Professor
Elliott Sober
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Philosopher; Biologist; Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Philosophy
Elected
1999
Research centers on philosophy of science, especially philosophy of evolutionary biology. He has worked on the methodology of phylogenetic inference and on the controversy about group selection. Other interests include the role of parsimony in scientific reasoning, the nature of causality, and the concept of probability.
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