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=== University of Alberta ===
[http://www.philosophy.ualberta.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-alberta.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] [[University of Alberta|| Additional Program Information]]
* '''Ingo Brigandt''' | [http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/ Website] | [http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/Brigandt_CV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/637 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Evolutionary developmental biology, molecular biology, systems biology, science and values
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
** Ph.D. 2006 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
:: - Thesis: [http:/* CHECK THIS ENTRY */www.worldcat.org/title/a-theory-of-conceptual-advance-explaining-conceptual-change-in-evolutionary-molecular-and-evolutionary-developmental-biology/oclc/539498238&referer=brief_results A Theory of Conceptual Advance: Explaining Conceptual Change in Evolutionary, Molecular, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology]:: - Advisors: Anil Gupta and Paul Griffiths
* '''Robert A. Wilson''' | [http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/raw/ Website] | [http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/raw/cvmar13.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/1320 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Eugenics, disability, and reproductive technology, species and natural kinds, levels of selection, group-level cognition and collective intentionality, the nature of biological individuals and organisms, kinship, intersections between biology, mind, and sociality.
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
** Ph.D. 1992 Cornell University (with Cognitive Studies minor)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/individualism-psychological-explanation-and-mental-representation/oclc/63527249&referer=brief_results Individualism, psychological explanation, and mental representation]
:: - Advisor: Sydney Shoemaker
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=== University of British Columbia ===
[http://philosophy.ubc.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-britishColumbia.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''John Beatty''' | [http://philosophy.ubc.ca/persons/john-beatty/ Website] | [http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/jbeatty/Final%20Files/JBeattyCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10554 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology (via website)
** Ph.D. 1979 Indiana University (HPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/traditional-and-semantic-accounts-of-evolutionary-theory/oclc/5140384&referer=brief_results Traditional and semantic accounts of evolutionary theory]
:: - Advisor: Ronald Giere<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/John+Beatty philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
* '''Margaret Schabas''' | [http://philosophy.ubc.ca/persons/margaret-schabas/ Website] | [http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/mschabas/CVschabas.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/margaret%20schabas PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Overlap of biology and economics and the formation of bioeconomics (via website)
** Ph.D. 1983 University of Toronoto
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/title/william-stanley-jevons-and-the-emergence-of-mathematical-economics-in-britain/oclc/16029612&referer=brief_results William Stanley Jevons and the emergence of mathematical economics in Britain]
:: - Advisor: Trevor Levere
* '''Christopher Stephens''' | [http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/cstephens/Chris_Stephens_Website/Home_Page.html Website], [http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/cstephens/Chris_Stephens_Website/CV.html CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/36197 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, causation, the nature of evidence in evolutionary biology, reciprocal altruism, phylogenetic inference, and on models of the evolution of rationality (via website)
** Ph.D. 2000 University of Wisconsin-Madison
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/615262216 Why be rational?: Prudence, rational belief, and evolution]
:: - Advisor: Elliott Sober
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=== University of Calgary ===
[http://phil.ucalgary.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-calgary.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Megan Delehanty''' | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/manageprofile/profiles/megan-delehanty Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10566 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Models, explanation, causation (via PhilPapers entries)
** Ph.D. 2005 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
:: - Thesis: Empiricism and the Epistemic Status of Imaging Technologies
:: - Advisor: Sandra Mitchell
* '''Marc Ereshefsky''' | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/philosophy/people/ereshefs.html Website] | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/profiles/215-28363/marc-ereshefsky-cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10567 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Species; Natural Kinds; Scientific Classification; Biological Individuality; Homology; Historicity; Microbiology (via website)
** Ph.D. 1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18680626 The ontological status of species : a study of individuality and its role in evolutionary theory]
:: - Advisor: Elliott Sober
* '''C. Kenneth Waters''' | [http://phil.ucalgary.ca/profiles/c-kenneth-waters Website] | [https://apps.cla.umn.edu/directory/items/cv/295233.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/c.%20kenneth%20waters PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Causation, explanation, molecular biology, genetics, pluralism (via PhilPapers entries)
