Todd Grantham  is a graduate of DePauw University (B.A. in Philosophy) and Northwestern University (M.A., Ph.D.). His main teaching and research interests are in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of biology. His research focuses on philosophical issues in evolutionary theory and paleobiology. Thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation, Todd spent the 1999/00 academic year at the University of Chicago studying "Macroevolution and the Unity of Science."

Selected Publications:

"Conceptualizing the (Dis)unity of Science", Philosophy of Science 71 (2): 133-155, 2004.

"The Role of Fossils in Phylogeny Reconstruction, or Why Is It Difficult to Integrate Paleontological and Neontological Evolutionary Biology?" Biology and Philosophy 19 (5): 687-720, 2004.

"Constraints and Spandrels in Gould's Structure of Evolutionary Theory." Biology and Philosophy 19: 29-43, 2004.

"Species Selection" in M. Pagel (ed) Encyclopedia of Evolution. Oxford UP, 2002, pp. 1086-87.

"Adaptive Complexity and Phenomenal Consciousness. "Philosophy of Science 67:648-670, 2000. (Coauthored with Shaun Nichols).

"Evolutionary Epistemology, Social Epistemology, and the Demic Structure of Science," Biology and Philosophy 15: 443-463, 2000.

"Explanatory Pluralism in Paleobiology," Philosophy of Science 66 (Proceedings):  S223-S236, 1999.

"Evolutionary Psychology:  Ultimate Explanations and Panglossian Predictions" in V. Hardcastle (ed), Where Biology Meets Psychology:  Philosophical Essays. Cambridge, MA:  MIT press, pp. 47-66, 1999. (Co-authored with Shaun Nichols).