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Alexander Rosenberg, Philosophy and Center for Philosophy of Biology

Alexander Rosenberg
Contact Info:
Office Location:  203 West Duke Building
Office Phone:  +1 919-660-3047, +1 919-660-3050
Email Address:   send me a message
Web Page:   http://www.duke.edu/~alexrose

Teaching (Fall 2009):

Teaching (Spring 2010):

Education:

PhDThe Johns Hopkins University1971
BACity College of New York1967
Specialties:

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. Previously he was professor of philosophy at Syracuse University, University of California, Riverside and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Georgia. He has been a visiting professor and fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Minnesota, as well as the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Oxford 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. He is the author of 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), 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), and approximately 150 papers in the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of cognitive, behavioral and social science (especially economics), and causation. Rosenberg is also a member of Duke's Center for the Philosophy of Biology .

Areas of Interest:

Philosophy of Biology, 
Philosophy of Cognitive, Behavioral, & Social Science, 
Causation
Hume

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. A. Rosenberg and R. Arp. Readings in the Philosophy of Biology.  October, 2008.
  2. A. Rosenberg and K. Neander. ""Are homologies function free?"." Philosophy of Science  (Accepted, Fall, 2008): approximately 35 pages.
  3. A. Rosenberg. ""If economics is a science, what kind of a science is it?"." Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics (2008): 55-68.
  4. Alex Rosenberg and Daniel McShea. The Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction.  December, 2007.
  5. A. Rosenberg. ""Darwinian Reductionism: How stupid of me to have thought of it"." Metascience  (Accepted, Fall, 2007).