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Education

BA, Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley

MSc, History and Philosophy of Science
London School of Economics

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Science

Areas of Competence: Early Analytic Philosophy, Epistemology, Bioethics

Courses Taught
Understanding Scientific Change
Intro to Philosophy of Biology

Courses Assisted
Philosophy of Mind
Intro to Philosophy
Intro to Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Law
Appraising Scientific Reasoning
Bioethics

Publications

"Oversimplification: a reply to White," Analysis 68.2 (April 2008), 161-168.

Hamilton, Andrew, Haber, Matthew and Smith, Nathan Robert "Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and the Colony as a Selectable Individual." In Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Sociocomplexity. J. Gadau and J. Fewell, eds. Harvard University Press. (In press.)

"Goals, Heuristics, and Why the Science Matters" (Essay review of William Wimsatt, 2007, Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.) Metascience 17 (November 2008), 397-405.