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This wiki provides an unranked list of Ph.D. and terminal M.A. programs that have strengths in philosophy of biology. '''Since it's a wiki, [[#How to Contribute|you can edit it]], so please do'''. The primary intended audience is prospective and current graduate students with interests in philosophy of biology who want to get the lay of the land by seeing who works where and on what. All content on this site is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]. Find us on [https://www.facebook.com/philwiki.net Facebook].
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'''Download the PDF''': The entire list of Ph.D. and M.A. programs can be [http://philbio.net/docs/PhilBioGradPrograms.pdf '''downloaded'''].
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== Note to Prospective Graduate Students ==
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The purpose of this wiki is to aid your search for philosophy of biology graduate programs that suit your tastes. It does so by:
  
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* Making research into those programs more efficient and convenient by identifying the relevant philosophy of biology faculty and providing easy access to their bios, research interests, CVs, partial publication lists, etc.
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However, while this site may be where your research into programs starts, it decidedly should not be where it ends. You need to dig around and do your due diligence&mdash;e.g., contact people within the programs<ref>This site is not in the business of giving prospective students advice&mdash;on how to select programs or anything else&mdash;but it can be very helpful and illuminating to contact graduate students currently enrolled in departments you are considering and asking if they would be willing to share their impressions of and experience in the programs. The worst that can happen is that they say 'no'. Of course, what they share must be taken with a grain of salt since everyone's experiences differ, and disgruntled students will paint a radically different picture than contented ones. For that reason, seeking out multiple sources can be worthwhile.</ref>&mdash;in order to put yourself in the best possible position to make an informed decision about where to apply. Good luck!
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== Standards, Practices, and Guidelines ==
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# The criterion for program inclusion is just that a philosophy (or HPS) program have at least one full-time faculty member who self-identifies as a philosopher of biology.
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# The standard of evidence required to make the list is an official (or personal) university-affiliated website&mdash;or a publicly-accessible CV&mdash;that lists philosophy of biology as a primary research interest.
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# Affiliated, part-time, and emeritus faculty who work closely with graduate students should be labeled as such inside parentheses next to their names.
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# Bioethics, environmental ethics, philosophy of neuroscience/cognitive science, philosophy of medicine, and history of biology&mdash;in and of themselves&mdash;are not counted as philosophy of biology.
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A [[Longer Version|longer version]] of these guidelines is available.
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== Ph.D. Programs (Australasia) ==
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All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.
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=== Australian National University ===
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[http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/ Department Website] [[Australian National University|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>yes<nowiki>]</nowiki>
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* '''Kim Sterelny''' | [https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/sterelny-k Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/kim%20sterelny PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Evolution, Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Mind,  Palaeoecology (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1977 University of Sydney
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/problems-in-syntactic-theory-a-study-in-semantics-and-variation-theory/oclc/220775495&referer=brief_results Problems in syntactic theory: a study in semantics and variation theory]
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:: - Advisor: Bill Bonney<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Kim+Sterelny philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
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=== Macquarie University ===
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[http://phil.mq.edu.au Department Website]
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* '''Rachael Brown''' | [http://rachaelbrown.net Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/25396 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: The evolution of cognition and behaviour; the relationship between evolutionary developmental biology and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis; model-based reasoning in biology and philosophy; and methodological issues in the study of animal behaviour and cognition (via website)
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** Ph.D. 2013 Australian National University
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:: - Thesis: Understanding Behavioural Innovation, Novelty and Evolvability
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:: - Advisor: Kim Sterelny
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* '''Karola Stotz''' | [http://paul.representinggenes.org/Stotz/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/74332 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Evolutionary, developmental and molecular biology, psychobiology and cognition (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1999 University of Ghent
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:: - Advisor: Gertrudis Van de Vijver
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=== University of Otago (New Zealand) ===
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[http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/ Department Website]
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* '''James Maclaurin''' | [http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/Staff/james_maclaurin.html Website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/2066 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, including innateness, fitness, theoretical morphology, biological diversity and universal darwinism (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1998 Australian National University
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/metaphysics-of-biodiversity/oclc/223026435&referer=brief_results The Metaphysics of Biodiversity]
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:: - Advisor: Kim Sterelny<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Kim+Sterelny philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
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=== University of Sydney ===
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[http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/ Department Website]
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* '''David Braddon-Mitchell''' | [http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/staff/profiles/dbm.braddon-mitchell.php Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/8599 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of Mind and metaphysics, and cross borders into philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, ethics and political philosophy from time to time (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1988 Australian National University
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/explanation-a-causally-constrained-pragmatic-account/oclc/56637961&referer=brief_results Explanation: A Causally Constrained Pragmatic Account]
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:: - Advisors: J.J.C. Smart and Philip Pettit<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/David+Braddon-Mitchell philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
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* '''Paul Griffiths''' | [http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/staff/profiles/paul.griffiths.php Website] | [http://philpapers.org/asearch.pl?strict=1&searchStr=Griffiths,%20Paul%20E.&filterMode=authors PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Causal foundations of biological information; evolutionary medicine; innateness and human nature; concept of the gene; developmental systems theory (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1989 Australian National University
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/emotion-evolution/oclc/222188431&referer=brief_results Emotion and Evolution]
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:: -  Advisor: Kim Sterelny<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Kim+Sterelny philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
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=== Waikato University (New Zealand) ===
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[http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/study/subjects/philosophy Department Website]
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* '''Justine Kingsbury''' | [http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/staff/justinek Website], [http://philpapers.org/profile/28635 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of mind; philosophy of biology; critical thinking; aesthetics (especially philosophy of music) (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1999 Rutgers University
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/content-and-function-a-defense-of-millikanian-teleosemantics/oclc/84451777&referer=brief_results Content and function: a defense of Millikanian teleosemantics]
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:: - Advisor: Frances Egan
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== Ph.D. Programs (Canada) ==
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All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.
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=== University of Alberta ===
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[http://www.philosophy.ualberta.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-alberta.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] [[University of Alberta|| Additional Program Information]]
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* '''Ingo Brigandt''' | [http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/ Website] | [http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/Brigandt_CV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/637 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Evolutionary developmental biology, molecular biology, systems biology, science and values
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** Willing to work with new students? Yes
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** Ph.D. 2006 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/a-theory-of-conceptual-advance-explaining-conceptual-change-in-evolutionary-molecular-and-evolutionary-developmental-biology/oclc/539498238&referer=brief_results A Theory of Conceptual Advance: Explaining Conceptual Change in Evolutionary, Molecular, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology]
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:: -  Advisors: Anil Gupta and Paul Griffiths
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* '''Robert A. Wilson''' | [http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/raw/ Website] | [http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/raw/cvmar13.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/1320 PhilPapers]
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** 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.
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** Willing to work with new students? Yes
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** Ph.D. 1992 Cornell University (with Cognitive Studies minor)
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/individualism-psychological-explanation-and-mental-representation/oclc/63527249&referer=brief_results Individualism, psychological explanation, and mental representation]
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:: - Advisor: Sydney Shoemaker
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=== University of British Columbia ===
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[http://philosophy.ubc.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-britishColumbia.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
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* '''John Beatty''' | [http://philosophy.ubc.ca/persons/john-beatty/ Website] | [http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/jbeatty/Final%20Files/JBeattyCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10554 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1979 Indiana University (HPS)
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/traditional-and-semantic-accounts-of-evolutionary-theory/oclc/5140384&referer=brief_results Traditional and semantic accounts of evolutionary theory]
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:: - Advisor: Ronald Giere<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/John+Beatty philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
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* '''Margaret Schabas''' | [http://philosophy.ubc.ca/persons/margaret-schabas/ Website] |  [http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/mschabas/CVschabas.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/margaret%20schabas PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Overlap of biology and economics and the formation of bioeconomics (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1983 University of Toronoto
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/william-stanley-jevons-and-the-emergence-of-mathematical-economics-in-britain/oclc/16029612&referer=brief_results William Stanley Jevons and the emergence of mathematical economics in Britain]
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:: -  Advisor: Trevor Levere
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* '''Christopher Stephens''' | [http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/cstephens/Chris_Stephens_Website/Home_Page.html Website],  [http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/cstephens/Chris_Stephens_Website/CV.html CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/36197 PhilPapers]
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** 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)
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** Ph.D. 2000 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/615262216 Why be rational?: Prudence, rational belief, and evolution]
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:: -  Advisor: Elliott Sober
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=== University of Calgary ===
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[http://phil.ucalgary.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-calgary.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
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* '''Megan Delehanty''' | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/manageprofile/profiles/megan-delehanty Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10566 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Models, explanation, causation (via PhilPapers entries)
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** Ph.D. 2005 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
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:: - Thesis: Empiricism and the Epistemic Status of Imaging Technologies
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:: - Advisor: Sandra Mitchell
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* '''Marc Ereshefsky''' | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/philosophy/people/ereshefs.html Website] | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/profiles/215-28363/marc-ereshefsky-cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10567 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Species; Natural Kinds; Scientific Classification; Biological Individuality; Homology; Historicity; Microbiology (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18680626 The ontological status of species : a study of individuality and its role in evolutionary theory]
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:: - Advisor: Elliott Sober
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* '''C. Kenneth Waters''' | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/profiles/c-kenneth-waters Website] | [https://apps.cla.umn.edu/directory/items/cv/295233.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/c.%20kenneth%20waters PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Causation, explanation, molecular biology, genetics, pluralism (via PhilPapers entries)
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** Ph.D. 1985 Indiana University (HPS)
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15234352 Models of natural selection: From Darwin Dawkins]
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:: - Advisor: Ronald Giere<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/C.+Kenneth+Waters philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
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=== University of Toronto ===
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[http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-toronto.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
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* '''Ronald de Sousa''' (emeritus) | [http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/14678 PhilPapers]
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** Ph.D. 1966 Princeton
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82745527 Categories, translation, and linguistic theory]
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:: - Advisor: Paul Benacerraf
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* '''Mohan Matthen''' | [http://individual.utoronto.ca/matthen/Site/Mohan_Matthen.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/1544 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of mind, especially perception, philosophy of biology, natural selection (via PhilPapers profile)
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** Ph.D. 1976 Stanford University
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77726424 Essentialism and non-contradiction: a study in Aristotelian and contemporary metaphysics]
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:: - Advisor: Julius Moravcsik<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Mohan+Matthen philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
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* '''Paul Thompson''' | [http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/directory/paul-thompson/ Website] |  [http://individual.utoronto.ca/paul_thompson/Paul_Thompson/Curriculum_Vitae.html CV] |  [http://philpapers.org/s/R%20PAUL%20THOMPSON PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Evolutionary theory, population genetics, mathematical modelling in biology, theory structure in biology, philosophy of medicine, and ethics (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1979 University of Toronto
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/224916200 Genetic explanation schemes in biology]
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* '''Denis Walsh''' | [http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/directory/denis-walsh/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/denis%20walsh PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Models, mechanisms, fitness, causation (via PhilPapers entries)
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** Ph.D. 1988 McGill University (Biology)
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/721247033 Systematics of the caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)]
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:: -  Advisor: R. L. Carroll
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=== University of Waterloo ===
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[https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-waterloo.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
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* '''Carla Fehr''' | [https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/people-profiles/carla-fehr Website] | [http://carlafehr.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Carla_Fehr_Vita.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/62046 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Feminist Science Studies, Philosophy of Science, evolution (via website)
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** Ph.D. 1999 Duke University
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42826486 A natural history of the evolution of sexual reproduction: the virtues of explanatory pluralism]
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:: -  Advisor: Robert Brandon
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* '''Katie Plaisance''' | [https://uwaterloo.ca/knowledge-integration/faculty-plaisance Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/19100 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties:  Philosophy of biology, Philosophical issues in the human behavioral sciences, public understanding of science, interactional expertise, and Socially Relevant Philosophy Of Science
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** Ph.D. 2006 University of Minnesota
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:: - Thesis: Behavioral Genetics and the Environment: The Generation and Exportation of Scientific Claims
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:: - Advisor: C. Kenneth Waters
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* '''Paul Thagard''' | [https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/people-profiles/paul-thagard Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/paul%20thagard PhilPapers]
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** 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)
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** Ph.D. 1977 University of Toronto
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6698407 Explanation and scientific inference]
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=== University of Western Ontario ===
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[http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-westernOntario.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
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* '''Gillian Barker''' | [http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/people/barker.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/4278 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science
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** Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/863710015 Abstraction, analogy and induction: toward a general account of ampliative inference]
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:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher
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* '''Eric Desjardins''' | [http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/people/desjardins.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/eric%20Desjardins PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics (via website)
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** Ph.D. 2009 University of British Columbia
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680290971 Historicity in biology]
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:: - Advisor: John Beatty<ref>Source: [philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/John+Beatty].</ref>
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* '''Devin Henry''' | [http://works.bepress.com/devinhenry/ Website] | [http://works.bepress.com/devinhenry/22/ CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/11238 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Ancient Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science (esp. Philosophy of Biology) (via website)
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** Ph.D. 2004 King’s College, University of London
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500186370 How to build an animal: the metaphysics of Aristotle's ontogeny]
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:: - Advisors: Richard Sorabji and M. M. McCabe
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== Ph.D. Programs (Europe) ==
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All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.
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=== KU Leuven ===
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[http://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/ Department Website]
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* '''Grant Ramsey''' | [http://www.theramseylab.org/ Website] | [http://www.theramseylab.org/ramsey-cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/54027 PhilPapers]
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** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, the conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, the study of human and non-human animal behavior, the moral emotions, and the automated text mining of scientific literature.
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** Ph.D. 2007 Duke University
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:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297444850 Culture From Infrahumans to Humans: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology]
 +
:: -  Advisors: Robert Brandon and Alex Rosenberg
 +
 
