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Aleta Quinn Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Positions

Assistant Professor, Politics and Philosophy , College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences 2017 -

Aleta Quinn researches the history and philosophy of biology, in particular the study of biodiversity. She is a research collaborator with the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History.

Publications

selected publications

academic article
- Transparency and Secrecy in Citizen Science: Lessons from Herping. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 85:208-217. 2021
- Diagnosing discordance : signal in data, conflict in paradigms. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology. 11. 2019
- Whewell on classification and consilience. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 64:65-74. 2017
- When is a cladist not a cladist?. Biology and Philosophy. 32.0:581.0-598.0. 2017
- Charles Girard: Relationships and Representation in Nineteenth Century Systematics. Journal of the History of Biology. 50:609-643. 2017
- Phylogenetic inference to the best explanation and the bad lot argument. Synthese. 193:3025-3039. 2016
- Run the Experiment, Publish the Study, Close the Sale: Business, Values, Science and Biomedical Research - A Thematic Introduction. De Ethica. A Journal of Philosophical, Theological and Applied Ethics. 3:5-21. 2016
- William Whewell’s philosophy of architecture and the historicization of biology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 59:11-19. 2016
- Taxonomic revision of the olingos (Bassaricyon), with description of a new species, the Olinguito. Zookeys. 324:1-83. 2013
- Tasmanian Tiger—The Tragic Tale of How The World Lost Its Most Mysterious Predator. Journal of Mammalogy. 86:639-640. 2005
- The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine. Journal of Mammalogy. 86:639-639. 2005
- Daubentonia madagascariensis. Mammalian Species. 740:1-6. 2004
- Indri indri. Mammalian Species. 694:1. 2002
chapter
- Species in the time of big data : the multi-species coalescent, the general lineage concept, and species delimitation. Species Problems and Beyond. Ed. Wilkins, John. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2022
- Biological kinds at the turn of the 20th century : characters, genes, and species as theoretical elements. Perspectives on Classification in Synthetic Sciences. Ed. Bursten, Julia. London: Routledge. 2019

Research

principal investigator on

Species in the Age of Big Data awarded by University of Idaho Research Council Seed Grant 2018 - 2019

Background

education and training

Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh 2015
B.A. in Philosophy, University of Maryland 2005
B.S. in Biology (Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics), University of Maryland 2005

Contact

full name

Aleta Quinn