EDUCATION
Ph.D. Philosophy, Dalhousie University (2025)
Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Medicine/Psychiatry, Metaphysics, Ethics
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Science, Social/Political Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy
Dissertation: Psychiatric natural kinds: Implications for nosology, practice, and policymaking
Committee: Dr. Kirstin Borgerson (Supervisor), Dr. Letitia Meynell, Dr. Tyler Hildebrand, Dr. Jonathan Tsou (External Examiner)

M.A. Philosophy, Wilfrid Laurier University (2017)
Thesis: Personal identity, progressive dementia, and advance directives: Towards an adoption of the anthropological view of personal identity
Supervisor: Dr. Kathy Behrendt

M.A. Intercultural German Studies, University of Waterloo // Universität Mannheim (2015)
Thesis: Assisted dying in Swiss literature: Power and agency in Max Frisch’s Jürg Reinhart and Lukas Bärfuss’ Alices Reise in die Schweiz
Supervisor: Dr. Michael Boehringer

B.A.H. German & Philosophy, Queen’s University (2013)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: TEACHING
Lecturer – Dalhousie University, Department of Philosophy (2019-2023)
Environmental Ethics (PHIL 2480) – Winter 2023
Ethics & Health Care: Social Policy (PHIL 2810) – Winter 2022
Legal Thinking (PHIL 2020) – Winter 2021
Ethics in Science (PHIL 2680) – Fall 2019

Teaching Assistant – Dalhousie University, Department of Philosophy (2017-2024)
Intro to Philosophy: Values & Society (PHIL 1810) – Winter 2024
Intro to Philosophy: Epistemology & Metaphysics (PHIL 1820/1501) – Fall 2022, 2023/Winter 2024 Legal Thinking (PHIL 2020) – Fall 2023
Ethics & Health Care: Patient Care (PHIL 2805) – Fall 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
Ethics & Health Care: Social Policy (PHIL 2810) – Winter 2018, 2019, 2020
Social/Ethical/Professional Issues in Computer Science (PHIL 2490) – Fall 2017

Teaching Assistant – Wilfrid Laurier University, Department of Philosophy (2016-2017)
Values and Society (PP 110) – Fall 2016/Winter 2017

Teaching Assistant – University of Waterloo, Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies (2013-2015)
Elementary German II (GER 102) – Winter 2015
Elementary German I (GER 101) – Fall 2013

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: RESEARCH
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (2025-2026)
Normative Orders Research Institute
Project: Disease concepts, institutional norms, and legitimate strategic goals: Tensions in the formulation of just (mental) health policy
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst

Research Assistant – Dalhousie University, Department of Philosophy (05.-08.2024)
Supervisor: Dr. Travis LaCroix
Project: Philosophy on the Spectrum: The Philosophy of Autism & Autistic Philosophy
Project Website: https://autphi.github.io/

Research Ethics Board Member – Nova Scotia Community College, Applied Research (2020-Present)
Community Member with Expertise in Ethics and Law

Research Assistant – Universität Mannheim, Lehrstuhl Neuere Germanistik I (05.-12.2014)
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Justus Fetscher

PUBLICATIONS
Paron, C., Hymers, M., Andrews, D., Fenton, A., & Meynell, L. (Eds.). (2024). Special issue: ARPA symposium: A celebration of Steven Burns. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 63(2), 201-205

Paron, C., Hymers, M., Andrews, D., Fenton, A., & Meynell, L. (2024). The art of being with Steven Burns: A celebration of life in philosophy. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 63(2), 201-205.

Andrews, D. (2016). The gendered body and the medical-scientific gaze: Foucauldian theory and feminist epistemologies of neuroscience. Dialogue: Journal of Phi Sigma Tau International Honor Society for Philosophy, 58(2-3), 89-97.

Andrews, D. (2014). Gestures as requests for information: Initiating repair operations in German native-speaker conversation. Focus on German Studies, 21, 76-94.

Andrews, D. (2013). Book review: Stolleis, Michael. Origins of the German welfare state: Social policy in Germany to 1945 (2013). New German Review: A Journal of Germanic Studies, 26(1), 91-92.

PAPERS IN PROGRESS
“Moral values, institutional norms, and radical pluralism about disease state ascription”

“Why pathological values or emotions are insufficient to ground restrictions on patient autonomy”

“The limits of inferential reasoning: Mental disorder kinds and mental health policy”

“Holistic naturalism: Or, how to better capture mental disorders’ etiologies and ground psychiatric diagnostic categories”

PRESENTATIONS (SELECTED)
Andrews, D. (2024, October). The trouble with individuals, reference classes, and the limits of explanation: Or, why population-level statistical claims cannot justify restrictions on individual autonomy. Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NL).

Andrews, D. (2024, June). Treating the whole person: Implications of Meyerian psychobiology for contemporary mental health care policy and practice frameworks. Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (Université de Québec á Montréal, Montréal, QC).

Andrews, D. (2023, July). Reductionist explanation, psychiatric disorders, and health care policy: Epistemic bias and unjust practice. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (University of Toronto/Western University, Toronto, ON).

