Tim Lewens
{{Short description|British historian and philosopher (born 1974)}}
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Tim Lewens (born 29 June 1974)LexisNexis Academic Database: 2009 ICC Information Group is a professor in the history and philosophy of biology, medicine, and bioethics at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Lewens is a Fellow of Clare College, where he serves as Director of Studies in PhilosophyClare College Admissions [http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/admissions/fellows/tlewens.html?print Dr Tim Lewens] Retrieved 21 August 2010 and he is a member of the academic staff and lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS).HPS, University of Cambridge Teaching Officers [http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/people/lewens/ Tim Lewens]
Background
Lewens completed his PhD thesis at the Department of HPS, Cambridge University in 2001. He became a lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge soon after completing his doctoral thesis. He now serves as a governor at Exeter School where he was formerly a pupil.{{Cite web|url=http://www.exeterschool.org.uk/page.aspx?id=6527 |title=Exeter School Governing Body: Tim Lewens MA MPhil PhD |publisher=Exeter School |accessdate=21 August 2010}} He was member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2009 to 2015{{cite web|url=http://nuffieldbioethics.org/about/council-members/council-members | title= Past Council Members |publisher=Nuffield Council on Bioethics|accessdate=21 April 2017}} and a member of the Council's Working Party on human bodies in medicine and research (report published autumn 2011).[http://nuffieldbioethics.org/human-bodies/ Nuffield Council on Bioethics' official website - human bodies]
Research
Lewens has written and lectured extensively on evolution and his book on this subject, Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere (2004) received wide critical acclaim,{{Cite journal | last1 = Neander | first1 = K. | title = Moths and Metaphors. Review Essay on Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere by Tim Lewens | journal = Biology & Philosophy | volume = 21 | issue = 4 | pages = 591–602 | year = 2006 | doi = 10.1007/s10539-005-9006-6| s2cid = 84425781 }}Elder, Crawford L. (2005) Review: Are Organisms Artifacts of Natural Selection? by Tim Lewens, The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 118, No. 3 (Fall, 2005), pp. 469-475{{Cite journal | last1 = Shanahan | first1 = T. | title = Design by Nature | journal = BioScience | volume = 54 | issue = 11 | pages = 1044–1046 | year = 2004 | issn = 0006-3568 | doi = 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[1044:DBN]2.0.CO;2| doi-access = free }} (Review of Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere by Tim Lewens.)Zimmerman, William F (2005) (Review of) Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere. Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology. By Tim Lewens. A Bradford Book. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. $32.00. xi + 183 p; ill.; index. {{ISBN|0-262-12261-8}}. 2004. The Quarterly Review of Biology, June 2005, vol. 80, no. 2 as did his 2007 monograph on Charles Darwin.{{cite journal |title=Tim Lewens Darwin |journal=Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews |date=24 March 2007 |first=Michael T. |last=Ghiselin |authorlink=Michael Ghiselin|url=https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/25251-darwin/}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/interview-with-tim-lewens |title=Interview with Tim Lewens |work=Darwin Correspondence Project |accessdate=21 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007070131/http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/interview-with-tim-lewens |archivedate=7 October 2010 }}{{Cite journal | last1 = Ruse | first1 = M.| authorlink = Michael Ruse| title = Review: Tim Lewens: Darwin | journal = Mind| volume = 117 | issue = 468| pages = 1094–1097 | year = 2008 | doi = 10.1093/mind/fzn135}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Lennox | first1 = J. G. | title = Darwin, Philosopher | journal = Metascience | volume = 18 | pages = 121–124 | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1007/s11016-009-9252-3| s2cid = 189912275 }}
Honours
In 2008, Lewens was one of eleven recipients of the University of Cambridge's Pilkington Prize for the quality of his teaching.{{Cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2008061202 |title=Pilkington Prizes honour teaching excellence |work=University News|date=12 June 2008 |accessdate=5 September 2010}}
Selected publications
- {{Cite book |year=2004 |last1=Lewens |first1=Tim |title=Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere |series=Bradford Books, Life and Mind Series |location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=MIT Press|isbn = 978-0-262-12261-0}}
- {{Cite book| last1 = Lewens | first1 = Tim | title = Darwin | publisher = Routledge | year = 2006 | location = London | pages = 289 | url = http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415346382/ |isbn = 978-0-415-34638-2}}
- {{Cite book| last1 = Lewens | first1 = Tim | title = The Meaning of Science: A Pelican Introduction| publisher = Pelican | year = 2015 | pages = 294 | url = http://www.penguin.co.uk/books/the-meaning-of-science/9780141977423/ |isbn = 978-0-141-97742-3}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.people.hps.cam.ac.uk/index/teaching-officers/lewens Tim Lewens, list of publications] Department of HPS, Cambridge.
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Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Category:People educated at Exeter School
Category:Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge
Category:British philosophers of science