Career Outline

  • 1981-4 Undergraduate student (BA Hons 1984) Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
  • 1985-8 PhD Student (PhD awarded 1989) Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University
  • 1986 Tutor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Australian National University
  • 1988-91 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Otago
  • 1991-6 Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Otago
  • 1992 (Fall semester) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland
  • 1994 (Fall semester) Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University
  • 1997-8 Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Otago
  • 1998-2000 Senior Lecturer and Director, Unit for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney.
  • 2000-2004 Professor, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2004-Present, Visiting Professor, ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, University of Exeter
  • 2004-2007 ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Philosophy, University of Queensland
  • 2007-Present  University Professorial Research Fellow, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney


In conversation with Ernst Mayr at
'Philosophy of Biology: Yesterday, Today,
Tomorrow'. FSU Tallahassee, February 2001.
Photo by Chris Pyne.


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