CAROL CLELAND (Brown, Ph.D. 1981) Professor Cleland arrived at CU Boulder in 1986, after having spent a year on a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University's Center for the Study of Language and Information. She is a member of NASA's Institute for Astrobiology and CU's Institute for Cognitive Science.

Area of Interest: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Logic, and Metaphysics. More specifically, scientific methodology (standards of evidence, historical science, classical experimental science), philosophy of biology (microbiology, astrobiology, definitions of 'life'), causation, space and time, supervenience, events, the Church-Turing Thesis, and the concept of effective procedure.

Current Research: Working on papers in the area of philosophy of science (historical science, microbiology, the nature of life, Darwinian evolution) and a book (The Quest for a Universal Theory of Life: Searching for life as we don't know it) under contract with Cambridge University Press.