was

  all else being equal

  likeliest to generate the correct structure in the shortest period of time. I begin by characterizing problem solving in these cases as proceeding via the elimination of candidate structures through the successive application of component-level information and interpretations of X-ray diffraction photographs

  each of which serves as a kind of constraint on structure. Then

  I argue that although each kind of constraint enables the elimination of a considerable proportion of candidate structures

  component-level constraints are significantly more likely to do so correctly. Thus

  considering them before X-ray diffraction photographs is a better heuristic than one that reverses this order. Because the synthetic approach that resulted in the determination of the protein and DNA structures exemplifies such a heuristic

  its use can help account for these discoveries.

  Synthetic versus analytic approaches to protein and DNA structure determination

  Agnes

  Bolinska

  University of Cambridge

  University of Pittsburgh

  University of Pittsburgh