Elliott Sober
Credentials: Hans Reichenbach Professor & William F. Vilas Research Professor (Harvard, Ph.D. 1974)
Position title: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind
Email: ersober@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-3700
Address:
5199 Helen C. White
Professor Sober’s areas of research are philosophy of science and philosophy of evolutionary biology. His publications include Ockham’s Razors — A User’s Manual (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Did Darwin write the Origin Backwards? (Prometheus Books, 2011), Evidence and Evolution — the Logic Behind the Science (Cambridge University Press, 2008), Unto Others — The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (with David Sloan Wilson, Harvard University Press, 1998) and Philosophy of Biology (Westview Press, 1993)