Derek J Skillings

Philosopher of Biology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Derek Skillings is a philosopher of science and a biologist. He is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His work has been published in Philosophy of Science, Biology & Philosophy, and Trends in Ecology and Evolution, among others.

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Biology

I, holobiont. Are you and your microbes a community or a single entity?

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Philosophy of science

Life is not easily bounded

Working out where one hare ends and another begins is easy; a siphonophore, not so much. What is an individual in nature?

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