+49 (0) 176 660 74003
daniel.stephen.brooks@gmail.com
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Office Hours: Thursday 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
Fields of Competence
- History and Philosophy of Biology
- Causality and Causal Explanations
- General Philosophy of Science
- Philosophy of Mind
- Epistemology
Curriculum Vitae
- 2006 B.A. Philosophy; B.A. German Studies (University of Cincinnati)
- 2010 M.A. Philosophy (Bielefeld University)
- 2014 Ph.D. Philosophy (Bielefeld University)
Societies
- International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB)
- Biolosophy (website: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/philosophie/lesegruppen/Biolosophy.html)
- LeRM Work Group (Levels, Reduction, and Mechanism)
Publications
- 2014 (with Markus Eronen) “Interventionism and Supervenience: A New Problem and Provisional Solution” in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 28(2): pp. 185-202
- 2014. “The Role of Models in the Process of Epistemic Integration: the Case of the Reichardt Motion Detector” in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. Vol. 36(1): pp 90-113
- 2014. “Review of Evolution in Natur und Kultur: eine Einführung in die verallgemeinerte Evolutionstheorie by Gerhard Schurz, Spektrum Akademischer Press 2011, and Evolution: A View the 21st Century by James Shapiro2, FT Press Science 2011. in General Philosophy of Science. Vol. 44(1): pp 235- 245
- 2013. (with T. Baetu, A. Barwich, S. Dutreuil, P. Germain) Conference Report: “Model Thinking in the Life Sciences: Complexity in the Making”. in Biological Theory Vol. 8(1): 121-124