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== 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 ---- === 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 ---- === 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] ----- === 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]Hello!
== Ph.D. Programs (United States) ==
