Research Directory

This directory lists people and organizations involved in a variety of areas of research of interest to the consortium.

Alan Love
Institution:

University of Minnesota

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology, Genomics, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism
Omer Markovitch
Institution:

Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE),

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),

University of Lisbon,

Portugal

Areas of interest: Causation in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Education / Outreach, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Joanna Masel
Institution:

University of Arizona

Project or lab website: https://www.masellab.org/
Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology, Genomics, History of Life and the Fossil Record
Dan McShea
Institution:

Department of Biology
Duke University

Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Formal models of agency and cooperation, Function and Teleology, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Transitions in Agency/Individuality
Lenny Moss
Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology
Matteo Mossio
Institution:

Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Function and Teleology, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Physiology
David Oderberg
Institution:

Department of Philosophy

University of Reading

Reading RG6 6EL

United Kingdom

Project or lab website: https://www.davidsoderberg.uk
Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Classification / Taxonomy, Function and Teleology, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Physiology

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