Britt Holbrook

(J. Britt Holbrook)

Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Education
Ph.D.; Emory University; Philosophy; 2004
M.A.; Emory University; Philosophy; 1997
B.A.; Sewanee, The University of the South; Philosophy (honors); 1992
Website
http://jbrittholbrook.com
2026 Fall Courses
STS 315 - SPORTS, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
PHIL 334 - ENGINEERING ETHICS- HONORS
Past Courses
PHIL 310: LOGIC
PHIL 310: LOGIC - HONORS
PHIL 334: ENGINEERING ETHICS
PHIL 334: ENGINEERING ETHICS - HONORS
PHIL 334: ENGINEERING ETHICS AND TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICE: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ENGINEERING
PHIL 334: ENGINEERING ETHICS- HONORS
PHIL 351: BIOMEDICAL ETHICS - HONORS
PHIL 355: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
STS 201: UND TECH SOC: INTRO STS
STS 312: TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY
Chapter
James Britt Holbrook. "An Effective History of the Basic-Applied Distinction in “Science” Policy." In Glen Miller, Helena Mateus Jeronimo, and Qin Zhu, eds., "Thinking through Science and Technology Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in an Engineered World," pp. 483-498. Rowman and Littlefield, 2023.
James Britt Holbrook. "Philosophy and Science Policy: A Report from the Field." In Evelyn Brister and Robert Frodeman, eds., "A Guide to Field Philosophy," pp. 396. Routledge, 2020.
Marilyn Averill, Lisa Dilling, Britt Britt Holbrook, Nat Logar, Genevieve Maricle, Elizabeth McNie, Ryan Meyer, Mark Neff. "Usable Science: A Handbook for Science Policy Decision Makers." In Daniel Sarewitz, eds., pp. 43-70. The Rightful Place of Science: New Tools for Science Policy, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, 2018.
Britt Britt Holbrook. "Peer review, Interdisciplinarity and Serendipity." pp. 485-497. Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Conference Paper
""Engineering Ethics Education for Social Justice: Implementation and Preliminary Data" "
2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), November, 2022.
Journal Article
Evelyn Brister, James Britt Holbrook, Megan J Palmer. 2021. "Conservation science and the ethos of restraint." Conservation Science and Practice, vol. 3, no. 4.
Lisa DeTora, Sabina Alam, Leslie Citrome, James Britt Holbrook, Catherine Skobe, Tanya Stezhka, Dikran Toroser. 2021. "Multiple Voices on Authorship and Authority in Biomedical Publications." Rhetoric of Health and Medicine, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 408-29.
Bart Penders, Sarah de Rijcke, James Britt Holbrook. 2020. "Science’s moral economy of repair: replication and the circulation of reference." Accountability in Research: Policies and Quality Assurance, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 107-113.
Diana Hicks, James Britt Holbrook. 2019. "A cartography of philosophy's engagement with society." Minerva, pp. 1-21.
Bart Penders, James Britt Holbrook, Sarah de Rijcke. 2019. "Rinse and Repeat: Understanding the Value of Replication across Different Ways of Knowing." Publications, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 15 pages.
James Britt Holbrook. 2019. "Open Science, Open Access, and the Democratization of Knowledge." Technology in Society, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 26-28.
Conference Proceeding
"Engineering Ethics Education for Social Justice"
2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education (FIE), October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2020.
"Reimagining Ethics Education for Peace Engineering"
WEEF-GEDC, December, 2018.
Other
"Debate on open access and academic freedom is healthy"
Nature, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2018.
"The Right Tools to Empower Researchers"
Nature, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2018.
"Special Section on Responsible Use of Metrics"
Journal of Responsible Innovation, August, 2018.
"Interdisciplinarity and Evil -- Understanding Incommensurability"
March, 2018.
"Forum: The Philosopher's View"
Issues in Science and Technology, April (2nd Quarter/Spring), 2017.