Professor and Chair

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Office: 2297 Social Science and Humanities Building

Phone: (530) 752-1068

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

2007-2008 Course Schedule

Fall
210 Philosophy of Science Seminar

Winter
31 Appraising Scientific Reasoning

Spring

Other Courses

32 Understanding Scientific Change
38 Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
108 Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
208 Philosophy of Biology Seminar

Recent Publications

"Three-Dimensional Models in Philosophical Perspective," in Displaying the Third Dimension: Models in the Sciences, Technology and Medicine. S. de Chadarevian and N. Hopwood (eds.), Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2003.

"The Informational Gene and the Substantial Body: On the Generalization of Evolutionary Theory by Abstraction" in Idealization XII: Correcting the Model: Idealization and Abstraction in the Sciences, ed. Martin R. Jones (2005), 59-115

Currently Supervising Dissertations

Nicholas Diehl, "Narration in Literature and Film" (with George Wilson)