G-PHB-CER - Philosophy of Biology Certificate

Draws resources from Duke philosophy and biology departments, as well as from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University. Students enter the certificate program during their first or second year of graduate work.

Certificate prerequisites are:

• prior enrollment in a minimum of one 100-level course in the philosophy of science, or philosophy of biology; and

• prior enrollment in at least two 100-level courses in biology;

• two graduate-level seminars in philosophy of biology (philosophy department);

• two graduate-level courses in evolutionary and/or developmental biology (biology department);

• directed reading class supervised by a faculty member in the center;

• capstone research paper; and

• regular seminar participation over a two-year period (philosophy of biology).