Paul Griffiths is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and works primarily in thePhilosophy of Science and more particularlyPhilosophy of Biology. Born in England in 1962, he received a B.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1984 and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Australian National University in 1989 under the supervision ofKim Sterelny. He taught previously at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Queensland and the University of Otago. He spends part of each year at the University of Exeter in the Egenis: the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences. Griffiths is a Fellow of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science and of theAustralian Academy of the Humanities.^[1][2][3]

Griffiths, together withRussell Gray developed a theoretical perspective on biological development, heredity, and evolution known asdevelopmental systems theory (DST).^[4]

Together with his former advisorKim Sterelny, in 1999, Griffiths publishedSex and Death, a comprehensive treatment of problems and alternative positions in the philosophy of biology. This book incorporated a number of the positions developed in previous articles on the range of topics in the philosophy of biology.^[5]

His latest book, published in 2013, in collaboration withKarola Stotz, focuses on the philosophy of genetics.^[6]

In 2022 he was appointedChallis Professor of Philosophy.^[7]

• Griffiths, P. E. (1997).What Emotions Really Are: The Problem of Psychological Categories. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
• Sterelny, K. and P. E. Griffiths (1999)Sex and Death: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Biology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
• Griffiths, P. E., & Stotz, K. (2013).Genetics and Philosophy: An introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Griffiths, P.E (Ed.) (1992).Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology. Dordrecht, Kluwer.
• Oyama, S., P. E. Griffiths and R.D. Gray (Eds.) (2001).Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. MIT Press.

In 2017, he was awarded anAustralian Laureate Fellowship.^[8]

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