C. Kenneth Waters
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    • Using Material Models to Investigate Agency, Innovation, and Directionality in Evolution
    • From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics
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FORMER STUDENTS / postdocs

Former Graduate Students
Brian J Hanley, Ph.D., 2021
“A Pragmatic Epistemology of Causal Selection in Safety Science” (sole-advisor)
Adjunct Lecturer, Merrimack College (Andover, MA; USA)​ ​[personal site]

Timothy Perkins
, M.A., 2019
“Tracing Pathways and Decomposing Mechanisms in Ecology” (sole-advisor)
Ph.D Student, Philosophy, The University of Utah (Utah, NV; USA)

Stephen Ross, M.A., 2019
“The Scientific Practice Turn as Philosophical Progress”

William Bausman, Ph.D., 2015
“Neutral Theory, Biased World” (sole-advisor)
Fellow, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI; USA)

Niall Roe, M.A., 2015
“History and Philosophy in Peirce’s Conception of Science” (co-advised with Mark Migotti)
Associate Lawyer, Norton Rose Fulbright (Calgary, AB; Canada). Juris Doctor, Dalhousie University (Halifax, NS; Canada)

Bart Moffat, Ph.D., 2008
“Situating Biological Information: The Meaning and Significance of the Concept of Information in Biology” (sole-advisor)
Associate Professor, Mississippi State University (Starkville, MS; United States) [department profile]
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Katie Plaisance, Ph.D., 2006
“Behavioral Genetics and the Environment: The Generation and Exportation of Scientific Claims” (sole-advisor)
Associate Professor, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON; Canada) [department profile]

Toben Lafrancois, Ph.D., 2006
“Taxonomic Resolution in Ecology” (sole-advisor)
Assistant Scientist, St. Croix Watershed Research Station of the Science Museum of Minnesota (United States)

Christopher Eliot, Ph.D., 2004
“Exceptions Make the Rules” (sole-advisor)
Associate Professor, Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY; United States) [department profile]

Carl Chung, Ph.D., 2000
​“Essence, Variation, and Evolution: An Analysis of Ernst Mayr's Distinction between ‘Typological’ and ‘Population’ Thinking” (co-advised with John Beatty)
Instructor (permanent faculty), Century College (Minneapolis, MN; United States) [Academia]

Kevin Lattery, Ph.D., 1999
“The Epistemology of Experimental Systems in Biological Research” (sole-advisor) 
Vice President of Methodology and Innovation, Maritz Research (Minneapolis, MN; United States) [LinkedIn]

Roberta Millstein, Ph.D., 1997
​“The Chances of Evolution: An Analysis of the Roles of Chance in Microevolution and Macroevolution” (co-advised with John Beatty),
Professor, University of California, Davis (Davis, CA; United States) [personal site]

Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Oliver Lean, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018
Research Associate, University of Calgary

Alison K. McConwell
, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher, Stanford University (Stanford, California; United States)

Lauren Ross, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017
Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA; United States) [personal site]

Marcel Weber, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1996-1997
​Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland) [department site]
  • Home
  • About
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Service
  • Mentoring
    • Current Graduate Students
    • Former Students & Postdocs
    • Open Masters, PhD & Postdoc Positions
  • Teaching
  • Publications
  • Projects
    • Using Material Models to Investigate Agency, Innovation, and Directionality in Evolution
    • From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics
    • Calgary Summit of Philosophers of Science
    • Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    • PhilSci at APA & CPA
  • gPES
  • Contact