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Ingo Brigandt
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Research
Latest papers
Against unifying homology concepts: Redirecting the debate.
Journal of morphology · 2023 · senior author
Historical and philosophical perspectives on the study of developmental bias.
Evolution & development · 2020 · first author
A special issue on The Evolution of Evolution.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2019 · first author
Latest funding
- $117,262
Conceptual engineering for social justice and environmental purposes
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $100,000
Philosophy of Biology
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $400,000
Philosophy of Biology
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
Against unifying homology concepts: Redirecting the debate.
Gouvêa DY, Brigandt I
Historical and philosophical perspectives on the study of developmental bias.
Brigandt I
A special issue on The Evolution of Evolution.
Brigandt I
John Tyler Bonner: Remembering a scientific pioneer.
Brigandt I, Katz LA, Nanjundiah V, Gilbert SF, Grant PR, Grant BR, Love AC, Newman SA, West-Eberhard MJ
Integration in biology: Philosophical perspectives on the dynamics of interdisciplinarity.
Brigandt I
Systems biology and the integration of mechanistic explanation and mathematical explanation.
Brigandt I
Conceptualizing evolutionary novelty: moving beyond definitional debates.
Brigandt I, Love AC
Natural kinds in evolution and systematics: metaphysical and epistemological considerations.
Brigandt I
Conceptual engineering for social justice and environmental purposes
Principal investigators: Brigandt, Ingo
Philosophy of Biology
Principal investigators: Brigandt, Ingo
Keywords: social and environmental values in science; investigative agendas; standards of explanatory adequacy; conceptual engineering; race; sex; gender; mental disorder; integration and disagreement in biology; gender-based brain research; epigenetics in neuropsychiatry; evolutionary systems biology; evolvability; mechanistic explanation; science education; concepts as motivational and epistemic scaffold
Philosophy of Biology
Principal investigators: Brigandt, Ingo
Keywords: social and environmental values in science; investigative agendas; standards of explanatory adequacy; conceptual engineering; race; sex; gender; mental disorder; integration and disagreement in biology; gender-based brain research; epigenetics in neuropsychiatry; evolutionary systems biology; evolvability; mechanistic explanation; science education; concepts as motivational and epistemic scaffold
Standards, aims, and values: biological explanation and beyond
Principal investigators: Brigandt, Ingo
Keywords: explanatory aims; explanatory and methodological standards; epistemic values; social values; explanation; modelling; scientific practice; systems biology; evolution of complexity; gender and human evolution; biology education; metaphilosophy
Philosophy of Biology
Principal investigators: Brigandt, Ingo
Keywords: epistemology of systems biology, mathematical and mechanistic explanation, idealization, epistemology of evolutionary biology, evolution of novelty and complexity, explanatory standards and aims in biology, interdisciplinarity and disagreement in biology, social and environmental values in science, nature of science, biology education, philosophical method
Integrating different biological approaches: a philosophical contribution
Principal investigators: Brigandt, Ingo
Keywords: integrating different biological approaches; communication across biological fields; theory structure in science; explanation in biology; scientific concepts; context-sensitive use of terms; relation of epistemic units in science; reduction in biology
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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