Andrews, D. (2023, May). Reductionist explanation, psychiatric disorders, and health care policy: Implications for clinical practice. Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (York University, Toronto, ON).

Andrews, D. (2023, May). Reductionist explanation, psychiatric disorders, and health care policy: Overlooking patient autonomy and decision making. Canadian Philosophical Association (York University, Toronto, ON).

Andrews, D. (2023, May). Reductionist explanation, psychiatric disorders, and health care policy: The limits of induction. Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (York University, Toronto, ON).

Andrews, D. (2022, October). Mind the (epistemic) gap: The morally risky business of applying reasoning about natural psychiatric kinds to health care policy. Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association (Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS).

Andrews, D. (2021, June). Too complex to predict?: What complexity theory reveals about natural kind analysis in psychiatry. Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB).

Andrews, D. (2021, June). Dementia, advance directives, and the danger of authority without identity. Canadian Philosophical Association (University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB).

Andrews, D. (2021, February). Care and competence: Arguments for the assumption of decision-making competence in mature minors undergoing medical treatment. American Philosophical Association – Central Division (New Orleans, LA).

Andrews, D. (2019, June). Personal identity, progressive dementia, and advance directives: Towards an adoption of the person-life view of personal identity. Canadian Philosophical Association (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC).

Andrews, D. (2018, September). The ethics of caring relationships and the social process of personal identity: Dementia and the person-life view. Canadian Society of Women in Philosophy (Cape Breton University, Sydney, NS).

Andrews, D. (2018, June). Natural kinds and social factors: On the classification of mental disorders. Canadian Philosophical Association (Université de Québec á Montréal, Montréal, QC).

Andrews, D. (2015, May). A new power over death: Euthanasia and biopower in Lukas Bärfuss’ Alices Reise in die Schweiz. Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON).

SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS (SELECTED)
Late Program (ABD) Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarship (01.-08.2024)
Government of Nova Scotia – $10,000

Doctoral Fellowship (2019-2022)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council – $60,000

Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Scholarship (2017-2021)
Government of Nova Scotia – $60,000

Special Provost Alumni Scholarship (2017-2021)
Dalhousie University – Honorary Tenure

SERVICE TO THE DISCIPLINE
Professional Association: Treasurer, Philosophy Graduate Students’ Association (2022 – Present), Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS). Member-at-large (2021 – 2022).

Conference Coordination: Co-Chair, Organizing Committee – Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association (ARPA) Annual Meeting (Oct. 2022). Conference Theme: “Saying and Doing.” Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS).

Peer Review: Journeying to Ixtlan: Ethical challenges in psychedelic research and treatment forAlzheimer’s disease and related dementias. AJOB Neuroscience. (First round review, Aug. 2022;Second round review, Oct. 2022).

Conference Coordination: Co-Chair, Organizing Committee – Canadian Society of Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) Annual Meeting (Sept. 2019). Conference Theme: “Feminist Philosophy: Insiders andOutsiders.” Cape Breton University (Sydney, Nova Scotia).

Commentary: Nye, H. (2019, June). Death’s harm, reasonable compassion, and phenomenal continuity. Canadian Philosophical Association (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC).

Commentary: Gagné-Julien, A.-M. (2018, June). « Boorse et le mouvement antipsychiatrique : même combat ? » Canadian Philosophical Association (Université de Québec á Montréal, Montréal, QC).

Conference Coordination: Organizing Committee Member – SueFest 2018: Feminist Philosophy and the Health of Canadians (May 2018). Conference Theme: “Shaping a More Just Bioethics.” Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS).

GRADUATE COURSEWORK
PHIL 5805: Philosophy of Medicine (Winter 2019, Kirstin Borgerson) – [Audit]
PHIL 5855: Laws, Properties, and Kinds (Fall 2018, Tyler Hildebrand) – [Audit]
PHIL 5980: Ethics After the Holocaust (Winter 2018, Dorota Glowacka)
PHIL 5801: Ethical and Philosophical Issues in Cancer Control (Winter 2018, Lynette Reid)
PHIL 5170: Social Ontology of Gender (Winter 2018, Stephanie Kapusta)
PHIL 5700: Philosophy of Race (Fall 2017, Chike Jeffers)
PHIL 5420: Philosophy of Biology (Fall 2017, Letitia Meynell)
PHIL 5120: The Theory of Rational Decision (Fall 2017, Duncan MacIntosh)
PP 687E: Free Will and Self-Formation (Winter 2017, Neil Campbell)
PP 680H: Self-Knowledge (Winter 2017, Rockney Jacobsen)
PP 687A: Narrative Views of the Self (Fall 2016, Kathy Behrendt)
PP 683E: Agency and Moral Psychology (Fall 2016, Gary Foster)
PP 680I: Human Rights and Cultural Diversity (Fall 2016, Ashwani Peetush)
PHIL 673: Feminist Epistemologies of Neuroscience (Winter 2015, Carla Fehr)

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (2023)
Dalhousie University, Centre for Learning and Teaching

University Teaching Certificate (2017)
Wilfrid Laurier University, Centre for Teaching Innovation and Excellence

Certificate in University Language Teaching (2015)
University of Waterloo, Centre for Teaching Excellence