Participant Info
- First Name
- Emily
- Last Name
- Herring
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- preh@leeds.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- University of Leeds
- Website URL
- https://www.emherring.com/
- Keywords
- Science, Biology, Evolution, Philosophy of Biology, Henri Bergson, Vitalism, Darwinism, Lamarckism
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Emily Herring is a PhD student in the school of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science at the University of Leeds. She is interested in all aspects of the history and philosophy of biology. Her current research concerns 20th century biology. Her thesis examines the appropriation of Henri Bergson’s philosophy of life by French and English-speaking biologists.
- Recent Publications
Herring, Emily. 2018. “Great is Darwin and Bergson his poet”: Julian Huxley’s Other Evolutionary Synthesis. Annals of Science, 75(1), pp. 40-54
Herring, Emily, Radick, Greg. Forthcoming, 2018. Emergence in Biology: From Organicism to Systems Biology. in. Gibb, S, Hendry, R. F. and Lancaster, T. (eds.) in The Routledge Handbook of Emergence. Routledge
Herring, Emily, Loison, Laurent. 2017. Lamarckian Research Programs in French Biology. 1900-1970. in. Delisle, Richard G. (ed.). The Darwinian Tradition in Context: Research Programs in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology. Springer, pp. 243-269
Herring, Emily. 2017. The Genotype/Phenotype Distinction. in. Smith, Justin E. H. (ed.). Embodiment. Oxford University Press
Herring, Emily. 2016. Des évolutionnismes sans mécanisme : les néo-lamarckismes métaphysiques d’Albert Vandel (1894-1980) et Pierre-Paul Grassé (1895-1985). Revue d’histoire des sciences. 69(2), pp. 369-398
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @EtheHerring
- Country Focus
- Expertise by Geography
- England, France
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Science
