CURRICULUM VITAE

WILLIAM HARMS

• Campus: Humanites and Social Sciences, BE4128, Seattle Central Community College, 1701 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122-9905
• (206)352-7851
• E-mail: billharms@billharms.com
• Home: 3621 37th Ave.West,  Seattle, WA 98199
• Website: http://billharms.com

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. University of California, Irvine. Philosophy. Emphasis in History and Philosophy of Science. June, 1996.
• M.A. University of California, Irvine. Philosophy. June 1993.
• B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz. Philosophy. June 1990. [with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa. ]

EMPLOYMENT:

• 1996-1998: Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University. [Ad hoc member of the graduate faculty.]
• 1998-1999: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia
• Since September 2000:
  • Philosophy Instructor, Seattle Central Community College.

SPECIALIZATION:

• Epistemology
• Philosophy of Mind
• Philosophy of Biology
• Philosophy of Science
• Evolutionary Game Theory

COMPETENCE:

• Modern Philosophy
• Skepticism
• Decision Theory
• Logic

PUBLICATIONS:

1. "Discrete Replicator Dynamics for the Ultimatum Game", University of California, Irvine/ Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences/ Technical Report Series - #MBS 95-09. 1995.
2. "Cultural Evolution and the Variable Phenotype", Biology and Philosophy, 11:357-375, 1996.
3. "Evolution and Ultimatum Bargaining", Theory and Decision 42:147-175, 1997.
4. "Reliability and Novelty: Information gain in multilevel selection systems",  Erkenntnis 46:3, 335. 1997
5. "The Use of Information Theory in Epistemology ", Philosophy of Science 65:3, 472-501. 1998
6. "Book Review: Dan Sperber's Explaining Culture",   Economics and Philosophy 14:1, 177. 1998.
7. "Biological Altruism in Hostile Environments", Complexity, 5:5 23-28, November, 1999.
8. "The Evolution of Altruism in Hostile Environments", in Evolutionary Origins of Morality, Leonard D. Katz (ed.) Imprint Academic, 2000.
9. "Adaptation and Moral Realism", Biology and Philosophy, 15:5 699-712. 2000.
10. "Evolutionary Epistemology": Entry for the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, with Michael Bradie. February 2001.
11. "Cooperative Boundary Populations: The evolution of cooperation on mortaility risk gradients." Journal of Theoretical Biology, 213: 299-213, 2001.
12. Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes, Cambridge University Press, 2004. 
13. "Primitive Content, Translation, and the Emergence of Meaning in Animal Communication", in The Evolution of Communication Systems, Oller and Griebel, eds. MIT Press, 2004.
14. "Naturalizing Epistemology: Prospectus 2006" in Biological Theory 1:1, 23-24, 2006.
15. "What is Information: Three Concepts": Biological Theory, 1:3, 230-242, 2006.
16. "Evolution of Moral Norms": (With Brian Skyrms) The Oxford Handbook on Philosophy of Biology. Michael Ruse (ed.) Oxford 2008.
17. "Evolutionary Games and the Modeling of Complex Systems" forthcoming in Volume 10 (Complex systems) of the 15 volume Elsevier Handbook of the Philosophy of Science.
18. "Determining Truth Conditions in Signaling Games", forthcoming in a special edition of  Philosophical Studies.

• See also the Evolving Artificial Moral Ecologies website (http://eame.ethics.ubc.ca) for numerous interactive simulators and documentation for evolutionary game theory.

DISSERTATION: Population Epistemology: Information Flow in Evolutionary Processes

Committee:

• Brian Skyrms, Department of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine (Chair).
• Jeff Barrett, Department of Philosophy, University if California, Irvine.
• Karl Hufbauer, Department of History, University of California, Irvine.
  

