Bill Wimsatt is Senior Fellow at the Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, and emeritus professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked on functional organization and explanation, complexity, mathematical modeling, reductionism and emergence, levels of organization, robustness, the analysis of heuristics and biases in scientific problem-solving, generative entrenchment in adaptive evolution in biology, technology and culture, and works now primarily on cultural evolution.
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- Public Lecture: "An Epistemology of Scientific Investigation"
- Public Lecture: Chance, Evolution, and the Burgess Shale
- Public Lecture: How Objective are Biological Functions
- Public Lecture: Separability, Locality, and Higher Dimensions in Quantum Mechanics
- Public Lecture: Science and Metaphysics: Lessons from Microbiology
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