2013    PhD, Philosophy                     Temple University
2007    PhD, Philosophy                    Temple University
1999    BA, Philosophy, Music           College of William & Mary

Dr. Honenberger’s research focuses on questions at the intersection of philosophy and contemporary science – particularly biology and, increasingly, computation and machine learning. His current research projects include explorations of how non-reductive biological concepts such as plasticity and niche construction can provide insights into human behavior, cognition, technology, ethics, and epistemology; and an integrated but critical approach to commonly used evaluation metrics in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

After completing a PhD in 2013, Dr. Honenberger received postdoctoral training at Dartmouth College’s Department of Biological Sciences (2016-2017) and the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of History and Philosophy of Science (2017-2018) through the assistance of a competitively awarded National Science Foundation fellowship. He has previously taught courses for the University of Nevada – Las Vegas, Colby College, and Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Honenberger joined Morgan State University as full-time lecturer in philosophy in Fall 2022. He is currently a full-time researcher for Morgan’s CEAMLS (Center for Equitable AI & Machine Learning Systems).

PERSONAL WEBSITE
www.philliphonenberger.com

RESEARCH INTERESTS
History and philosophy of science (HPS), philosophy of biology, philosophy of technology, philosophy of mind & behavior, philosophies of human nature.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“All Knowledge is Orientation: Marjorie Grene’s Ecological Epistemology.” In G. Bianco, G. van de Vijver, and C. Wolfe, Canguilhem and Continental Philosophy of Biology (Springer, forthcoming)

“Natural Artificiality, Niche Construction, and the Content-Open Mediation of Human Behavior,” Biology & Philosophy 36 (2021): 55.

“Duhem’s Problem Revisited: Logical versus Epistemic Problems and Solutions.” (w/ Michael Dietrich) Synthese 197 (2020): 337-354.

“Darwin Among the Philosophers: Hull and Ruse on Darwin, Herschel, and Whewell,” HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8 (2) (2018): 278-309.

Review of Maria Kronfeldner, What’s Left of Human Nature?: A Post-Essentialist, Pluralist, and Interactive Account of a Contested Concept (MIT Press, 2018), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/whats-left-of-human-nature-a-post-essentialist-pluralist-and-interactive-account-of-a-contested-concept/)

(ed.), Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology: Nature, Life, and the Human between Transcendental and Empirical Perspectives. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2015.

“Le Nègre et Hegel: Fanon on Hegel, Colonialism, and the Dialectics of Recognition” Human Architecture: Journal of the Archaeology of Self-Knowledge 5 (2007): 153-162.