PHD University:
University of the Witwatersrand
Major Publications:
Books
2009: Les philosophies du néo-darwinisme: Conceptions divergentes sur l'homme et le sens de l'évolution (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France). Foreword by Jean Gayon.
2007: Debating Humankind's Place in Nature, 1860-2000: The Nature of Paleoanthropology (New Jersey: Prentice Hall). Foreword by Milford H. Wolpoff and Afterword by Bernard Wood. "Advances in Human Evolution Series" edited by Russell L. Ciochon.
Edited volumes
2014 (forthcoming): Charles Darwin and Scientific Revolutions. 14 papers to be published as a special issue of the American journal "Endeavour" (quarterly magazine reviewing the history and philosophy of science), under my editorship (Guest Editor) on September 1st, 2014.
2012: Human Evolution Across Disciplines: Through the Looking Glass of History and Epistemology. 13 papers published as a special volume of the Italian journal "History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences," under my editorship (Guest Editor), Volume 34, No. 1-2 (March/June).
2011: Defining Darwinism: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Debate. 14 articles published as a special volume of the British journal "Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences" under my editorship (Guest Editor), Volume 42, No. 1 (March).
Articles
2012: "Human Evolution: An Agenda History, Philosophy, and Social Studies," in R.G. Delisle (ed.), Human Evolution Across Disciplines: Through the Looking Glass of History and Epistemology, special issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 34 (1-2): 3-7. With an evaluative committee.
2012: "The Disciplinary and Epistemological Structure of Paleoanthropology: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Development," in R.G. Delisle (ed.), Human Evolution Across Disciplines: Through the Looking Glass of History and Epistemology, special issue of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 34 (1-2): 283-329. With an evaluative committee.
2012: "Welcome to the Twilight Zone: A Forgotten Early Phase of Human Evolutionary Studies," Endeavour, 36 (2): 55-64. With an evaluative committee
Courses Taught:
PHIL3000A: Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" (1859).
PHIL3000B: The Rise of the Social Sciences.