 +
== Ph.D. Programs (United Kingdom) ==
 +
 
 +
All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.
 +
 
 +
=== Birkbeck, University of London ===
 +
[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/philosophy/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Robert Northcott''' | [http://robertnorthcott.weebly.com/ Website] | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 2004 London School of Economics
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500198463 Approximate truth and causal strength in science]
 +
:: - Advisors: Colin Howson and Nancy Cartwright
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Bristol ===
 +
 
 +
[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/philosophy/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Samir Okasha''' | [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
 +
** Ph.D. 1998 University of Oxford
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43122626 Epistemology and the underdetermination of theory by evidence]
 +
:: - Advisor: Bill Newton-Smith
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science) ===
 +
[http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Tim Lewens''' | [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
 +
** Ph.D. 2001 University of Cambridge (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/894596628 Organisms and artefacts : design in nature and elsewhere]
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology) ===
 +
[http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''John Dupre''' | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 1981 University of Cambridge
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/556464037 Reductionism, natural kinds, and the disunity of science]
 +
 
 +
* '''Sabina Leonelli''' | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 2007 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/150203551 Weed for thought: using Arabidopsis thaliana to understand plant biology]
 +
:: - Advisors: Henk de Regt and Hans Radder
 +
 
 +
* '''Staffan Muller-Wille''' | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 1997 University of Bielefeld
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/722535526 Botanik und weltweiter Handel zur Begründung eines natürlichen Systems der Pflanzen durch Carl von Linné (1707 - 78)]
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== King's College London ===
 +
[http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/index.aspx Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Matteo Mameli''' | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 2002 University of London
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/731202081 Darwinism and non-genetic inheritance]
 +
:: - Advisor: David Papineau
 +
 
 +
* '''Nicholas Shea''' | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 2003 King's College London
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500173001 Empirical lessons for philosophical theories of mental content]
 +
:: - Advisor: David Papineau
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion) ===
 +
[http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/ppr/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Brian Garvey''' | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 2000 Trinity College Dublin
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/842500920 Freud's psychoanalysis of religion]
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of Leeds ===
 +
[http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20048/philosophy/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Gregory Radick''' | [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/20048/441/gregory_radick Website] | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 2000 University of Cambridge (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/499316554 Animal language in the Victorian evolutionary debates]
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== London School of Economics (Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method) ===
 +
[http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/home.uspx Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Jonathan Birch''' | [http://http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/people/faculty/ 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
 +
** Ph.D. 2013 University of Cambridge
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University College London (Science and Technology Studies) ===
 +
[http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Phyllis Illari''' | [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)
 +
** Ph.D. 2005 King's College London
 +
:: - Adviser: David Papineau<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Phyllis+McKay+Illari philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of Oxford ===
 +
[http://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Ellen Clarke'''  (currently a postdoc; moving to Leeds as a Lecturer in September 2016) | [http://ellenclarke.net/ Website] | [http://ellenclarke.net/download/Ellen%20Clarke%20CV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/19904 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties:  Biological Individuality, Evolutionary Transitions, evolution of cooperation, natural selection, Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science
 +
** Ph.D. 2010 University of Bristol
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/757129789 Biological individuality and the levels of selection]
 +
 
 +
== Ph.D. Programs (United States) ==
 +
 
 +
All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.
 +
 
 +
=== Arizona State University (Center for Biology and Society) ===
 +
[https://cbs.asu.edu/graduate-programs Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Manfred Laubichler''' | [https://sols.asu.edu/people/manfred-laubichler Website] | [https://sols.asu.edu/sites/default/files/people/cv/laubichler_m_cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Manfred%20Laubichler PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Theoretical biology and the history of biology using both empirical and conceptual approaches;  role of gene regulatory networks in development and evolution; Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems, focusing on complexity as a unifying principle in the social and life sciences, including applications in biomedicine and the study of innovations (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1997 Yale University (Biology)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78053615 Identifying units of selection: conceptual and methodological issues]
 +
:: - Advisor: Gunter P. Wagner
 +
 
 +
* '''Jane Maienschein''' | [https://sols.asu.edu/people/jane-maienschein Website] | [https://cbs.asu.edu/sites/default/files/Maienschein%20cv%20%20%20January%202014.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/jane%20maienschein PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of biology and the way biology, bioethics and bio-policy play out in society;  embryology, genetics, and cell biology; epistemological standards, theories, and laboratory practices; studies of people and institutions, as well as the changing social, political, and legal context in which science thrive (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1978 Indiana University (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4921254 Ross Harrison's crucial experiment as a foundation for modern American experimental embryology]
 +
:: - Advisor: Frederick B. Churchill
 +
 
 +
* '''Jason Scott Robert''' | [https://sols.asu.edu/people/jason-robert Website] | [https://sols.asu.edu/sites/default/files/people/cv/RobertCV_Current2014.pdf CV]
 +
** Specialties: Political and societal problems that intersect with life sciences; produces educational materials and tools for “talking productively” (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2000 McMaster University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49765471 Taking development seriously: toward a genuinely synthetic biology]
 +
:: - Advisor: B.G. Allen
 +
 
 +
* '''Beckett Sterner''' (Starts fall semester 2016) | [http://umich.academia.edu/BeckettSterner Website] |  [http://umich.academia.edu/BeckettSterner/CurriculumVitae CV]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, especially mathematics in biology; information, individuality, species, modeling (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2012 University of Chicago (CHSS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865498707 The practice of theorizing in computational biology: Function, information, and mechanism]
 +
:: - Advisor: William Wimsatt
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== Boston University ===
 +
[http://www.bu.edu/philo/: Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Tian Yu Cao''' | [http://www.bu.edu/philo/people/faculty/full-time/tian-yu-cao/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Tian%20Yu%20Cao PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy and History of Science (physics, biology and cognitive sciences), Epistemology, Metaphysics, Social and Political Philosophy, with special interests in philosophical issues related to (classical and global) modernity and postmodernity (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. University of Cambridge
 +
 
 +
* '''Russell Powell''' | [http://www.bu.edu/philo/people/faculty/full-time/russell-powell/ Website] | [http://www.bu.edu/philo/files/2014/11/Powell-CV-October-2014.pdf CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/36621 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Conceptual and methodological problems in evolutionary theory; epistemological and metaphysical dimensions of debates in contemporary bioethics, especially in relation to emerging biotechnologies (via website)
 +
** J.D. 2002 New York University
 +
** Ph.D. 2009 Duke University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648230611 Reading the Book of Life: Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution]
 +
:: - Advisor: Alexander Rosenberg
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== Carnegie Mellon University ===
 +
[http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-carnegieMellon.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Kevin J.S. Zollman''' | [http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kzollman/ Website] | [http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/kzollman/Zollman%20-%20CV.pdf CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/9844 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Game theory, agent based modeling, philosophy of science
 +
** Ph.D. 2007 UC Irvine (LPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/240504162 Network epistemology]
 +
:: - Advisor: Brian Skyrms
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== City University of New York Graduate Center ===
 +
[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Philosophy/Philosophy Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-CUNY.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Peter Godfrey-Smith''' | [http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Philosophy/Faculty-Bios/Peter-Godfrey-Smith Website] |  [http://petergodfreysmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PGS_CV_2014.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Peter%20Godfrey-Smith PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind; pragmatism (especially John Dewey), general philosophy of science, and some parts of metaphysics and epistemology (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1991 UC San Diego
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221899991 Teleonomy and the philosophy of mind]
 +
:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher
 +
 
 +
* '''Massimo Pigliucci''' | [https://sites.google.com/site/platofootnote/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/18951 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, in particular the structure and foundations of evolutionary theory, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the nature of pseudoscience (via website)
 +
** Doctorate University of Ferrara (Genetics)
 +
** Ph.D. University of Connecticut (Biology)
 +
** Ph.D. 2003 University of Tennessee (Philosophy)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53457751 Dangerous habits: examining the philosophical baggage of biological research]
 +
:: - Advisor: Jonathan Kaplan, Philosophy
 +
 
 +
* '''Thomas Teufel''' | [http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Philosophy/Faculty-Bios/Thomas-Teufel Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/30896 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Kant, 18th Century philosophy, philosophy of art (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2006 Harvard University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/153213668 Purpose and purposiveness in Kant's Critque of the power of judgement]
 +
:: -  Advisor: Richard Moran
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== Columbia University ===
 +
[http://philosophy.columbia.edu/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* ''' Philip Kitcher'''<ref>Though he does not list philosophy of biology as a current AOS, Kitcher writes on his faculty profile page&mdash;accessed 2014-11-18&mdash;that he is willing to work with philosophy of biology graduate students.</ref>
 +
** Specialties: Conceptual and methodological issues in biology; questions about the relations of biological research to society and politics; role of scientific inquiry in democratic societies; pragmatism (especially William James and John Dewey) (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1974 Princeton University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760069314 Mathematics and certainty]
 +
:: - Advisor: Paul Benacerraf<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Philip+Kitcher https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Philip+Kitcher]</ref>
 +
[http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/philip-kitcher Website] |  [http://www.columbia.edu/~psk16/vita2003.htm CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/philip%20kitcher PhilPapers]
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== Duke University ===
 +
[http://philosophy.duke.edu Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-duke.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
[[Duke University| | Additional Program Information]]
 +
 
 +
* '''Robert N. Brandon''' | [http://philosophy.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=1533&subpage=profile Website] | [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/rbrandon/cv.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/robert%20brandon PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, logic (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1979 Harvard University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/220071622 Philosophical investigations in evolutionary biology]
 +
:: - Advisor: Hilary Putnam<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Robert+Brandon https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Robert+Brandon].</ref>
 +
 
 +
* '''Alexander Rosenberg''' | [http://philosophy.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=1531&subpage=profile Website] | [http://people.duke.edu/~alexrose/cv.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/alexander%20rosenberg PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: problems in metaphysics, mainly surrounding causality, the philosophy of social sciences, especially economics, and most of all, the philosophy of biology, in particular the relationship between molecular, functional and evolutionary biology (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1971 Johns Hopkins University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30732754 Microeconomic general statements: a philosophical analysis]
 +
:: - Advisor: Peter Achinstein<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Alexander+Rosenberg https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Alexander+Rosenberg].</ref>
 +
 
 +
* '''Karen Neander''' | [https://philosophy.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=5234&subpage=profile Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/9934 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Cognitive Science (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1983 La Trobe University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222518628 Abnormal psychobiology: a thesis on the 'anti-psychiatry debate' and the relationship between psychology and biology]
 +
:: - Advisor: Kim Sterelny<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Karen+Neander https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Karen+Neander].</ref>
 +
 
