Phillip Honenberger is a professional philosopher with interests in the philosophy of biology and the ethics and politics of science and technology. His work has appeared in forums such as Synthese, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science, Biology & Philosophy (forthcoming), Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and Human Studies. His current book project develops a model of complexly mediated human agency (environmental, technological, social, etc.) in the long-run perspective of comparative biology, behavior, and evolution, emphasizing developmental plasticity and niche construction as mechanisms supporting the distinctive plasticity of human behavioral and social regimes.
Honenberger has held post-doctoral appointments at the Consortium for HSTM (Philadelphia), Dartmouth College, and the University of Pittsburgh. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Philosophy, Temple University.
