Professor and Chair

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Office: 2297 Social Science 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"

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

32 Understanding Scientific Change
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)