Biographical Sketch, Elliott
Sober
Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of
Philosophy and Henry Vilas
Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, where he has
taught since 1974. His research is in philosophy
of science, especially in
the philosophy of evolutionary biology.
Sober's books include The Nature
of Selection -- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical
Focus (MIT Press,
1984; 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press,
1993), Reconstructing the
Past -- Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference
(MIT Press, 1988), Philosophy
of Biology (Westview Press, 1993), From
a Biological Point of View --
Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (Cambridge
University Press, 1994), and,
most recently (with David S. Wilson) Unto Others
-- The Evolution and
Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Harvard University
Press, 1998). Sober
is a past president of the American Philosophical
Association Central
Division and a fellow of the American Academy
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