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University Professorial Research Fellow,
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry,
University of Sydney, Quadrangle A14,
Sydney, NSW 2006,
Australia
Email: paul.griffiths AT usyd DOT edu DOT au

Visiting Professor
ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society
Byrne House, University of Exeter
Exeter, EX4 4PJ, UK
Email: P.E.Griffiths AT exeter DOT ac DOT uk

Short Bio.

A philosopher of science with a focus on biology and psychology, Paul was educated at Cambridge and the Australian National University. He taught at Otago University in New Zealand and was later Director of the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the the University of Sydney, before taking up a Professorship in Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He returned to Australia in 2004, first as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and then as University Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sydney.

He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, annual Visiting Professor in the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society at the University of Exeter, an adjunct member of the Pittsburgh HPS faculty, and a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee of NHMRC.

Read his recent article in The Australian on "The Genome's Quirky Genius" here