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Biography
Prior to coming to Australia, Pierrick was a research associate at the University of Oxford, working in the cognitive and evolutionary science of religion. Pierrick completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2015. In 2015-2016, he was an ARC postdoctoral research associate and lecturer at the University of Sydney. He was awarded a Macquarie University Research Fellowship in 2017.
Pierrick has taught at the University of Sydney.
Research interests
Pierrick's main research interest is the philosophy of biology and more particularly the evolutionary side of it. His other areas of interest include the psychology of altruism, cultural evolution and the cognitive science of religion.
Pierrick is currently working on his project on the origins and maintenance of individuality in evolution. This involves questions about levels of selection, heritability and reductionism.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Does Earth's habitability for life exist due to or in spite of Darwinian evolution by natural selection?
Boyle, R. (Chief Investigator), Babcock, G. (Co-Investigator), Bourrat, P. (Primary Chief Investigator) & McShea, D. W. (Co-Investigator)
8/01/25 → 30/04/28
Project: Research
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Cognition all the way up?
Bourrat, P. (Primary Chief Investigator), Barron, A. (Co-Investigator), Griffiths, P. (Co-Investigator) & Love, A. C. (Partner Investigator)
1/12/24 → 31/08/27
Project: Research
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Solving the puzzle of the emergence of individuals in evolution
Bourrat, P. (Primary Chief Investigator) & Stotz, K. (Sponsor)
1/01/17 → …
Project: Research
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DE210100303: Inheritance and the Emergence of Individuals: From concepts to practice
Bourrat, P. (Primary Chief Investigator)
29/12/21 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Constructing Objective Biological Criteria of Health
Bourrat, P. (Primary Chief Investigator), Griffiths, P. (Chief Investigator), Rainey, P. (Chief Investigator), Nesse, R. (Chief Investigator) & Gray, R. D. (Chief Investigator)
1/07/18 → 31/03/21
Project: Research
Research Outputs
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Are biology experts and novices function pluralists?
Roberts, A. J. & Bourrat, P., Jun 2025, In: Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 16, 2, p. 725-743 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Evolutionary transitions in individuality by endogenization of scaffolded properties
Bourrat, P., Jun 2025, In: British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 76, 2, p. 269-294 26 p., 719118.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Moving past conventionalism about multilevel selection
Bourrat, P., Apr 2025, In: Erkenntnis. 90, 4, p. 1363-1376 14 p., e73715.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reproducees, reproducers, and Darwinian individuals
Bourrat, P., Feb 2025, In: Synthese. 205, 2, p. 1-26 26 p., 62.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality
Bourrat, P., Mar 2024, In: European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 14, 1, p. 1-16 16 p., 9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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