James R. Griesemer is an American professor of
philosophy
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at the
University of California, Davis
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in
Davis, California
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specializing in
philosophy of biology
The philosophy of biology is a subfield of philosophy of science, which deals with epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences. Although philosophers of science and philosophers generally have lon ...
.
Education and career
Griesemer received his PhD in 1983 in the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...
under the supervision of
William C. Wimsatt
William C. Wimsatt (born May 27, 1941) is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (previously Conceptual Foundations of Science), and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at ...
. He joined the faculty at
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...
in 1984, and has taught there ever since. He is currently a "Distinguished Professor."
[https://jrgriesemerucdavis.files.wordpress.com/2021/12/griesemer-cv-211122-full.pdf]
He was President of the
(ISHPSSB) from 2007 to 2009.
Philosophical work
His research focuses on the history and philosophy of biology, including models and practices in museum-based natural history, laboratory-based ecology, units of inheritance and selection in evolutionary biology, and visual representation in embryology and genetics.
References
External links
Griesemer's faculty page
Philosophers of science
American philosophy academics
Philosophers of biology
University of Chicago alumni
University of California, Davis faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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