Yoichi
Ishida
Department of History and Philosophy
of Science
1017 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Email: yoi5@pitt.edu
Education
PhD student, History and Philosophy of Science, University of
Pittsburgh, 2007–present
MA, Philosophy, University of Nevada, Reno, May 2007
BA summa cum laude, Philosophy, University of Nevada, Reno, May 2005
Research Interests
History and philosophy of science (especially biological sciences from the 19th century to the present)
General philosophy of science
Philosophy of biology
Publications
2009
Sewall Wright and Gustave Malécot on
Isolation by Distance.
To appear in Philosophy of Science
Transposable Elements and an Epigenetic Basis for Punctuated Equilibria. (With David Zeh [First author] and
Jeanne Zeh)
BioEssays 31: 715–726.
2007
Patterns, Models, and Predictions:
Robert MacArthur's Approach to Ecology.
Philosophy of Science 74:
642–653.
Presentations
2009
Sewall Wright's Analysis of the
Distribution of Flower Color in Linanthus parryae,
1941–1978.
International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies
of Biology (Emmanuel College, Brisbane, Australia),
July
12–16.
The Danger of Taking a Population
Genetic Model Too Seriously (and Too Literally).
Models and Simulations 3
(University of Virginia, USA), March 6–8.
2008
Sewall Wright and Gustave Malécot on
Isolation by Distance.
Philosophy of Science Association
(Pittsburgh, PA, USA), November 6–9.
The Optimality Argument for the
3/4-Power Scaling Law in Ecology.
Pitt-Paris I. Adaptations in Biology
and in Psychology (Institut d'Histoire et de Philosophie des
Sciences et des Techniques, Paris, France), June 4–5.
2006
Patterns, Models, and Predictions:
Defending Robert MacArthur's Approach to Ecology.
Philosophy of Science Association
(Vancouver, BC, Canada), November 2–5.