Philosopher
William C. Wimsatt
Overview
William C. Wimsatt (born May 27, 1941) is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy, the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (previously Conceptual Foundations of Science), and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. He is currently a Winton Professor of the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and a Residential Fellow of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. He specializes in the philosophy of biology, where his areas of interest include reductionism, heuristics, emergence, scientific modeling, heredity, and cultural evolution.
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Ideas William C. Wimsatt discusses
- Philosophical realism
- Philosophy
- Herbert A. Simon
- Philosophy of biology
- Ohio State University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Chicago
- Richard Lewontin
- Philosophy of science
- Emergence
- Reductionism
- Stuart Kauffman
- Cornell University
- Evolution
- Epistemology
- David Hull (philosopher)
- Sahotra Sarkar
- Richard Levins
Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy in Canada.