JOYCE HAVSTAD

Professor Havstad is a philosopher of science and values with a background in scientific practice. She has written on animal ethics, avian origins, chemical kinds, climate science and policy, homology, human reproductive cloning, macroevolution, mechanism, natural selection, nuclear receptors, philanthropy, voucher specimen collection, and more.  She has taught classes on animal minds, engineering ethics, research ethics, philosophy of the environment, and more.  She is an editor at Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, has written informally for The OUP Blog, has appeared on The Brain Scoop, and is a founder and contributor at Extinct, the philosophy of paleontology blog. She is trained and certified as an Ombuds and serves in that capacity for her primary academic society, the Philosophy of Science Association.