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Compiled June 2015 by Shawn A. Miller @ shamiller.net CONTENTS

Recent Changes as of June 2015

Grant Ramsey (Ph.D. 2007 Duke University) has gone from Notre Dame to KU • Leuven.

Jacob Stegenga (Ph.D. 2011 UC San Diego) has gone from Washington University • in St. Louis to the University of Victoria.

Beckett Sterner (Ph.D. 2012 University of Chicago, CHSS) will start at Arizona State • University’s Center for Biology and Society in fall 2016.

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1 Ph.D. Programs (Australasia) 3 1.1 Australian National University ...... 3 1.2 Macquarie University ...... 3 1.3 University of Otago (New Zealand) ...... 3 1.4 University of Sydney ...... 3 1.5 Waikato University (New Zealand) ...... 4

2 Ph.D. Programs (Canada) 5 2.1 University of Alberta ...... 5 2.2 University of British Columbia ...... 5 2.3 University of Calgary ...... 6 2.4 University of Toronto ...... 6 2.5 University of Waterloo ...... 7 2.6 University of Western Ontario ...... 7

3 Ph.D. Programs (Europe) 8 3.1 KU Leuven ...... 8

4 Ph.D. Programs (United Kingdom) 9 4.1 Birkbeck, University of London ...... 9 4.2 University of Bristol ...... 9 4.3 University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science) ...... 9 4.4 University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology) ...... 9 4.5 King’s College London ...... 10 4.6 Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion) ...... 10 4.7 University of Leeds ...... 11 4.8 London School of Economics (Philosophy, Logic and Scientiﬁc Method) ... 11 4.9 University College London (Science and Technology Studies) ...... 11 4.10 University of Oxford ...... 11

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5 Ph.D. Programs (United States) 12 5.1 Arizona State University (Center for Biology and Society) ...... 12 5.2 Boston University ...... 12 5.3 Carnegie Mellon University ...... 13 5.4 City University of New York Graduate Center ...... 13 5.5 Columbia University ...... 14 5.6 Duke University ...... 14 5.7 Florida State University ...... 15 5.8 Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science) ...... 15 5.9 Michigan State University ...... 15 5.10 Stanford University ...... 16 5.11 Texas A&M University ...... 16 5.12 University of California, Davis ...... 16 5.13 University of California, Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science) ...... 17 5.14 University of California, San Diego ...... 18 5.15 University of California, Santa Cruz ...... 18 5.16 University of Chicago (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science) ..... 18 5.17 University of Cincinnati ...... 19 5.18 University of Kansas ...... 20 5.19 University of Maryland, College Park ...... 20 5.20 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities ...... 21 5.21 University of Missouri ...... 21 5.22 University of Pennsylvania ...... 22 5.23 University of Pittsburgh (History and Philosophy of Science) ...... 22 5.24 University of Texas at Austin ...... 23 5.25 University of Utah ...... 23 5.26 University of Wisconsin-Madison ...... 24 5.27 Washington University in St. Louis ...... 25

6 M.A. Programs 25 6.1 Concordia University, Montreal ...... 25 6.2 Louisiana State University ...... 26 6.3 Oregon State University ...... 26 6.4 Tufts University ...... 26 6.5 University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Ethics & Applied Philosophy) .. 26 6.6 University of Victoria ...... 27 6.7 Virginia Tech ...... 27

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1 Ph.D. Programs (Australasia)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise speciﬁed.

1.1 Australian National University Department Website | Kim Sterelny • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Evolution, Philosophy of Psychology and Phi- losophy of Mind, Palaeoecology (via website)

1.2 Macquarie University Department Website | Rachael Brown, Ph.D. 2013 Australian National University • – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: The evolution of cognition and behaviour; the relationship between evolutionary developmental biology and the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis; model- based reasoning in biology and philosophy; and methodological issues in the study of animal behaviour and cognition (via website) Karola Stotz, Ph.D. 1999 University of Ghent • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Evolutionary, developmental and molecular biology, psychobiology and cognition (via website)

1.3 University of Otago (New Zealand) Department Website | James Maclaurin, Ph.D. Australian National University • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, including innateness, ﬁtness, theoretical morphology, biological diversity and universal darwinism (via website)

