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Richard Burian
220 Major Williams Hall
(540) 231-6760
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Dr. Burian has general research interests in history and philosophy of science (especially conceptual change)
and epistemology. He specializes in philosophy of biology, with specific concerns in the history of nineteenth
and twentieth century evolutionary theory, theories of heredity, and theories of (biological) development; the
relations among biological disciplines; the impact of the molecular biology on the theory and practice of
biological disciplines; historiography and methodology in history and philosophy of science; and scientific realism.
Publications:
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"On Conflicts Between Genetic and Developmental Viewpoints -- and their
Resolution in Molecular Biology." In Dalla Chiara, M. L., K. Doets, D. Mundici,
and J. van Bentham (eds.), Structure and Norms in Science, vol. 2 of the 10th
International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Florence,
August 1995. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997, pp. 243-264
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Jean Gayon and Richard M. Burian, "France in the Era of Mendelism,"
Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Paris. Sciences de
la vie / Life Sciences 324 (2000): 1097-1106
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"On the Internal Dynamics of Mendelian Genetics," Comptes rendus de l'Académie
des Sciences, Paris. Sciences de la vie / Life Sciences 324 (2000): 1127-1137
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"The Dilemma of Case Studies Resolved: The Virtues of Using Case Studies in the
History and Philosophy of Science," Perspectives on Science 9 (2001): 383-404
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"'Historical Realism', 'Contextual Objectivity', and Changing Concepts of the Gene."
In Lewis Hahn and Randall Auxier (eds.), The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene.
Peru, IL: Open Court Library of Living Philosophers, 2002, pp. 339-360
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"Comments on the Precarious Relationship between History and Philosophy of Science,"
Perspectives on Science 10 (2002): 398-407
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