Biography:Adrian Currie
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Adrian Currie | |
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| Occupation | Senior Lecturer |
| Known for | Philosophy of palaeontology and of geosciences |
| Awards | Fernando Gil Prize 2019 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Philosophy of Science |
| Sub-discipline | Philosophy of Historical Sciences |
| Institutions | University of Exeter |
Adrian Currie is a philosopher of science in the department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK.[1] Currie's work is on the history and philosophy of historical sciences, especially geology, palaeontology, and archeology.[2][3] Currie's book Rock, Bone and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences (2018, MIT) was awarded the Fernando Gil Prize in 2019.[4]
Selected Works
- Comparative Thinking in Biology, Cambridge University Press, 2020
- Scientific Knowledge and the Deep Past, Cambridge University Press, 2019
- Rock, Bone and Ruin: An Optimist’s Guide to the Historical Sciences, MIT, 2018
References
- ↑ "University of Exeter". https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/27508-adrian-currie/publications?favouritesFirst=false&perPage=25&search=Rock&sort=dateDesc&startFrom=0.
- ↑ "Adrian Currie | School of Philosophy". https://philosophy.cass.anu.edu.au/people/adrian-currie.
- ↑ "About Us" (in en-US). http://www.extinctblog.org/about.
- ↑ "Arquivo.pt". https://arquivo.pt/wayback/20230216122217/http://fernando-gil.org.pt/pt/nomeados/.
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