Alexander Rosenberg, Department Chair and R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy edit
Office Location: 203 West Duke Building
Office Phone: +1 919-660-3047, +1 919-660-3050
Fax: (919) 660-3060
Email Address: 
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~alexrose
Education:
PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1971
BA, City College of New York, 1967
- Specialties:
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Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Social Science
Philosophy of Science
Metaphysics
- Research Interests:
- Alex Rosenberg (Ph.D. 1971, Johns Hopkins) joined the Duke faculty
in 2000. He is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy (with secondary appointments in the biology and political science departments). Rosenberg has been a visiting professor and fellow of the at the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Minnesota, as well as the University of California, Santa Cruz,
and Oxford University and a visiting fellow of the Philosophy Department at the Research School of Social Science, of the Australian National University. He has held
fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Simon Guggenheim
Foundation. In 1993 Rosenberg received the
Lakatos Award in the philosophy of science. In 2006-2007 he held a fellowship at
the National Humanities Center. He was also the Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell Lecturer for 2006-2007.
Rosenberg is the author of several books:
Microeconomic Laws: A Philosophical Analysis (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976),
Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science/ (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980; Basil Blackwell, 1981),
Hume and the Problem of Causation (Oxford University Press, 1981) (with T.L. Beauchamp),
The Structure of Biological Science (Cambridge University Press, 1985),
Philosophy of Social Science (Clarendon Press, Oxford and Westview Press, 1988, Second Edition, Revised, Enlarged, 1995, Third Edition, further enlarged, 2007),
Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? (University of Chicago Press, 1992),
Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science (University of Chicago Press, 1994),
Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2000),
Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Approach (Routledge, 2000, second edition 2005),
Darwinian Reductionism or How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology (University of Chicago Press),
ThePhilosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction (with Daniel McShea, Routledge, 2007)
He has also written approximately 180 papers in the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of cognitive, behavioral and social science (especially economics), and causation. Some of his recednt papers are available on his web site.
Rosenberg is also co-director of Duke's Center for the Philosophy of Biology .
- Areas of Interest:
- Philosophy of Biology,
Philosophy of Cognitive, Behavioral, & Social Science,
Causation
Hume
- PHIL 108.01, Human cultural evolution
Synopsis
- Bio Sci 111, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM
Teaching (Summer2 2010):
- ENGLISH 132CS.01, Top renaiss brit lit
- ENGLISH 132ES.02, Top 19 c british lit
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- A. Rosenberg. "The political economics and political philosophy of intellectual property." Intellectual Property: Conference Proceedings. Ed. Annabelle Lever. Cambridge Unversity Press, 2010.
- A. Rosenberg and K. Neander. ""Are homolgies function free?"." Philosophy of Science 76.3 (December, 2009): 1-39.
- A. Rosenberg. "Lessons from neurogenomics for cogntivie science." Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience. Ed. John Bickle. Oxford University Press, 2009.
- A. Rosenberg. ""Darwinism in moral philosophy and social theory"." The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, 2d Edition. Ed. G. Raddick and J. Hodge. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- A. Rosenberg. Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction--Japanese translation. 2009.
- Conferences Organized
- Editorial board, Biology and Philosophy, member, July 31, 2007 - present
- Ethics, emotions, evolution II, Conference co-organizer (with Jesse Prinz), February 19, 2005