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GAL KOBER
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Professional AppointmentsLecturer, Tufts University, Department of Philosophy, 2008–present.Lecturer, Boston University, Department of Philosophy, 2010–2011.Fellow, Harvard University, Department of Philosophy, 2009-2010.Visiting Lecturer, Bridgewater State University, Department of Philosophy, 2007–8.Education
PhD Boston University, Department of Philosophy (defended April 2009, awarded January 2010). Dissertation: Biology Without Species: A Solution to the Species Problem. Readers: Alfred Tauber (Boston University), Denis Walsh (Toronto), Marc Ereshefsky (Calgary).
BA
Tel-Aviv University, Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students;
Magna cum Laude, 2001. PublicationsReview essay of Richard A. Richards. The Species Problem: A Philosophical Analysis HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Forthcoming, 2012 Michael J. Behe, in Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars, Roger Chapman (ed.), Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 2009. On the Relative Repugnance of Kidney Markets, Proceedings of the Third International Applied Ethics Conference, Sapporo, Japan: Hokkaido University Center for Applied Ethics, 2008. Review of Debating Design: From Darwin to DNA, by M. Ruse and W. Dembski, Metapsychology 10:3, 2006. Under Review – Spinoza and Deep Ecology – Species as an unnecessary theoretical entity – Genotypic clustering and species demarcation – Routine infant male circumcision as genital mutilation
Book Manuscript in Preparation – Species Problems, Resolved Papers in Preparation Individuals, Species, and the Units of Evolution| A Litany of Species Problems | On Species Definitions | Physicians' Two Hats. Teaching ExperienceBioethics – upper level, Boston University, Spring 2011. Biomedical Ethics, Boston University, Fall 2010. Introduction to Philosophy (Epistemology), Tufts University, 2008-present. Foundations of Logical Reasoning, Bridgewater State University, 2007-2008. Environmental Ethics, Boston University, 2007. Philosophy and the Internet, Tel-Aviv University, 2000-2001 (co-taught). † Descartes’ Meditations , Tel-Aviv University, 1999-2001.
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Tel-Aviv University, 1998-2001. As a Teaching Fellow Discussion sections, grading. Boston University, 2002-2006. Philosophy of Science †; Ethics; Reasoning & Argumentation; Introduction to Philosophy. † Evaluations are available for all courses, except these
PresentationsInvited Talks Classes or Individuals: No Problem for Species; Case Western Reserve, Department of Philosophy (Feb 2011) Individuals, Species, and the Units of Evolution; The Open University of Israel, School of Life Sciences, Program in Biological Thought (June 2010). Eliminating Species: The Failure of a Concept, Xavier University, Department of Philosophy (Feb 2010). Species Pluralism and Conceptual Dysfunction, guest lecture, Philosophy of Biology - Phil 152, Harvard University (November 2009). Eliminating Species; Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel-Aviv University (June 2009). Ethical Questions on Climate Change; Philosophy and Film Group, Boston University (April 2007).
Conference Talks Species Dysfunction, Tracking Diversity in Nature, History of Biology Seminar, Marine Biological Laboratories - Arizona State University, Woods Hole, MA (May 2010). No Individuals, No Classes, No Species; The International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) Biannual Conference, Brisbane, Australia (July 2009). Eliminating Species; Theory in the Life Sciences, History of Biology Seminar, Marine Biological Laboratories - Arizona State University, Woods Hole, MA (May 2009). On the Relative Repugnance of Kidney Markets; Third International Applied Ethics Conference, Sapporo, Japan (Nov. 2008). Species as an Unnecessary Concept; Nature and its Classification: Metaphysics of Science Conference, University of Birmingham, UK (October 2007). Biology without Species; ISHPSSB Biannual Conference, Exeter, UK (July 2007). Determinism and Indeterminism in Biology; with Corinne Bloch, Future Directions in Biology Studies Workshop, University of Indiana, Bloomington (July 2006). Teleology's New Clothes: Mereo-Teleology, ISHPSSB Conference, Guelph, Canada (July 2005).
Comments and other Talks Comments on “Waving Away The Skeptic: Moore's Proof of the External World”, by Elisabeta Sarca; Boston University, Department of Philosophy (November 2008). What Evolves?; Boston University, Department of Philosophy (December 2006). The Essence of Species; Boston University, Department of Philosophy (April 2006). Teleology in Contemporary Philosophy of Biology; BU Teleology and Causation Workshop (Dec. 2004).
Panel Moderation Evolution Before Darwin; Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science (January 2009). Are There Natural Kinds?; Boston Colloquium for Philosophy of Science (April 2008). Philosophy of Science and Logic; Session Moderator, Whither Philosophy? event, Boston Colloquium (November 2006). Causation in Biology; Session Moderator, Causation in Biology and Physics, Boston Colloquium (October 2006). C. H. Waddington: A Centenary Celebration; Session Moderator, Boston Colloquium (October 2005).
Fellowships & AwardsDoctoral Fellowship: Boston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science, 2005–2007. Dissertation Fellowship: Boston University Philosophy Department, 2004 –2005. Teaching Fellowship: Boston University Philosophy Department, 2002–2004. Presidential Fellowship: Boston University, 2001–2005. Merit Award: Tel-Aviv University, Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, 1999. Merit Scholarship: Tel-Aviv University, Interdisciplinary Program for Outstanding Students, 1996–2000.
Languages| Hebrew: fluent | French : conversational | German: reading |
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