Associate Professor

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Office: 2287 Social Science and Humanities

Phone: (530) 752-8987

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

2006-2007 Course Schedule

Fall
38 Introduction to Philosophy of Biology

Winter
108 Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
115 Problems in Normative Ethics

Spring
Not Teaching

Recent Publications

"Natural Selection as a Population-Level Causal Process," forthcoming in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

"Discussion of Four Case Studies on Chance in Evolution: Philosophical Themes and Questions," forthcoming in Philosophy of Science (PSA 2004)

Currently Supervising Dissertations

None