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/* University of Maryland, College Park */ added advisors for Darden and Lyon
** Ph.D. 1974 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of Science)
*** Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/218365756 Reasoning and scientific change: the field of genetics at its beginnings]
*** Advisor: Dudley Shapere
** Website [http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/darden 1], [http://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/LDarden/ 2], [http://faculty.philosophy.umd.edu/LDarden/vitaDardenSept13forweb.pdf CV], [http://philpapers.org/s/lindley%20darden PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Reasoning in scientific change; development of scientific knowledge as progressing through iterative cycles of construction, evaluation, and revision of hypotheses; conceptual aspects of discovery of biological mechanisms from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, such as evolutionary and genetic mechanisms (via websites)
** Ph.D. 2009 Australian National University
*** Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/845636104 Three concepts of probability]
*** Advisor: Al Hayek
** Website [http://www.philosophy.umd.edu/people/lyon 1], [http://aidanlyon.com/ 2], [http://aidanlyon.com/cv CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/3862 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability, Formal Epistemology and Philosophy of Mathematics; also interested in topics in Philosophy of Physics and Biology; the notion of objective probability in various scientific theories, with a focus on Classical Statistical Mechanics and Evolutionary Theory (via website)