David Hull

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David Lee Hull (born 15 June 1935) is a philosopher with a particular interest in the philosophy of biology.

Hull was one of the first graduates of the History and Philosophy of Science department at Indiana University. After earning his PhD from IU he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for several years before moving to Northwestern. Hull is a former president of the Philosophy of Science Association. He was particularly well known for his argument that species are not sets or collections but rather spacially and temporally extended individuals. He has recently published a number of short articles on his experience as a gay man in philosophy.

He is Dressler Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at Northwestern University.

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Hull, D. L. (1973) Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; reprinted 1983.
Hull, D. L. (1974) Philosophy of Biological Science. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall; translated into Portuguese (1975), Japanese (1994).
Hull, D. L. (1988) Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science Chicago: University of Chicago Press; extract in Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition, 3rd edition, ed. Philip Appleman (2001), pp. 361-363.
Hull, D. L. (1989) The Metaphysics of Evolution. Stony Brook NY: State University of New York Press.
Hull, D. L. (1992) "Review of The Scientific Attitude" Current Comments 15 (September 28): 149-154.
Hull, D. L. (1999) "Evolutionists red in tooth and claw" Nature, 398 (April): 385.
Hull, D. L. (2000) "Activism, scientists and sociobiology" Nature 407 (6805): 673-674
Hull, D. L. (2001) "Replicators and interactors" In his Science and Selection. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 13-32.
Hull, D. L. (2002a) "A career in the glare of public acclaim" Bioscience 52 (September): 837-841.
Hull, D. L. (2002b) "Explanatory styles in science" American Scientist, September.
Hull, D. L., R. Langman and S. Glenn (2001) "A general account of selection: biology, immunology and behavior" Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (3): 511–528.
Hull, D. L. and M. Ruse, eds., (1998) The Philosophy of Biology Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.