United Kingdom Ph.D. Programs
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Contents
- 1 Birkbeck, University of London
- 2 University of Bristol
- 3 University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science)
- 4 University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology)
- 5 King's College London
- 6 Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion)
- 7 University of Leeds
- 8 London School of Economics (Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method)
- 9 University College London (Science and Technology Studies)
- 10 University of Oxford
Birkbeck, University of London[edit]
- Robert Northcott // website 1, 2, 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)
University of Bristol[edit]
- Samir Okasha // website, PhilPapers
- Specialities: evolutionary theory, levels of selection, population genetics, social evolution, rational choice
- Willing to work with new students? Yes
University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science)[edit]
- Tim Lewens // website, PhilPapers
- Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophical bioethics
University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology)[edit]
- John Dupre // website, CV, 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)
- Sabina Leonelli // website, 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 // website, PhilPapers
- Specialties: History and philosophy of systematics; history of heredity; history of race and kinship (via website)
King's College London[edit]
- Matteo Mameli // website, PhilPapers
- Nick Shea // website, PhilPapers
Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion)[edit]
- Brian Garvey // website, PhilPapers
University of Leeds[edit]
- Gregory Radick // website 1, 2, PhilPapers
London School of Economics (Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method)[edit]
- Jonathan Birch // website, PhilPapers
- Specialities: Natural selection, evolution of social behaviour, evolutionary transitions, human evolution.
- Willing to work with new students? Yes
University College London (Science and Technology Studies)[edit]
- Phyllis Illari // website, PhilPapers
University of Oxford[edit]
- Ellen Clarke // website 1, , 2, PhilPapers
- Specialties: Biological Individuality, Evolutionary Transitions, evolution of cooperation, natural selection, Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science
