Joeri Witteveen
Research Institute for Philosophy and Religious Studies (OFR
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Joeri Witteveen studied at the University of Maastricht, the University of California in Berkeley and the London School of Economics. In November 2013, he graduated from the University of Cambridge, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, where he studied at a Trinity College scholarship. Joeri has been visiting the Australian National University in Canberra and has received junior fellowships from the Eindhoven University, the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research near Vienna, and the Descartes Center of Utrecht University, where he has been a post doc since 2014 works. Until the beginning of 2017 he was affiliated with the NWO research program "Evolution & Ethics". In 2016 he received a NWO Veni Talent Award and a FWO Pegagus Marie Curie Fellowship for the research project "The Nature of Naming and the Naming of Nature", which he has performed at the Freudenthal Institute since 2017.
Research Interest
History and Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities Life Sciences (strategic theme)
Publications
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Witteveen, J. & Birch, Jonathan (2016). Dividing the Pleistocene Pie. BioScience
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Witteveen, Joeri (2016). "A temporary oversimplification" - Mayr, Simpson, Dobzhansky, and the origins of the typology / population dichotomy (part 2 of 2) . Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical science , 57, (pp. 96-105). Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved ..
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Witteveen, J. (2017). Objectivity, historicity, taxonomy. Recognized
