Canada Ph.D. Programs

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified. Wiki Program Pages contain identical information to front-page listings, also unless otherwise specified.

University of Alberta

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• Ingo Brigandt // website, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Evolutionary developmental biology, molecular biology, systems biology, science and values
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• Robert A. Wilson // website, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Eugenics, disability, and reproductive technology, species and natural kinds, levels of selection, group-level cognition and collective intentionality, the nature of biological individuals and organisms, kinship, intersections between biology, mind, and sociality.
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes

University of British Columbia

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• John Beatty // website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology (via website)
• Margaret Schabas // website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Overlap of biology and economics and the formation of bioeconomics (via website)
• Christopher Stephens // website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, causation, the nature of evidence in evolutionary biology, reciprocal altruism, phylogenetic inference, and on models of the evolution of rationality (via website)

University of Calgary

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• Megan Delehanty // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Models, explanation, causation (via PhilPapers entries)
• Marc Ereshefsky // website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Species; Natural Kinds; Scientific Classification; Biological Individuality; Homology; Historicity; Microbiology (via website)
• C. Kenneth Waters // website, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Causation, explanation, molecular biology, genetics, pluralism (via PhilPapers entries)

University of Toronto

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• Ronald de Sousa (emeritus) // website 1, 2, PhilPapers
• Mohan Matthen // website 1, 2, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Philosophy of mind, especially perception, philosophy of biology, natural selection (via PhilPapers profile)
• Paul Thompson // website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Evolutionary theory, population genetics, mathematical modelling in biology, theory structure in biology, philosophy of medicine, and ethics (via website)
• Denis Walsh // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Models, mechanisms, fitness, causation (via PhilPapers entries)

University of Waterloo

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• Carla Fehr // website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Feminist Science Studies, Philosophy of Science, evolution (via website)
• Katie Plaisance // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Philosophical issues in the human behavioral sciences, public understanding of science, interactional expertise, and Socially Relevant Philosophy Of Science
• Paul Thagard // website 1, 2, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Philosophy of science and medicine, cognitive science, philosophy of mind. Specific topics include analogy, coherence, decision making, conceptual change, explanatory reasoning, theoretical neuroscience, discovery and innovation, emotions and consciousness, moral psychology, and theories and explanations in biomedicine (via website)

University of Western Ontario

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• Gillian Barker // website, PhilPapers
• Eric Desjardins // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics (via website)
• Devin Henry // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: Ancient Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science (esp. Philosophy of Biology) (via website)