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JEAN-NICOD LECTURES 2008

KIM STERELNY


Short biography

Kim Sterelny is an Australian, born in the outback of NSW in 1950, but bought up in and near Sydney, where he went to university, doing both his undergraduate and his Ph.D at the University of Sydney. He worked at various universities on the east coast of Australia before accepting a permanent position in New Zealand, at Victoria University of Wellington, in 1988. In 1999, he returned to Australia half time, to the Research School of the Social Sciences, at the Australian National University, Canberra, and continues to divide his time between the two capital cities of New Zealand and Australia. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at both institutions. He has had visiting positions at the University of Maryland, Northwestern, Simon Fraser University, Bristol University, and California Institute of Technology (twice). His work has always focused on the intersection between philosophy and the natural sciences; originally linguistics and cognitive psychology, but in the last decade, his interests have increasingly shifted to evolutionary questions. His non-academic interests mostly concern natural history: birding, snorkelling and bushwalking, and reading about all three. When in the city, but not his office or home, he is much more likely to be found in a bar or café than in an art gallery, movie theatre or concert hall. He has a partner and one nine-year old daughter.

Ouvrages

• 1987. LANGUAGE AND REALITY (AVEC M. DEVITT). CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: BLACKWELL/MIT PRESS. SECOND EDITION 1999.
• 1990. THE REPRESENTATIONAL THEORY OF MIND: AN INTRODUCTION. OXFORD:
  BLACKWELL.
• 1999. SEX AND DEATH: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY (AVEC P. GRIFFITHS). CHICAGO: CHICAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS.
• 2001. THE EVOLUTION OF AGENCY AND OTHER ESSAYS. CAMBRIDGE: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
• 2001. DAWKINS, GOULD AND THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. CAMBRIDGE: ICON BOOKS. SECOND EDITION 2007.
• 2003. THOUGHT IN A HOSTILE WORLD. MALDEN, M.A: BLACKWELL, (LAKATOS PRIZE 2004).
• 2003. FROM MATING TO MENTALITY EVALUATING EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY (ED. AVEC J. FITNESS) MACQUARIE MONOGRAPHS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE. NEW YORK: PSYCHOLOGY PRESS.
• 2008. WHAT IS BIODIVERSITY? (AVEC J. MACLAURIN). CHICAGO: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS.
  
  

Further information:

Sophie Bilardello
Institut Jean-Nicod
Ecole Normale Supérieure
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29, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris

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