Participants

Participant Group
Participant Role
derek-skillings

Derek Skillings

Cluster:
Agential Behavior and Plasticity in Evolution
Project:
Directedness in holobiont systems
Role:
Subaward Principal Investigator

Derek Skillings is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He specializes in the philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, marine phylogeography and evolutionary ecology. He works primarily on biological individuality and explanation and causal reasoning in biology. He is particularly interested in the problem of how to approach the complex and hierarchical nature of living systems when investigating biological phenomena and constructing explanations.