Mallory Hrehor
- PhD Student
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Supervisor: Hasok Chang
Advisor: Stephen John
Thesis topic: From Marginalized Groups to Misinformation: How Should Unorthodox Knowledge Systems Feature in a Pluralist Science?
Selected Research Areas: Religion and Science, Pluralism, Values in Science, Scientific Objectivity, Science and Policy
Publications
“What TMT Cannot See: Scientific Objectivity and Knowledge Prioritization” Perspectives on Science 34.1 (2026): 82–104.
Selected Presentations
“Consistency, Empirical Adequacy, and Christian Reconstructionism: The Role of Epistemic Values in Science Denialism” — Presentation at the annual conference for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. July 16, 2025.
“‘The Department of Mainstream Moonbattery’: Epistemic Values and Christian Reconstructionist Science Denialism, 1970’s to Present” — Presentation at the annual conference for the British Society for the History of Science. July 9, 2025.
“Christian Reconstruction, Social Epistemology, and Science Denialism” — Workshop: “New Work on the Social Epistemology of Science.” Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, UK. June 6, 2025.
“Happy to Co-Exist?: Lessons on Inclusivity in Science from Mauna Kea” — Lecture for the Cambridge Festival. Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge, UK. March 29, 2025.
“What the Thirty Meter Telescope Cannot See: Scientific Objectivity and Knowledge Prioritization” — Conference for the European Society for the History of Science. Barcelona, Spain. September 4-7, 2024
“Is Buddhism a Scientific Religion?: Rethinking our Concepts of Religion and Science” — Workshop: “Abstract Concepts, Perception, and Language: What we think and how we say it.” Newnham College, Cambridge UK. April 25, 2024
Teaching
Supervisor (Cambridge)
Part 1B: Philosophy of Science
Part II, Paper 4: Philosophy of the Biomedical Sciences
Affiliate Faculty — Colorado Christian University (January 2023 - June 2023)
PHL 315: World Religions and Systems of Belief
Upper School Humanities Teacher (August 2018 - June 2022)
Senior Thesis Director (August 2019 - June 22)
Courses Taught: Humanities (Ancient, Medieval, and Modern), Latin 1, Rhetoric, Composition
Middle and High School History Teacher (August 2017 - May 2018)
Courses Taught: U.S. History, Advanced U.S. History, AP European History, Contemporary History, AP World History
Selected awards and grants
Chibnall Bursary: Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
Rausing, Williamson and Lipton Studentship: Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
CAHSS Dean’s Scholarship: Department of Religious Studies, University of Denver
Service and other roles
Referee: Zygon
Organized or Co-Organized:
HPS Postgraduate Workshop (Cambridge)
Sci-Fi and HPS Reading Group (Cambridge)
Philosophy Reading Group (University of Denver)
Prior education
MA, Philosophy — University of Denver (2022)
MA, Religious Studies — University of Denver (2022)
BA, Humanities — Thomas Edison State University (2016)