Andrew Inkpen
Biography
S. Andrew Inkpen is an Associate Professor at °®¶¹“«Ć½app in the Department of Philosophy, an Associate Fellow in the History of Science and Technology Programme at the University of Kingās College, and Secretary-Treasurer Elect for the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia and has previously held positions at Dalhousie University, Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh, and Brandon University. His research in the history and philosophy of science focuses on conceptual and methodological issues in ecology and evolutionary biology. Heās also a project leader for the McDonnell Initiative at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, where he focuses on facilitating collaborations between humanities researchers and life scientists with the aim of transforming the research of both fields through interactions and the co-production of knowledge. He is co-author of the book Can Microbial Communities Regenerate? (University of Chicago Press; ).
Publications
BOOKS
2022. Inkpen, SA, & WF Doolittle. Can Microbial Communities Regenerate? University of Chicago Press: Chicago.
SELECTED WRITINGS
Forthcoming. Inkpen, SA. āSelected Effect and Causal Role Functions in Ecology.ā In J Odenbaugh & S Lindquist, Handbook on the Philosophy of Ecology. Routledge Press: New York, NY.
2025. Inkpen SA. What Constitutes the Health Subject? Canadian Journal of Philosophy: 1-18.
2022. Inkpen SA. āDomestication as Natural Selection?ā Metascience, 37: 157-62.
2022. Inkpen, SA. āReview of Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds. Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young (eds.).ā The Quarterly Review of Biology, 97: 127.
2021. Gillette, KS, SA Inkpen, & CT DesRoches. "Does environmental science crowd out non-epistemic values?." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 87: 81-92.
2021. Inkpen, S. A., & Doolittle, W. F. "Adaptive Regeneration Across Scales: Replicators and Interactors from Limbs to Forests." Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 13.
2020. Inkpen, S. A., & DesRoches, C. T. "When ecology needs economics and economics needs ecology: Interdisciplinary exchange during the anthropocene." Ethics, Policy & Environment, 23(2), 203-221.
2019. Inkpen SA. āHealth, Ecology, and the Microbiome.ā eLife, 8: e47626.
2019. Wideman JG, Inkpen SA, Doolittle WF, Redfield RJ. āMutationism, not Lamarckism, Captures the Novelty of CRISPR-Casā Biology and Philosophy, 34: 12.
2019. DesRoches CT, Inkpen SA, Green TL. āThe Eroding Artificial/Natural Distinction? Some Consequences for Ecology and Economics.ā In M Nagatsu and A Ruzzene (eds.), Contemporary Philosophy and Social Science: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Bloomsbury Publishing, London: UK.
2019. Inkpen SA, DesRoches CT. āRevamping the Image of Science for the Anthropoceneā Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 11: 1-7.
2018. Doolittle WF, Inkpen SA. āProcesses and Patterns of Interaction as Units of Selection: An Introduction to ITSNTS Thinkingā Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 115: 4006-14.
2017. Inkpen SA, Douglas GM, Brunet TDP, Leuschen K, Doolittle WF, Langille MGI. āThe Coupling of Taxonomy and Function in Microbiomes.ā Biology and Philosophy, 32: 1225-1243.
2017. Inkpen SA. āDemarcating Nature, Defining Ecology: Creating a Rationale for the Study of Natureās āPrimitive Conditionsā.ā Perspectives on Science, 25: 355-92.
2017. Inkpen SA. āAre Humans Disturbing Conditions in Ecology?ā Biology and Philosophy, 32: 51-71.
2017. Stuart YE, Inkpen SA, Hopkins R, Bolnick DI. āCharacter displacement is an evolutionary pattern. So what causes it?ā Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 121: 711-715.
2016. Inkpen SA. āLike Hercules and the Hydra: Trade-offs and Strategies in Ecological Model-Building and Experimental Designā Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 57: 34-43.
2016. Inkpen SA, Doolittle WF. āMolecular Phylogenetics and the Perennial Problem of Homology.ā Journal of Molecular Evolution, 83: 184-192.
2014. Inkpen SA. āāThe Art Itself is Natureā: Darwin, Domestic Varieties, and the Scientific Revolution.ā Endeavour, 38: 246-56.
Education
PhD (UBC)
BSc (SMU)
Teaching
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Environmental Philosophy
Bioethics
Science and Democracy
Research
History and Philosophy of Science
History and Philosophy of Biology
Environmental Ethics