Appointment of Sherrilyn Roush

Published: April 3, 2017

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Sherrilyn Roush will be joining the UCLA Department of Philosophy faculty in the upcoming 2017-18 academic year.

Dr. Roush’s areas of specialization include epistemology and philosophy of science with an emphasis on medicine.  She is the author of the groundbreaking book Tracking Truth: Knowledge, Evidence, and Science and numerous other important articles.

Dr. Roush received her PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University.  She has taught at Rice University, the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently at King’s College London, where she holds the Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy of Medicine.