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1240 Social Sciences and Humanities
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 752-0607
Fax: (530) 752-8964
Professor and Chair
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Office: 2297 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
Phone: (530) 554-4396
E-mail: jrgriesemer@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D.: University of Chicago, 1983
Dissertation: "Communication and Scientific Change: An Analysis of Conceptual Maps in the Macroevolution Controversy," directed by William Wimsatt
Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of biology, history and philosophy of science
Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 1983
2009-2010 Course Schedule
Fall
Not Teaching
Winter
31 Appraising Scientific Reasoning
108 Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
Spring
210 Philosophy of Science Seminar
Other Courses
38 Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
208 Philosophy of Biology Seminar
Science and Technology Studies 131 Darwin
Recent Publications
"Gánti's Chemoton Model and Life Criteria," Chapter 22 in Protocells: Bridging Nonliving and Living Matter, Steen Rasmussen, Liaohai Chen, Norman Packard, Mark Bedau, Liaohai Chen, David Deamer, David Krakauer, Norman Packard, and Peter Stadler (Eds.), MIT Press (2009), 481-512 (with Eörs Szathmáry).
"Origins of Life Studies," Chapter 11 in Michael Ruse (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology, New York: Oxford University Press (2008), 263-290.
Currently Supervising Dissertations
Nicholas Diehl, "Narration in Literature and Film" (with George Wilson)