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Biography

Roberta L. Millstein is Professor Emerit at the Department of Philosophy, University of California, Davis. Professor Millstein does research in the history and philosophy of biology, especially evolution and ecology, and in environmental ethics. Her current project is a reinterpretation and new defense of Aldo Leopold's land ethic.

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University of California, Davis: Davis, California, US

2021-07-01 to present | Professor Emerit (Philosophy)
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University of California Davis: Davis, CA, US

2006-07-01 to 2021-07-01 | Professor (Department of Philosophy)
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Education and qualifications (1)

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: Minneapolis, MN, US

1990-09 to 1997-08 | PhD (Deparment of Philosophy)
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American Association For The Advancement of Science: Washington D.C., District of Columbia, US

2023-01-31 | AAAS Fellow
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Works (30)

The Land Is Our Community

2024 | Book
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226834474.001.0001
ISBN: 9780226834474
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The Coevolution of Descriptive and Evaluative Beliefs in Aldo Leopold’s Thinking

Philosophy of Science
2024-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1017/psa.2023.133
Contributors: Roberta L. Millstein
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Types of experiments and causal process tracing: What happened on the Kaibab Plateau in the 1920s

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
2019-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2019.04.001
Contributors: Roberta L. Millstein
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Debunking myths about Aldo Leopold's land ethic

Biological Conservation
2018-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.11.027
Contributors: Roberta L. Millstein
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How the Concept of Population Resolves Concepts of Environment

Philosophy of Science
2014 | Journal article
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10.1086/677220
Contributors: Roberta L. Millstein
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Environmental Ethics

The Philosophy of Biology
2013 | Other
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10.1007/978-94-007-6537-5_31
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Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics

History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences
2013 | Book
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10.1007/978-94-007-2454-9
Contributors: Hsiang-Ke Chao; Szu-Ting Chen; Roberta L. Millstein
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Natural Selection and Causal Productivity

Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics
2013 | Other
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10.1007/978-94-007-2454-9_8
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Towards the Methodological Turn in the Philosophy of Science

Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics
2013 | Other
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10.1007/978-94-007-2454-9_1
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Darwin’s explanation of races by means of sexual selection

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2012-09 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.shpsc.2012.05.001
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Exploring the Status of Population Genetics: The Role of Ecology

Biol Theory
2012-07 | Journal article
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10.1007/s13752-012-0056-0
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Chances and causes in evolutionary biology: How many chances become one chance

Causality in the Sciences
2011-03 | Other
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199574131.003.0020
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Sex and sensibility: The role of social selection

Metascience
2010-11 | Journal article
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10.1007/s11016-010-9464-6
Contributors: Erika L. Milam; Roberta L. Millstein; Angela Potochnik; Joan E. Roughgarden
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(Mis)interpreting Mathematical Models: Drift as a Physical Process

Philosophy and Theory in Biology
2009 | Journal article
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10.3998/ptb.6959004.0001.002
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Concepts of drift and selection in "the great snail debate" of the 1950s and early 1960s

2009 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-65849318090
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Populations as Individuals

Biological Theory
2009-07 | Journal article
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10.1162/biot.2009.4.3.267
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Group Selection Is Dead! Long Live Group Selection

BioScience
2008 | Journal article
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10.1641/b580702
Contributors: Ayelet Shavit; Roberta L. Millstein
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The Role of Causal Processes in the Neutral and Nearly Neutral Theories

PHILOS SCI
2008 | Journal article
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10.1086/594506
Contributors: Michael R. Dietrich; Roberta L. Millstein
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Population Genetics

The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology
2007 | Other
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10.1017/ccol9780521851282.002
Contributors: Roberta L. Millstein; Robert A. Jr. Skipper; David L. Hull; Michael Ruse
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Distinguishing Drift and Selection Empirically: “The Great Snail Debate” of the 1950s

J Hist Biol
2007-10 | Journal article
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10.1007/s10739-007-9145-5
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Hsp90-Induced Evolution: Adaptationist, Neutralist, and Developmentalist Scenarios

Biological Theory
2007-10 | Journal article
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10.1162/biot.2007.2.4.376
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Discussion of “Four Case Studies on Chance in Evolution”: Philosophical Themes and Questions

PHILOS SCI
2006 | Journal article
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10.1086/518522
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Natural selection as a population-level causal process

2006 | Journal article
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10.1093/bjps/axl025

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Thinking about evolutionary mechanisms: natural selection

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
2005-06 | Journal article
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10.1016/j.shpsc.2005.03.006
Contributors: Robert A. Skipper; Roberta L. Millstein
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Selection vs. Drift: A Response to Brandon’s Reply

Biol Philos
2005-01 | Journal article
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10.1007/s10539-004-6047-1
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Interpretations of Probability in Evolutionary Theory

Philosophy of Science
2003 | Journal article
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10.1086/377410
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Are random drift and natural selection conceptually distinct?

2002 | Journal article
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10.1023/A:1012990800358

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Evolution

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Science
2002-01-01 | Other
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10.1002/9780470756614.ch11
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Chance and Macroevolution

PHILOS SCI
2000 | Journal article
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10.1086/392857
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Random Drift and the Omniscient Viewpoint

PHILOS SCI
1996-09 | Journal article
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10.1086/289931
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