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/* Ph.D. Programs (United Kingdom) */
:[[Birkbeck, University of London|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''Robert Northcott''', [http://www.worldcat.org/title/approximate-truth-and-causal-strength-in-science/oclc/500198463&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 2004 ] London School of Economics (advisors: Colin Howson and Nancy Cartwright)
** Website [http://www.bbk.ac.uk/philosophy/our-staff/academics/dr-robert-northcott 1], [http://robertnorthcott.weebly.com/ 2], [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)
:[[University of Bristol|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''Samir Okasha''', [http://www.worldcat.org/title/epistemology-and-the-underdetermination-of-theory-by-evidence/oclc/43122626&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 1998 ] University of Oxford (advisor: Bill Newton-Smith)
** [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
:[[University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science)|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''Tim Lewens''', [http://www.worldcat.org/title/organisms-and-artefacts-design-in-nature-and-elsewhere/oclc/894596628&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 2001 ] University of Cambridge (HPS)
** [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
: [[University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology)|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''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)
* '''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)
* '''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)
: [[King's College London|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''Matteo Mameli''', [http://www.worldcat.org/title/darwinism-and-non-genetic-inheritance/oclc/731202081&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 2002 ] University of London (advisor: David Papineau)<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Matteo+Mameli philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>.
** [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)
* '''Nick Nicholas Shea''', [http://www.worldcat.org/title/empirical-lessons-for-philosophical-theories-of-mental-content/oclc/500173001&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 2003] King's College London (advisor: David Papineau)<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Nicholas+Shea philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>.
** [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)
:[[Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion)|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''Brian Garvey''', [http://www.worldcat.org/title/freuds-psychoanalysis-of-religion/oclc/842500920&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 2000] Trinity College Dublin
** [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)
:[[University of Leeds|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''Gregory Radick''', [http://www.worldcat.org/title/animal-language-in-the-victorian-evolutionary-debates/oclc/499316554&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 2000 ] University of Cambridge (HPS)
** Website [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/20048/441/gregory_radick 1], [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~phlgmr/ 2], [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)
* '''Jonathan Birch''', Ph.D. 2013 University of Cambridge
** [http://http://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/people/birch.aspx 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
:[[University College London (Science and Technology Studies)|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''Phyllis Illari''', Ph.D. 2005 King's College London (adviser: David Papineau)<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Phyllis+McKay+Illari philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
** [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)
: [[University of Oxford|| Additional Program Information]] <nowiki>[</nowiki>no<nowiki>]</nowiki>
* '''Ellen Clarke''', (currently a postdoc; moving to Leeds as a Lecturer in September 2016) [http://www.worldcat.org/title/biological-individuality-and-the-levels-of-selection/oclc/757129789&referer=brief_results Ph.D. 2010 ] University of Bristol ** Website [http://www.all-souls.ox.ac.uk/people.php?personid=2114 1], [httpshttp://sites.googleellenclarke.com/site/ellenlclarkenet/ 2], [httpshttp://sitesellenclarke.google.comnet/sitedownload/ellenlclarke/cv 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