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* <strong>== Ingo Brigandt</strong> // [http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/ website], [http://www.ualberta.ca/~brigandt/Brigandt_CV.pdf CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/637 PhilPapers]==** SpecialtiesAs a Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology, I am happy to work with new MA and PhD students. My recent and former graduate student include Esther Rosario (philosophy of biology, feminist philosophy, metaphysics), Taylor Murphy (homology of cognitive processes), and Sara Weaver (essentialism in philosophy of biology and feminist philosophy). Though focused on the philosophy of biology, my research has highlighted connections to general philosophy of science notions (e.g., explanation, reduction, conceptual change, and natural kinds). A theme running through my work has been to emphasize the role of standards, aims, and values for scientific practice, including its diversity and change. I am an Associate Editor of the ''Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution'' and an Executive Editor of the ''Canadian Journal of Philosophy''. ==== Chief Areas of Interest within Philosophy of Biology ==== * Evolutionary developmental biology(homology, novelty, evolvability, interdisciplinarity and explanatory integration)* Molecular and developmental biology (gene concept, explanations of development)* Systems biology (impact of mathematical modelling for philosophical views of mechanistic explanation)* Science and values (including epistemic and social values) ==== Journal Articles ==== * 2013, “Systems biology and the integration of mechanistic explanation and mathematical explanation.” ''Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences'' 44: 477–492.* 2013, “Explanation in biology: reduction, pluralism, and explanatory aims.” ''Science & Education'' 22: 69–91.* 2012, “Conceptualizing evolutionary novelty: moving beyond definitional debates” (with Alan C. Love). ''Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution'' 318: 417–427.* 2010, “Beyond reduction and pluralism: toward an epistemology of explanatory integration in biology.” ''Erkenntnis'' 73: 295–311.* 2010, “The epistemic goal of a concept: accounting for the rationality of semantic change and variation.” ''Synthese'' 177: 19–40.* 2009, “Natural kinds in evolution and systematics: metaphysical and epistemological considerations.” ''Acta Biotheoretica'' 57: 77–97.* 2007, “Typology now: homology and developmental constraints explain evolvability.” ''Biology and Philosophy'' 22: 709–725.* 2003, “Species pluralism does not imply species eliminativism.” ''Philosophy of Science'' 70: 1305–1316. * 2003, “Homology in comparative, molecular , and evolutionary developmental biology: the radiation of a concept.” ''Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution'' 299B: 9–17. ==== Other Papers and Articles ==== * in press, systems “Evolutionary developmental biologyand the limits of philosophical accounts of mechanistic explanation.” In: ''Explanation in Biology: An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences''. P.-A. Braillard and C. Malaterre (eds), Springer.* 2015, “From developmental constraint to evolvability: how concepts figure in explanation and disciplinary identity.” In: ''Conceptual Change in Biology: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development''. A. C. Love (ed), Springer, pp. 305–325.* 2013, “Intelligent design and the nature of science : philosophical and valuespedagogical points.” In: ''The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators''. K. Kampourakis (ed), Springer, pp. 205–238.*2012, “Reductionism in biology” (with Alan C. Love). ''The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'' (Summer 2012 edition). [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology]* Willing 2012, “The dynamics of scientific concepts: the relevance of epistemic aims and values.” In: ''Scientific Concepts and Investigative Practice''. U. Feest and F. Steinle (eds), de Gruyter, pp. 75–103.* 2011, “Philosophy of biology.” In: ''The Bloomsbury Companion to work with new students? Yesthe Philosophy of Science''. S. French and J. Saatsi (eds), Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 246–267. ==== Special Issues Edited ==== * <strong>2013, ''Integration in Biology: Philosophical Perspectives on the Dynamics of Interdisciplinarity''. Special section of ''Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences'' (Volume 44, Issue 4, Part A, pp. 461–571). Edited by Ingo Brigandt.* 2012, ''Perspectives on Evolutionary Novelty and Evo-Devo''. Special issue of the ''Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution'' (Volume 318, Issue 6). Edited by Ingo Brigandt.