{"id":72678,"date":"2017-12-22T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T23:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=72678"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:20:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T02:20:13","slug":"ron-amundson-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/22\/ron-amundson-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo\u2019s Ron Amundson honored for contributions to the philosophy of science"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_72688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72688\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hilo-amundson-aaasfellow3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hilo-amundson-aaasfellow3.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/hilo-amundson-aaasfellow3-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Amundson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Ron Amundson<\/strong>, emeritus professor of philosophy at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a>, has been named a Fellow of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaas.org\/\">American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a> (AAAS). The award was formally announced in the November 24 issue of the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the <abbr>AAAS<\/abbr> Council elects members for their distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. Amundson was honored for his contributions to the philosophy of science and bioethics, particularly the study of evolution and social studies of disability. Amundson&#8217;s book, <em>The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought<\/em> (2005), is a respected analysis of the changes in evolutionary biology that are taking place under the influence of molecular genetics. Several of his articles about disability have argued that the concept of &ldquo;normality&rdquo; was not inferred from biology, but was socially invented.<\/p>\n<p>Amundson came to <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo in 1978. He taught philosophy courses in theory of knowledge, as well as several courses in the philosophical understandings of various scientific disciplines (anthropology, psychology, linguistics and astronomy).<\/p>\n<p>Amundson served as chair of the philosophy department and was a member of the Chancellor&#8217;s Committee on Disability Access. At the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> System level, he served on the <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Research Council and the Systemwide Disability Access Committee. Amundson retired from teaching in 2012.<\/p>\n<h2>More about <abbr>AAAS<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<p><abbr>AAAS<\/abbr> is the world&#8217;s largest general scientific society and publisher of <em>Science<\/em> and other scientific journals. <abbr>AAAS<\/abbr> was founded in 1848 and includes nearly 250 affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>AAAS<\/abbr> Fellows of 2017 will be presented with official certificates and rosette pins on February 17, 2018 during the <abbr>AAAS<\/abbr> Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Alyson Kakugawa-Leong<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amundson was honored for his contributions of the philosophy of science and bioethics, particularly the study of evolution and social studies of disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[598,764,14],"class_list":["post-72678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-philosophy","tag-uh-hilo","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72678"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112629,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72678\/revisions\/112629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}