 +
* '''Dan McShea''' | [http://philosophy.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=684&subpage=profile Website] | [http://sites.duke.edu/mcshearesearch/ 2] | [http://philpapers.org/s/dan%20mcshea PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Paleobiology, with a focus on large-scale trends in the history of life, especially documenting and investigating the causes of the (putative) trend in the complexity of organisms; operationalizing concepts, such as complexity and hierarchy, as well as clarifying conceptual issues related to trends at larger scales (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1990 University of Chicago (Committee on Evolutionary Biology)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24126659 Complexity and evolution]
 +
:: - Advisor: David Raup
 +
 
 +
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 +
=== Florida State University ===
 +
[http://philosophy.fsu.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-floridaState.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''James Justus''' | [http://philosophy.fsu.edu/content/view/full/35712 Website] | [http://philosophy.fsu.edu/People/Faculty/Faculty-Publications/Justus-CV CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/9961 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science (esp. biology), Carnap, Epistemology (esp. formal and naturalized), Environmental Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2007 University of Texas at Austin
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/197113090 The stability-diversity-complexity debate of theoretical community ecology : a philosophical analysis]
 +
:: - Advisor: Sahotra Sarkar
 +
 
 +
* '''Michael Ruse''' | [http://philosophy.fsu.edu/content/view/full/35805 Website] | [http://philosophy.fsu.edu/content/download/82668/878838/RuseCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/9969 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology (especially Darwinism), Ethics, the History and Philosophy of Science (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1970 Bristol University
 +
 
 +
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 +
=== Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science) ===
 +
[http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-indianaHPS.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Sander Gliboff''' | [http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/people/gliboff.shtml Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/sander%20gliboff PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History of biology, especially evolution and genetics, and the science in modern Germany and Austria (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2001 Johns Hopkins University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48035425 The pebble and the planet: Paul Kammerer, Ernst Haeckel, and the meaning of Darwinism]
 +
:: - Advisor: Sharon Kingsland
 +
 
 +
* '''Elisabeth Lloyd''' | [http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/people/lloyd.shtml Website] | [http://mypage.iu.edu/~ealloyd/AdditionalInfo.htm CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10047 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, the role of models in science, and gender issues in science (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1984 Princeton University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78517697 A semantic approach to the structure of evolutionary theory]
 +
:: - Advisor: Bas van Fraassen
 +
 
 +
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=== Michigan State University ===
 +
[http://www.philosophy.msu.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-michiganState.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Fred Gifford''' | [https://www.msu.edu/user/gifford/ Website] | [https://www.msu.edu/user/gifford/vita.htm CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/45001 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science (particularly philosophy of biology and medicine); Ethics (particularly ethics in health care and the life sciences)
 +
** Ph.D. 1984 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14183668 Explanation and causation in genetics]
 +
:: - Advisor: Kenneth F. Schaffner
 +
 
 +
* '''Robert T. Pennock''' | [https://www.msu.edu/~pennock5/ Website] | [https://www.msu.edu/~pennock5/research/vita.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/robert%20pennock PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Evolution and computing (via publication list)
 +
** Ph.D. 1991 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26759678 Causally licensed inference and the confirmation relation]
 +
:: - Advisor: Wesley Salmon
 +
 
 +
* '''Sean Valles''' | [https://www.msu.edu/~valles/Sean_A._Valles/Home.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/40902 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of population health, from the use of evidence in medical genetics to the roles played by race concepts in epidemiology (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2010 Indiana University (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727807780 Explaining the evolution of common genetic disease]
 +
:: - Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== New York University ===
 +
[http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/page/home Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-NYU.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Laura Franklin-Hall''' | [http://laurafranklin-hall.com/ Website] | [ PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: philosophy of biology, the general philosophy of science, and metaphysics (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2008 Columbia University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/507370728 From a Microbiological Point of View]
 +
:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== Stanford University ===
 +
[http://philosophy.stanford.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-stanford.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Helen Longino''' | [https://philosophy.stanford.edu/people/helen-longino Website] | [http://philosophy.stanford.edu/download/21366/HL_current_CV.doc CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10427 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: The underdetermination problem in the context of a probabilistic epistemology/metaphysics; analyzing the differences between weak and strong social epistemology; understanding ecological explanation (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1973 Johns Hopkins University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30727659 Inference and discovery]
 +
:: - Advisor: Peter Achinstein<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Peter+Achinstein philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
 +
 
 +
* '''Brian Skyrms''' (1/3 time appointment; at Stanford every Spring) | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/skyrms/ Website] | [http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bskyrms/cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Brian%20Skyrms PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Evolution of conventions and the social contract; inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and Truth (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1964 University of Pittsburgh
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80101455 The concept of physical necessity]
 +
:: - Advisor: Nicholas Rescher
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== Texas A&M University ===
 +
[http://philosophy.tamu.edu/html/home.html Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-texasAM.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Roger Sansom''' | [http://philosophy.tamu.edu/html/bio-Sansom.html Website] | [http://philosophy.tamu.edu/documents/vitas/RSansomCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/roger%20sansom PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2002 University of North Carolina
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50639808 Development as an adaptation: a philosophical contribution to the developmental synthesis]
 +
:: - Advisor: William G. Lycan
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of California, Davis ===
 +
[http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-ucDavis.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] [[University of California, Davis | Additional Program Information]]
 +
 +
* '''James R. Griesemer''' | [http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/jrgriese Website] | [http://jrgriesemerucdavis.wordpress.com 2] | [http://jrgriesemerucdavis.wordpress.com/resume/ CV] | [http://philpapers.org/asearch.pl?categorizerOn=&sqc=&publishedOnly=&strict=1&freeOnly=&newWindow=on&sort=relevance&filterByAreas=&proOnly=on&langFilter=&searchStr=Griesemer%2C%20James%20R%2E&onlineOnly=&author=Griesemer%2C%20James%20R%2E&showCategories=on&hideAbstracts=&search_header=search_header%2Ehtml&filterMode=keywords& PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Evolutionary biology, genetics, developmental biology, ecology and systematics
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1983 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of Science)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17097476 Communication and scientific change: an analysis of conceptual maps in the macroevolution controversy]
 +
:: - Advisor: William Wimsatt
 +
 
 +
* '''Roberta L. Millstein''' | [http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/rlmillst Website] | [http://home.comcast.net/~rmillstein1/cv.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/634 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology, causation, chance, environmental ethics
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1997 University of Minnesotta, Twin Cities
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43387485 The chances of evolution: an analysis of the roles of chance in microevolution and macroevolution]
 +
:: - Advisors: John Beatty and C. Kenneth Waters
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of California, Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science) ===
 +
[http://www.lps.uci.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-ucIrvine.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Simon Huttegger''' | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/shuttegg/ Website] | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/shuttegg/files/2011/03/VitaSimon.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/simon%20huttegger PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Game and Decision Theory, Probability, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Measurement Theory (via CV)
 +
** Ph.D. 2006 Universität Salzburg
 +
:: - Advisor: Reinhard Kleinknecht<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Simon+Huttegger philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
 +
 
 +
* '''Cailin O'Connor''' | [http://uci.academia.edu/CailinOConnor Website] | [http://uci.academia.edu/CailinOConnor/CurriculumVitae CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/34003 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Game Theory, Philosophy, Evolutionary Biology, Game Theory, Epistemology, Animal Behaviour, Social behavior in animals, Natural (Naturalised) Philosophy, Culture Evolution--Retardant/Accelerant of Genetic Evolution, Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics, Philosophy of perception, Animal Cognition, Visual Neuroscience, Kinds of Inheritance System: Genes, Cultures, Learning, Ambiguity, Vagueness, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Naturalized ethics, Bargaining, Experimental Economics, Cultural Evolution, Decision And Game Theory, Evolution of cooperation (Evolutionary Biology), and Social Epistemology (via academia.edu)
 +
** Ph.D. 2013 UC Irvine (LPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/874039831 Categories, generalization, and vagueness]
 +
:: - Advisors: P. Kyle Stanford, and Brian Skyrms
 +
 
 +
* '''P. Kyle Stanford''' | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/pkylestanford/ Website] | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/pkylestanford/curiculum-vitae/ CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/p%20kyle%20stanford PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Centrally concerned with what we know and how we know it; philosophy of biology, the history of modern philosophy (especially the writings of Locke and Hume), and the philosophy of language (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego (Philosophy/Science Studies)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864451358 A pragmatic theory of causation]
 +
:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher
 +
 
 +
* '''Brian Skyrms''' | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/skyrms/ Website] | [http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bskyrms/cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Brian%20Skyrms PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Evolution of conventions and the social contract; inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and Truth (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1964 University of Pittsburgh
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80101455 The concept of physical necessity]
 +
:: - Advisor: Nicholas Rescher
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of California, San Diego ===
 +
[http://philosophy.ucsd.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-ucSanDiego.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''William Bechtel''' | [http://mechanism.ucsd.edu/~bill/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/william%20bechtel PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of the life sciences, including systems biology, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, cognitive science, and mechanisms; chronobiology, which over the past twenty years which has revealed critical components and organization of the intercellular oscillators responsible for circadian behavior in mammals, insects, and plants, as well as their entrainment and sychronization, as a model science; interest is coupled with an interest in how neural systems generally "compute" via dynamic synchronization of endogenously active (oscillating) local populations of neurons (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1977 University of Chicago
 +
** Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28792083 Intentionality and Quine's epistemological enterprise]
 +
:: - Advisors: Manley Thompson and Daniel Garber
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of California, Santa Cruz ===
 +
[http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-ucSantaCruz.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther''' |
 +
[http://philosophy.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=rgw Website]  | [http://philpapers.org/s/Rasmus%20Gr%C3%B8nfeldt%20Winther PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology (Genetics, Evolutionary Theory) (via website)
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 2003 Indiana University (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761238009 Formal biology and compositonal biology as two kinds of biological theorizing]
 +
:: - Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of Chicago (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science) ===
 +
[http://chss.uchicago.edu/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Karl Matlin''' (Department of Surgery) | [http://cmp.bsd.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/karl_matlin_profile.shtml Website]
 +
** Specialties: Understanding the biogenesis of apical-basal polarity in epithelial cells (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1979 Rockefeller University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38091697 Studies in chloroplast protein synthesis in vivo and in vitro]
 +
 
 +
* '''David Jablonski''' (has been on CHSS dissertation committees) | [http://geosci.uchicago.edu/directory/david-jablonski Website] | [http://geosci.uchicago.edu/sites/geosci.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/documents/Jablonski-cv-2012.pdf CV]
 +
** Specialties: Combining of data from living and fossil organisms to study the origins and the fates of lineages and adaptations (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1979 Yale University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13573505 Paleoecology, paleobiogeography and evolutionary patterns of late Cretaceous Gulf and Atlantic coastal plain mollusks]
 +
 
 +
* '''Robert J. Richards''' | [http://home.uchicago.edu/~rjr6/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10691 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: history and philosophy of psychology and biology. This includes particular interest in evolutionary theory, biopsychology, ethology, and sociobiology (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. St. Louis University
 +
** Ph.D. 1978 University of Chicago
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21332838 The evolution of behavior: theories of instinct in the nineteenth century with an essay on animal instinct and intelligence before Darwin]
 +
 
 +
* '''William C. Wimsatt''' | | [http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/wimsatt.html Website] | [http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/wimsatt/WimsattCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/william%20c%20wimsatt PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: history and philosophy of biology, cultural evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, complex systems
 +
** Ph.D. 1971 University of Pittsburgh
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24197083 Modern science and the new teleology: The conceptual foundations of functional analysis.]
 +
:: - Advisor: Joseph Lee Camp, Jr.<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/William+C.+Wimsatt https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/William+C.+Wimsatt].</ref>
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of Cincinnati ===
 +
[http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy.html Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-cincinnati.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] [[University of Cincinnati| | Additional Program Information]]
 +
 
 +
* '''Tony Chemero''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=chemeray&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Anthony%20Chemero PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: neuroscience, ecological psychology, artificial life, dynamical systems and complex systems, cognitive science
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45429978 How to be an anti-representationalist]
 +
:: - Advisor: Brian Cantwell Smith
 +
 
 +
* '''Valerie Hardcastle''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=hardcave&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://philpapers.org/asearch.pl?strict=1&searchStr=Hardcastle,%20Valerie%20Gray&filterMode=authors PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: neurobiology, neuropsychiatry and the law, embodied cognition
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1994 UC San Diego (Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30826544 Explaining consciousness]
 +
:: - Advisor: Gerald Doppelt
 +
 
