University of Cincinnati

Philosophy and the Life Sciences at Cincinnati

The PhD track in Philosophy and the Life Sciences approaches its subject matter by putting the science in the driver’s seat. Students on this track are not only expected to cultivate a broad philosophical background, but also a competence in the science in which they intend to specialize (some pursue and MS). Students can also expect considerable attention to be paid to professional development of research and teaching.

Faculty

• Tony Chemero // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: neuroscience, ecological psychology, artificial life, dynamical systems and complex systems, cognitive science
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• Valerie Hardcastle // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: neurobiology, neuropsychiatry and the law, embodied cognition
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• Koffi N. Maglo // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: philosophy of biomedicine, genomics and race, race-based medicine, bioethics
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• Thomas W. Polger // website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: consciousness as a property of biological entities, role of evolutionary theory in thinking about minds, multiple realization, explanation
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• Angela Potochnik // website 1, 2, 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
• Robert C. Richardson // website, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: evolutionary theory, developmental biology, cognitive science, theory change
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• Robert A. Skipper, Jr. // website 1, 2, PhilPapers
  • Specialties: history of evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genetics, obesity science, controversies, explanation, socially engaged philosophy of science
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes

Affiliate Life Sciences Faculty

• Arnie Miller // website
  • Specialties: paleobiology, paleoecology
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• Ken Petren // website
  • Specialties: speciation, population divergence, dispersal, species interactions in natural populations, comparative landscape genetics
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• Mike Riley // website
  • Specialties: ecological psychology, complexity science
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes
• George "Spiderman" Uetz // website
  • Specialties: animal behavior and ecology
  • Willing to work with new students? Yes

Current Philosophy and the Life Sciences Graduate Students

• Vanessa Bentley // website
• Francis Cartier // website
• Maurice Lamb // website
• Eric Rogers // website
• Richard Stephenson

Recent Philosophy and the Life Sciences Graduates

• Nina Atanasova (VAP at University of Toledo) // website
• Lindsay Craig (VAP at Temple University) // website
• Clement Loo (Environmental Studies at University of Minnesota Morris) // website
• Viorel Paslaru (Associate Professor at University of Dayton) // website