Evolution and the Problem of Other Minds
(Full paper with figures)
 

Biographical Sketch, Elliott Sober

Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor of Philosophy and Henry Vilas
Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he has
taught since 1974.  His research is in philosophy of science, especially in
the philosophy of evolutionary biology.  Sober's books include The Nature
of Selection -- Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus (MIT Press,
1984; 2nd edition, University of Chicago Press, 1993), Reconstructing the
Past -- Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference  (MIT Press, 1988), Philosophy
of Biology (Westview Press, 1993),  From a Biological Point of View --
Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and,
most recently (with David S. Wilson) Unto Others -- The Evolution and
Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (Harvard University Press, 1998).  Sober
is a past president of the American Philosophical Association Central
Division and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.