PRESENTATIONS:

• June '95: "A Scheme for Formalizing Evolutionary Epistemology", at the meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of California Santa Barbara.
• Sept. '95: "Information, Evolution, and the Problem of Epistemic Access", UCI Department of Philosophy Colloquium.
• Nov. '96 "How to Build a Campbell Selection Hierarchy" BGSU Philosophy Colloquium
• July '97 "Teleonomic Agency", at the 1997 meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, at the University of Washington.
• February '98 "Adaptation and Moral Realism", Mid-South Philosophy Conference
• April '98  Invited Participant, UVACHI convernce on Modeling, University of Virginia
• Aug. '98  "Evolutionary Models of Human Behavior" 20th World Conference of Philosophy.
• Sept. '98 "Reasons for Optimism Regarding the Naturalization of Normativity", Simon Fraser University
• Dec. '98  "Adaptation and Moral Realism", Eastern APA Meeting.
• Jan. '99 "The Difference History Makes: adaptation and the objectivity of norms" University of British Columbia, Philosophy Department Colloquium.
• May '99 "The Evolution of Normative Systems", Logic and Philosophy of Sciecne Colloquim, University of California Irvine.
• July '99 "Adaptive History and the Objectivity of Norms", Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, Oaxaca Mexico.
• May '00 "The Evolution of Cooperation on Mortality Risk Gradients", University of Washington School of Oceanography Colloquium.
• May '00 "Cooperative Boundary Populations: The Evolution of Cooperation on Mortality Risk Gradients": Santa Fe Institute.
• October '01 "Primitive Content and Representational Pluralism": Invited Participant, Konrad Lorenz Institute Workshop on Animal Communication.
• July '02 "Four Concepts of Information": Invited Participant, Konrad Lorenz Institute Workshop on  Biological Information.
• Nov '02 "Computational Evolutionary Epistemology": University of Washington Philosophy Department Colloquium.
• August '05 "The Emergence of Cooperation in Hostile Environments: A Computational Result": North American Computing and Philosophy Conference.
• Feb. '08: “Modeling Gene-Culture Coevolution: some theoretical considerations”. University of Washington IPEM (Igert Program in Evolutionary Modeling) seminar
• Mar. '08: “Determining Extensions in Signaling Games”. Laguna Workshop in Honor of Brian Skyrms.

ACADEMIC AWARDS:

• UCI Alumni Dissertation Fellowship 1995
• UCI Humanities Summer Dissertation Fellowship 1994
• UCI Chancellor's Fellowship 1990-1994

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Courses Taught:

• 2000-2007: Seattle Central Community College
  • Introduction to Logic
  • Introduction to Philosophy
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
  • Contemporary Moral Problems
• Spring '98: Bowling Green State University
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Skepticism and Faith
• Fall '97: BGSU
  • Introduction to Decision and Game Theory;
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind;
  • Philosophy of Biology.
• Spring '97: BGSU
  • Intro to the Philosophy of Science;
  • Programming Dynamical Systems: evolutionary models in the normative disciplines (graduate seminar).
• Fall '96: BGSU
  • Introduction to Philosophy;
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
• Summer '95: Introduction to Philosophy (UCI)
• Spring '95: Contemporary Moral Problems (UCI)
• Fall '92; Winter-Spring '93: UCI Humanities Core Course

Teaching Assistantships: Fall'91 - Spring '96

• Ancient Philosophy
• Contemporary Moral Problems
• Critical Reasoning
• Introduction to Ethics
• Introduction to Logic
• Introduction to Philosophy
• Modern Philosophy
• Philosophy of Biology

REFERENCES:

• Brian Skyrms, Department of Logic and the Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine.
• Peter Danielson, Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia.
• Jeff Barrett, Department of Logic and the Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine.
• Karl Hufbauer, Department of History, University of California, Irvine.
• Michael Ruse, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University .
• Edward McClennen: Department of Philosophy, London School of Economics (formerly BGSU). 
• Marvin Belzer: (former) Chair, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University.
• Michael Bradie, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
• Carl Bergstrom, Department of Biology, University of Washington.