 +
* '''Koffi N. Maglo''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=maglokn&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Koffi%20N.%20Maglo PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: philosophy of biomedicine, genomics and race, race-based medicine, bioethics
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1998 University of Burgundy
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/638030159 Science et imaginaire: la tension: une lecture non-bachelardienne de Newton]
 +
 
 +
* '''Thomas W. Polger''' | | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=polgertw&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://homepages.uc.edu/~polgertw/_www/CV.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/25881 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: multiple realization and realization; explanation in life, brain, and cognitive sciences; role of evolutionary theory in thinking about minds and consciousness; neuroscience and cognitive sciences
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 2000 Duke University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44995936 Natural minds]
 +
:: - Advisor: Owen Flanagan
 +
 
 +
* '''Angela Potochnik''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=potochaa&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://homepages.uc.edu/~potochaa/cv.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/18436 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: methodology of population biology, behavioral ecology, explanation, idealization, socially engaged philosophy of science, logical empiricism
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 2007 Stanford University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269368502 Evolution, explanation, and unity of science]
 +
:: - Advisor: Michael Friedman
 +
 
 +
* '''Robert C. Richardson''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=richards&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Robert%20C.%20Richardson PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: evolutionary theory, developmental biology, cognitive science, theory change
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1977 University of Chicago
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34558920 Intentionality, infallibility, and identity: In defense of the perennial philosophy]
 +
 
 +
* '''Robert A. Skipper, Jr.''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=skippera&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/robert%20a%20skipper PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: history of evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genetics, obesity science, controversies, explanation, socially engaged philosophy of science
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 2000 University of Maryland, College Park (Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48447088 The R.A. Fisher-Sewall Wright controversy in philosophical focus: theory evaluation in population genetics]
 +
:: - Advisor: Lindley Darden
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Kansas ===
 +
[http://www.philosophy.ku.edu/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Armin Schulz''' | [http://people.ku.edu/~a382s825/ Website] | [http://people.ku.edu/~a382s825/CV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/3381 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: How and when evolutionary theory can be used to illuminate issues that are not obviously evolutionary biological (especially ones in psychology, social science, and philosophy); and how and when theories from psychology, social science, and philosophy can be used to illuminate evolutionary biological issues (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694802040 Evolutionary theory and the belief / desire model of the mind]
 +
:: - Advisor: Elliott Sober
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Maryland, College Park ===
 +
[http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Lindley Darden''' | [http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/darden Website] | [http://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/LDarden/vitaDardenSept13forweb.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/lindley%20darden PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Reasoning in scientific change; development of scientific knowledge as progressing through iterative cycles of construction, evaluation, and revision of hypotheses; conceptual aspects of discovery of biological mechanisms from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, such as evolutionary and genetic mechanisms (via websites)
 +
** Ph.D. 1974 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of Science)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/218365756 Reasoning and scientific change: the field of genetics at its beginnings]
 +
:: - Advisor: Dudley Shapere
 +
 
 +
* '''Erin Eaker''' | [http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/eaker Website] | [http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/sites/philosophy.umd.edu/files/Eaker/Erin%20Eaker%20CV_Sept%2013%202013.pdf CV]
 +
** Specialties: Natural kinds and scientific realism in the philosophy of biology; philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology; the concept of belief (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2002 UCLA
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51524957 Reporting attitudes]
 +
:: - Advisor: David Kaplan
 +
 
 +
* '''Aidan Lyon''' | [http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/lyon Website] | [http://aidanlyon.com/ 2] | [http://aidanlyon.com/cv CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/3862 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability, Formal Epistemology and Philosophy of Mathematics; also interested in topics in Philosophy of Physics and Biology; the notion of objective probability in various scientific theories, with a focus on Classical Statistical Mechanics and Evolutionary Theory (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2009 Australian National University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/845636104 Three concepts of probability]
 +
:: - Advisor: Al Hayek
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Minnesota, Twin Cities<ref>Some of the Resident Fellows at the [http://www.mcps.umn.edu/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science] also have philosophy of biology interests.</ref> ===
 +
[http://www.philosophy.umn.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-minnesota.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] [[University of Minnesota, Twin Cities| | Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>yes<nowiki>]</nowiki>
 +
 
 +
* '''Alan C. Love''' | [http://www.philosophy.umn.edu/people/FacultyProfile.php?UID=aclove Website] | [https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/aclove/home 2] | [https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/aclove/cv CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/alan%20love PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionary theory, developmental biology, functional morphology, conceptual change, explanatory pluralism, reductionism, the nature of historical science, interdisciplinary epistemology, and the structure of scientific problems
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 2005 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/762106064 Explaining evolutionary innovation and novelty: A historical and philosophical study of biological concepts]
 +
:: - Advisor: James Lennox
 +
 
 +
* '''William C. Wimsatt''' (part-time appointment) | [http://www.philosophy.umn.edu/people/FacultyProfile.php?UID=wwim Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/william%20c%20wimsatt PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: history and philosophy of biology, cultural evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, complex systems
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1971 University of Pittsburgh
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24197083 Modern science and the new teleology: The conceptual foundations of functional analysis.]
 +
:: - Advisor: Joseph Lee Camp, Jr.<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/William+C.+Wimsatt https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/William+C.+Wimsatt].</ref>
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Missouri ===
 +
[https://philosophy.missouri.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-missouri.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] | [[University of Missouri | Additional Program Information]]
 +
 
 +
* '''Andre Ariew''' | [https://philosophy.missouri.edu/index.php/people/15-/29-andre-ariew Website] | [https://philosophy.missouri.edu/images/documents/Ariewcv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/andre%20ariew PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, fitness, causation (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1997 University of Arizona
 +
:: - Advisor: Robert Cummins
 +
 
 +
* '''Paul Weirich''' | [https://web.missouri.edu/~weirichp/ Website] | [https://web.missouri.edu/~weirichp/WeirichCV.pdf CV]
 +
** Specialties: Decision theory and game theory
 +
** Ph.D. 1977 UCLA
 +
:: - Advisor:  Tyler Burge
 +
 
 +
* '''Andrew Melnyk''' | [https://missouri.academia.edu/AndrewMelnyk Website] | [https://missouri.academia.edu/AndrewMelnyk/CurriculumVitae CV]
 +
** Specialties: scientific metaphysics, inter-level relations, physicalism, naturalism, reduction, supervenience, realization
 +
** Ph.D. 1991 Oxford University
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Pennsylvania ===
 +
[http://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/ Department Website] | [[University of Pennsylvania | Additional Program Information]]
 +
 
 +
* '''Cristina Bicchieri''' | [http://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/faculty/bicchieri Website] | [http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cb36/vita.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Cristina%20Bicchieri PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: evolutionary game theory, evolution of social norms
 +
** Ph.D. 1984 Cambridge University
 +
 
 +
* '''Karen Detlefsen''' | [http://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/faculty/detlefsen Website] | [http://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/sites/www.phil.upenn.edu/files/Detlefsen%20CV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10967 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: history of philosophy of biology
 +
** Ph.D. 2001 University of Toronto
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51042381 Generation and the individual in Descartes, Malebranche and Leibniz]
 +
:: - Advisor: Andre Gombay
 +
 
 +
* '''Gary Hatfield''' | [https://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/faculty/hatfield Website] | [http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~hatfield/vita14nr.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/63802 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: history of philosophy of biology, perception, neuroscience and psychology
 +
** Ph.D. 1979 University of Wisconsin-Madison
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6988064 Mind and space from Kant to Helmholtz: the development of the empiristic theory of spatial vision]
 +
:: - Advisor: Fred Dretske
 +
 
 +
* '''Quayshawn Spencer''' | [http://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/bio/spencer Website] | [https://sites.google.com/site/qnjspencer/curriculum-vitae CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/6707 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: population genetics, phylogenetics, biology and race
 +
** Ph.D. 2009 Stanford University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/505064734 Is cladistic race a genuine kind?]
 +
:: - Advisor: Michael Friedman
 +
 
 +
* '''Michael Weisberg''' | [http://philosophy.sas.upenn.edu/faculty/weisberg Website] | [http://www.phil.upenn.edu/~weisberg/Homepage/CV.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/81 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: tradeoffs and Idealization in modeling, agent-based models in evolution and ecology, origin of life, biology and race
 +
** Ph.D. 2003 Stanford University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81193648 When less is more: tradeoffs and idealization in model building]
 +
:: - Advisor: Peter Godfrey-Smith
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Pittsburgh (History and Philosophy of Science) ===
 +
[http://www.hps.pitt.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-pittsburghHPS.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Colin Allen''' [http://colinallen.dnsalias.org Website] | [http://colinallen.dnsalias.org/CV CV] | [https://philpapers.org/profile/2956 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Comparative Cognition, Computational HPS
 +
** Ph.D. 1989 UCLA
 +
:: - Thesis:  [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20278164 Attributing intentional states to animals : philosophical issues arising in cognitive ethology]
 +
:: - Advisor: Keith Donnellan
 +
 
 +
* '''Mazviita Chirimuuta''' | [http://www.hps.pitt.edu/profile/chirimuuta.php Website] | [http://www.hps.pitt.edu/documents/Chirimuuta%20CV%20summer_2013.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/8078 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Relationship between neuroscience and the philosophy of mind and perception; color vision, developing a theory of color that acknowledges the complexities of visual function revealed by recent perceptual science (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2004 University of Cambridge
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/890159310 A psychophysical and computational study of contrast coding in primary visual cortex]
 +
 
 +
* '''James G. Lennox''' | [http://www.hps.pitt.edu/profile/lennox.php Website] | [http://www.hps.pitt.edu/documents/Lennox.CV.2012.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/James%20G.%20Lennox PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Ancient Greek philosophy and science, William Harvey, Darwin, and Darwinism (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1978 University of Toronoto
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/224348287 A study of the interaction between Aristotle's Methaphysics and his biological works]
 +
 
 +
* '''Peter Machamer''' | [http://www.pitt.edu/~pkmach/ Website] | [http://www.pitt.edu/~pkmach/machamer/cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10984 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of science, primarily on 16th- and 17th-century topics, especially Galileo, Descartes and Hobbes, and in the philosophy of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and social science, and on values and science.
 +
** Ph.D. 1972 University of Chicago
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49474735 Points about observation in science]
 +
 
 +
* '''Edouard Machery''' | [http://www.pitt.edu/~machery/ Website] | [http://www.pitt.edu/~machery/papers/Machery%20Edouard%20CV%2009_2009.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10985 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Theoretical issues raised by psychology and cognitive science; concepts; evolution, culture, cognition; experimental philosophy (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2004 Université Paris-Sorbonne
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/493015668 Les concepts ne sont pas une espèce naturelle: la notion de concept en psychologie cognitive]
 +
 
 +
* '''Sandra Mitchell''' | [http://www.hps.pitt.edu/profile/mitchell.php Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/sandra%20mitchell PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Epistemological and metaphysical issues in the philosophy of science; scientific explanations of complex behavior, representing multi-level, multi-component complex systems; functional explanation, units of selection in evolutionary biology, sociobiology, biological complexity and self-organization, and scientific laws (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1987 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
 +
:: - Advisor: Peter Machamer
 +
 
 +
* '''Kenneth F. Schaffner''' | [http://www.hps.pitt.edu/profile/schaffner.php Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/32313 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Human behavioral and psychiatric genetics (via website)
 +
** M.D. University of Pittsburgh
 +
** Ph.D. 1967 Columbia University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/640827540 The logic and methodology of reduction in the physical and biological sciences]
 +
 
 +
* '''James Woodward''' | [http://www.hps.pitt.edu/profile/woodward.php Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/james%20woodward PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Theories of causation, explanation and inductive inference in general philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of social science; empirical psychology of causal learning and judgment (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1977 University of Texas at Austin
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43369372 Explanation in science and history]
 +
 
