Alexander Rosenberg, Director, Undergraduate Studies and R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy

Contact Info:

Office Location:	203 West Duke Bldg
Office Phone:	+1 919-660-3047, +1 919-660-3050
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~alexrose

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 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. In 2006-2007 he held a fellowship at the National Humanities Center. He was also the Phi Beta Kappa-Romanell Lecturer for 2006-2007. In 2008 He will be a visiting fellow at the Australian National University RSSS.

Rosenberg is the author of  11 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 Contmporary Introduction (with Daniel McShea, Routledge, 2007)

He has also wirtten 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 .