Overview

I am a Leverhulme postdoctoral fellow, studying the philosophy of biology under the supervision of John Dupré. My project is about the relationship between process philosophy and new mechanism, as biological ontologies. I am a reformed scientist, who turned to philosophy in grad school after a brief stint as an evolutionary biologist. Primarily I work on the philosophy of molecular biology and evolution. My favourite organism is the slime mould.

I have done a bit of general philosophy of science. Some of that work has been on the use of category theory in models of causation. I recently collaborated on a project about explanation and interpretability in machine learning. I also moonlight as a philosopher and teacher of logic and the philosophy of mathematics. There I focus on constructivism and category theory.

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Publications

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2023

• Brunet TDP, Payette G. (2023) An Evidence Logic Perspective on Schotch-Jennings Forcing, Logic, Language, Information, and Computation, Springer Nature Switzerland, 135-160, DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-39784-4_9. [PDF]
• Brunet TDP. (2023) Categorial modal realism, Synthese, volume 201, no. 2, article no. 49, DOI:10.1007/s11229-023-04042-4. [PDF]

2022

• Brunet TDP. (2022) Higher level constructive neutral evolution, Biology & Philosophy, volume 37, no. 4, article no. 23, DOI:10.1007/s10539-022-09858-x. [PDF]
• Erasmus A, Brunet TDP. (2022) Interpretability and Unification, Philosophy & Technology, volume 35, no. 2, article no. 42, DOI:10.1007/s13347-022-00537-z. [PDF]

2021

• Brunet TDP, Doolittle WF, Bielawski JP. (2021) The role of purifying selection in the origin and maintenance of complex function, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, volume 87, pages 125-135, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsa.2021.03.005. [PDF]
• Brunet TDP. (2021) Local causation, Synthese, volume 199, no. 3-4, pages 10885-10908, DOI:10.1007/s11229-021-03272-8. [PDF]

2020

• Ellwanger JH, Lekgoathi MDS, Nemani K, Tarselli MA, Al Harraq A, Uzonyi A, Dutton-Regester K, Yoho R, Srivastava S, Strong M. (2020) News from a postpandemic world, Science (New York, N.Y.), volume 369, no. 6499, pages 26-29, DOI:10.1126/science.abd1320.
• Brunet TDP, Halina M. (2020) Minds, machines, and molecules, Philosophical Topics, volume 48, no. 1, pages 221-241, DOI:10.5840/PHILTOPICS202048111.
• Erasmus A, Brunet TDP, Fisher E. (2020) What is Interpretability?, Philosophy & Technology, volume 34, no. 4, pages 833-862, DOI:10.1007/s13347-020-00435-2. [PDF]
• Brunet TDP, Fisher E. (2020) Reasoning Continuously: A Formal Construction of Continuous Proofs, Studia Logica, volume 108, no. 6, pages 1145-1160, DOI:10.1007/s11225-019-09892-z. [PDF]

2019

• Brunet TDP. (2019) On Purpose, ISIS, volume 110, no. 3, pages 580-581, DOI:10.1086/704554. [PDF]

2018

• Brunet TDP, Doolittle WF. (2018) The generality of Constructive Neutral Evolution, Biology & Philosophy, volume 33, no. 1-2, article no. 2, DOI:10.1007/s10539-018-9614-6. [PDF]

2017

• Doolittle WF, Brunet TDP. (2017) On causal roles and selected effects: our genome is mostly junk, BMC BIOLOGY, volume 15, article no. ARTN 116, DOI:10.1186/s12915-017-0460-9. [PDF]
• Inkpen SA, Douglas GM, Brunet TDP, Leuschen K, Doolittle WF, Langille MGI. (2017) The coupling of taxonomy and function in microbiomes, BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY, volume 32, no. 6, pages 1225-1243, DOI:10.1007/s10539-017-9602-2. [PDF]

2016

• Brunet TDP. (2016) Aims and methods of biosteganography, JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY, volume 226, pages 56-64, DOI:10.1016/j.jbiotec.2016.03.044. [PDF]
• Doolittle WF, Brunet TDP. (2016) What Is the Tree of Life?, PLOS GENETICS, volume 12, no. 4, article no. ARTN e1005912, DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005912. [PDF]

2015

• Brunet TDP, Doolittle WF. (2015) Multilevel Selection Theory and the Evolutionary Functions of Transposable Elements, GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, volume 7, no. 8, pages 2445-2457, DOI:10.1093/gbe/evv152. [PDF]

2014

• Doolittle WF, Brunet TDP, Linquist S, Gregory TR. (2014) Distinguishing between "Function" and "Effect" in Genome Biology, GENOME BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION, volume 6, no. 5, pages 1234-1237, DOI:10.1093/gbe/evu098. [PDF]
• Brunet TDP, Doolittle WF. (2014) Getting "function" right, PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, volume 111, no. 33, pages E3365-E3365, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1409762111. [PDF]

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