** Ph.D. 1985 Indiana University (HPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/15234352 Models of natural selection: From Darwin Dawkins]
:: - Advisor: Ronald Giere<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/C.+Kenneth+Waters philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
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=== University of Toronto ===
[http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-toronto.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Ronald de Sousa''' (emeritus) | [http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/14678 PhilPapers]
** Ph.D. 1966 Princeton
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82745527 Categories, translation, and linguistic theory]
:: - Advisor: Paul Benacerraf
* '''Mohan Matthen''' | [http://individual.utoronto.ca/matthen/Site/Mohan_Matthen.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/1544 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of mind, especially perception, philosophy of biology, natural selection (via PhilPapers profile)
** Ph.D. 1976 Stanford University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77726424 Essentialism and non-contradiction: a study in Aristotelian and contemporary metaphysics]
:: - Advisor: Julius Moravcsik<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Mohan+Matthen philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
* '''Paul Thompson''' | [http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/directory/paul-thompson/ Website] | [http://individual.utoronto.ca/paul_thompson/Paul_Thompson/Curriculum_Vitae.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/R%20PAUL%20THOMPSON PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Evolutionary theory, population genetics, mathematical modelling in biology, theory structure in biology, philosophy of medicine, and ethics (via website)
** Ph.D. 1979 University of Toronto
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/224916200 Genetic explanation schemes in biology]
* '''Denis Walsh''' | [http://www.philosophy.utoronto.ca/directory/denis-walsh/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/denis%20walsh PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Models, mechanisms, fitness, causation (via PhilPapers entries)
** Ph.D. 1988 McGill University (Biology)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/721247033 Systematics of the caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)]
:: - Advisor: R. L. Carroll
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** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Feminist Science Studies, Philosophy of Science, evolution (via website)
** Ph.D. 1999 Duke University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42826486 A natural history of the evolution of sexual reproduction: the virtues of explanatory pluralism]
:: - Advisor: Robert Brandon
* '''Katie Plaisance''' | [https://uwaterloo.ca/knowledge-integration/faculty-plaisance Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/19100 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Philosophical issues in the human behavioral sciences, public understanding of science, interactional expertise, and Socially Relevant Philosophy Of Science
** Ph.D. 2006 University of Minnesota
:: - Thesis: Behavioral Genetics and the Environment: The Generation and Exportation of Scientific Claims
:: - Advisor: C. Kenneth Waters
* '''Paul Thagard''' | [https://uwaterloo.ca/philosophy/people-profiles/paul-thagard Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/paul%20thagard PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of science and medicine, cognitive science, philosophy of mind. Specific topics include analogy, coherence, decision making, conceptual change, explanatory reasoning, theoretical neuroscience, discovery and innovation, emotions and consciousness, moral psychology, and theories and explanations in biomedicine (via website)
** Ph.D. 1977 University of Toronto
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6698407 Explanation and scientific inference]
 
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=== University of Western Ontario ===
[http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-westernOntario.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Gillian Barker''' | [http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/people/barker.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/4278 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science
** Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/863710015 Abstraction, analogy and induction: toward a general account of ampliative inference]
:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher
* '''Eric Desjardins''' | [http://www.uwo.ca/philosophy/people/desjardins.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/eric%20Desjardins PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Environmental Philosophy and Bioethics (via website)
** Ph.D. 2009 University of British Columbia
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/680290971 Historicity in biology]
:: - Advisor: John Beatty<ref>Source: [philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/John+Beatty].</ref>
* '''Devin Henry''' | [http://works.bepress.com/devinhenry/ Website] | [http://works.bepress.com/devinhenry/22/ CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/11238 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Ancient Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science (esp. Philosophy of Biology) (via website)
** Ph.D. 2004 King’s College, University of London
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/500186370 How to build an animal: the metaphysics of Aristotle's ontogeny]
:: - Advisors: Richard Sorabji and M. M. McCabe
== Ph.D. Programs (Europe) ==
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, the conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, the study of human and non-human animal behavior, the moral emotions, and the automated text mining of scientific literature.
** Ph.D. 2007 Duke University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/297444850 Culture From Infrahumans to Humans: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology]
:: - Advisors: Robert Brandon and Alex Rosenberg
== Ph.D. Programs (United Kingdom) ==
** 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
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** 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
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** 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]
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** 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)]
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** 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
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** 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]
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** 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]
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** 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>
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** 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]
== Ph.D. Programs (United States) ==
** Specialties: Theoretical biology and the history of biology using both empirical and conceptual approaches; role of gene regulatory networks in development and evolution; Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems, focusing on complexity as a unifying principle in the social and life sciences, including applications in biomedicine and the study of innovations (via website)
** Ph.D. 1997 Yale University (Biology)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78053615 Identifying units of selection: conceptual and methodological issues]
:: - Advisor: Gunter P. Wagner
* '''Jane Maienschein''' | [https://sols.asu.edu/people/jane-maienschein Website] | [https://cbs.asu.edu/sites/default/files/Maienschein%20cv%20%20%20January%202014.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/jane%20maienschein PhilPapers]
** Specialties: History and philosophy of biology and the way biology, bioethics and bio-policy play out in society; embryology, genetics, and cell biology; epistemological standards, theories, and laboratory practices; studies of people and institutions, as well as the changing social, political, and legal context in which science thrive (via website)
** Ph.D. 1978 Indiana University (HPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4921254 Ross Harrison's crucial experiment as a foundation for modern American experimental embryology]
:: - Advisor: Frederick B. Churchill
* '''Jason Scott Robert''' | [https://sols.asu.edu/people/jason-robert Website] | [https://sols.asu.edu/sites/default/files/people/cv/RobertCV_Current2014.pdf CV]
** Specialties: Political and societal problems that intersect with life sciences; produces educational materials and tools for “talking productively” (via website)
** Ph.D. 2000 McMaster University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49765471 Taking development seriously: toward a genuinely synthetic biology]
:: - Advisor: B.G. Allen
* '''Beckett Sterner''' (Starts fall semester 2016) | [http://umich.academia.edu/BeckettSterner Website] | [http://umich.academia.edu/BeckettSterner/CurriculumVitae CV]
** Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, especially mathematics in biology; information, individuality, species, modeling (via website)
** Ph.D. 2012 University of Chicago (CHSS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865498707 The practice of theorizing in computational biology: Function, information, and mechanism]
:: - Advisor: William Wimsatt
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** J.D. 2002 New York University
** Ph.D. 2009 Duke University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/648230611 Reading the Book of Life: Contingency and Convergence in Macroevolution]
:: - Advisor: Alexander Rosenberg
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** Specialties: Game theory, agent based modeling, philosophy of science
** Ph.D. 2007 UC Irvine (LPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/240504162 Network epistemology]
:: - Advisor: Brian Skyrms
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=== City University of New York Graduate Center ===
[http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Philosophy/Philosophy Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-CUNY.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Peter Godfrey-Smith''' | [http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Philosophy/Faculty-Bios/Peter-Godfrey-Smith Website] | [http://petergodfreysmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/PGS_CV_2014.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Peter%20Godfrey-Smith PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology and the philosophy of mind; pragmatism (especially John Dewey), general philosophy of science, and some parts of metaphysics and epistemology (via website)
** Ph.D. 1991 UC San Diego
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221899991 Teleonomy and the philosophy of mind]
:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher
* '''Massimo Pigliucci''' | [https://sites.google.com/site/platofootnote/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/18951 PhilPapers]
** Ph.D. University of Connecticut (Biology)
** Ph.D. 2003 University of Tennessee (Philosophy)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53457751 Dangerous habits: examining the philosophical baggage of biological research]
:: - Advisor: Jonathan Kaplan, Philosophy
* '''Thomas Teufel''' | [http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/Philosophy/Faculty-Bios/Thomas-Teufel Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/30896 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Kant, 18th Century philosophy, philosophy of art (via website)
** Ph.D. 2006 Harvard University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/153213668 Purpose and purposiveness in Kant's Critque of the power of judgement]
:: - Advisor: Richard Moran
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** Specialties: Conceptual and methodological issues in biology; questions about the relations of biological research to society and politics; role of scientific inquiry in democratic societies; pragmatism (especially William James and John Dewey) (via website)
** Ph.D. 1974 Princeton University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/760069314 Mathematics and certainty]:: - Advisor: Paul Benacerraf<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Philip+Kitcher https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Philip+Kitcher]</ref>
[http://philosophy.columbia.edu/directories/faculty/philip-kitcher Website] | [http://www.columbia.edu/~psk16/vita2003.htm CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/philip%20kitcher PhilPapers]
=== Duke University ===
[http://philosophy.duke.edu Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-duke.pdf | Entry in APA Guide][[Duke University| | Additional Program Information]]
* '''Robert N. Brandon''' | [http://philosophy.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=1533&subpage=profile Website] | [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Philosophy/faculty/rbrandon/cv.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/robert%20brandon PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, logic (via website)
** Ph.D. 1979 Harvard University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/220071622 Philosophical investigations in evolutionary biology]
:: - Advisor: Hilary Putnam<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Robert+Brandon https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Robert+Brandon].</ref>
* '''Alexander Rosenberg''' | [http://philosophy.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=1531&subpage=profile Website] | [http://people.duke.edu/~alexrose/cv.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/alexander%20rosenberg PhilPapers]
** Specialties: problems in metaphysics, mainly surrounding causality, the philosophy of social sciences, especially economics, and most of all, the philosophy of biology, in particular the relationship between molecular, functional and evolutionary biology (via website)
** Ph.D. 1971 Johns Hopkins University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30732754 Microeconomic general statements: a philosophical analysis]
:: - Advisor: Peter Achinstein<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Alexander+Rosenberg https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Alexander+Rosenberg].</ref>
* '''Karen Neander''' | [https://philosophy.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=5234&subpage=profile Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/9934 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Cognitive Science (via website)
** Ph.D. 1983 La Trobe University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/222518628 Abnormal psychobiology: a thesis on the 'anti-psychiatry debate' and the relationship between psychology and biology]
:: - Advisor: Kim Sterelny<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Karen+Neander https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Karen+Neander].</ref>
* '''Dan McShea''' | [http://philosophy.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=684&subpage=profile Website] | [http://sites.duke.edu/mcshearesearch/ 2] | [http://philpapers.org/s/dan%20mcshea PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Paleobiology, with a focus on large-scale trends in the history of life, especially documenting and investigating the causes of the (putative) trend in the complexity of organisms; operationalizing concepts, such as complexity and hierarchy, as well as clarifying conceptual issues related to trends at larger scales (via website)
** Ph.D. 1990 University of Chicago (Committee on Evolutionary Biology)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24126659 Complexity and evolution]
:: - Advisor: David Raup
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=== Florida State University ===
[http://philosophy.fsu.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-floridaState.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''James Justus''' | [http://philosophy.fsu.edu/content/view/full/35712 Website] | [http://philosophy.fsu.edu/People/Faculty/Faculty-Publications/Justus-CV CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/9961 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Science (esp. biology), Carnap, Epistemology (esp. formal and naturalized), Environmental Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy (via website)
** Ph.D. 2007 University of Texas at Austin
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/197113090 The stability-diversity-complexity debate of theoretical community ecology : a philosophical analysis]
:: - Advisor: Sahotra Sarkar
* '''Michael Ruse''' | [http://philosophy.fsu.edu/content/view/full/35805 Website] | [http://philosophy.fsu.edu/content/download/82668/878838/RuseCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/9969 PhilPapers]
=== Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science) ===
[http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-indianaHPS.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Sander Gliboff''' | [http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/people/gliboff.shtml Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/sander%20gliboff PhilPapers]
** Specialties: History of biology, especially evolution and genetics, and the science in modern Germany and Austria (via website)
** Ph.D. 2001 Johns Hopkins University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48035425 The pebble and the planet: Paul Kammerer, Ernst Haeckel, and the meaning of Darwinism]
:: - Advisor: Sharon Kingsland
* '''Elisabeth Lloyd''' | [http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/people/lloyd.shtml Website] | [http://mypage.iu.edu/~ealloyd/AdditionalInfo.htm CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10047 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, the role of models in science, and gender issues in science (via website)
** Ph.D. 1984 Princeton University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78517697 A semantic approach to the structure of evolutionary theory]
:: - Advisor: Bas van Fraassen
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** Specialties: Philosophy of Science (particularly philosophy of biology and medicine); Ethics (particularly ethics in health care and the life sciences)
** Ph.D. 1984 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14183668 Explanation and causation in genetics]
:: - Advisor: Kenneth F. Schaffner
* '''Robert T. Pennock''' | [https://www.msu.edu/~pennock5/ Website] | [https://www.msu.edu/~pennock5/research/vita.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/robert%20pennock PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Evolution and computing (via publication list)
** Ph.D. 1991 University of Pittsburgh (HPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26759678 Causally licensed inference and the confirmation relation]
:: - Advisor: Wesley Salmon
* '''Sean Valles''' | [https://www.msu.edu/~valles/Sean_A._Valles/Home.html Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/40902 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of population health, from the use of evidence in medical genetics to the roles played by race concepts in epidemiology (via website)
** Ph.D. 2010 Indiana University (HPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727807780 Explaining the evolution of common genetic disease]
:: - Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
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=== New York University ===
[http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/page/home Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-NYU.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Laura Franklin-Hall''' | [http://laurafranklin-hall.com/ Website] | [ PhilPapers]
** Specialties: philosophy of biology, the general philosophy of science, and metaphysics (via website)
** Ph.D. 2008 Columbia University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/507370728 From a Microbiological Point of View]:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher
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=== Stanford University ===
[http://philosophy.stanford.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-stanford.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Helen Longino''' | [https://philosophy.stanford.edu/people/helen-longino Website] | [http://philosophy.stanford.edu/download/21366/HL_current_CV.doc CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10427 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: The underdetermination problem in the context of a probabilistic epistemology/metaphysics; analyzing the differences between weak and strong social epistemology; understanding ecological explanation (via website)
** Ph.D. 1973 Johns Hopkins University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30727659 Inference and discovery]
:: - Advisor: Peter Achinstein<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Peter+Achinstein philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
* '''Brian Skyrms''' (1/3 time appointment; at Stanford every Spring) | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/skyrms/ Website] | [http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bskyrms/cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Brian%20Skyrms PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Evolution of conventions and the social contract; inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and Truth (via website)
** Ph.D. 1964 University of Pittsburgh
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80101455 The concept of physical necessity]
:: - Advisor: Nicholas Rescher
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=== Texas A&M University ===
