LINDLEY DARDEN
Address Department of Philosophy
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phones 301-405-5699 (o), 301-405-5690 (fax)
Email darden @ umd.edu
Academic Training
S. M. (Biology) 1972
Ph.D. (Conceptual Foundations of Science) 1974
Distinguished
Scholar Teacher, University of Maryland, 2006
Associate,
Center for the Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh,
Elected 1998; Re-elected 2002
Fellow,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Elected 1995
University
Fellowships, 1970-1974
Phi
Beta Kappa, 1968; B. A. with distinction, 1968
Professor of Philosophy, University of Maryland College Park, 1992-present
Member, Committee for Philosophy and the Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, 2002-present
Member, BEES, Program in Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution, University of Maryland College Park, 2000-present
Member, Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Maryland College Park, 1974-2002
Chairperson, Committee on the History and Philosophy
of Science, University of Maryland College Park, 1984-86; Associate Chair, 2001-2002
Associate Professor of Philosophy and History, University of Maryland College Park, 1979-1992.
Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland (UMIACS),1985-87
Assistant Professor of Philosophy and History, University of Maryland College Park, 1974-1979
Instructor in Philosophy and Humanities, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, Illinois, 1969-1970
Visiting positions
Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, January-May, 1997
Adjunct Faculty Member, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics, Rockefeller University, New York, July 1994-present; Visiting Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Informatics, Rockefeller University, New York, February-June, 1994
Visiting Associate Professor, Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, Department of Computer and Information Science, Center for Cognitive Science, Ohio State University, August 1990-August 1991
Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, Fall, 1982
Visiting Scholar, Heuristic Programming Project, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Fall, 1980
Selected Professional Service
President, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), 2001-2003.
ISHPSSB, Member of Council, 1999-2005; Chair, Operations Committee, 1999-2001; Chair, Site Selection Committee, ISH03; Chair, Nominating Committee, 2003-2005.
Consulting Editor, Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences,2003-present.
Associate Editor, 2002-present, Editorial Board, 1997-present, History and Philosophy of Life Sciences,
Editorial Board, Biology & Philosophy, 1993-present
Editorial Board, Philosophy of Science, 1981-present.
Advisory Editor, ISIS, Journal of the History of Science Society, 1999-2001
Editorial Advisory Board, Science and Philosophy Series, Martin Nijhoff Publishers
Member-at-large, Section L, History and Philosophy of Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1997-2001
Member, Search Committee, Editor of Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science Association, 1998
Invited Panel Member, Panel on National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships, Philosophy subsection, Washington, D. C., July 1998
Advisory Editor, Artificial Intelligence, Special Journal Issue on Scientific Discovery, Volume 91, Number 2, April, 1997.
Program Chair and Editor of two special issues of the journal Philosophy of Science containing refereed and edited articles from the meeting, Philosophy of Science Association Meeting, October 31-November 3, 1996, Cleveland, Ohio
Program Committee, American Association of Artificial Intelligence Spring 95 Symposium, Systematic Methods of Scientific Discovery, Stanford, March, 1995.
Co-organizer, with Michiel Noordewier, Workshop on Machine Learning and Molecular Biology, Machine Learning Conference, Rutgers University, July, 1994
Invited Panel Member, National Science Foundation Program for grants in History and Philosophy of Science, 1989-1992
Panel member, ELSI Special Review Committee, National Center for Human Genome Research, National Institutes of Health, June, 1994.
Co-chair of the Poster Session Committee, Conference of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science, Brandeis University, July, 1993
Member of the Nominating Committee, International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science, 1993-95
Member of the Program Committee, Conference of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science, Northwestern University, July, 1991
Program committee member and session organizer (with Peter Karp), "Artificial Intelligence and Philosophical Foundations," for Conference on Bioinformatics, Integration of Organismic and Molecular Data Bases and Use of Expert Systems in Biology, George Mason University, July, 1990
Program Chair and Local Arrangements, Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology, University of Maryland, April, 1986
Invited Panel Member, NEH Review Panel for grants in Humanities, Science and Technology, May, 1984, and March, 1987.
Governing Board of the Philosophy of Science Association, 1979-1983.
Memberships
History of Science Society
American Philosophical Association
International Society for History, Philosophy, and
Social Studies of Biology
International Society for Computational Biology
American Association for the Advancement of Science
National Science Foundation, Program in Science and Technology Studies, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant to Lindley Darden, PI as Advisor to Rob Skipper, for research expenses related to his dissertation, "Theory Evaluation in Population Genetics," 1999-2000.
General Research Board Grant, University of Maryland, "Adaptive Mutation: Challenge to Molecular Biology and Evolutionary Theory," Fall, 1996.
National Science Foundation Grant, Program for Visiting Professorships for Women, "A Model for Anomaly Resolution in Scientific Change," Ohio State University, August, 1990-August 1991.
General Research Board Grant, University of Maryland, "A Model for Anomaly Resolution in Scientific Change," Fall, 1990.
Apple Macintosh Software Development Grant, Instructional Computing Programs, University of Maryland, College Park, "Forming Hypotheses about Parts and Wholes: Graphic and Knowledge Representation Framework," Summer, 1988.
Special Research Assignment, Division of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, "Theory Construction in Biology," Fall, 1986.
National Science Foundation Subcontract from Wayne State University, "Reasoning by Analogy in Medical Knowledge Bases," Co-principal investigator with Roy Rada of the National Library of Medicine, 1985-1986.
Funding for Joint Atlantic Seminar in History of Biology (general operating funds and graduate student travel), from Division of Arts and Humanities, Graduate School, and Parents Association, University of Maryland, Spring, 1986.
Travel Grants, International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science, 1977, 1979, 1983.
General Research Board Grant, University of Maryland, "Methods of Theory Construction," August-December, 1984.
American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship, "Reasoning in Theory Construction," July-December, 1982.
General Research Board Grant, University of Maryland, "Construction of the Theory of the Gene," 1981.
National Science Foundation, Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, "General Aspects of Theory Development: A Case Study of The Theory of the Gene," 1978-1979.
National Endowment for the Humanities, "Patterns of Reasoning in the Discovery of New Ideas," Summer Stipend, 1976.
General Research Board Grant, University of Maryland, "The Concept of a Scientific Field," 1975.
Grants to Graduate Students on which LD served as PI
"Theory Evaluation in Population Genetics," National Science Foundation, Program in Science and Technology Studies, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant to Lindley Darden, PI as Advisor to Rob Skipper, for research expenses related to his dissertation, 1999-2000.
"R. A. Fisher and Randomized Experimental Design," National Science Foundation, Program in Science and Technology Studies, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant to Lindley Darden, PI as Advisor to Nancy Hall for research expenses related to her dissertation, 2001-2002.
Invited speaker, "Discovering Mechanisms: A Computational Philosophy of Science Perspective," Discovery Science 2001, Washington, DC, November 2001
Invited speaker, "Discovering Mechanisms: Construction, Evaluation, and Revision," Conference on Revisiting the Discovery/Justification Distinction, Max-Planck Insitut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany, Feb27-Mar3, 2002.
Organized CHPS colloquium series on History and Philosophy of Biology & Chemistry; arranged cosponsored talks with Departments of Chemistry, Biology & BEES, and Geology (Paleontology). UMCP, Fall 2001.