Paul Griffiths

This postdoctoral fellowship sits within the ARC Discovery Project Health, Biological Fitness and Environmental Diversity and focuses on a tightly connected set of questions at the interface of philosophy and biology. The successful fellow will help develop conceptual tools for understanding how the organism–environment interface shapes biological fitness, adaptation, and health. The project is based in the Theory and Methods in Bioscience group within Macquarie University’s Philosophy Discipline, and it is affiliated with the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre . The research is collaborative and interdisciplinary, bringing together philosophy and biological sciences to tackle foundational questions about fitness and explanation in evolutionary contexts. The fellow will work with Dr Pierrick Bourrat , Professor David Raubenheimer , and Emeritus Professor Paul Griffiths , along with other collaborators. The advertised research program includes developing an integrative framework for different measures of biological fitness, building a framework for understanding the role of environment in explanations of adaptation, and exploring what these frameworks imply for understanding health. The role is positioned within Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts, based at the Wallumattagal Campus in North Ryde. The advert emphasises a collaborative research environment that bridges philosophical theory with empirical findings from the biological sciences, and it links the post to active research activities in philosophy of biology, evolutionary biology, and bioscience theory.