1.4 University of Sydney Department Website | David Braddon-Mitchell • – Website, PhilPapers

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– Specialties: Philosophy of Mind and metaphysics, and cross borders into philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, ethics and political philosophy from time to time (via website) Paul Griths, Ph.D. 1989 Australian National University • – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: Causal foundations of biological information; evolutionary medicine; innateness and human nature; concept of the gene; developmental systems theory (via website)

1.5 Waikato University (New Zealand) Department Website | Justine Kingsbury, Ph.D. 1999 Rutgers University • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of mind; philosophy of biology; critical thinking; aesthetics (especially philosophy of music) (via website)

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2 Ph.D. Programs (Canada)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise speciﬁed.

2.1 University of Alberta Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 203 | Ingo Brigandt, Ph.D. 2006 University of Pittsburgh (HPS) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Evolutionary developmental biology, molecular biology, systems biology, science and values – Willing to work with new students? Yes Robert A. Wilson, Ph.D. 1992 Cornell University (with Cognitive Studies minor) • – Website, CV, 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

2.2 University of British Columbia Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 218 | John Beatty, Ph.D. 1979 Indiana University (HPS) • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Theoretical foundations, methodology, and socio-political dimensions of genetics and evolutionary biology (via website)

Margaret Schabas, Ph.D. 1983 University of Toronoto • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Overlap of biology and economics and the formation of bioeconomics (via website)

Christopher Stephens, Ph.D. 2000 University of Wisconsin-Madison • – Website 1, 2, CV, 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)

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2.3 University of Calgary Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 221 | Megan Delehanty, Ph.D. 2005 University of Pittsburgh (HPS) • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Models, explanation, causation (via PhilPapers entries)

Marc Ereshefsky, Ph.D. 1988 University of Wisconsin-Madison • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Species; Natural Kinds; Scientiﬁc Classiﬁcation; Biological Individu- ality; Homology; Historicity; Microbiology (via website)

C. Kenneth Waters, Ph.D. 1985 Indiana University (HPS) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Causation, explanation, molecular biology, genetics, pluralism (via PhilPapers entries)

2.4 University of Toronto Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 362 | Ronald de Sousa (emeritus) • – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers

Mohan Matthen, Ph.D. Stanford University • – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of mind, especially perception, philosophy of biology, natural selection (via PhilPapers proﬁle)

Paul Thompson, Ph.D. 1979 University of Toronto • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Evolutionary theory, population genetics, mathematical modelling in biology, theory structure in biology, philosophy of medicine, and ethics (via website) Denis Walsh • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Models, mechanisms, ﬁtness, causation (via PhilPapers entries)

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2.5 University of Waterloo Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 375 | Carla Fehr, Ph.D. 1999 Duke University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Sci- ence, Feminist Science Studies, Philosophy of Science, evolution (via website)

Katie Plaisance, Ph.D. 2006 University of Minnesota • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Philosophical issues in the human behavioral sciences, public understanding of science, interactional expertise, and Socially Rel- evant Philosophy Of Science

Paul Thagard, Ph.D. University of Toronto • – Website 1, 2, 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)

2.6 University of Western Ontario Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 378 | Gillian Barker, Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science

Eric Desjardins, Ph.D. 2009 University of British Columbia • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Environmental Philoso- phy and Bioethics (via website)

Devin Henry, Ph.D. 2004 King’s College, University of London • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Ancient Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science (esp. Philosophy of Biology) (via website)

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3 Ph.D. Programs (Europe)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise speciﬁed.

3.1 KU Leuven Department Website | Grant Ramsey, Ph.D. 2007 Duke University • – Website 1, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, ﬁtness (via website)

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4 Ph.D. Programs (United Kingdom)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise speciﬁed.

4.1 Birkbeck, University of London Department Website | Robert Northcott, Ph.D. 2004 London School of Economics • – Website 1, 2, CV, 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)

4.2 University of Bristol Department Website | Samir Okasha, Ph.D. 1998 University of Oxford • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialities: evolutionary theory, levels of selection, population genetics, social evolution, rational choice – Willing to work with new students? Yes

4.3 University of Cambridge (History and Philosophy of Science) Department Website | Tim Lewens, Ph.D. 2001 University of Cambridge (HPS) • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, philosophical bioethics

4.4 University of Exeter (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology) Department Website | John Dupre, Ph.D. 1981 University of Cambridge • – Website, CV, 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)

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Sabina Leonelli, Ph.D. 2007 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • – Website, 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 Epis- temic Status of Model Organism Research; History, Philosophy and Sociology of Plant Biology; The Role of Embodied Knowledge and Skills in Scientific Under- standing; 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 Econ- omy of Scientific Research (via website)

Sta↵an Muller-Wille, Ph.D. 1997 University of Bielefeld • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: History and philosophy of systematics; history of heredity; history of race and kinship (via website)

4.5 King’s College London Department Website | Matteo Mameli, Ph.D. 2002 University of London • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Intersection of philosophy, the sciences of human behavior (biology, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, etc.), and moral and political theory (via website)

Nick Shea, Ph.D. King’s College London • – Website, 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)

4.6 Lancaster University (Politics, Philosophy and Religion) Department Website | Brian Garvey, Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, psy- choanalysis, Ryle, Austin, Dennett (via website)

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4.7 University of Leeds Department Website | Gregory Radick, Ph.D. 2000 University of Cambridge (HPS) • – Website 1, 2, 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)

4.8 London School of Economics (Philosophy, Logic and Scientiﬁc Method) Department Website | Jonathan Birch, Ph.D. 2013 University of Cambridge • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialities: Natural selection, evolution of social behaviour, evolutionary transitions, human evolution. – Willing to work with new students? Yes

4.9 University College London (Science and Technology Studies) Department Website | Phyllis Illari, Ph.D. 2005 King’s College London • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Metaphysics, Epistemology and Methodology of Causality in the Sci- ences; wider research interests in Philosophy of Science, particularly Philosophy of Biology and Psychology, the still-expanding Mechanisms debate, and the Phi- losophy of Information (via website)

4.10 University of Oxford Department Website | Ellen Clarke, Ph.D. 2010 University of Bristol • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Biological Individuality, Evolutionary Transitions, evolution of cooperation, natural selection, Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science

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5 Ph.D. Programs (United States)

All programs reside in philosophy departments, unless otherwise speciﬁed.

5.1 Arizona State University (Center for Biology and Society) Department Website | No Entry in APA Guide Available | Manfred Laubichler, Ph.D. 1997 Yale University (Biology) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – 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 uni- fying principle in the social and life sciences, including applications in biomedicine and the study of innovations (via website)

Jane Maienschein, Ph.D. 1978 Indiana University (HPS) • – Website, CV, 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)

Jason Scott Robert, Ph.D. 2000 McMaster University • – Website, CV – Specialties: Political and societal problems that intersect with life sciences; pro- duces educational materials and tools for “talking productively” (via website)

Beckett Sterner, Ph.D. 2012 University of Chicago (CHSS) • – Website, CV – Starts fall semester 2016 – Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, especially mathematics in biology; information, individuality, species, modeling (via website)

5.2 Boston University Department Website | No Entry in APA Guide Available | Tian Yu Cao, Ph.D. University of Cambridge • – Website, PhilPapers

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– Specialties: Philosophy and History of Science (physics, biology and cognitive sciences), Epistemology, Metaphysics, Social and Political Philosophy, with special interests in philosophical issues related to (classical and global) modernity and postmodernity (via website)

Russell Powell, Ph.D. 2009 Duke University, J.D. 2002 New York University • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Conceptual and methodological problems in evolutionary theory; epistemological and metaphysical dimensions of debates in contemporary bioethics, especially in relation to emerging biotechnologies (via website)

5.3 Carnegie Mellon University Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 32 | Kevin J.S. Zollman, Ph.D. 2007 UC Irvine (LPS) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Game theory, agent based modeling, philosophy of science

5.4 City University of New York Graduate Center Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 38 | Peter Godfrey-Smith, Ph.D. 1991 UC San Diego • – Website 1, 2, CV, 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)

Massimo Pigliucci, Doctorate University of Ferrara (Genetics), Ph.D. University of • Connecticut (Biology), Ph.D. University of Tennessee (Philosophy) – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, in particular the structure and foundations of evolutionary theory, the relationship between science and philosophy, and the nature of pseudoscience (via website)

Thomas Teufel, Ph.D. 2006 Harvard University • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, Kant, 18th Century philosophy, philosophy of art (via website)

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5.5 Columbia University Department Website | No Entry in APA Guide Available | Philip Kitcher1, Ph.D. 1974 Princeton University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – 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)

5.6 Duke University Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 56 | Robert N. Brandon, Ph.D. 1979 Harvard University • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, logic (via website)

Alexander Rosenberg, Ph.D. 1971 Johns Hopkins University • – website 1, 2, CV, 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)

Karen Neander, Ph.D. 1983 La Trobe University • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Biology, Cognitive Science (via website)

Dan McShea, Ph.D. 1990 University of Chicago • – Website 1, 2, 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)

1Though he does not list philosophy of biology as a current AOS, Kitcher writes on his faculty proﬁle page—accessed 2014-11-18—that he is willing to work with philosophy of biology graduate students.

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5.7 Florida State University Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 68 | James Justus, Ph.D. 2007 University of Texas at Austin • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Science (esp. biology), Carnap, Epistemology (esp. formal and naturalized), Environmental Philosophy, History of Analytic Philosophy (via website)

Michael Ruse, Ph.D. 1970 Bristol University • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Biology (especially Darwinism), Ethics, the History and Philosophy of Science (via website)

5.8 Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science) Department Website | No Entry in APA Guide Available | Colin Allen, Ph.D. 1989 UCLA • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology and cognitive science, with particular interests in animal behavior and cognition (via website)

Sander Glibo↵, Ph.D. 2001 Johns Hopkins University • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: History of biology, especially evolution and genetics, and the science in modern Germany and Austria (via website)

Elisabeth Lloyd, Ph.D. 1984 Princeton University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, the role of models in science, and gender issues in science (via website)

5.9 Michigan State University Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 122 | Fred Gi↵ord, Ph.D. 1984 University of Pittsburgh (HPS) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers

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– Specialties: Philosophy of Science (particularly philosophy of biology and medicine); Ethics (particularly ethics in health care and the life sciences)

Robert T. Pennock, Ph.D. 1991 University of Pittsburgh (HPS) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Evolution and computing (via publication list)

Sean Valles, Ph.D. 2010 Indiana University (HPS) • – Website, 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)

5.10 Stanford University Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 176 | Helen Longino, Ph.D. 1973 Johns Hopkins University • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: The underdetermination problem in the context of a probabilistic epistemology/metaphysics; analyzing the di↵erences between weak and strong social epistemology; understanding ecological explanation (via website)

Brian Skyrms, Ph.D. 1964 University of Pittsburgh (1/3 time appointment; at Stan- • ford every Spring) – Website, CV, 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)

5.11 Texas A&M University Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 191 | Roger Sansom, Ph.D. 2002 University of North Carolina • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, philosophy of science (via website)

5.12 University of California, Davis Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 227 |

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James R. Griesemer, Ph.D. 1983 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of • Science) – Website 1, 2, 3, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Evolutionary biology, genetics, developmental biology, ecology and systematics – Willing to work with new students? Yes Roberta L. Millstein, Ph.D. 1997 University of Minnesotta, Twin Cities • – Website 1, 2, 3, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: History and philosophy of evolutionary biology and ecology, causation, chance, environmental ethics – Willing to work with new students? Yes

5.13 University of California, Irvine (Logic and Philosophy of Science) Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 230 | Simon Huttegger, Ph.D. 2006 Universitt Salzburg • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Game and Decision Theory, Probability, Philosophy of Science, Phi- losophy of Biology, Measurement Theory (via CV)

Cailin O’Connor, Ph.D. 2013 UC Irvine (LPS) • – Website, CV, 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 (Evo- lutionary Biology), and Social Epistemology (via academia.edu)

P. Kyle Stanford, Ph.D. 1997 UC San Diego (Philosophy/Science Studies) • – Website, CV, 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)

Brian Skyrms, Ph.D. 1964 University of Pittsburgh (1/3 time appointment; at Stan- • ford every Spring)

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– Website, CV, 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)

5.14 University of California, San Diego Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 239 | William Bechtel, Ph.D. 1977 University of Chicago • – Website, PhilPapers – 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 com- ponents and organization of the intercellular oscillators responsible for circadian behavior in mammals, insects, and plants, as well as their entrainment and sy- chronization, 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)

5.15 University of California, Santa Cruz Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 245 | Rasmus Grnfeldt Winther, Ph.D. 2003 Indiana University (HPS) • – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology (Genetics, Evolutionary Theory) (via website) – Willing to work with new students? Yes

5.16 University of Chicago (Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science) Department Website | No Entry in APA Guide Available | Robert J. Richards, Ph.D. St. Louis University, Ph.D. University of Chicago • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: history and philosophy of psychology and biology. This includes particular interest in evolutionary theory, biopsychology, ethology, and sociobiology (via website)

William C. Wimsatt, Ph.D. 1971 University of Chicago (emeritus) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers

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– Specialties: history and philosophy of biology, cultural evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, complex systems

Karl Matlin, Ph.D. 1979 Rockefeller University (department of surgery) • – Website – Specialties: Understanding the biogenesis of apical-basal polarity in epithelial cells (via website)

David Jablonski, Ph.D. 1979 Yale University (has been on CHSS dissertation com- • mittees) – Website, CV – Specialties: Combining of data from living and fossil organisms to study the origins and the fates of lineages and adaptations (via website)

5.17 University of Cincinnati Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 248 | Tony Chemero, Ph.D. 1999 Indiana University (Philosophy and Cognitive Science) • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: neuroscience, ecological psychology, artiﬁcial life, dynamical systems and complex systems, cognitive science – Willing to work with new students? Yes

Valerie Hardcastle, Ph.D. 1994 UC San Diego (Philosophy and Cognitive Science) • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: neurobiology, neuropsychiatry and the law, embodied cognition – Willing to work with new students? Yes

KoN. Maglo, Ph.D. University of Burgundy • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: philosophy of biomedicine, genomics and race, race-based medicine, bioethics – Willing to work with new students? Yes

Thomas W. Polger, Ph.D. 2000 Duke University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: multiple realization and realization; explanation in life, brain, and cognitive sciences; role of evolutionary theory in thinking about minds and consciousness; neuroscience and cognitive sciences – Willing to work with new students? Yes

Angela Potochnik, Ph.D. 2007 Stanford University •

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– Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: methodology of population biology, behavioral ecology, explanation, idealization, socially engaged philosophy of science, logical empiricism – Willing to work with new students? Yes

Robert C. Richardson, Ph.D. 1977 University of Chicago • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: evolutionary theory, developmental biology, cognitive science, theory change – Willing to work with new students? Yes

Robert A. Skipper, Jr., Ph.D. 2000 University of Maryland, College Park (Commit- • tee on the History and Philosophy of Science) – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: history of evolutionary genetics, evolutionary genetics, obesity science, controversies, explanation, socially engaged philosophy of science – Willing to work with new students? Yes

5.18 University of Kansas Department Website | No Entry in APA Guide Available | Armin Schulz, Ph.D. 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: How and when evolutionary theory can be used to illuminate issues that are not obviously evolutionary biological (especially ones in psychology, social science, and philosophy); and how and when theories from psychology, social science, and philosophy can be used to illuminate evolutionary biological issues (via website)

5.19 University of Maryland, College Park Department Website | No Entry in APA Guide Available | Lindley Darden, Ph.D. 1974 University of Chicago (Conceptual Foundations of Sci- • ence) – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Reasoning in scientific change; development of scientific knowledge as progressing through iterative cycles of construction, evaluation, and revision of hy- potheses; conceptual aspects of discovery of biological mechanisms from the nine- teenth through the twenty-first century, such as evolutionary and genetic mechanisms (via websites)

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Erin Eaker, Ph.D. 2002 UCLA • – Website, CV – Specialties: Natural kinds and scientiﬁc realism in the philosophy of biology; philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology; the concept of belief (via website)

Aidan Lyon, Ph.D. 2009 Australian National University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Probability, Formal Epistemology and Philosophy of Mathematics; also interested in topics in Philosophy of Physics and Biology; the notion of objective probability in various scientiﬁc theories, with a focus on Classical Statistical Mechanics and Evolutionary Theory (via website)

5.20 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities2 Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 302 | Alan C. Love, Ph.D. 2005 University of Pittsburgh (HPS) • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: History and philosophy of evolutionary developmental biology, evolutionary theory, developmental biology, functional morphology, conceptual change, explanatory pluralism, reductionism, the nature of historical science, interdisci- plinary epistemology, and the structure of scientiﬁc problems – Willing to work with new students? Yes

William C. Wimsatt, Ph.D. 1971 University of Chicago (part-time appointment, Fall • semesters) – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: history and philosophy of biology, cultural evolution, evolutionary developmental biology, complex systems – Willing to work with new students? Yes

5.21 University of Missouri Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 308 | Andre Ariew, Ph.D. 1997 University of Arizona • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, ﬁtness, causation (via website)

2Some of the Resident Fellows at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science also have philosophy of biology interests.

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5.22 University of Pennsylvania Department Website | No Entry in APA Guide Available | Cristina Bicchieri, Ph.D. 1984 Cambridge University • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: evolutionary game theory, evolution of social norms

Karen Detlefsen, Ph.D. 2001 University of Toronto • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: history of philosophy of biology

Gary Hatﬁeld, Ph.D. 1979 University of Wisconsin-Madison • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: history of philosophy of biology, perception, neuroscience and psychology

Quayshawn Spencer, Ph.D. 2009 Stanford University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: population genetics, phylogenetics, biology and race

Michael Weisberg, Ph.D. 2003 Stanford University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: tradeo↵s and Idealization in modeling, agent-based models in evolution and ecology, origin of life, biology and race

5.23 University of Pittsburgh (History and Philosophy of Science) Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 335 | Mazviita Chirimuuta, Ph.D. 2004 University of Cambridge • – // Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Relationship between neuroscience and the philosophy of mind and perception; color vision, developing a theory of color that acknowledges the com- plexities of visual function revealed by recent perceptual science (via website)

James G. Lennox, Ph.D. 1978 University of Toronoto • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Ancient Greek philosophy and science, William Harvey, Darwin, and Darwinism (via website)

Peter Machamer, Ph.D. 1972 University of Chicago •

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– Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: History and philosophy of science, primarily on 16th- and 17th-century topics, especially Galileo, Descartes and Hobbes, and in the philosophy of cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and social science, and on values and science.

Edouard Machery, Ph.D. 2004 Universit Paris-Sorbonne • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Theoretical issues raised by psychology and cognitive science; concepts; evolution, culture, cognition; experimental philosophy (via website)

Sandra Mitchell, Ph.D. 1987 University of Pittsburgh (HPS) • – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: Epistemological and metaphysical issues in the philosophy of science; scientiﬁc explanations of complex behavior, representing multi-level, multi- component complex systems; functional explanation, units of selection in evolutionary biology, sociobiology, biological complexity and self-organization, and scientiﬁc laws (via website)

Kenneth F. Scha↵ner, Ph.D. 1967 Columbia University, M.D. University of Pitts- • burgh – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: Human behavioral and psychiatric genetics (via website)

James Woodward, Ph.D. 1977 University of Texas at Austin • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Theories of causation, explanation and inductive inference in general philosophy of science, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of social science; empirical psychology of causal learning and judgment (via website)

5.24 University of Texas at Austin Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 356 | Sahotra Sarkar, Ph.D. University of Chicago • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: History and philosophy of science, particularly in both philosophy of biology and physics (via website)

5.25 University of Utah Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 366 | Stephen M. Downes, Ph.D. 1990 Virginia Tech (STS) •

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– Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Biology; Biology of Human Behavior and Models and Images in Science (via website)

Melinda B. Fagan, Ph.D. 2007 Indiana University (HPS) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of science, focusing on experimental practice in biology (particularly stem cell and developmental biology), explanation, and conceptions of objectivity and evidence (via website)

Matt Haber, Ph.D. 2005 UC Davis (Philosophy, Population Biology Aliate) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Science; philosophical and conceptual issues in systematics, particularly those stemming from a commitment to phylogenetic thinking (via website)

