Description: Aja Watkins is a philosopher of science getting her PhD at Boston University. Her research involves a combination of philosophy of the historical sciences, philosophy of climate science, and philosophy of modeling, as well as philosophy of biology and feminist philosophy of science.
I am a philosopher of science getting my PhD at Boston University under the supervision of Alisa Bokulich . My research involves a combination of philosophy of the historical sciences, philosophy of climate science, and philosophy of modeling, as well as philosophy of biology and feminist philosophy of science. My dissertation explores the philosophical implications of using paleoclimate episodes as analogue models for contemporary climate change, and relates this scientific practice to model ontology, the
About my life
I was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I moved to Boston to get my undergraduate degree at Northeastern University, where I double majored in philosophy and mathematics, and I stayed in Boston to go to BU for graduate school.