Carole Lee

Carole J. Lee is an American philosopher, a Professor of philosophy at the University of Washington. Lee's research focuses on the epistemological and methodological lessons that can be learned from empirical research on judgment bias, especially judgment bias during the peer review process.

Education and career

Lee received her bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1999 from Wellesley College and went on to receive her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Michigan in 2006.

Lee was a 2022-2023 Society of Scholars Fellow at the Simpson Center for the Humanities.

In 2024, Lee was awarded the First Prize in Philosophy of Science & Race of the Philosophy of Science Association for her contribution to the paper "NIH Peer Review: Criterion Scores Completely Account for Racial Disparities in Overall Impact Scores", which she co-authored with Elena A. Erosheva, Sheridan Grant, Mei-Ching Chen, Mark D. Lindner, and Richard K. Nakamura.

Research areas

Lee studies bias in the peer review process. The process tends to select by seniority rather than innovation. In 2015, she spoke at the PEERE conference in Lisbon.