* 2007, ''The Importance of Homology for Biology and Philosophy''. Special issue of ''Biology and Philosophy'' (Volume 22, Number 5). Edited by Ingo Brigandt and Paul E. Griffiths. == Robert A. Wilson</strong> // [http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/raw/ website], [http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/raw/cvmar13.pdf CV], [http://philpapers.org/profile/1320 PhilPapers]==** SpecialtiesAlthough my principal focus as a doctoral student and junior faculty member was in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science, I taught my first class in the philosophy of biology while at Queen’s University in the mid-1990s and have kept up both research and teaching interests there since that time. I welcome students in the philosophy of biology, especially those who are prepared to travel into the cognitive or social sciences from there. Most of my recent activity has been connected with the [http: //eugenicsarchive.ca Living Archives on Eugenicsin Western Canada] project (2010-2015), disabilitywhich I direct. Recent and current students in the area include Matthew Barker (species), Nicolas Bullot (agents and reproductive technologytracking), species and natural kindsEmma Chien (philosophical issues in autism). ==== Chief areas of interest within philosophy of biology ==== * essentialism in biology, the nature of species, levels of natural selection, group-level cognition , organisms* explanation, pluralism, natural kinds, realism* eugenics / newgenics, bioenhancement, sorts of people, disability ==== Books ==== * ''Genes and collective intentionalitythe Agents of Life: The Individual in the Fragile Sciences: Biology'' (2005). Cambridge University Press. 312 pp. Hard & paperback, 2005. * ''Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays'' (1999). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Editor. x + 325 pp., 12 original, commissioned essays. Hard & paperback, 1999. ==== Journal Articles ==== * 2010, “Cohesion, Gene Flow, and the nature Nature of biological individuals Species” (with Matther J. Barker) ''Journal of Philosophy'', CVII (2), pp.59-77.* 2005, “Collective Memory, Group Minds, & the Extended Mind Thesis”, special issue ''Cognitive Processing'', 6 (December 2005): 227-236.* 2004, "Test Cases, Resolvability, and organismsGroup Selection: A Critical Examination of the Myxoma Case", kinship''Philosophy of Science'' 71 (July 2004): 380-401. * 2003, intersections between biology“Pluralism, mindEntwinement, and socialitythe Levels of Selection”, ''Philosophy of Science'' 70 (July 2003), pp.531-552. *2001, “Group-Level Cognition”, ''Philosophy of Science;; 68 (2001 supp.), S262-S273.* Willing to work 2000, “Some Problems for ‘Alternative Individualism’”, ''Philosophy of Science'' 67 (December 2000), pp.671-679.* 1996, "Promiscuous Realism", ''British Journal for the Philosophy of Science'' 47 (June 1996), pp.303-316.  ==== Other Papers and Articles ==== * in press, "Eugenics and Disability" (with new studentsJoshua St. Pierre), in Patrick Devlieger, Frank Rusch, Steven Brown & Megan Strickfaden (eds.) ''Rethinking Disability''. Garant Publishing). Completed October 2014.* 2015, “The Role of Oral History in Surviving a Eugenic Past”, in Steven High (ed.), ''Beyond Testimony and Trauma: Oral History in the Aftermath of Mass Violence''. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press, pp.119-138.* 2014, "Eugenics: positive vs negative, entry for Encyc at eugenicsarchive.ca.* 2014, "Psychology", entry for Encyc at eugenicsarchive.ca.* 2014, “Sorts of People”, entry for Encyc at eugenicsarchive.ca.* 2014, “Science, role of”, entry for Encyc at eugenicsarchive.ca.* 2014, “Family Studies”, entry for Encyc at eugenicsarchive.ca.* 2014, “Sociobiology", entry for Encyc at eugenicsarchive.ca.* 2014, “Eugenic Traits”, entry for Encyc at eugenicsarchive.ca.* 2014, "Eugenics", central node for Connections at eugenicsarchive.ca.* 2013, “Group Mind” (with Georg Theiner), Byron Kaldis (ed.). ''Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences''. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage, pp.401-404.* 2012, “The Biological Notion of Individual” (with Matthew J. Barker), [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/biology-individual/ ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.]* 2008, “A Conceptual and Empirical Framework for the Social Distribution of Cognition: The Case of Memory”, ''Cognitive Systems Research'', 9 (1-2) March 2008, pp.33-51. Co-authors: Amanda Barnier, John Sutton, and Celia Harris, Macquarie University.* 2007, “When Traditional Essentialism Fails: Biological Natural Kinds” (with Matthew J. Barker and Ingo Brigandt), ''Philosophical Topics'' 35 (1 and 2): 189-215.* 2007, “Social Reality and Institutional Facts: Sociality Within and Without Intentionality”, in Savas L. Tsohatzidis (editor), ''Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts: Essays on John Searle’s Social Ontology'' (Dordrecht: Springer), 139-153.* 2007, “Levels of Selection”, in M. Matthen and C. Stevens (editors), ''Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Volume 3, Philosophy of Biology'', Elsevier, pp.155-176.* 2004, “Recent Work in Individualism in the Social, Behavioural and Biological Sciences”, ''Biology and Philosophy'', 19 (June 2004), pp.397-423.* 1999, "The Individual in Biology and Psychology", in V.G. Hardcastle (ed.), ''Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.357-74.* 1999, "Realism, Essence, and Kind: Resuscitating Species Essentialism? Yes", in R.A. Wilson (ed.), ''Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp.187-207.