Roberta Millstein

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

Departmental Affiliations

Science and Technology Studies Program, http://sts.ucdavis.edu/

REACH IGERT, http://reach.ucdavis.edu/index.html

John Muir Institute of the Environment, http://johnmuir.ucdavis.edu/

2011-2012 Course Schedule

Fall
38 – Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
115 – Problems in Normative Ethics

Winter
108 – Philosophy of the Biological Sciences
220 – Environmental Ethics

Spring
Not Teaching

Other Courses
208 Philosophy of Biology Seminar

30 Introduction to Philosophy of Science

210 Philosophy of Science Seminar

Recent Publications

Millstein, Roberta L. (2010), "The Concepts of Population and Metapopulation in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology" in M. A. Bell, D. J. Futuyma, W. F. Eanes, and J. S. Levinton (eds.), Evolution Since Darwin: The First 150 Years, Sunderland, MA: Sinauer, 61-86.

"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

Sarah Roe, "Mechanisms"