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Dr. Lennox is Associate Professor of History
and Philosophy of Science at the University of
Pittsburgh, and a Life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge
University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the
University of Toronto in 1978. The focus of Dr. Lennox's
research and teaching is the relationship between
philosophy and science (especially biology), both
systematically and historically. He specializes in
classical Greek philosophy and science and Darwin and
Darwinism. Much of his teaching in recent years has
centered in Darwin and evolutionary biology. He is
co-editor (with Allan Gotthelf) of Philosophical
Issues in Aristotle's Biology (Cambridge University
Press, 1987), and the author of numerous essays on
Aristotle and other important figures in the history of
biology. He is currently at work on a translation and
study guide of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. Dr.
Lennox is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Philosophy of
Science at the University of Pittsburgh and a former
Junior Fellow of Harvard University's Center of Hellenic
Studies in Washington, D.C. He is currently a member of
the Steering Committee of the newly-formed Ayn Rand
Society within the American Philosophical Association. Dr. Lennox is currently chair of the Dept. of HPS at Pitt. (1996) |
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