Heather Douglas is currently the Philip M. Phibbs Assistant Professor of Science and Ethics at the University of Puget Sound. Her research focuses on the relationships among science, values, and policy-making, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Her work has been published in Philosophy of Science, American Philosophical Quarterly, and Synthese (a journal of epistemology and methodology). She is a member of the Society for Risk Analysis’ Conference and Workshops Committee, and was a co-organizer of the May 2002 forum on regulatory peer review, “Conflict, Consensus, and Credibility.” She received her Ph.D. from the History and Philosophy of Science Program at the University of Pittsburgh.