The philosophy Ph.D. program offers a Designated Emphasis in [http://sts.ucdavis.edu/ Science & Technology Studies], where the faculty include historian of science [http://innovation.ucdavis.edu/people/biagioli Mario Biagioli] and cultural anthropologist [http://dumit.net/ Joseph Dumit], author of [http://dumit.net/drugs-for-life/ <em>Drugs for Life (2012 Duke University Press)</em>]. Both Prof. Millstein and Prof. Griesemer are affiliated faculty with the STS program. And, as it happens, Prof. Griesemer's 1989 “[http://sss.sagepub.com/content/19/3/387.short boundary objects]” paper with Leigh Star is the most cited paper in <em>Social Studies of Science</em>, a leading STS journal. As of November 2014, the paper has been cited 5,142 times overall.
=== Recent Publications ===
* Millstein, Roberta L. (forthcoming), “[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10244/ How the Concept of 'Population' Resolves Concepts of 'Environment,']” Philosophy of Science.
* Millstein, Roberta L. (forthcoming), “[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10901/ Probability in Biology: The Case of Fitness]” in A. Hájek and C. R. Hitchcock (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (commissioned)
* Millstein, Roberta L. (2013), “[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9611/ Natural Selection and Causal Productivity]” in H. Chao, S. Chen, and R. L. Millstein (eds.), Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics, Springer, 147-163.
* Chao, Hsiang-Ke, Chen, Szu-Ting, and Millstein, Roberta L. (2013), “[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-007-2454-9_1 Towards the Methodological Turn in the Philosophy of Science]” in H. Chao, S. Chen, and R. L. Millstein (eds.), Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics, Springer, 1-16.
* Millstein, Roberta L. (2013), “[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9547/ Environmental Ethics” in K. Kampourakis (ed.), [http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-007-6537-5/page/1 The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators] in the series History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences 1, Springer, 723-743. (commissioned)
* Millstein, Roberta L. (2013), “[http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9226/ Exploring the Status of Population Genetics: The Role of Ecology],” Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution and Cognition (special thematic issue on “The Meaning of ‘Theory’ in Biology”) 7: 346-357.
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