[http://philosophy.tamu.edu/html/home.html Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-texasAM.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Roger Sansom''' | [http://philosophy.tamu.edu/html/bio-Sansom.html Website] | [http://philosophy.tamu.edu/documents/vitas/RSansomCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/roger%20sansom PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science (via website)
** Ph.D. 2002 University of North Carolina
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50639808 Development as an adaptation: a philosophical contribution to the developmental synthesis]
:: - Advisor: William G. Lycan
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=== University of California, Davis ===
[http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-ucDavis.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] [[University of California, Davis | Additional Program Information]]
* '''James R. Griesemer''' | [http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/jrgriese Website] | [http://jrgriesemerucdavis.wordpress.com 2] | [http://jrgriesemerucdavis.wordpress.com/resume/ CV] | [http://philpapers.org/asearch.pl?categorizerOn=&sqc=&publishedOnly=&strict=1&freeOnly=&newWindow=on&sort=relevance&filterByAreas=&proOnly=on&langFilter=&searchStr=Griesemer%2C%20James%20R%2E&onlineOnly=&author=Griesemer%2C%20James%20R%2E&showCategories=on&hideAbstracts=&search_header=search_header%2Ehtml&filterMode=keywords& PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Evolutionary biology, genetics, developmental biology, ecology and systematics
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
** Ph.D. 1983 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of Science)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17097476 Communication and scientific change: an analysis of conceptual maps in the macroevolution controversy]
:: - Advisor: William Wimsatt
* '''Roberta L. Millstein''' | [http://philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/rlmillst Website] | [http://home.comcast.net/~rmillstein1/cv.html CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/634 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: History and philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology, causation, chance, environmental ethics
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
** Ph.D. 1997 University of Minnesotta, Twin Cities
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43387485 The chances of evolution: an analysis of the roles of chance in microevolution and macroevolution]
:: - Advisors: John Beatty and C. Kenneth Waters
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=== University of California, Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science) ===
[http://www.lps.uci.edu/ Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-ucIrvine.pdf | Entry in APA Guide]
* '''Simon Huttegger''' | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/shuttegg/ Website] | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/shuttegg/files/2011/03/VitaSimon.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/simon%20huttegger PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Game and Decision Theory, Probability, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Measurement Theory (via CV)
** Ph.D. 2006 Universität Salzburg
:: - Advisor: Reinhard Kleinknecht<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/Simon+Huttegger philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com].</ref>
* '''Cailin O'Connor''' | [http://uci.academia.edu/CailinOConnor Website] | [http://uci.academia.edu/CailinOConnor/CurriculumVitae CV] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/34003 PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Game Theory, Philosophy, Evolutionary Biology, Game Theory, Epistemology, Animal Behaviour, Social behavior in animals, Natural (Naturalised) Philosophy, Culture Evolution--Retardant/Accelerant of Genetic Evolution, Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics, Philosophy of perception, Animal Cognition, Visual Neuroscience, Kinds of Inheritance System: Genes, Cultures, Learning, Ambiguity, Vagueness, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Naturalized ethics, Bargaining, Experimental Economics, Cultural Evolution, Decision And Game Theory, Evolution of cooperation (Evolutionary Biology), and Social Epistemology (via academia.edu)
** Ph.D. 2013 UC Irvine (LPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/874039831 Categories, generalization, and vagueness]
:: - Advisors: P. Kyle Stanford, and Brian Skyrms
* '''P. Kyle Stanford''' | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/pkylestanford/ Website] | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/pkylestanford/curiculum-vitae/ CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/p%20kyle%20stanford PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Centrally concerned with what we know and how we know it; philosophy of biology, the history of modern philosophy (especially the writings of Locke and Hume), and the philosophy of language (via website)
** Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego (Philosophy/Science Studies)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/864451358 A pragmatic theory of causation]
:: - Advisor: Philip Kitcher
