Philosophy of Biology Graduate Programs</div>
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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 material is available under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]. Contact Shawn Miller ([mailto:shamiller@ucdavis.edu shamiller@ucdavis.edu]) with questions, comments, additions, subtractions, and the like.
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# 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.
=== Macquarie University ===
[http://phil.mq.edu.au Department Website]
* '''Adam Hochman''' | [http://adamhochman.com Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/adam-hochman PhilPapers]
** Specialties: philosophy of biology, philosophy of psychology (from psychoanalysis to evolutionary psychology), philosophy of language, and the history and philosophy of race (via website)
** Ph.D. 2014 University of Sydney
* '''Karola Stotz''' | [https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/karola-stotz Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/74332 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Evolutionary, developmental and molecular biology, psychobiology and cognition (via website)
** Ph.D. 1999 University of Ghent
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=== Massey University ===
[http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/departments/school-of-humanities/study/philosophy.cfm Department Website]
* '''John Matthewson''' | [http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=156830 Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/john-matthewson PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Applied ethics (via website)
** Ph.D. 2012 Australian National University
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=== University of Auckland ===
[https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/study-options/find-a-study-option/philosophy.html Department Website]
* '''Emily C. Parke''' | [http://www.emilycparke.com Website] | [https://philpapers.org/s/Emily%20C.%20Parke PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Scientific inquiry and methodology, philosophy of biology (especially microbiology, astrobiology, evolutionary and conservation biology), philosophy of science (especially experiments and models), bioethics and environmental ethics (via website)
** Ph.D. 2015 University of Pennsylvania
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=== University of New South Wales ===
[https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/disciplines/philosophy/research/ Department Website]
* '''Michaelis Michael''' | [https://hal.arts.unsw.edu.au/about-us/people/michaelis-michael/ Website]
** Specialties: History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science), Epistemology, Metaphysics, History and Philosophy of Specific Fields, History of Philosophy, Philosophy, Logic (via website)
** Ph.D. Princeton
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=== University of Otago (New Zealand) ===
[http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/ Department Website]
** 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
* '''Peter Godfrey-Smith''' (in [https://sydney.edu.au/science/schools/school-of-history-and-philosophy-of-science.html School of History and Philosophy of Science]) | [http://petergodfreysmith.com Website] | [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
* '''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]
** Ph.D. 1989 Australian National University
* '''Peter Godfrey-Smith''' (in [https://sydney.edu.au/science/schools/school-of-history-and-philosophy-of-science.html School of History and Philosophy of Science]) | [http://petergodfreysmith.com Website] | [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
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=== Waikato University (New Zealand) ===
[http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/study/subjects/philosophy Department Website]
== Ph.D. Programs (Canada) ==
All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified.
=== Dalhousie University ===
[https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/philosophy.html Department Website]
*'''Andrew Fenton''' | [https://sites.google.com/site/atfenton/ Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/andrew-fenton PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Animal Ethics, Naturalized epistemology, Neuroethics, Philosophy of animal behaviour and cognition (via website)
** Ph.D. 2007 University of Calgary
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=== University of Alberta ===
** Ph.D. 1985 Indiana University (HPS)
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=== Dalhousie University ===
[https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/philosophy.html Department Website]
*'''Andrew Fenton''' | [https://sites.google.com/site/atfenton/ Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/andrew-fenton PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Animal Ethics, Naturalized epistemology, Neuroethics, Philosophy of animal behaviour and cognition (via website)
** Ph.D. 2007 University of Calgary
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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.
** Ph.D. 2007 Duke University
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=== Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) ===
=== University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology) ===
[http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/ Department Website]
* '''Adrian Currie''' | [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/currie/ Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/adrian-currie PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science; Philosophy of Biology; Philosophy of Historical Science; Social Epistemology; History & Philosophy of Science; Creativity (via website)
** Ph.D. 2014 Australian National University
* '''John Dupre''' | [http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/dupre/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/44628 PhilPapers]
** Ph.D. 2000 McMaster University
* '''Beckett Sterner''' | [https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/2768867 Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/beckett-sterner PhilPapers]
** Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, especially mathematics in biology; information, individuality, species, modeling (via website)
** Ph.D. 2012 University of Chicago (CHSS)
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=== Boston College ===
[https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/philosophy.html Department Website]
* '''Daniel McKaughan''' | [https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/philosophy/people/faculty-directory/daniel-mckaughan.html Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/daniel-j-mckaughan PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of science, Philosophy of biology, Epistemology, Philosophy of religion (via website)
** Ph.D. 2007 University of Notre Dame
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** Ph.D. 1983 La Trobe University
* '''Dan McShea''' | [https://philosophy.duke.edu/people/daniel-w-mcshea Website] | [httphttps://philpapersphilpeople.org/sprofiles/dan%20mcshea -mcshea 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)
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=== Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Scienceand Medicine) ===
[http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/ Department Website]
[http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/page/home Department Website]
* '''Laura Franklin-Hall''' | [http://laurafranklin-hall.com/ Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/laura-franklin-hall PhilPapers]
** Specialties: philosophy of biology, the general philosophy of science, and metaphysics (via website)
** Ph.D. 2008 Columbia University
** 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
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=== Temple University ===
[https://www.cla.temple.edu/philosophy/ Department Website]
* '''Lindsay Craig''' | [https://liberalarts.temple.edu/academics/faculty/craig-lindsay Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/lindsay-craig PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of evolutionary biology and philosophy of science (via website)
** Ph.D. University of Cincinnati
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** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science (via website)
** Ph.D. 2002 University of North Carolina
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=== Tulane University ===
[https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/philosophy Department Website]
* '''Dan Burnston''' | [http://danburnston.tulane.edu Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/57599 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of science and mind, especially how to functionally decompose complex cognitive and biological systems
** Ph.D. 2015 UC San Diego (Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
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[http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu Department Website]
* '''James R. Griesemer''' | [http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/jrgriese Website] | [httphttps://philpapersphilpeople.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& profiles/james-griesemer PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Evolutionary biology, genetics, developmental biology, ecology and systematics
** Ph.D. 1983 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of Science)
** Specialties: Decision theory and game theory
** Ph.D. 1977 UCLA
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=== University of Oregon ===
[https://philosophy.uoregon.edu Department Website]
* '''Nicolae Morar''' | [https://philosophy.uoregon.edu/profile/nmorar/ Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/nicolae-morar PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Biology, 20th Continental Philosophy
** Ph.D. 2005 Purdue University
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** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy (via website)
** Ph.D. 1996 Stanford University
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=== Texas Tech University ===
[http://www.depts.ttu.edu/philosophy/ Department Website]
* '''Joel Velasco''' | [http://joelvelasco.net Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/joel-d-velasco PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Formal Epistemology
** Ph.D. 2008 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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=== University of Victoria ===
[http://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/ Department Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-woodcock PhilPapers]
* '''Scott Woodcock''' | [http://www.uvic.ca/humanities/philosophy/people/facultymembers/profiles/woodcock.php Website] | [https://philpeople.org/profiles/scott-woodcock PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Explanations for altruism, levels of selection, and ethics and naturalism
** Ph.D. 2001 University of Toronto