Dr Ulrich Stegmann
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Biography
I joined the department in 2009, after being a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, and a Teaching Associate at the University of Bristol. I received my MA and PhD (2006) from King’s College London. Before coming to the UK, I studied biology in Germany and the USA and obtained a PhD in zoology. In 2016, I was a Visiting Professor for the Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Utrecht University.
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Head of Discipline for Philosophy
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Research Overview
Philosophy of Science, especially the History and Philosophy of Biology
My research focuses on genetic causation, the nature of purportedly informational or representational phenomena, and the role of diagrams in mechanistic modelling. Much of my work addresses these issues in the context of molecular biology and animal behaviour studies. The overall goal of my work is a better understanding of biology as it is actually practiced, its fundamental concepts, its ontological commitments, its tools and methods. Some of my work employs historical research to address the philosophical issues at stake.
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A willow drawing from 1786: the earliest depiction of intraspecific trait variation in plants?
Annals of Botany, vol. 127, no. 4, pp. 411-412Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaa091
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/16423/1/Stegmann_AoB_AWillowDrawing_AAM.pdf
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Scientific modelling with diagrams
Synthese, vol. 198, pp. 2675-2694Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMedical toolkit organisms and Covid-19
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 43, 14Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPhysical models and embodied cognition
Synthese, vol. 197, no. 10, pp. 4387-4405Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEvolution and information: an overview
Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy. Joyce, R. (ed.). Routledge, pp. 79-90, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersThe Content of Animal Signals
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. Andrews, K., Beck, J. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 324-332, 9 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters‘Genetic Coding’ Reconsidered: An Analysis of Actual Usage
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 707-730Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Philosophy of Communication and Information
The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information. Floridi, L. (ed.). Routledge, pp. 304-317, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315757544.ch25
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11093/1/2016_Floridi_Draft.pdf
Prospects for probabilistic theories of natural information
Erkenntnis, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 869-893Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-014-9679-9
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/6298/1/Prob_Info_13_B.pdf
Causal control and genetic causation
Noûs, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 450-465Contributions to Journals: Articles