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== StandardsHow to Contribute == <strong>This is a wiki, Practicesso anyone can contribute</strong>. If programs or faculty have been overlooked—which is assuredly the case—you are encouraged to add them, Guidelineseven if you are not a member of that department. Also, information will date rapidly—especially, e.g., links to pdf CVs since their filenames often contain the (approximate) dates of creation, which change—so by all means help keep things up to date. Wiki [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting formatting/markup] is very straightforward. Just click 'Edit' at the top of the page—or next to the entry you want to modify—and How mimic the format of existing entries. Not all entries list the specialties of faculty members or whether faculty members are willing to Contribute work with new students. If that information is known, please add it, since that is very helpful to prospective students. <strong>Separate Program Pages can be created</strong> to provide additional information to prospective students. So, if you are a faculty member or a student in a department—or are just a fan—you are heartily encouraged to create a separate page where prospective students can learn more about the program. While the style and format of this main page should be kept consistent, individual Program Pages can take any form whatsoever. See the 3-step directions for creating Program Pages [[Creating Program Pages|here]]. Questions, comments, ideas? Let [http://shamiller.net me] know at [mailto:shamiller@ucdavis.edu shamiller@ucdavis.edu]. == Standards, Practices, and Guidelines ==
# The criteria for program inclusion is just that a philosophy (or a history and philosophy of science) Ph.D. program have at least one full-time faculty member who self-identifies as a philosopher of biology.<ref>For the most part, free-standing Science & Technology Studies (or Science Studies) departments aren't listed. The rationale for this is that since this wiki's intended audience is prospective philosophy/HPS Ph.D. students, the assumption is that they aren't targeting STS programs. Of course, there are borderline departments that aren't strictly philosophy or history and philosophy of science, e.g., the University of Exeter's Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy; the University of Chicago's Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science; and Arizona State University's Center for Biology and Society, all of which are listed.</ref> Programs do not have to be in English-speaking departments. A separate list of M.A. programs can be found at the bottom of this page.
# 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. For the most part, this wiki simply reflects the self-reports of online faculty listings, which is a way to avoid having to make judgment calls about who counts as a philosopher of biology in borderline cases. The rule of thumb is: someone counts if they say they count. That said, erring on the side of being inclusive is generally a good policy since prospective students can peruse bios, CVs, and publication lists to help determine whether they think a borderline faculty member would be potentially helpful to their phil bio research interests.<ref>Also, as long as a department has one full-time, self-described philosopher of biology, the graduate program is listed, which makes the determination of whether other faculty count as philosophers of biology less crucial.</ref>
# 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, though philosophers of biology with those interests are listed.
== Ph.D. Programs ==
