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Dr Ulrich Stegmann

Dr Ulrich Stegmann
Dr Ulrich Stegmann
Dr Ulrich Stegmann

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Email Address
u.stegmann@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273679
Office Address

50-52 College Bounds

Room CB504

School/Department
School of Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History

Biography

I am a Reader in Philosophy in the School of Divinity, History, Philosophy and History of Art, which I joined in 2009. In 2016, I was a Visiting Professor for the Philosophy of the Life Sciences at Utrecht University. Before coming to Aberdeen, I was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London, and a Teaching Associate at the University of Bristol. I received my MA and PhD from King’s College London and, prior to that, studied biology in Germany.

Qualifications

  • Philosophy 
    2006 - King's College London 

    PhD

  • Philosophy 
    2003 - King's College London 

    MA

  • Zoology 
    2000 - University of Wuerzburg 

    Dr. rer. nat.

  • Biology 
    1996 - University of Bremen 

    Diplom-Biologe

Internal Memberships

Undergraduate Programme Coordinator

Research

Research Overview

Philosophy of Science, especially the History and Philosophy of Biology

My research focuses on genetic causation, the nature of purportedly informational or representational phenomena, and the role of diagrams in mechanistic modelling. Much of my work addresses these issues in the context of molecular biology and animal behaviour studies. The overall goal of my work is a better understanding of biology as it is actually practiced, its fundamental concepts, its ontological commitments, its tools and methods. Some of my work employs historical research to address the philosophical issues at stake.

 

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Philosophy.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Philosophy

  • Supervising
  • Accepting PhDs
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Research Specialisms

  • Philosophy of Science
  • History of Science

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Supervision

My current supervision areas are: Philosophy.

Supervision is offered in general philosophy of science (e.g. models, visual representations, causation, explanation, experimentation) and the history and philosophy of the life sciences (including neuroscience and biomedicine).

Funding and Grants

Several funding organisations have supported my research, including the British Academy, the Wellcome Trust, and the Carnegie Trust. 

Teaching

Programmes

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Publications

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  • From lay to scientific cognition: the case of pre-evolutionary homologies

    Stegmann, U., Schmidt, F.
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 119, 102189
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  • 鈥榃here Nature stopped half-way鈥�: waterlilies and the foliar theory of the flower

    Stegmann, U.
    Images of the Plant Humanities: Theory, Art and the Botanic Gaze. Sands, D., Whistler, D. (eds.). Bloomsbury, pp. 195-208, 13 pages
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  • Homology judgements of pre-evolutionary naturalists explained by general human shape matching abilities

    Stegmann, U. E., Schmidt, F.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 12269
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  • A willow drawing from 1786: the earliest depiction of intraspecific trait variation in plants?

    Stegmann, U. E.
    Annals of Botany, vol. 127, no. 4, pp. 411-412
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  • Scientific modelling with diagrams

    Stegmann, U. E.
    Synthese, vol. 198, pp. 2675-2694
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  • Medical toolkit organisms and Covid-19

    Stegmann, U.
    History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, vol. 43, 14
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  • Physical models and embodied cognition

    Stegmann, U.
    Synthese, vol. 197, no. 10, pp. 4387-4405
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  • Evolution and information: an overview

    Stegmann, U.
    Routledge Handbook of Evolution and Philosophy. Joyce, R. (ed.). Routledge, pp. 79-90, 12 pages
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  • The Content of Animal Signals

    Stegmann, U.
    The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. Andrews, K., Beck, J. (eds.). Routledge, pp. 324-332, 9 pages
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  • 鈥楪enetic Coding鈥� Reconsidered: An Analysis of Actual Usage

    Stegmann, U. E.
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 707-730
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  • The Philosophy of Communication and Information

    Stegmann, U.
    The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information. Floridi, L. (ed.). Routledge, pp. 304-317, 15 pages
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  • Prospects for probabilistic theories of natural information

    Stegmann, U.
    Erkenntnis, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 869-893
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  • Causal control and genetic causation

    Stegmann, U.
    狈辞没蝉, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 450-465
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  • Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence

    Stegmann, U. (ed.)
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  • A primer on information and influence in animal communication

    Stegmann, U.
    Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence. Stegmann#, U. E. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-40, 40 pages
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  • On the 'transmission sense of information'

    Stegmann, U. E.
    Biology and Philosophy, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 141-144
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  • Varieties of parity

    Stegmann, U.
    Biology and Philosophy, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 903-918
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  • What can natural selection explain?

    Stegmann, U. E.
    Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 61-66
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  • A Consumer-Based Teleosemantics for Animal Signals

    Stegmann, U. E.
    Philosophy of Science, vol. 76, no. 5, pp. 864-875
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  • DNA, Inference, and Information

    Stegmann, U. E.
    British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 1-17
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  • John Maynard Smith鈥檚 notion of animal signals

    Stegmann, U.
    Biology and Philosophy, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 1011-1025
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  • Genetic information as instructional content

    Stegmann, U.
    Philosophy of Science, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 425-443
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  • The arbitrariness of the genetic code

    Stegmann, U.
    Biology and Philosophy, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 205-222
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  • Subsocial and aggregating behaviour in Southeast Asian treehoppers (Homoptera: Membracidae)

    Stegmann, U., Linsenmair, K. E.
    European Journal of Entomology, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 29-34
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  • Assessing the semelparity hypothesis: Egg-guarding and fecundity in an iteroparous treehopper

    Stegmann, U.
    Ethology, vol. 108
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  • New species, synonymies, and life-histories of the Southeast Asian treehopper genus Pyrgauchenia Breddin (Homoptera: Membracidae: Centrotinae)

    Stegmann, U. E., Webb, M. D., Linsenmair, K. E.
    Journal of Natural History, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 279-303
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  • An 鈥榚xaggerated鈥� trait in insects: the prothoracic skeleton of Stictocephala bisonia (Homoptera: Membracidae)

    Stegmann, U.
    Journal of morphology, vol. 238, no. 2, pp. 157-178
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