Chris Haufe

Chris Haufe is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and the Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science. He works on problems in the history and philosophy of science, particularly biology.  His current research focuses on conceptions of natural law in biological science from the late 18th century up to the present, the epistemology of subjunctive propositions, and the way in which philosophical presuppositions about science affect scientific funding.

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Contact

office: Stuart Hall, Room 231-D
office hours: by appointment

office phone: 773/702-8458
email: haufe@uchicago.edu

Selected Publications and Reviews

• “Philosophies of Funding” in Cell 138(4): 611-615 (co-written with Maureen O’Malley, Richard Burian, and Kevin Elliott) (2009)
• "Where No Mind Has Gone Before: Exploring Laws in Distant and Lonely Worlds" in International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 23(3): 265-276 (co-written with Matthew Slater) (2009)
• "Perverse Engineering" in Philosophy of Science (2008) 75(4): 437 – 446 (2008)
• "Sexual Selection and Mate Choice in Evolutionary Psychology" in Biology and Philosophy (2008) 23(1): 115 – 128
• Review of Barash, D and Lipton, J (2009) How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories: Evolutionary Enigmas in The Quarterly Review of Biology (forthcoming)
• Review of Bortolotti, L (2008) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (forthcoming)