* '''Brian Skyrms''' | [http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/skyrms/ Website] | [http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~bskyrms/cv.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Brian%20Skyrms PhilPapers]
** Specialties: Evolution of conventions and the social contract; inductive logic, decision theory, rational deliberation, the metaphysics of logical atomism, causality, and Truth (via website)
** Ph.D. 1964 University of Pittsburgh
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80101455 The concept of physical necessity]
:: - Advisor: Nicholas Rescher
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** Specialties: Philosophy of the life sciences, including systems biology, cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience, cognitive science, and mechanisms; chronobiology, which over the past twenty years which has revealed critical components and organization of the intercellular oscillators responsible for circadian behavior in mammals, insects, and plants, as well as their entrainment and sychronization, as a model science; interest is coupled with an interest in how neural systems generally "compute" via dynamic synchronization of endogenously active (oscillating) local populations of neurons (via website)
** Ph.D. 1977 University of Chicago
** Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28792083 Intentionality and Quine's epistemological enterprise]
:: - Advisors: Manley Thompson and Daniel Garber
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** Willing to work with new students? Yes
** Ph.D. 2003 Indiana University (HPS)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761238009 Formal biology and compositonal biology as two kinds of biological theorizing]
:: - Advisor: Elisabeth Lloyd
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** Specialties: Understanding the biogenesis of apical-basal polarity in epithelial cells (via website)
** Ph.D. 1979 Rockefeller University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38091697 Studies in chloroplast protein synthesis in vivo and in vitro]
* '''David Jablonski''' (has been on CHSS dissertation committees) | [http://geosci.uchicago.edu/directory/david-jablonski Website] | [http://geosci.uchicago.edu/sites/geosci.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/documents/Jablonski-cv-2012.pdf CV]
** Specialties: Combining of data from living and fossil organisms to study the origins and the fates of lineages and adaptations (via website)
** Ph.D. 1979 Yale University
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13573505 Paleoecology, paleobiogeography and evolutionary patterns of late Cretaceous Gulf and Atlantic coastal plain mollusks]
* '''Robert J. Richards''' | [http://home.uchicago.edu/~rjr6/ Website] | [http://philpapers.org/profile/10691 PhilPapers]
** Ph.D. St. Louis University
** Ph.D. 1978 University of Chicago
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/21332838 The evolution of behavior: theories of instinct in the nineteenth century with an essay on animal instinct and intelligence before Darwin]
* '''William C. Wimsatt''' | | [http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/wimsatt.html Website] | [http://philosophy.uchicago.edu/faculty/files/wimsatt/WimsattCV.pdf CV] | [http://philpapers.org/s/william%20c%20wimsatt PhilPapers]
** Specialties: history and philosophy of biology, cultural evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, complex systems
** Ph.D. 1971 University of Pittsburgh
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24197083 Modern science and the new teleology: The conceptual foundations of functional analysis.]
:: - Advisor: Joseph Lee Camp, Jr.<ref>Source: [https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/William+C.+Wimsatt https://philosophyfamilytree.wikispaces.com/William+C.+Wimsatt].</ref>
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=== University of Cincinnati ===
[http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy.html Department Website] [http://philbio.net/docs/apa-cincinnati.pdf | Entry in APA Guide] [[University of Cincinnati| | Additional Program Information]]
* '''Tony Chemero''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=chemeray&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Anthony%20Chemero PhilPapers]
** Specialties: neuroscience, ecological psychology, artificial life, dynamical systems and complex systems, cognitive science
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
** Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45429978 How to be an anti-representationalist]
:: - Advisor: Brian Cantwell Smith
* '''Valerie Hardcastle''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=hardcave&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://philpapers.org/asearch.pl?strict=1&searchStr=Hardcastle,%20Valerie%20Gray&filterMode=authors PhilPapers]
** Specialties: neurobiology, neuropsychiatry and the law, embodied cognition
** Willing to work with new students? Yes
** Ph.D. 1994 UC San Diego (Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
:: - Thesis: [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30826544 Explaining consciousness]
:: - Advisor: Gerald Doppelt
* '''Koffi N. Maglo''' | [http://www.artsci.uc.edu/departments/philosophy/fac_staff.html?eid=maglokn&thecomp=uceprof Website] | [http://philpapers.org/s/Koffi%20N.%20Maglo PhilPapers]