 +
----
 +
 
 +
=== University of Texas at Austin ===
 +
[http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/index.php Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-texas.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Sahotra Sarkar''' | [http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/philosophy/faculty/sarkars1 Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Sahotra%20Sarkar PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of science, particularly in both philosophy of biology and physics (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1989 University of Chicago
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20711191 Reductionism and molecular biology: a reappraisal]
 +
:: - Advisor: William Wimsatt<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/William+C.+Wimsatt philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com]/</ref>
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Utah ===
 +
[http://philosophy.utah.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-utah.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Stephen M. Downes''' | [http://philosophy.utah.edu/profile.php?unid=u0031428 Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/11161 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Biology; Biology of Human Behavior and Models and Images in Science (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1990 Virginia Tech (STS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25678607 Prospects for a cognitive science of science]
 +
:: - Advisor: Steve Fuller
 +
 
 +
* '''Melinda B. Fagan''' | [http://philosophy.utah.edu/profile.php?unid=u0976724 Website] | [http://faculty.utah.edu/bytes/curriculumVitae.hml?id=u0976724 CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Melinda%20B.%20Fagan PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of science, focusing on experimental practice in biology (particularly stem cell and developmental biology), explanation, and conceptions of objectivity and evidence (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2007 Indiana University (HPS)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270982280 Objectivity in practice : integrative social epistemology of scientific inquiry]
 +
:: - Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
 +
 
 +
* '''Matt Haber''' | [http://philosophy.utah.edu/profile.php?unid=u0533545 Website] | [http://155.97.32.9/~mhaber/Documents/HaberCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/28667 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Science; philosophical and conceptual issues in systematics, particularly those stemming from a commitment to phylogenetic thinking (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2005 UC Davis (Philosophy, Population Biology Affiliate)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70691247 The centrality of phylogenetic thinking]
 +
:: - Advisor: James R. Griesemer
 +
 
 +
* '''James Tabery''' | [http://philosophy.utah.edu/profile.php?unid=u0578517 Website] | [http://faculty.utah.edu/bytes/curriculumVitae.hml?id=u0578517 CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/james%20tabery PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of science and applied ethics, as well as the intersection between those domains; causation and explanation in biology and their ethical, legal, and social implications (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2007 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
 +
:: - Advisors: Sandra Mitchell and Paul Griffiths
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== University of Wisconsin-Madison ===
 +
[http://philosophy.wisc.edu Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-wisconsinMadison.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Daniel Hausman''' | [http://philosophy.wisc.edu/hausman/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/11262 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Rational choice theory, game theory, the concept of measurement and health
 +
** Ph.D. 1978 Columbia University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82217210 Economic models : a philosophical inquiry into capital theory]
 +
:: - Advisor: Sidney Morgenbesser<ref>Source: https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Daniel+Hausman philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
 +
 
 +
* '''Elliott Sober''' | [http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober/ Website] | [http://sober.philosophy.wisc.edu/vitae CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/11265 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of evolutionary biology, confirmation, explanation, reductionism, modeling, probability and statistics, parsimony
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1974 Harvard University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76999097 Simplicity]
 +
:: - Advisor: Hilary Putnam
 +
 
 +
* '''Russ Shafer-Landau''' | [https://sites.google.com/site/shaferlandau/home/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/11264 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Evolutionary debunking arguments targeting morality
 +
** Ph.D. 1992 University of Arizona
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712783706 Moral indeterminacy]
 +
:: - Advisor: Joel Feinberg
 +
 
 +
* '''Lawrence Shapiro''' | [http://tinyurl.com/lshapiro911/ Website] | [https://98f1df6db412fd4b5fc4e0a167614b3625951f4e.googledrive.com/host/0ByplJHTNjxCFLTVMcERmSlhqQVU/Index_files/ShapiroCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/6560 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind; issues concerning multiple realization and embodied cognition (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1992 University of Pennsylvania
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77816236 Representational content in cognitive psychology]
 +
:: - Advisor: Gary Hatfield
 +
 
 +
* '''Michael Titelbaum''' | [https://sites.google.com/site/michaeltitelbaum/ Website] | [https://86b944b3-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/michaeltitelbaum/cv/TitelbaumCV.pdf?attachauth=ANoY7cpwfWynfFOJaXun4aaco2COcu2tiD9Hiv3koH9bQw1Ic0VBsNe5-iwzSwCoKtaKSr8gImpYQKq8DlxV1M2-Sn9MyoRkJQYROHCrOzKvLhiRJse4z835aQsGYd79p6pgVCI_wYfi5rc2xoYBp7R12_1J2YPPSxkDPj7gwR8kCXyRNnSbKDJcPIZLdOdRG2BVrWK5Uehm4rC-kZ_8hMYFGz-z9rClEveqlhEU2HVy94k2dmIj37I%3D&attredirects=0 CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/55 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Bayesian epistemology
 +
** Ph.D. 2008 UC Berkeley
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/892835019 Quitting certainties: a doxastic modeling framework]
 +
:: - Advisor: Branden Fitelson
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== Washington University in St. Louis ===
 +
[https://philosophy.artsci.wustl.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-washingtonStLouis.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Carl F. Craver''' | [https://philosophy.artsci.wustl.edu/people/Carl_Craver Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/carl%20craver PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of neuroscience, theories of explanation, philosophy of psychology, cognitive neuropsychology
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 1998 University of Pittsburgh
 +
:: - Advisor: Peter Machamer
 +
 
 +
* '''Dennis DesChene''' | [http://www.goclenius.net/ Website] | [http://artsci.wustl.edu/~ddeschen/CV/ddcv20090127.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/1666 PhilPapers]
 +
** Ph.D. 1987 Stanford University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613317571 Cartesian science sensation, experience and representation]
 +
 
 +
* '''Ron Mallon''' | [https://pages.wustl.edu/ronmallon Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/22023 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Race, social construction, moral psychology, experimental philosophy
 +
** Ph.D. 2000 Rutgers University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81805416 Making up your mind: the social construction of human kinds and its implications]
 +
:: - Advisor: Stephen Stich
 +
 
 +
* '''Anya Plutynski''' | [https://philosophy.artsci.wustl.edu/people/anya-plutynski Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/7066 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, cancer biology, early 20th Century genetics, evolutionary theory, explanation, modeling.
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 2002 University of Pennsylvania
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244972713 Modeling Evolution]
 +
:: - Advisor: Gary Hatfield
 +
 
 +
== M.A. Programs ==
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 +
=== [http://www.cla.csulb.edu/departments/philosophy/ California State University Long Beach] ===
 +
 
 +
* <strong>Alex Klein</strong> // website [http://web.csulb.edu/~aklein/ 1], [https://philpapers.org/profile/36191 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Pragmatism (esp. William James), Philosophy of Biology, History and Philosophy of Psychology, Logical Positivism, History of Science
 +
** Ph.D. 2007 Indiana University HPS
 +
* <strong>Cory Wright</strong> // website [https://philpapers.org/profile/6863 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Semantics (esp. Truth), History and Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Neuroscience
 +
** Ph.D. 2007 UC San Diego (Philosophy & Cognitive Science)
 +
* <strong>Wayne Wright</strong> // website [http://www.mindstuff.net/ 1]
 +
** Specialties: Vision Science (esp. Color Perception), Modeling, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science
 +
** Ph.D. 1999 Temple University
 +
 
 +
=== Concordia University, Montreal ===
 +
[http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/philosophy.html Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Matthew Barker''' | [http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/philosophy/faculty.html?fpid=matthew-barker Website] | [https://concordia.academia.edu/MattBarker/CurriculumVitae CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Matthew%20J.%20Barker PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, value theory, philosophy of psychology, general philosophy of science, and 17th and 18th century philosophy
 +
** Ph.D. 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/730519874 The philosophy of species : conceptual, metaphysical, and ethical insights concerning biological species]
 +
:: - Advisor: Elliott Sober
 +
 
 +
* '''David Morris''' | [http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/philosophy/faculty.html?fpid=david-morris Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/David%20morris PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Phenomenology (esp. Merleau-Ponty) with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind and nature in relation to current biology and cognitive science (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1997 University of Toronto
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222917697 The sense of space: an essay on spatial perception and embodiment in the spirit of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of perception]
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== Louisiana State University ===
 +
[http://uiswcmsweb.prod.lsu.edu/hss/prs/# Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-lsu.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Charles H. Pence''' | [http://www.charlespence.net/ Website] | [http://www.charlespence.net/pence-cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/2486 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, foundations of evolutionary theory, chance and evolution, fitness, causation (via website)
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 2014 University of Notre Dame
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/878957543 Chance in evolutionary theory: fitness, selection, and genetic drift in philosophical and historical perspective]
 +
:: - Advisor: Grant Ramsey
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== Oregon State University ===
 +
[http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/shpr/philosophy Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Jonathan Kaplan''' | [http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/users/jonathan-kaplan Website] | [http://people.oregonstate.edu/~kaplanj/ 2] | [http://people.oregonstate.edu/~kaplanj/CV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/26141 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 1996 Stanford University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/742304810 Networks of support politics and genes in contemporary society]
 +
:: - Advisor: John Dupre
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
 +
=== Tufts University ===
 +
[http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-tufts.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Patrick Forber''' | [http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/faculty/forber.asp Website] | [http://pforber.squarespace.com 2] | [http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/documents/cvForber.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Patrick%20Forber PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Confirmation, explanation, and idealization in science, especially in evolutionary biology and ecology (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2006 Stanford University
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71019885 The traces of change: evidence in evolutionary biology]
 +
:: - Advisor: Elliott Sober
 +
 
 +
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 +
 
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=== University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Ethics & Applied Philosophy) ===
 +
[http://philosophy.uncc.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-uncCharlotte.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
 +
 
 +
* '''Trevor Pearce''' | [http://www.trevorpearce.co/ Website] | [http://www.trevorpearce.co/PearceCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/26703 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, focusing on how research in experimental biology, ecology, and paleobiology, suitably understood, can help answer broader questions about the relative importance of different causal factors in evolutionary history (via website)
 +
** Ph.D. 2010 University of Chicago (Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/749933997 "A perfect chaos": Organism-environment interaction and the causal factors of evolution]
 +
:: - Advisors: William Wimsatt and Robert J. Richards
 +
 
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=== University of Victoria ===
 +
[http://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/ Department Website]
 +
 
 +
* '''Scott Woodcock''' | [http://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/people/facultymembers/profiles/woodcock.php Website] | [http://web.uvic.ca/~woodcock/info/printCV.pdf CV] |
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** Specialties: Explanations for altruism, levels of selection, and ethics and naturalism
 +
** , Ph.D. 2001 University of Toronto
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51087279 The genealogy of moral memes: a new synthesis for evolutionary ethics]
 +
:: - Advisor: Paul Thompson
 +
 
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=== Virginia Tech ===
 +
[http://www.phil.vt.edu Department Website] | [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-virginiaTech.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
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* '''Benjamin Jantzen''' | [http://www.phil.vt.edu/jantzen/jantzen.html Website] | [http://www.ratiocination.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/CV20140731.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/33932 PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Physics, General Philosophy of Science, Biophysics
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
 +
** Ph.D. 2010 Carnegie Mellon University (Logic, Computation, and Methodology)
 +
:: - Advisor: Mara Harrell
 +
 
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* '''Richard M. Burian''' | [http://www.phil.vt.edu/Burian/index.html Website] | [http://www.phil.vt.edu/Burian/CV.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Richard%20M.%20Burian PhilPapers]
 +
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, History of Philosophy of Biology, History of Philosophy of Science, Science Studies
 +
** Willing to work with new students? Possibly; write to ask.
 +
** Ph.D. 1971 University of Pittsburgh
 +
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26281010 Scientific realism, commensurability, and conceptual change: a critique of Paul Feyerabend's philosophy of science]
 +
:: - Advisor: Wilfrid Sellars
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== Browse Programs by Category ==
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Below are two ways to browse programs by category. The first sorts all programs by number of philosophy of biology faculty. The second sorts U.S. programs by state.
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You can find a listing of Australasian and Canadian programs by specialty on [[Austalasian and Canadian Programs by Specialty|this page]]. Once that list includes programs from other parts of the world, they will be incorporated. As always, prospective students should fact-check the faculty numbers listed because academics change jobs frequently. (Note: 'P' stands for Page.)
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Philosophy of Biology Graduate Programs

This wiki provides an unranked list of Ph.D. and terminal M.A. programs that have strengths in philosophy of biology. Since it's a wiki, you can edit it, so please do. The primary intended audience is prospective and current graduate students with interests in philosophy of biology who want to get the lay of the land by seeing who works where and on what. All content on this site is available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Find us on Facebook.

