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/* Ph.D. Programs (United Kingdom) */
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* <strong>'''Robert Northcott</strong> ''', Ph.D. 2004 London School of Economics // website [http://www.bbk.ac.uk/philosophy/our-staff/academics/dr-robert-northcott 1], [http://robertnorthcott.weebly.com/ 2], [http://robertnorthcott.weebly.com/uploads/2/8/7/0/28709263/cvpublic3.pdf CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/2414 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of science, and especially the ‘special sciences’ such as biology and economics; metaphysics, especially the notions of causation and causal explanation; analysis of use of statistical techniques to measure causation, the place of causal explanation in evolutionary theory; role played by formal theory in economics (via website)
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* <strong>'''Samir Okasha</strong> ''', Ph.D. 1998 University of Oxford // [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/school-of-arts/people/samir-okasha/overview.html website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/6691 PhilPapers]
** Specialities: evolutionary theory, levels of selection, population genetics, social evolution, rational choice
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
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* <strong>'''Tim Lewens</strong> ''', Ph.D. 2001 University of Cambridge (HPS) // [http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/lewens/ website], [http://philpapers.org/s/tim%20lewens PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophical bioethics
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* '''John Dupre''' , Ph.D. 1981 University of Cambridge // [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/dupre/ website], [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/collegeofsocialsciencesandinternationalstudies/staffdocuments/duprecv.pdf CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/44628 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Particular interests include: biological classification, the relation of technical to everyday biological kinds and to traditional problems of essentialism; adaptationism and optimality; reductionism; indeterministic accounts of causality; evolution and the limitations of evolutionary psychology; and the biological basis of sex and gender. Also worked for several years on issues in the philosophy of economics (via website)
 * <strong>'''Sabina Leonelli</strong> ''', Ph.D. 2007 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam // [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/leonelli/ website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/34339 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Data-Intensive Science and Practices of Data Sharing and Re-Use; Open Science and Open Data; The Regulatory Role and Epistemic Impact of Bioinformatics in Biology and Biomedicine; Bio-Ontologies; History and Epistemic Status of Model Organism Research; History, Philosophy and Sociology of Plant Biology; The Role of Embodied Knowledge and Skills in Scientific Understanding; Abstraction and Modelling Processes in Biology; Distributed Cognition and Division of Scientific Labor; Unity, Disunity and Integration in Science: Early American Pragmatism; Science Policy and the Globalisation and Political Economy of Scientific Research (via website)
 * '''Staffan Muller-Wille''' , Ph.D. 1997 University of Bielefeld // [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/mueller-wille/ website], [http://philpapers.org/s/Staffan%20M%C3%BCller-Wille PhilPapers]
** Specialties: History and philosophy of systematics; history of heredity; history of race and kinship (via website)
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* <strong>'''Matteo Mameli</strong> ''', Ph.D. 2002 University of London // [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/academic/mameli/index.aspx website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/10088 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Intersection of philosophy, the sciences of human behavior (biology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, etc.), and moral and political theory (via website)
* <strong>'''Nick Shea</strong> ''', Ph.D. King's College London // [http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/academic/shea/index.aspx website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/24040 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of mind and the philosophy of psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science; philosophical work on mental representation, consciousness and the metaphysics of mind; has published in scientific journals in collaboration with psychologists, cognitive neuroscientists and biologists (via website)
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* <strong>'''Brian Garvey</strong> ''', Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin // [http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/ppr/profiles/brian-garvey website], [http://philpapers.org/s/Brian%20Garvey PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, Ryle, Austin, Dennett (via website)
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* <strong>'''Gregory Radick</strong> ''', Ph.D. 2000 University of Cambridge (HPS) // website [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/20048/441/gregory_radick 1], [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~phlgmr/ 2], [http://philpapers.org/s/gregory%20radick PhilPapers]
** Specialties: History and Philosophy of Biology, especially evolutionary biology, genetics and animal behavior; History of the Human Sciences; Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of History; Intellectual Property (via website)
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* <strong>'''Jonathan Birch</strong> ''', Ph.D. 2013 University of Cambridge // [http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/people/birch.aspx website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/8764 PhilPapers]
** Specialities: Natural selection, evolution of social behaviour, evolutionary transitions, human evolution.
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
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* <strong>'''Phyllis Illari</strong> ''', Ph.D. 2005 King's College London // [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/staff/illari website], [http://ucl.academia.edu/PhyllisIllari/CurriculumVitae CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/18946 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Metaphysics, Epistemology and Methodology of Causality in the Sciences; wider research interests in Philosophy of Science, particularly Philosophy of Biology and Psychology, the still-expanding Mechanisms debate, and the Philosophy of Information (via website)
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* <strong>'''Ellen Clarke</strong> ''', Ph.D. 2010 University of Bristol // website [http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/people.php?personid=2114 1], , [https://sites.google.com/site/ellenlclarke/ 2], [https://sites.google.com/site/ellenlclarke/cv CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/19904 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Biological Individuality, Evolutionary Transitions, evolution of cooperation, natural selection, Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science