Description: Maureen A. O’Malley is a philosopher of microbiology, biology, and science in general.
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I’m based in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.. My previous positions were also at the University of Sydney, where I carried out a five-year research project in the Department of Philosophy . Before coming to Sydney, I was a senior research fellow at Egenis , the University of Exeter. Prior to that, I spent a few years in Ford Doolittle’s evolutionary microbiology lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I did my PhD on evolutionary explanations in the
A side project: With Daniela Helbig (also here in HPS Sydney), I’ve been investigating the life of Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider . She was a student of Einstein, and a neo-Kantian philosopher of science who came to Sydney as a refugee when WW2 broke out. As well as getting the history and philosophy of science started in Sydney, she was a major player in an outreach programme to regional towns focused on new scientific developments and philosophy of science. But most generally, she represents an era in which maj