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Andrew Inkpen

Associate Professor (on leave)
Office
Hart Hall 102

Biography

Andrew Inkpen is an Assistant Professor at 痳豆TV视频 in the Department of Philosophy and an Associate Fellow in the History of Science and Technology Programme at the University of King鈥檚 College. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia and has held positions at Dalhousie University, Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Brandon University. His research in the history and philosophy of science focuses on conceptual and methodological issues in ecology and evolutionary biology. He鈥檚 also a project leader for the McDonnell Initiative at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, where he focuses on facilitating collaborations between humanities researchers and life scientists with the aim of transforming the research of both fields through interactions and the co-production of knowledge. He is co-author of the forthcoming book Can Microbial Communities Regenerate? (University of Chicago Press; ). 

Publications

BOOKS

2022. Inkpen, SA, & WF Doolittle. Can Microbial Communities Regenerate? University of Chicago Press: Chicago.

 

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

2022. Inkpen SA. 鈥淒omestication as Natural Selection?鈥 Metascience, 37: 157-62.

2022. Inkpen, SA. 鈥淩eview of Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds. Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young (eds.).鈥 The Quarterly Review of Biology, 97: 127.

2021. Gillette, KS, SA Inkpen, & CT DesRoches. "Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 87: 81-92.

2021. Inkpen, S. A., & Doolittle, W. F. "Adaptive Regeneration Across Scales: Replicators and Interactors from Limbs to Forests." Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 13.

2020. Inkpen, S. A., & DesRoches, C. T. "When ecology needs economics and economics needs ecology: Interdisciplinary exchange during the anthropocene." Ethics, Policy & Environment, 23(2), 203-221.

2019. Inkpen SA. 鈥淗ealth, Ecology, and the Microbiome.鈥 eLife, 8: e47626.

2019. Wideman JG, Inkpen SA, Doolittle WF, Redfield RJ. 鈥淢utationism, not Lamarckism, Captures the Novelty of CRISPR-Cas鈥 Biology and Philosophy, 34: 12.

2019. DesRoches CT, Inkpen SA, Green TL. 鈥淭he Eroding Artificial/Natural Distinction? Some Consequences for Ecology and Economics.鈥 In M Nagatsu and A Ruzzene (eds.), Contemporary Philosophy and Social Science: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Bloomsbury Publishing, London: UK.

2019. Inkpen SA, DesRoches CT. 鈥淩evamping the Image of Science for the Anthropocene鈥 Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 11: 1-7.

2018. Doolittle WF, Inkpen SA. 鈥淧rocesses and Patterns of Interaction as Units of Selection: An Introduction to ITSNTS Thinking鈥 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 115: 4006-14.

2017. Inkpen SA, Douglas GM, Brunet TDP, Leuschen K, Doolittle WF, Langille MGI. 鈥淭he Coupling of Taxonomy and Function in Microbiomes.鈥 Biology and Philosophy, 32: 1225-1243.

2017. Inkpen SA. 鈥淒emarcating Nature, Defining Ecology: Creating a Rationale for the Study of Nature鈥檚 鈥楶rimitive Conditions鈥.鈥 Perspectives on Science, 25: 355-92.

2017. Inkpen SA. 鈥淎re Humans Disturbing Conditions in Ecology?鈥 Biology and Philosophy, 32: 51-71.

2017. Stuart YE, Inkpen SA, Hopkins R, Bolnick DI. 鈥淐haracter displacement is an evolutionary pattern. So what causes it?鈥 Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121: 711-715.

2016. Inkpen SA. 鈥淟ike Hercules and the Hydra: Trade-offs and Strategies in Ecological Model-Building and Experimental Design鈥 Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 57: 34-43.

2016. Inkpen SA, Doolittle WF. 鈥淢olecular Phylogenetics and the Perennial Problem of Homology.鈥 Journal of Molecular Evolution, 83: 184-192.

2014. Inkpen SA. 鈥溾楾he Art Itself is Nature鈥: Darwin, Domestic Varieties, and the Scientific Revolution.鈥 Endeavour, 38: 246-56.

Education

PhD (UBC)
BSc (SMU)

Teaching

Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Environmental Philosophy
Bioethics
Science and Democracy

Research

History and Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of Biology
Environmental Ethics