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/* University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology) */ reformatted
[http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/ Department Website]
* '''John Dupre''', [http://www.worldcat.org/title/reductionism-natural-kinds-and-the-disunity-of-science/oclc/556464037&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 1981] University of Cambridge ** | [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://www.worldcat.org/title/weed-for-thought-using-arabidopsis-thaliana-to-understand-plant-biology/oclc/150203551&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 2007] Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (advisors: Henk de Regt and Hans Radder)** | [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://www.worldcat.org/title/botanik-und-weltweiter-handel-zur-begrundung-eines-naturlichen-systems-der-pflanzen-durch-carl-von-linne-1707-78/oclc/722535526&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 1997] University of Bielefeld ** | [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)]
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