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Paul Griffiths

Charles Perkins Centre

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First name

Paul

Last name

Griffiths

Organization

Charles Perkins Centre

City

Sydney

State/Province/Region

NSW

ZIP/ Postal Code

2095

Country

Australia

Webpage

https://tmbiosci.org/person/?personId=90

Biography

Emeritus Professor Paul Griffiths is a former Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of NSW, and was awarded the RSNSW Medal for History and Philosophy of Science in 2019.

Trained in philosophy of science at University of Cambridge and Australian National University, Paul specialises in assembling multi-disciplinary teams of philosophers and STEM researchers to address conceptual and theoretical questions in the life sciences. He played a substantial role in the establishment of the Charles Perkins Centre, the first and largest of Sydney’s multi-disciplinary institutes (MDIs) and was a member of its Executive from 2012-23.

Areas of interest

philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, philosophy of medicine