Download the PDF: The entire list of Ph.D. and M.A. programs can be downloaded.

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Note to Prospective Graduate Students

The purpose of this wiki is to aid your search for philosophy of biology graduate programs that suit your tastes. It does so by:

  • Listing as many philosophy of biology graduate programs as possible.
  • Making research into those programs more efficient and convenient by identifying the relevant philosophy of biology faculty and providing easy access to their bios, research interests, CVs, partial publication lists, etc.

However, while this site may be where your research into programs starts, it decidedly should not be where it ends. You need to dig around and do your due diligence—e.g., contact people within the programs[1]—in order to put yourself in the best possible position to make an informed decision about where to apply. Good luck!

Standards, Practices, and Guidelines

  1. The criterion for program inclusion is just that a philosophy (or HPS) program have at least one full-time faculty member who self-identifies as a philosopher of biology.
  2. The standard of evidence required to make the list is an official (or personal) university-affiliated website—or a publicly-accessible CV—that lists philosophy of biology as a primary research interest.
  3. Philosophers who have made contributions to the philosophy of biology but who do not list phil bio as an AOS/AOC are usually not listed.
  4. Affiliated, part-time, and emeritus faculty who work closely with graduate students should be labeled as such inside parentheses next to their names.
  5. Bioethics, environmental ethics, philosophy of neuroscience/cognitive science, philosophy of medicine, and history of biology—in and of themselves—are not counted as philosophy of biology.

A longer version of these guidelines is available.

Ph.D. Programs (Australasia)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.

Australian National University

Department Website | Additional Program Information [yes]

  • Kim Sterelny | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Evolution, Philosophy of Psychology and Philosophy of Mind, Palaeoecology (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1977 University of Sydney
- Thesis: Problems in syntactic theory: a study in semantics and variation theory
- Advisor: Bill Bonney[2]

Macquarie University

Department Website

  • Rachael Brown | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: The evolution of cognition and behaviour; the relationship between evolutionary developmental biology and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis; model-based reasoning in biology and philosophy; and methodological issues in the study of animal behaviour and cognition (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2013 Australian National University
- Thesis: Understanding Behavioural Innovation, Novelty and Evolvability
- Advisor: Kim Sterelny
  • Karola Stotz | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Evolutionary, developmental and molecular biology, psychobiology and cognition (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1999 University of Ghent
- Advisor: Gertrudis Van de Vijver

University of Otago (New Zealand)

Department Website

  • James Maclaurin | Website, PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, including innateness, fitness, theoretical morphology, biological diversity and universal darwinism (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1998 Australian National University
- Thesis: The Metaphysics of Biodiversity
- Advisor: Kim Sterelny[3]

University of Sydney

Department Website

  • David Braddon-Mitchell | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Mind and metaphysics, and cross borders into philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, ethics and political philosophy from time to time (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1988 Australian National University
- Thesis: Explanation: A Causally Constrained Pragmatic Account
- Advisors: J.J.C. Smart and Philip Pettit[4]
  • Paul Griffiths | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Causal foundations of biological information; evolutionary medicine; innateness and human nature; concept of the gene; developmental systems theory (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1989 Australian National University
- Thesis: Emotion and Evolution
- Advisor: Kim Sterelny[5]

Waikato University (New Zealand)

Department Website

  • Justine Kingsbury | Website, PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of mind; philosophy of biology; critical thinking; aesthetics (especially philosophy of music) (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1999 Rutgers University
- Thesis: Content and function: a defense of Millikanian teleosemantics
- Advisor: Frances Egan

Ph.D. Programs (Canada)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.

University of Alberta

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide | Additional Program Information

  • Ingo Brigandt | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Evolutionary developmental biology, molecular biology, systems biology, science and values
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2006 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
- Thesis: A Theory of Conceptual Advance: Explaining Conceptual Change in Evolutionary, Molecular, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology
- Advisors: Anil Gupta and Paul Griffiths
  • 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
    • Ph.D. 1992 Cornell University (with Cognitive Studies minor)
- Thesis: Individualism, psychological explanation, and mental representation
- Advisor: Sydney Shoemaker

University of British Columbia

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • John Beatty | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1979 Indiana University (HPS)
- Thesis: Traditional and semantic accounts of evolutionary theory
- Advisor: Ronald Giere[6]
  • Margaret Schabas | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Overlap of biology and economics and the formation of bioeconomics (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1983 University of Toronoto
- Thesis: William Stanley Jevons and the emergence of mathematical economics in Britain
- Advisor: Trevor Levere
  • Christopher Stephens | Website, 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)
    • Ph.D. 2000 University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thesis: Why be rational?: Prudence, rational belief, and evolution
- Advisor: Elliott Sober

University of Calgary

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • Megan Delehanty | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Models, explanation, causation (via PhilPapers entries)
    • Ph.D. 2005 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
- Thesis: Empiricism and the Epistemic Status of Imaging Technologies
- Advisor: Sandra Mitchell
  • Marc Ereshefsky | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Species; Natural Kinds; Scientific Classification; Biological Individuality; Homology; Historicity; Microbiology (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thesis: The ontological status of species : a study of individuality and its role in evolutionary theory
- Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • C. Kenneth Waters | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Causation, explanation, molecular biology, genetics, pluralism (via PhilPapers entries)
    • Ph.D. 1985 Indiana University (HPS)
- Thesis: Models of natural selection: From Darwin Dawkins
- Advisor: Ronald Giere[7]

University of Toronto

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

- Thesis: Categories, translation, and linguistic theory
- Advisor: Paul Benacerraf
  • Mohan Matthen | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of mind, especially perception, philosophy of biology, natural selection (via PhilPapers profile)
    • Ph.D. 1976 Stanford University
- Thesis: Essentialism and non-contradiction: a study in Aristotelian and contemporary metaphysics
- Advisor: Julius Moravcsik[8]
  • Paul Thompson | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Evolutionary theory, population genetics, mathematical modelling in biology, theory structure in biology, philosophy of medicine, and ethics (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1979 University of Toronto
- Thesis: Genetic explanation schemes in biology
  • Denis Walsh | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Models, mechanisms, fitness, causation (via PhilPapers entries)
    • Ph.D. 1988 McGill University (Biology)
- Thesis: Systematics of the caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)
- Advisor: R. L. Carroll

University of Waterloo

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • Carla Fehr | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Feminist Science Studies, Philosophy of Science, evolution (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1999 Duke University
- Thesis: A natural history of the evolution of sexual reproduction: the virtues of explanatory pluralism
- Advisor: Robert Brandon
  • 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
    • Ph.D. 2006 University of Minnesota
- Thesis: Behavioral Genetics and the Environment: The Generation and Exportation of Scientific Claims
- Advisor: C. Kenneth Waters
  • Paul Thagard | Website | 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)
    • Ph.D. 1977 University of Toronto
- Thesis: Explanation and scientific inference
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University of Western Ontario

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • Gillian Barker | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science
    • Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego
- Thesis: Abstraction, analogy and induction: toward a general account of ampliative inference
- Advisor: Philip Kitcher
  • Eric Desjardins | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2009 University of British Columbia
- Thesis: Historicity in biology
- Advisor: John Beatty[9]
  • Devin Henry | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Ancient Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science (esp. Philosophy of Biology) (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2004 King’s College, University of London
- Thesis: How to build an animal: the metaphysics of Aristotle's ontogeny
- Advisors: Richard Sorabji and M. M. McCabe

Ph.D. Programs (Europe)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.

KU Leuven

Department Website

  • Grant Ramsey | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, the conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, the study of human and non-human animal behavior, the moral emotions, and the automated text mining of scientific literature.
    • Ph.D. 2007 Duke University
- Thesis: Culture From Infrahumans to Humans: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology
- Advisors: Robert Brandon and Alex Rosenberg

Ph.D. Programs (United Kingdom)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.

Birkbeck, University of London

Department Website

  • Robert Northcott | Website | CV | 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)
    • Ph.D. 2004 London School of Economics
- Thesis: Approximate truth and causal strength in science
- Advisors: Colin Howson and Nancy Cartwright

University of Bristol

Department Website

  • Samir Okasha | Website, PhilPapers
    • Specialities: evolutionary theory, levels of selection, population genetics, social evolution, rational choice
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1998 University of Oxford
- Thesis: Epistemology and the underdetermination of theory by evidence
- Advisor: Bill Newton-Smith

University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science)

Department Website

  • Tim Lewens | Website, PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophical bioethics
    • Ph.D. 2001 University of Cambridge (HPS)
- Thesis: Organisms and artefacts : design in nature and elsewhere

University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology)

Department Website

  • 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)
    • Ph.D. 1981 University of Cambridge
- Thesis: Reductionism, natural kinds, and the disunity of science
  • 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)
    • Ph.D. 2007 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Thesis: Weed for thought: using Arabidopsis thaliana to understand plant biology
- Advisors: Henk de Regt and Hans Radder
  • Staffan Muller-Wille | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of systematics; history of heredity; history of race and kinship (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1997 University of Bielefeld
- Thesis: Botanik und weltweiter Handel zur Begründung eines natürlichen Systems der Pflanzen durch Carl von Linné (1707 - 78)

King's College London

Department Website

  • Matteo Mameli | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Intersection of philosophy, the sciences of human behavior (biology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, etc.), and moral and political theory (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2002 University of London
- Thesis: Darwinism and non-genetic inheritance
- Advisor: David Papineau
  • Nicholas Shea | Website | 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)
    • Ph.D. 2003 King's College London
- Thesis: Empirical lessons for philosophical theories of mental content
- Advisor: David Papineau

Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion)

Department Website

  • Brian Garvey | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, psychoanalysis, Ryle, Austin, Dennett (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2000 Trinity College Dublin
- Thesis: Freud's psychoanalysis of religion

University of Leeds

Department Website

  • Gregory Radick | Website | 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)
    • Ph.D. 2000 University of Cambridge (HPS)
- Thesis: Animal language in the Victorian evolutionary debates

London School of Economics (Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method)

Department Website

  • Jonathan Birch | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialities: Natural selection, evolution of social behaviour, evolutionary transitions, human evolution.
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2013 University of Cambridge

University College London (Science and Technology Studies)

Department Website

  • Phyllis Illari | Website | CV | 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)
    • Ph.D. 2005 King's College London
- Adviser: David Papineau[10]

University of Oxford

Department Website

  • Ellen Clarke (currently a postdoc; moving to Leeds as a Lecturer in September 2016) | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Biological Individuality, Evolutionary Transitions, evolution of cooperation, natural selection, Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science
    • Ph.D. 2010 University of Bristol
- Thesis: Biological individuality and the levels of selection

Ph.D. Programs (United States)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.

