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Dipl.-Biol. (Bremen), Dr. rer. nat. (Würzburg), MA, PhD (King's College London)
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Biography
Ulrich Stegmann joined the department in 2009. Previously, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London. He also was a Teaching Associate at the University of Bristol. Ulrich received both his MA and PhD (2006) in philosophy from King’s College London. Before coming to the UK, he completed a PhD and MSc in biology at the University of Würzburg and the University of Bremen, respectively.
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Research Interests
Philosophy of Biology
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Teaching Responsibilities
UG courses in 2012/13:
- Level 1: Knowledge and Mind (with Luca Moretti)
- Levels 3 and 4: Philosophy of Biology
- Level 4: Experiments and Scientific Reasoning
PG course in 2012/13:
- The 'Book of Life' and the Rise of Molecular Biology
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Admin Responsibilities
Undergraduate Programme Coordinator for Philosophy
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Publications
Edited Book
Forthcoming: Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Articles and Chapters
Forthcoming: Causal control and genetic causation. Noûs. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2012.00867.x [link]
Forthcoming: A primer on information and influence in animal communication. In U. Stegmann (ed.), Animal Communication Theory. CUP.
2013: On the 'transmission sense of information'. Biology and Philosophy, 28 (1): 141-144. [discussion note] [link]
2012: Varieties of parity. Biology and Philosophy, 27 (6): 903-918. [link]
2010: Reply to Bence Nanay's 'Natural selection and the limited nature of environmental resources'. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 41: 418-419. [discussion note] [link]
2010: What Can Natural Selection Explain? Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 41: 61-66. [link]
2009: A Consumer-Based Teleosemantics for Animal Signals. Philosophy of Science, 76: 864-875. [link]
2009: DNA, Inference, and Information. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 60: 1-17. [link]
2005: Genetic information as instructional content. Philosophy of Science, 72: 425-443. [link]
2005: John Maynard Smith's notion of animal signals. Biology and Philosophy, 20: 1011-1025. [link]
2005: Die Adaptationismus-Debatte. In: Krohs, U. & Toepfer, G. (eds.): Philosophie der Biologie: Eine Einführung. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, pp. 287-303.
2005: Der Begriff der genetischen Information. In: Krohs, U. & Toepfer, G. (eds.): Philosophie der Biologie: Eine Einführung. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, pp. 212-230.
2004: The arbitrariness of the genetic code. Biology and Philosophy, 19: 205-222. [link]
2004: Theorien und Verwendungsweisen des Informationsbegriffs in der Genetik. In: Bluhm, R. & Nimtz, C. (eds.): Ausgewählte Beiträge zu den Sektionen der GAP.5, 5. Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie, Bielefeld, 22.-26. September 2003. Paderborn: mentis.
Book Reviews
2010: Book review of Brian Garvey, Philosophy of Biology, Stocksfield: Acumen, 2007. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 61: 235-236.
2007: Book review of Robert A. Wilson, Genes and the Agents of Life. The Individual in the Fragile Sciences, Cambridge: CUP, 2005. Mind, 116: 238-240.
2007: Book review of Alexander Rosenberg, Darwinian Reductionism – Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology, University of Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 47: 899-900.
2005: Book review of Jason Scott Robert, Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution: Taking Development Seriously, Cambridge: CUP, 2004. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 27: 300-302.
2004: Book review of Graham Gordon, Genes. A Philosophical Inquiry, London: Routledge, 2002. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 24: 451-452.
Biology (Selection)
Stegmann, U. E. and K. E. Linsenmair 2002: Assessing the semelparity hypothesis: Egg-guarding and fecundity in an iteroparous treehopper. Ethology, 108 (10): 857-869.
-- and K. E. Linsenmair 2002: Subsocial and aggregating behaviour in Southeast Asian treehoppers (Homoptera: Membracidae). European Journal of Entomology, 99: 29-34.
-- and M. D. Webb, K. E. Linsenmair 2002: New species, synonymies, and life-histories of the Southeast Asian treehopper genus Pyrgauchenia Breddin (Homoptera: Membracidae: Centrotinae).Journal of Natural History, 36: 279-303.
-- 1998: An 'exaggerated' trait in insects: the prothoracic skeleton of Stictocephala bisonia (Homoptera: Membracidae). Journal of Morphology, 238: 157-178.
-- and P. J. A. Kessler, M. M. Sofian, M. Bin Lakim, K. E. Linsenmair 1998: Natural history of the treehopper Gigantorhabdus enderleini. Malayan Nature Journal, 52 (3&4): 241-249.
-- 1997: Revaluation of the prothoracic pleuron of the Membracidae (Homoptera): the presence of an epimeron and a subdivided episternum in Stictocephala bisonia Kopp & Yonke, Oxyrhachis taranda (Fabr.), and Centrotus cornutus (L.). International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology, 26 (1): 35-42.
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