Sahotra Sarkar

Interests

Biography

A specialist in the history and philosophy of science, he has particular interests in both philosophy of biology and physics. He is the author of Genetics and Reductionism: A Primer ; (Cambridge, 1998) and J.B.S. Haldane--A Scientific Biography (Oxford, forthcoming); editor of several books, including The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology (1996), the six-volume Science and the Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism (1996) and the two-volume The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia (forthcoming); and author of several dozen articles in both philosophical and scientific journals. His teaching and research also encompass mathematical logic, environmental ethics, aesthetics, and Marx. He serves on the editorial boards of BioScience and Evolutionary Theory. He came to Texas after teaching at Boston and McGill Universities and holding fellowships at MIT and the Max Planck Institute.