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James Lennox, Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science
History & Philosophy of Biology (especially Aristotle, Darwin, and contemporary Philosophy of Biology)
PhD, University of Toronto, 1978
James Lennox is professor of history and philosophy of science and a member of the Classics, Philosophy, and Ancient Science program. He is director of the Center for Philosophy of Science, and secondary member of the Departments of Philosophy and Classics. His primary areas of research are the history and philosophy of biology with special focus on Aristotle, Darwin, and contemporary philosophy of biology. He is life fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, former junior fellow at the Center for Hellenistic Studies (1983-84) and has published articles in Isis, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, Journal of Hellenistic Studies, Philosophy of Science, and others. He is co-editor of Philosophical Issues in Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge, 1987), Self-motion From Aristotle to Newton (Princeton, 1994), Concepts, Theories and Rationality in the Biological Sciences (Pittsburgh/Konstanz, 1995), and Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology: Studies in the Origins of Life Science (Cambridge, 2001).
