Description

Dr. Lauren Ross is Dean's Professor and Chancellor's Fellow at the Logic and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of California, Irvine. She also has an affiliate appointment in the Department of Cognitive Sciences, and is a Fellow in the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (CNLM), and a member of the Center for Complex Biological Systems (CCBS) at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. from the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Pittsburgh, her M.A. in bioethics from the Center for Bioethics and Health Law at the University of Pittsburgh, and her M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Ross’s research concerns explanation and causation in the life sciences. This work involves interrelated projects that address: the nature of explanation in various sciences, different causal structures and explanation types, and the rationale that guides particular forms of causal and explanatory reasoning. Her research is supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, John Templeton Foundation Grant Awards, and a Humboldt Experienced Researcher Fellowship, sponsored by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU).