University of Calgary
Marc Ereshefsky
- Professor
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Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| W2024 - PHIL 399.24 - Topics in Philosophy (Trust and Doubt in Science) | ||||||||||
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| W2024 - PHIL 567.8 - Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Science (Science and Values) | ||||||||||
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| W2024 - PHIL 667.22 - Topics in Philosophy of Science (Science and Values) | ||||||||||
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Current Graduate Students
PhD
Soohyun Ahn
Archie Fields III
MA
Chloe Stephenson
Past Graduate Students
PhD
2020 Celso Neto
2018 Sinan Sincan
2016 - Alison McConwell
2014 - Brandon Holter
2013 - Makmiller Pedroso, A Critique of Modern Biological Essentialism
2011 - Michael Steiner, An Anti-Realist Theory of Natural Kinds
2010 - Travis Dumsday, Defending an Essentialist Ontology of Kinds, Laws, and Biological Taxa
2008 - Jennifer Runke, Metaphors in Biology
2005 - Jesse Hendrikse, Explanation and Inheritance
2001 - Jay Odenbaugh, Searching for Patterns, Hunting for Causes: A Philosophical Examination of Mathematical Modeling in Theoretical Ecology
1997 - David Baumslag, A Goal-Oriented Theory of Science
1996 - Mohamed Elsamahi, A Coherentist View of Theory Acceptance
MA
2012 - Michelle Pham, Consensus and Objectivity in Science
2011 - Shari Monner, The Character Individuation Problem: A Philosophical Study of the Individuation of Characters in Biological Taxonomy
2007 - Sky Coulter, Biological Normality
2007 - Michael Steiner, Scientific Laws
2006 - Clement Loo, Proper Function: Criticisms and Replies
2002 - Shawna Boyle, Genetic Research: Why we do it, Why we should
1998 - Jesse Hendrikse, No Powers, No Causes
1994 - Barrett Wolski, The Grooves of Nature: Dispositions and Natural Kinds
Publications
Book
- Ereshefsky, Marc. The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy Cambridge University Press, 2001. Print.
Book Chapter
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Consilience, Historicity, and the Species Problem" Evolutionary Biology: Conceptual, Ethical, and Religious Issues Ed. Eds., Thompson, Paul, and Walsh, Denis Cambridge University Press, 2013. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc and Pedroso, Makmiller. "What biofilms can teach us about individuality." Individuals Across the Sciences Ed. Guay and Pradeu (eds.) Oxford University Press, 2013. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Natural Kinds in Biology" Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Routledge, 2009. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics" Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Systematics and Taxonomy" The Blackwell Campanion to Philosophy of Biology Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. Print.
Edited Book
- Ereshefsky, Marc (ed). The Units of Evolution: Essays on the Nature of Species Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992. Print.
Journal Article
- Ereshefsky, Marc and Thomas Reydon. "Scientific Kinds". Philosophical Studies 172. (2015): 969-986. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc and Makmiller Pedroso. "Rethinking Evolutionary Individuality". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (2015). Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc and Makmiller Pedroso. "Rethinking Evolutionary Individuality". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112. (2015): 10126-10132. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Species, Historicity, and Path Dependency". Philosophy of Science 81. (2014): 714-726. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc and Pedroso, Makmiller. "Biological individuality: the case of biofilms". Biology and Philosophy, (2013). Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Homology Thinking". Biology and Philosophy 27. (2012): 381-400. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Darwin's Solution to the Species Problem". Synthese 175. (2010): 405-425. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "What's Wrong with the New Biological Essentialism". Philosophy of Science 77. (2010): 674-685. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Microbiology and the Species Problem". Biology and Philosophy 25. (2010): 553-568. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Defining 'Health' and ‘Disease’". Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences 40. (2009): 221-227. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Homology: Integrating Phylogeny and Development". Biological Theory 4. (2009): 224-229. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Where the Wild Things Are: Environmental Preservation and Human Nature". Biology and Philosophy 22. (2007): 57-72. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Psychological Categories as Homologies: Lessons from Ethology". Biology and Philosophy 2. (2007): 659-674. Print.
- Ereshefsky, Marc. "Foundational Issues Concerning Taxa and Taxon Names". Systematic Biology 56.2 (2007): 295-301. Print.
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- BA
University of California at Berkeley - PhD
University of Wisconsin–Madison - MA
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Students
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