Alexander Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. A leading scholar in the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of cognitive, behavioral and social science (especially economics), and causation, he has held fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.

In 1993 Rosenberg received the Lakatos Award in the philosophy of science. Among his many scholarly works are Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? (1992), Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science (1994), Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy (2000), Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Approach (2000), and Darwinian Reductionism or How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology (forthcoming).

Professor Rosenberg delivered the following address at the 2006 ASC conference. In 2006, he joined the National Humanities Center as an ASC Fellow.