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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
Associate Professor
Brief Curriculum Vitae
Office: 2287 Social Sciences and Humanities Building
Phone: (530) 554-9954
E-mail: rlmillstein@ucdavis.edu
Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 1997
Dissertation: "The Chances of Evolution: An Analysis of the Roles of Chance in Microevolution and Macroevolution," co-directed by C. Kenneth Waters and John Beatty
Areas of Specialization: Philosophy of science, history and philosophy of biology
Joined the UC Davis Philosophy Faculty: 2006
2009-2010 Course Schedule
Fall
38 Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
115 Problems in Normative Ethics
Winter
208 Philosophy of Biology Seminar
Spring
Not Teaching
Other Courses
108 Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
210 Philosophy of Science Seminar
Recent Publications
"Populations as Individuals." Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution and Cognition. Special edition on The Edges and Boundaries of Biological Objects, guest edited by M. Haber and J. Odenbaugh (forthcoming).
"Concepts of Drift and Selection in 'The Great Snail Debate' of the 1950s and Early 1960s" in Joe Cain and Michael Ruse (eds.), Descended from Darwin: Insights into the History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900-1970, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society (2009), 271-298.
Currently Supervising Dissertations
None