Education
2016 - 2020
History & Philosophy of Science Department, University of Cambridge
PhD - Philosophy of Science
Title: Conceptual Challenges in Cultural Selection
Supervisor: Tim Lewens
2014 - 2015
Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method,
London School of Economics
Msc Philosophy of Science
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2012 - 2013
University College London
2009 - 2012
University of Oxford
MRes - Biodiversity, Evolution and Conservation
BA Biological Sciences​
Appointments
Oct 2021 -
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
The Open University
June 2020 - Sept 2021
Institut für Philosophie I,
Ruhr Universität Bochum
Jan 2020 - May 2020
Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method,
London School of Economics
Lecturer in Philosophy
Postdoctoral Researcher
‘The Return of the Organism in the Biosciences: Theoretical, Historical and Social Dimensions’ DFG Research Group
LSE Fellow
Articles & Book Chapters
Chellappoo, A. (2022). When can cultural selection explain adaptation?. Biology & Philosophy, 37(1), 1-23.
Chellappoo, A. (2021). Contrasting Narratives of Race and Fatness in Covid-19. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43(4), 1-24.
Chellappoo, A. (2021). Cultural Evolution: A Case Study in Global Epistemologies of Science. In Ludwig, D., Koskinen, I., Mncube, Z., Poliseli, L., & Reyes-Galindo, L. (Eds.). Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science. Routledge.
Chellappoo, A. (2020). Rethinking prestige bias. Synthese, 1-22.
Olson, P.D., Zarowiecki, M., James, K., Baillie, A., Bartl, G., Burchell, P., Chellappoo, A., Jarero, F., Tan, L.Y., Holroyd, N. and Berriman, M., (2018) Genome-wide transcriptome profiling and spatial expression analyses identify signals and switches of development in tapeworms. EvoDevo, 9(1), 21.
Book Reviews
Chellappoo, A. (2020). [Review of] Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution by Love, A. C. and Wimsatt, W. (Eds). The BJPS Review of Books. http://www.thebsps.org/ reviewofbooks/chellappoo-on-love-and-wimsatt/