Arizona State University (Center for Biology and Society)

Department Website

  • Manfred Laubichler | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Theoretical biology and the history of biology using both empirical and conceptual approaches; role of gene regulatory networks in development and evolution; Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems, focusing on complexity as a unifying principle in the social and life sciences, including applications in biomedicine and the study of innovations (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1997 Yale University (Biology)
- Thesis: Identifying units of selection: conceptual and methodological issues
- Advisor: Gunter P. Wagner
  • Jane Maienschein | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of biology and the way biology, bioethics and bio-policy play out in society; embryology, genetics, and cell biology; epistemological standards, theories, and laboratory practices; studies of people and institutions, as well as the changing social, political, and legal context in which science thrive (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1978 Indiana University (HPS)
- Thesis: Ross Harrison's crucial experiment as a foundation for modern American experimental embryology
- Advisor: Frederick B. Churchill
  • Jason Scott Robert | Website | CV
    • Specialties: Political and societal problems that intersect with life sciences; produces educational materials and tools for “talking productively” (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2000 McMaster University
- Thesis: Taking development seriously: toward a genuinely synthetic biology
- Advisor: B.G. Allen
  • Beckett Sterner (Starts fall semester 2016) | Website | CV
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, especially mathematics in biology; information, individuality, species, modeling (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2012 University of Chicago (CHSS)
- Thesis: The practice of theorizing in computational biology: Function, information, and mechanism
- Advisor: William Wimsatt

Boston University

Department Website

  • Tian Yu Cao | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy and History of Science (physics, biology and cognitive sciences), Epistemology, Metaphysics, Social and Political Philosophy, with special interests in philosophical issues related to (classical and global) modernity and postmodernity (via website)
    • Ph.D. University of Cambridge
  • Russell Powell | Website | CV, PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Conceptual and methodological problems in evolutionary theory; epistemological and metaphysical dimensions of debates in contemporary bioethics, especially in relation to emerging biotechnologies (via website)
    • J.D. 2002 New York University
    • Ph.D. 2009 Duke University
- Thesis: Reading the Book of Life: Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution
- Advisor: Alexander Rosenberg

Carnegie Mellon University

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • Kevin J.S. Zollman | Website | CV, PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Game theory, agent based modeling, philosophy of science
    • Ph.D. 2007 UC Irvine (LPS)
- Thesis: Network epistemology
- Advisor: Brian Skyrms

City University of New York Graduate Center

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • Peter Godfrey-Smith | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind; pragmatism (especially John Dewey), general philosophy of science, and some parts of metaphysics and epistemology (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1991 UC San Diego
- Thesis: Teleonomy and the philosophy of mind
- Advisor: Philip Kitcher
  • Massimo Pigliucci | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, in particular the structure and foundations of evolutionary theory, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the nature of pseudoscience (via website)
    • Doctorate University of Ferrara (Genetics)
    • Ph.D. University of Connecticut (Biology)
    • Ph.D. 2003 University of Tennessee (Philosophy)
- Thesis: Dangerous habits: examining the philosophical baggage of biological research
- Advisor: Jonathan Kaplan, Philosophy
  • Thomas Teufel | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Kant, 18th Century philosophy, philosophy of art (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2006 Harvard University
- Thesis: Purpose and purposiveness in Kant's Critque of the power of judgement
- Advisor: Richard Moran

Columbia University

Department Website

  • Philip Kitcher[11]
    • Specialties: Conceptual and methodological issues in biology; questions about the relations of biological research to society and politics; role of scientific inquiry in democratic societies; pragmatism (especially William James and John Dewey) (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1974 Princeton University
- Thesis: Mathematics and certainty
- Advisor: Paul Benacerraf[12]

Website | CV | PhilPapers

Duke University

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide | Additional Program Information

  • Robert N. Brandon | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, logic (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1979 Harvard University
- Thesis: Philosophical investigations in evolutionary biology
- Advisor: Hilary Putnam[13]
  • Alexander Rosenberg | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: problems in metaphysics, mainly surrounding causality, the philosophy of social sciences, especially economics, and most of all, the philosophy of biology, in particular the relationship between molecular, functional and evolutionary biology (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1971 Johns Hopkins University
- Thesis: Microeconomic general statements: a philosophical analysis
- Advisor: Peter Achinstein[14]
  • Karen Neander | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Cognitive Science (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1983 La Trobe University
- Thesis: Abnormal psychobiology: a thesis on the 'anti-psychiatry debate' and the relationship between psychology and biology
- Advisor: Kim Sterelny[15]
  • Dan McShea | Website | 2 | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Paleobiology, with a focus on large-scale trends in the history of life, especially documenting and investigating the causes of the (putative) trend in the complexity of organisms; operationalizing concepts, such as complexity and hierarchy, as well as clarifying conceptual issues related to trends at larger scales (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1990 University of Chicago (Committee on Evolutionary Biology)
- Thesis: Complexity and evolution
- Advisor: David Raup

Florida State University

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • James Justus | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Science (esp. biology), Carnap, Epistemology (esp. formal and naturalized), Environmental Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2007 University of Texas at Austin
- Thesis: The stability-diversity-complexity debate of theoretical community ecology : a philosophical analysis
- Advisor: Sahotra Sarkar
  • Michael Ruse | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology (especially Darwinism), Ethics, the History and Philosophy of Science (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1970 Bristol University

Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science)

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • Sander Gliboff | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History of biology, especially evolution and genetics, and the science in modern Germany and Austria (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2001 Johns Hopkins University
- Thesis: The pebble and the planet: Paul Kammerer, Ernst Haeckel, and the meaning of Darwinism
- Advisor: Sharon Kingsland
  • Elisabeth Lloyd | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, the role of models in science, and gender issues in science (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1984 Princeton University
- Thesis: A semantic approach to the structure of evolutionary theory
- Advisor: Bas van Fraassen

Michigan State University

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • Fred Gifford | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Science (particularly philosophy of biology and medicine); Ethics (particularly ethics in health care and the life sciences)
    • Ph.D. 1984 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
- Thesis: Explanation and causation in genetics
- Advisor: Kenneth F. Schaffner
  • Robert T. Pennock | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Evolution and computing (via publication list)
    • Ph.D. 1991 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
- Thesis: Causally licensed inference and the confirmation relation
- Advisor: Wesley Salmon
  • Sean Valles | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of population health, from the use of evidence in medical genetics to the roles played by race concepts in epidemiology (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2010 Indiana University (HPS)
- Thesis: Explaining the evolution of common genetic disease
- Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd

New York University

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  • Laura Franklin-Hall | Website | [ PhilPapers]
    • Specialties: philosophy of biology, the general philosophy of science, and metaphysics (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2008 Columbia University
- Thesis: From a Microbiological Point of View
- Advisor: Philip Kitcher

Stanford University

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide

  • Helen Longino | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: The underdetermination problem in the context of a probabilistic epistemology/metaphysics; analyzing the differences between weak and strong social epistemology; understanding ecological explanation (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1973 Johns Hopkins University
- Thesis: Inference and discovery
- Advisor: Peter Achinstein[16]
  • Brian Skyrms (1/3 time appointment; at Stanford every Spring) | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Evolution of conventions and the social contract; inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and Truth (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1964 University of Pittsburgh
- Thesis: The concept of physical necessity
- Advisor: Nicholas Rescher

Texas A&M University

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  • Roger Sansom | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2002 University of North Carolina
- Thesis: Development as an adaptation: a philosophical contribution to the developmental synthesis
- Advisor: William G. Lycan

University of California, Davis

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  • James R. Griesemer | Website | 2 | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Evolutionary biology, genetics, developmental biology, ecology and systematics
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1983 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of Science)
- Thesis: Communication and scientific change: an analysis of conceptual maps in the macroevolution controversy
- Advisor: William Wimsatt
  • Roberta L. Millstein | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology, causation, chance, environmental ethics
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1997 University of Minnesotta, Twin Cities
- Thesis: The chances of evolution: an analysis of the roles of chance in microevolution and macroevolution
- Advisors: John Beatty and C. Kenneth Waters

University of California, Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science)

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  • Simon Huttegger | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Game and Decision Theory, Probability, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Measurement Theory (via CV)
    • Ph.D. 2006 Universität Salzburg
- Advisor: Reinhard Kleinknecht[17]
  • Cailin O'Connor | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Game Theory, Philosophy, Evolutionary Biology, Game Theory, Epistemology, Animal Behaviour, Social behavior in animals, Natural (Naturalised) Philosophy, Culture Evolution--Retardant/Accelerant of Genetic Evolution, Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics, Philosophy of perception, Animal Cognition, Visual Neuroscience, Kinds of Inheritance System: Genes, Cultures, Learning, Ambiguity, Vagueness, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Naturalized ethics, Bargaining, Experimental Economics, Cultural Evolution, Decision And Game Theory, Evolution of cooperation (Evolutionary Biology), and Social Epistemology (via academia.edu)
    • Ph.D. 2013 UC Irvine (LPS)
- Thesis: Categories, generalization, and vagueness
- Advisors: P. Kyle Stanford, and Brian Skyrms
  • P. Kyle Stanford | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Centrally concerned with what we know and how we know it; philosophy of biology, the history of modern philosophy (especially the writings of Locke and Hume), and the philosophy of language (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego (Philosophy/Science Studies)
- Thesis: A pragmatic theory of causation
- Advisor: Philip Kitcher
  • Brian Skyrms | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Evolution of conventions and the social contract; inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and Truth (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1964 University of Pittsburgh
- Thesis: The concept of physical necessity
- Advisor: Nicholas Rescher

University of California, San Diego

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  • William Bechtel | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of the life sciences, including systems biology, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, cognitive science, and mechanisms; chronobiology, which over the past twenty years which has revealed critical components and organization of the intercellular oscillators responsible for circadian behavior in mammals, insects, and plants, as well as their entrainment and sychronization, as a model science; interest is coupled with an interest in how neural systems generally "compute" via dynamic synchronization of endogenously active (oscillating) local populations of neurons (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1977 University of Chicago
    • Thesis: Intentionality and Quine's epistemological enterprise
- Advisors: Manley Thompson and Daniel Garber

University of California, Santa Cruz

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  • Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther |

Website | PhilPapers

    • Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology (Genetics, Evolutionary Theory) (via website)
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2003 Indiana University (HPS)
- Thesis: Formal biology and compositonal biology as two kinds of biological theorizing
- Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd

University of Chicago (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)

Department Website

  • Karl Matlin (Department of Surgery) | Website
    • Specialties: Understanding the biogenesis of apical-basal polarity in epithelial cells (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1979 Rockefeller University
- Thesis: Studies in chloroplast protein synthesis in vivo and in vitro
  • David Jablonski (has been on CHSS dissertation committees) | Website | CV
    • Specialties: Combining of data from living and fossil organisms to study the origins and the fates of lineages and adaptations (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1979 Yale University
- Thesis: Paleoecology, paleobiogeography and evolutionary patterns of late Cretaceous Gulf and Atlantic coastal plain mollusks
  • Robert J. Richards | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: history and philosophy of psychology and biology. This includes particular interest in evolutionary theory, biopsychology, ethology, and sociobiology (via website)
    • Ph.D. St. Louis University
    • Ph.D. 1978 University of Chicago
- Thesis: The evolution of behavior: theories of instinct in the nineteenth century with an essay on animal instinct and intelligence before Darwin
  • William C. Wimsatt | | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: history and philosophy of biology, cultural evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, complex systems
    • Ph.D. 1971 University of Pittsburgh
- Thesis: Modern science and the new teleology: The conceptual foundations of functional analysis.
- Advisor: Joseph Lee Camp, Jr.[18]

University of Cincinnati

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  • Tony Chemero | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: neuroscience, ecological psychology, artificial life, dynamical systems and complex systems, cognitive science
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
- Thesis: How to be an anti-representationalist
- Advisor: Brian Cantwell Smith
  • Valerie Hardcastle | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: neurobiology, neuropsychiatry and the law, embodied cognition
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1994 UC San Diego (Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
- Thesis: Explaining consciousness
- Advisor: Gerald Doppelt
  • Koffi N. Maglo | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: philosophy of biomedicine, genomics and race, race-based medicine, bioethics
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1998 University of Burgundy
- Thesis: Science et imaginaire: la tension: une lecture non-bachelardienne de Newton
  • Thomas W. Polger | | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: multiple realization and realization; explanation in life, brain, and cognitive sciences; role of evolutionary theory in thinking about minds and consciousness; neuroscience and cognitive sciences
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2000 Duke University
- Thesis: Natural minds
- Advisor: Owen Flanagan
  • Angela Potochnik | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: methodology of population biology, behavioral ecology, explanation, idealization, socially engaged philosophy of science, logical empiricism
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2007 Stanford University
- Thesis: Evolution, explanation, and unity of science
- Advisor: Michael Friedman
  • Robert C. Richardson | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: evolutionary theory, developmental biology, cognitive science, theory change
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1977 University of Chicago
- Thesis: Intentionality, infallibility, and identity: In defense of the perennial philosophy
  • Robert A. Skipper, Jr. | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: history of evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genetics, obesity science, controversies, explanation, socially engaged philosophy of science
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2000 University of Maryland, College Park (Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science)
- Thesis: The R.A. Fisher-Sewall Wright controversy in philosophical focus: theory evaluation in population genetics
- Advisor: Lindley Darden

University of Kansas

Department Website

  • Armin Schulz | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: How and when evolutionary theory can be used to illuminate issues that are not obviously evolutionary biological (especially ones in psychology, social science, and philosophy); and how and when theories from psychology, social science, and philosophy can be used to illuminate evolutionary biological issues (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thesis: Evolutionary theory and the belief / desire model of the mind
- Advisor: Elliott Sober

