University of King's College

Adjunct Faculty

2nd year course that used science fiction film to explore topics in the history of science and technology (HSTC2500: Science Fiction in Film W2015&F2015). Co-taught 3rd year course on industrial and economic uses of modern technology and research (HSTC3611: Money, Muscles, Machines W2016).

University of King's College

Teaching Assistant

TA for Early Modern Studies, History of Science and Technology, and Contemporary Studies.

University of King's College

Faculty Fellow in the Humanities

Team taught great books programme.

Concordia University

Research Assistant

Researching in the history of Canada/US relations.

Concordia University

Researcher

Research and publishing in relation to philosophy of science education, designing education module for International Barcode of Life Project.

Dalhousie University

Teaching Assistant

TA for the Philosophy department

Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs

Program Coordinator

Jesse worked at Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs as a Program Coordinator

Nova Scotia Office of Intergovernmental Affairs

Research Officer

Jesse worked at Nova Scotia Office of Intergovernmental Affairs as a Research Officer

The Biosphere and Noosphere: Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin

SynergieWissen

Theories of the biosphere have become crucial for environmental sciences such as ecology, biogeochemistry, environmental ethics, and sustainability science. In many ways, theories of the noosphere are logical, though more speculative, extensions of biosphere theories. While noosphere theories have met with more suspicion, they too have been influential to many subjects such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and global communication technologies.1) The historical development of these influential theories are much like an ellipse, containing two foci that are related, though distinct. We see this metaphor played out between French paleoanthropologist and Jesuit Priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) and Russian geochemist and naturalist Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), both of whom are credited with developing the biosphere/noosphere theories in their earliest systematic forms. [...]

The Biosphere and Noosphere: Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin

SynergieWissen

Theories of the biosphere have become crucial for environmental sciences such as ecology, biogeochemistry, environmental ethics, and sustainability science. In many ways, theories of the noosphere are logical, though more speculative, extensions of biosphere theories. While noosphere theories have met with more suspicion, they too have been influential to many subjects such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and global communication technologies.1) The historical development of these influential theories are much like an ellipse, containing two foci that are related, though distinct. We see this metaphor played out between French paleoanthropologist and Jesuit Priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) and Russian geochemist and naturalist Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), both of whom are credited with developing the biosphere/noosphere theories in their earliest systematic forms. [...]

Transferences and Cessation: The Destabilization of the Life/Death Binary in Organ Transplantation.

Gnosis: Journal of Philosophy Vol 10, No 3 (2009): Life, Death, and Power

The Biosphere and Noosphere: Vladimir Vernadsky and Teilhard de Chardin

SynergieWissen

Theories of the biosphere have become crucial for environmental sciences such as ecology, biogeochemistry, environmental ethics, and sustainability science. In many ways, theories of the noosphere are logical, though more speculative, extensions of biosphere theories. While noosphere theories have met with more suspicion, they too have been influential to many subjects such as artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and global communication technologies.1) The historical development of these influential theories are much like an ellipse, containing two foci that are related, though distinct. We see this metaphor played out between French paleoanthropologist and Jesuit Priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) and Russian geochemist and naturalist Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945), both of whom are credited with developing the biosphere/noosphere theories in their earliest systematic forms. [...]

Transferences and Cessation: The Destabilization of the Life/Death Binary in Organ Transplantation.

Gnosis: Journal of Philosophy Vol 10, No 3 (2009): Life, Death, and Power

ADHD, an Entity within the Crisis of the Field

Playing the Field Conference Proceedings - York - SocAnthroCon

This paper represents a distillation of a much larger project called “The Straying of Entities: On the Historical Ontology of Attention Deficit.” This paper claims that historically, theories of attention are formulated according to the ways that knowledge and practices are enclosed. That is, attention is formulated in-part according to how a field or body of knowledge is self-referential. Foucault describes a striking example of enclosure in Discipline and Punish, where disciplinary enclosures are understood as strict and limited units of knowledge, time,and space. Current theories of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) suggest that this way of understanding knowledge and practice no longer works,and that our current condition may be understand as a crisis of such enclosures, as described by Gilles Deleuze. This paper claims that attention is an organizing concept, that ADHD was formulated in-between enclosures, as a symptom of crisis, and thus does not belong to a single field or disciplinary enclosure. Keywords Attention, Foucault, Deleuze, Attention-Deficit, concept,epistemology