James R. Griesemer
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James R. Griesemer is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Davis in Davis, California. He received his PhD in 1983 in the Conceptual Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. His research focuses on a wide variety of topics in the history and philosophy of biology, including models and practices in museum-based natural history, laboratory-based ecology, units of inheritance and selection in evolutionary biology, and visual representation in embryology and genetics. He is well known in the philosophy of biology community and is President of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB).
