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Cameron Shelley is a Lecturer in the Department of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He has held Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has previously been a Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Shelley’s research interests include the philosophy of design, social impact of technology, explanatory and analogical reasoning, and cognitive irony. He has taught a variety of courses including Cities, Technology & Society, Design & Society, Biotechnology & Society, Information Technology & Society, among others.
In addition to his research work, Dr. Shelley has received multiple awards such as the UWaterloo Alumni Association Gold Medal for best Ph.D. dissertation. He has also published various articles that include “Biomorphism and models in design” in Philosophy and Cognitive Science II, “Models and ideology in design” in Model-based reasoning in Science and Technology, “Fairness in technological design” in Science and Engineering Ethics, “Why test animals to treat humans? On the validity of animal models” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C, and “Hypocrisy as irony” in Metaphor and Symbol. Additionally, Dr. Shelley published a book entitled “Multiple analogies in science and philosophy” with John Benjamins and edited the “Springer Handbook of Model-based Science, Part I: Models in Engineering, Architecture, and Economical & Human Sciences” with Springer.
University of Waterloo
Engineering 5 (E5), 6th Floor
Phone: 519-888-4567 ext.32600
Staff and Faculty Directory
Contact the Department of Systems Design Engineering
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