Publications:

• Hartner, D. and K. Theurer. 2018. Why Psychiatry Should Not Seek Mechanisms of Disorder. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/teo0000095
• Theurer, K. 2018. Looking Up and Looking Down: On the Dual Character of Mechanistic Explanations. Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 49(3): 371-392.
• Theurer, K. and T. Polger. 2018. Is Consciousness an Adaptation? In The Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy. R. Joyce (Ed.) London: Routledge.
• Theurer, Kari L. 2014. Complexity-Based Theories of Emergence: Criticisms and Constraints. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 28(3): 277-301.
• Theurer, Kari L. and John Bickle. 2013. What’s Old Is New Again: Kemeny-Oppenheim Reduction in Current Molecular Neuroscience. Philosophia Scientiae, 17(2): 89-113. 
• Theurer, Kari L. 2013. Seventeenth-Century Mechanism: An Alternative Framework for Reductionism. Philosophy of Science, 80(5): 907-918.
• Theurer, Kari L. 2013. Compositional Explanatory Relations and Mechanistic Reduction. Minds and Machines, 23(3): 287-307.

Selected Presentations:

• “Why Psychiatry Shouldn’t Seek Mechanisms of Disorder” (with Daniel F. Hartner). Pathologizing Body and Mind: Leuven Philosophy of Medicine Conference. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 16 October 2015.
• “More Information, Better Explanations: Reductionism in Biological Psychiatry.” Explanations of Cognition Workshop, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK, 22 July 2015.
• “The Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorders: Are We Looking in the Wrong Direction?” (with Daniel F. Hartner) Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 04 June 2015.
• “The Mechanisms of Psychiatric Disorder: Hope for a Unified Science of Mind and Brain?” Invited keynote address, Southern Utah University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Cedar City, UT, 07 February 2015
• “More Information, Better Explanations: Reductionism in Biological Psychiatry.” Philosophy of Science Association 24th Biennial Meeting, Chicago, IL, 07 November 2014.
• “Ambitious Hypotheses: Pain, Homology, and Multiple Realization.” University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 09 April 2014.
• "More Information, Better Explanations: Reductionism in Biological Psychiatry." Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Austin, TX, 28 February 2013.
• “When Is a Mechanism More Than the Sum of Its Parts?” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 28 December 2012.
• “Compositional Explanatory Relations and Mechanistic Reduction.” Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Boulder, CO, 22 June 2012.
• “Ruthless Reduction: From Molecular Mechanisms to Mental Illness.” “Complexity:  Its Theoretical Foundations and Consequences in Diverse Applications,” Altonaer Stiftung für philosophische Grundlagenforschung, Hamburg, Germany, 26 August 2011.
• “Emergence and Biological Complexity.” “Complexity: Its Theoretical Foundations and Consequences in Diverse Applications,”Altonaer Stiftung für philosophische Grundlagenforschung, Hamburg, Germany, 24 August 2011.
• “Seventeenth-Century Mechanism:  An Alternative Framework for Reductionism.” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Salt Lake City, UT, 14 July 2011.
• “Mechanism, Reduction, and Contextual Explanation.” Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, LA, 11 March 2011.
• “Emergence, Reduction, and Mechanism: Lessons from the 17th Century.” Brand Lecture, Indiana University, Department of Philosophy, Bloomington, IN, 17 April 2010.
• “On the Prospects for ‘Real’ Emergence.” Philosophical Foundations of Systems Biology (PSBio), “Biological Explanation: Systems, Levels, and Causes.” University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 11 December 2009.

• College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship, Indiana University, Academic Year 2010-2011.
• Myles and Peg Brand Graduate Fellowship in Philosophy, Indiana University, Academic Year 2009-2010.