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== Ph.D. Programs (Canada) ==All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise specified. === University of Alberta ===[http://www.philosophy.ualberta.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-alberta.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] [[University of Alberta|| Additional Program Information]] * '''Ingo Brigandt''' | [http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/ Website] | [http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/Brigandt_CV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/637 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: [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]:: - Advisors: Anil Gupta and Paul Griffiths * '''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]** 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: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/individualism-psychological-explanation-and-mental-representation/oclc/63527249&referer=brief_results Individualism, psychological explanation, and mental representation]:: - Advisor: Sydney Shoemaker ---- === University of British Columbia ===[http://philosophy.ubc.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-britishColumbia.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] * '''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]** Specialties: Theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology (via website)** Ph.D. 1979 Indiana University (HPS):: - 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]:: - Advisor: Ronald Giere<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/John+Beatty philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref> * '''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]** Specialties: Overlap of biology and economics and the formation of bioeconomics (via website)** Ph.D. 1983 University of Toronoto:: - 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]:: - Advisor: Trevor Levere * '''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]** 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: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/615262216 Why be rational?: Prudence, rational belief, and evolution]:: - Advisor: Elliott Sober ---- === University of Calgary ===[http://phil.ucalgary.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-calgary.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] * '''Megan Delehanty''' | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/manageprofile/profiles/megan-delehanty Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10566 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''' | [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]** Specialties: Species; Natural Kinds; Scientific Classification; Biological Individuality; Homology; Historicity; Microbiology (via website)** Ph.D. 1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18680626 The ontological status of species : a study of individuality and its role in evolutionary theory]:: - Advisor: Elliott Sober * '''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]** Specialties: Causation, explanation, molecular biology, genetics, pluralism (via PhilPapers entries)** Ph.D. 1985 Indiana University (HPS):: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15234352 Models of natural selection: From Darwin Dawkins]:: - Advisor: Ronald Giere<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/C.+Kenneth+Waters philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref> ---- === University of Toronto ===[http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-toronto.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] * '''Ronald de Sousa''' (emeritus) | [http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/14678 PhilPapers] ** Ph.D. 1966 Princeton:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82745527 Categories, translation, and linguistic theory]:: - Advisor: Paul Benacerraf * '''Mohan Matthen''' | [http://individual.utoronto.ca/matthen/Site/Mohan_Matthen.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/1544 PhilPapers]** Specialties: Philosophy of mind, especially perception, philosophy of biology, natural selection (via PhilPapers profile)** Ph.D. 1976 Stanford University:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77726424 Essentialism and non-contradiction: a study in Aristotelian and contemporary metaphysics]:: - Advisor: Julius Moravcsik<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Mohan+Matthen philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref> * '''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]** 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: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/224916200 Genetic explanation schemes in biology] * '''Denis Walsh''' | [http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/directory/denis-walsh/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/denis%20walsh PhilPapers]** Specialties: Models, mechanisms, fitness, causation (via PhilPapers entries)** Ph.D. 1988 McGill University (Biology):: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/721247033 Systematics of the caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)] :: - Advisor: R. L. Carroll ---- === University of Waterloo ===[https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-waterloo.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] * '''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]** 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: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42826486 A natural history of the evolution of sexual reproduction: the virtues of explanatory pluralism]:: - Advisor: Robert Brandon * '''Katie Plaisance''' | [https://uwaterloo.ca/knowledge-integration/faculty-plaisance Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/19100 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''' | [https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/people-profiles/paul-thagard Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/paul%20thagard 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: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6698407 Explanation and scientific inference] ---- === University of Western Ontario ===[http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-westernOntario.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] * '''Gillian Barker''' | [http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/people/barker.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/4278 PhilPapers]** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science** Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/863710015 Abstraction, analogy and induction: toward a general account of ampliative inference]:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher * '''Eric Desjardins''' | [http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/people/desjardins.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/eric%20Desjardins PhilPapers]** Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics (via website)** Ph.D. 2009 University of British Columbia:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680290971 Historicity in biology]:: - Advisor: John Beatty<ref>Source: [philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/John+Beatty].</ref> * '''Devin Henry''' | [http://works.bepress.com/devinhenry/ Website] | [http://works.bepress.com/devinhenry/22/ CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/11238 PhilPapers]** Specialties: Ancient Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science (esp. Philosophy of Biology) (via website)** Ph.D. 2004 King’s College, University of London:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500186370 How to build an animal: the metaphysics of Aristotle's ontogeny]:: - Advisors: Richard Sorabji and M. M. McCabeHello!
== Ph.D. Programs (Europe) ==