James Tabery, Ph.D. 2007 University of Pittsburgh (HPS) • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of science and applied ethics, as well as the intersection between those domains; causation and explanation in biology and their ethical, legal, and social implications (via website)

5.26 University of Wisconsin-Madison Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 384 | Daniel Hausman, Ph.D. 1978 Columbia University • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Rational choice theory, game theory, the concept of measurement and health

Elliott Sober, Ph.D. 1974 Harvard University • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of evolutionary biology, conﬁrmation, explanation, reductionism, modeling, probability and statistics, parsimony – Willing to work with new students? Yes

Russ Shafer-Landau, Ph.D. 1992 University of Arizona • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Evolutionary debunking arguments targeting morality

Lawrence Shapiro, Ph.D. 1992 University of Pennsylvania •

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– Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of psychology and philosophy of mind; issues concerning multiple realization and embodied cognition (via website)

Michael Titelbaum, Ph.D. 2008 UC Berkeley • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Bayesian epistemology

5.27 Washington University in St. Louis Department Website | Entry in APA Guide, p. 402 | Carl F. Craver, Ph.D. 1998 University of Pittsburgh • – Website 1, 2, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of neuroscience, theories of explanation, philosophy of psychology, cognitive neuropsychology – Willing to work with new students? Yes

Dennis DesChene, Ph.D. Stanford University • Website, CV, PhilPapers • Ron Mallon, Ph.D. 1987 Rutgers University • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Race, social construction, moral psychology, experimental philosophy

Anya Plutynski, Ph.D. 2002 University of Pennsylvania • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, general philosophy of science, can- cer biology, early 20th Century genetics, evolutionary theory, explanation, modeling. – Willing to work with new students? Yes

6M.A.Programs

6.1 Concordia University, Montreal Department Website | Matthew Barker, Ph.D. 2010 University of Wisconsin-Madison • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of biology, value theory, philosophy of psychology, general philosophy of science, and 17th and 18th century philosophy

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David Morris, Ph.D. 1997 University of Toronto • – Website, PhilPapers – Specialties: Phenomenology (esp. Merleau-Ponty) with a focus on the philosophy of the body, mind and nature in relation to current biology and cognitive science (via website)

6.2 Louisiana State University Department Website Entry in APA Guide, p. 98 | | Charles H. Pence, Ph.D. 2014 University of Notre Dame • – Website, CV, papers, PhilPapers – Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, foundations of evolutionary theory, chance and evolution, ﬁtness, causation (via website) – Willing to work with new students? Yes

6.3 Oregon State University Department Website | Jonathan Kaplan, Ph.D. 1996 Stanford University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy (via website)

6.4 Tufts University Department Website Entry in APA Guide, p. 197 | | Patrick Forber, Ph.D. 2006 Stanford University • – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Conﬁrmation, explanation, and idealization in science, especially in evolutionary biology and ecology (via website)

6.5 University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Ethics & Applied Philoso- phy) Department Website Entry in APA Guide, p. 317 | | Trevor Pearce, Ph.D. 2010 University of Chicago (Committee on Conceptual and His- • torical Studies of Science) – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: History and philosophy of biology, focusing on how research in experimental biology, ecology, and paleobiology, suitably understood, can help answer broader questions about the relative importance of di↵erent causal factors in evolutionary history (via website)

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6.6 University of Victoria Department Website | Jacob Stegenga, Ph.D. 2011 UC San Diego • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of science, in particular: methodology of medical research, philosophy of biology, and foundational topics in theoretical and practical reasoning

Scott Woodcock, Ph.D. 2001 University of Toronto • – Website, CV, – Specialties: Explanations for altruism, levels of selection, and ethics and natural- ism

6.7 Virginia Tech Department Website Entry in APA Guide, p. 399 | | Benjamin Jantzen, Ph.D. 2010 Carnegie Mellon University (Logic, Computation, and • Methodology) – Website 1, 2, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Physics, General Philosophy of Science, Biophysics – Willing to work with new students? Yes

Richard M. Burian, Ph.D. 1971 University of Pittsburgh • – Website, CV, PhilPapers – Specialties: Philosophy of Biology, History of Philosophy of Biology, History of Philosophy of Science, Science Studies – Willing to work with new students? Possibly; write to ask.