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Philosophy of Biology Graduate Programs

This site provides an unranked list of Ph.D. and terminal M.A. programs that have strengths in philosophy of biology. 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.

Contact Shawn Miller (shamiller@ucdavis.edu) with questions, comments, additions, subtractions, and the like.

Standards, Practices, and Guidelines

The criterion for program inclusion is that a philosophy (or HPS) program have at least one full-time faculty member who self-identifies as a philosopher of biology.
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.
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.
Affiliated, part-time, and emeritus faculty who work closely with graduate students should be labeled as such inside parentheses next to their names.
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.

Ph.D. Programs (Australasia)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.

Standards, Practices, and Guidelines

Ph.D. Programs (Australasia)

Australian National University

La Trobe University

Macquarie University

University of Auckland

University of New South Wales

University of Otago

University of Sydney

Waikato University

Ph.D. Programs (Canada)

Dalhousie University

University of Alberta

University of British Columbia

University of Calgary

University of Toronto

University of Waterloo

University of Western Ontario

Ph.D. Programs (Europe)

KU Leuven

Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)

Ph.D. Programs (United Kingdom)

Birkbeck, University of London

University of Bristol

University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science)

University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology)

King's College London

Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion)

University of Leeds

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

University College London (Science and Technology Studies)

Ph.D. Programs (United States)

Arizona State University (Center for Biology and Society)

Boston University

Carnegie Mellon University

City University of New York Graduate Center

Columbia University

Duke University

Florida State University

Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science)

Michigan State University

New York University

Stanford University

Texas A&M University

University of Albany

University of California, Davis

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

University of California, San Diego

University of California, Santa Cruz

University of Chicago (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science)

University of Cincinnati

University of Kansas

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

University of Missouri

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh (History and Philosophy of Science)

University of Rochester

University of South Florida

University of Texas at Austin

University of Utah

University of Virginia

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Washington University in St. Louis

M.A. Programs

Concordia University, Montreal

Oregon State University

Texas Tech University

Tufts University

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

University of Victoria

Virginia Tech

Philosophy of Biology Graduate Programs