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Paul Griffiths
Areas of public interest: (examples of areas of public interest this person is qualified to comment on)
Darwinism; emotion; evolution; genes; genetics; genetic determinism; human genome project; instinct; mind; science; selfish gene; sex; human nature; public understanding of science
Contact Details:
Ph: (+61 2) 9036 6175
email: paul.griffiths@usyd.edu.au
Address: Rm S205, Main Quad
University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW, 2006
Title & Institutional Affiliations:
Professorial Research Fellow, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney
Selected Media appearances and public comments:
"The Genome's Quirky Genius", The Australian, 21 March, 2007
"The Descent of Man", ABC Radio National's Science Show, 2000
General Areas of Academic Expertise:
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and History of Biology, Philosophy of Psychology
Selected Publications:
Emotions in the Wild: The situated perspective on emotion (with Andrea Scarantino), in P. Robbins and M. Aydede (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xxx-xxx, (In Press).
Ethology, Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, in Sarkar, S and Plutyinski, A Blackwell's Companion to Philosophy of Biology, Oxford: Blackwells (In Press).
"Genes in the Postgenomic Era" (with Karola Stotz), Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 27(6): 499-521, 2006.
"101 Things to do with Your genome" (with Karola Stotz), Genomics Network: Newsletter of the ESRC Genomics Network. Issue 6, 2007
Sterelny, K. and P. E. Griffiths (1999) Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Reviews
Griffiths, P. E. (1997). What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Reviews.

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