University of Maryland, College Park

Department Website

  • Lindley Darden | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Reasoning in scientific change; development of scientific knowledge as progressing through iterative cycles of construction, evaluation, and revision of hypotheses; conceptual aspects of discovery of biological mechanisms from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, such as evolutionary and genetic mechanisms (via websites)
    • Ph.D. 1974 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of Science)
- Thesis: Reasoning and scientific change: the field of genetics at its beginnings
- Advisor: Dudley Shapere
  • Erin Eaker | Website | CV
    • Specialties: Natural kinds and scientific realism in the philosophy of biology; philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology; the concept of belief (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2002 UCLA
- Thesis: Reporting attitudes
- Advisor: David Kaplan
  • Aidan Lyon | Website | 2 | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability, Formal Epistemology and Philosophy of Mathematics; also interested in topics in Philosophy of Physics and Biology; the notion of objective probability in various scientific theories, with a focus on Classical Statistical Mechanics and Evolutionary Theory (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2009 Australian National University
- Thesis: Three concepts of probability
- Advisor: Al Hayek

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities[19]

Department Website | Entry in APA Guide | Additional Program Information [yes]

  • Alan C. Love | Website | 2 | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionary theory, developmental biology, functional morphology, conceptual change, explanatory pluralism, reductionism, the nature of historical science, interdisciplinary epistemology, and the structure of scientific problems
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2005 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
- Thesis: Explaining evolutionary innovation and novelty: A historical and philosophical study of biological concepts
- Advisor: James Lennox
  • William C. Wimsatt (part-time appointment) | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: history and philosophy of biology, cultural evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, complex systems
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1971 University of Pittsburgh
- Thesis: Modern science and the new teleology: The conceptual foundations of functional analysis.
- Advisor: Joseph Lee Camp, Jr.[20]

University of Missouri

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  • Andre Ariew | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, fitness, causation (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1997 University of Arizona
- Advisor: Robert Cummins
  • Paul Weirich | Website | CV
    • Specialties: Decision theory and game theory
    • Ph.D. 1977 UCLA
- Advisor: Tyler Burge
  • Andrew Melnyk | Website | CV
    • Specialties: scientific metaphysics, inter-level relations, physicalism, naturalism, reduction, supervenience, realization
    • Ph.D. 1991 Oxford University

University of Pennsylvania

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  • Cristina Bicchieri | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: evolutionary game theory, evolution of social norms
    • Ph.D. 1984 Cambridge University
  • Karen Detlefsen | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: history of philosophy of biology
    • Ph.D. 2001 University of Toronto
- Thesis: Generation and the individual in Descartes, Malebranche and Leibniz
- Advisor: Andre Gombay
  • Gary Hatfield | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: history of philosophy of biology, perception, neuroscience and psychology
    • Ph.D. 1979 University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thesis: Mind and space from Kant to Helmholtz: the development of the empiristic theory of spatial vision
- Advisor: Fred Dretske
  • Quayshawn Spencer | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: population genetics, phylogenetics, biology and race
    • Ph.D. 2009 Stanford University
- Thesis: Is cladistic race a genuine kind?
- Advisor: Michael Friedman
  • Michael Weisberg | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: tradeoffs and Idealization in modeling, agent-based models in evolution and ecology, origin of life, biology and race
    • Ph.D. 2003 Stanford University
- Thesis: When less is more: tradeoffs and idealization in model building
- Advisor: Peter Godfrey-Smith

University of Pittsburgh (History and Philosophy of Science)

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  • Colin Allen Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Comparative Cognition, Computational HPS
    • Ph.D. 1989 UCLA
- Thesis: Attributing intentional states to animals : philosophical issues arising in cognitive ethology
- Advisor: Keith Donnellan
  • Mazviita Chirimuuta | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Relationship between neuroscience and the philosophy of mind and perception; color vision, developing a theory of color that acknowledges the complexities of visual function revealed by recent perceptual science (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2004 University of Cambridge
- Thesis: A psychophysical and computational study of contrast coding in primary visual cortex
  • James G. Lennox | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Ancient Greek philosophy and science, William Harvey, Darwin, and Darwinism (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1978 University of Toronoto
- Thesis: A study of the interaction between Aristotle's Methaphysics and his biological works
  • Peter Machamer | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of science, primarily on 16th- and 17th-century topics, especially Galileo, Descartes and Hobbes, and in the philosophy of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and social science, and on values and science.
    • Ph.D. 1972 University of Chicago
- Thesis: Points about observation in science
  • Edouard Machery | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Theoretical issues raised by psychology and cognitive science; concepts; evolution, culture, cognition; experimental philosophy (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2004 Université Paris-Sorbonne
- Thesis: Les concepts ne sont pas une espèce naturelle: la notion de concept en psychologie cognitive
  • Sandra Mitchell | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Epistemological and metaphysical issues in the philosophy of science; scientific explanations of complex behavior, representing multi-level, multi-component complex systems; functional explanation, units of selection in evolutionary biology, sociobiology, biological complexity and self-organization, and scientific laws (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1987 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
- Advisor: Peter Machamer
  • Kenneth F. Schaffner | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Human behavioral and psychiatric genetics (via website)
    • M.D. University of Pittsburgh
    • Ph.D. 1967 Columbia University
- Thesis: The logic and methodology of reduction in the physical and biological sciences
  • James Woodward | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Theories of causation, explanation and inductive inference in general philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of social science; empirical psychology of causal learning and judgment (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1977 University of Texas at Austin
- Thesis: Explanation in science and history

University of Texas at Austin

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  • Sahotra Sarkar | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of science, particularly in both philosophy of biology and physics (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1989 University of Chicago
- Thesis: Reductionism and molecular biology: a reappraisal
- Advisor: William Wimsatt[21]

University of Utah

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  • Stephen M. Downes | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Biology; Biology of Human Behavior and Models and Images in Science (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1990 Virginia Tech (STS)
- Thesis: Prospects for a cognitive science of science
- Advisor: Steve Fuller
  • Melinda B. Fagan | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of science, focusing on experimental practice in biology (particularly stem cell and developmental biology), explanation, and conceptions of objectivity and evidence (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2007 Indiana University (HPS)
- Thesis: Objectivity in practice : integrative social epistemology of scientific inquiry
- Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
  • Matt Haber | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Science; philosophical and conceptual issues in systematics, particularly those stemming from a commitment to phylogenetic thinking (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2005 UC Davis (Philosophy, Population Biology Affiliate)
- Thesis: The centrality of phylogenetic thinking
- Advisor: James R. Griesemer
  • James Tabery | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of science and applied ethics, as well as the intersection between those domains; causation and explanation in biology and their ethical, legal, and social implications (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2007 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
- Advisors: Sandra Mitchell and Paul Griffiths

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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  • Daniel Hausman | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Rational choice theory, game theory, the concept of measurement and health
    • Ph.D. 1978 Columbia University
- Thesis: Economic models : a philosophical inquiry into capital theory
- Advisor: Sidney Morgenbesser[22]
  • Elliott Sober | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of evolutionary biology, confirmation, explanation, reductionism, modeling, probability and statistics, parsimony
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1974 Harvard University
- Thesis: Simplicity
- Advisor: Hilary Putnam
  • Russ Shafer-Landau | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Evolutionary debunking arguments targeting morality
    • Ph.D. 1992 University of Arizona
- Thesis: Moral indeterminacy
- Advisor: Joel Feinberg
  • Lawrence Shapiro | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind; issues concerning multiple realization and embodied cognition (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1992 University of Pennsylvania
- Thesis: Representational content in cognitive psychology
- Advisor: Gary Hatfield
  • Michael Titelbaum | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Bayesian epistemology
    • Ph.D. 2008 UC Berkeley
- Thesis: Quitting certainties: a doxastic modeling framework
- Advisor: Branden Fitelson

Washington University in St. Louis

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  • Carl F. Craver | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of neuroscience, theories of explanation, philosophy of psychology, cognitive neuropsychology
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 1998 University of Pittsburgh
- Advisor: Peter Machamer
- Thesis: Cartesian science sensation, experience and representation
  • Ron Mallon | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Race, social construction, moral psychology, experimental philosophy
    • Ph.D. 2000 Rutgers University
- Thesis: Making up your mind: the social construction of human kinds and its implications
- Advisor: Stephen Stich
  • Anya Plutynski | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, cancer biology, early 20th Century genetics, evolutionary theory, explanation, modeling.
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2002 University of Pennsylvania
- Thesis: Modeling Evolution
- Advisor: Gary Hatfield

M.A. Programs

California State University Long Beach

  • Alex Klein // website 1, PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Pragmatism (esp. William James), Philosophy of Biology, History and Philosophy of Psychology, Logical Positivism, History of Science
    • Ph.D. 2007 Indiana University HPS
  • Cory Wright // website PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Semantics (esp. Truth), History and Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Neuroscience
    • Ph.D. 2007 UC San Diego (Philosophy & Cognitive Science)
  • Wayne Wright // website 1
    • Specialties: Vision Science (esp. Color Perception), Modeling, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Science
    • Ph.D. 1999 Temple University

Concordia University, Montreal

Department Website

  • Matthew Barker | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of biology, value theory, philosophy of psychology, general philosophy of science, and 17th and 18th century philosophy
    • Ph.D. 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Thesis: The philosophy of species : conceptual, metaphysical, and ethical insights concerning biological species
- Advisor: Elliott Sober
  • David Morris | Website | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Phenomenology (esp. Merleau-Ponty) with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind and nature in relation to current biology and cognitive science (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1997 University of Toronto
- Thesis: The sense of space: an essay on spatial perception and embodiment in the spirit of Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of perception

Louisiana State University

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  • Charles H. Pence | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, foundations of evolutionary theory, chance and evolution, fitness, causation (via website)
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2014 University of Notre Dame
- Thesis: Chance in evolutionary theory: fitness, selection, and genetic drift in philosophical and historical perspective
- Advisor: Grant Ramsey

Oregon State University

Department Website

  • Jonathan Kaplan | Website | 2 | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy (via website)
    • Ph.D. 1996 Stanford University
- Thesis: Networks of support politics and genes in contemporary society
- Advisor: John Dupre

Tufts University

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  • Patrick Forber | Website | 2 | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Confirmation, explanation, and idealization in science, especially in evolutionary biology and ecology (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2006 Stanford University
- Thesis: The traces of change: evidence in evolutionary biology
- Advisor: Elliott Sober

University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Ethics & Applied Philosophy)

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  • Trevor Pearce | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, focusing on how research in experimental biology, ecology, and paleobiology, suitably understood, can help answer broader questions about the relative importance of different causal factors in evolutionary history (via website)
    • Ph.D. 2010 University of Chicago (Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)
- Thesis: "A perfect chaos": Organism-environment interaction and the causal factors of evolution
- Advisors: William Wimsatt and Robert J. Richards

University of Victoria

Department Website

  • Scott Woodcock | Website | CV |
    • Specialties: Explanations for altruism, levels of selection, and ethics and naturalism
    • , Ph.D. 2001 University of Toronto
- Thesis: The genealogy of moral memes: a new synthesis for evolutionary ethics
- Advisor: Paul Thompson

Virginia Tech

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  • Benjamin Jantzen | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Physics, General Philosophy of Science, Biophysics
    • Willing to work with new students? Yes
    • Ph.D. 2010 Carnegie Mellon University (Logic, Computation, and Methodology)
- Advisor: Mara Harrell
  • Richard M. Burian | Website | CV | PhilPapers
    • Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, History of Philosophy of Biology, History of Philosophy of Science, Science Studies
    • Willing to work with new students? Possibly; write to ask.
    • Ph.D. 1971 University of Pittsburgh
- Thesis: Scientific realism, commensurability, and conceptual change: a critique of Paul Feyerabend's philosophy of science
- Advisor: Wilfrid Sellars

Browse Programs by Category

Below are two ways to browse programs by category. The first sorts all programs by number of philosophy of biology faculty. The second sorts U.S. programs by state.

You can find a listing of Australasian and Canadian programs by specialty on this page. Once that list includes programs from other parts of the world, they will be incorporated. As always, prospective students should fact-check the faculty numbers listed because academics change jobs frequently. (Note: 'P' stands for Page.)

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