Prof. Susan Oyama Trained at Harvard University’s Social Relations Department, Susan Oyama has written widely on the nature/nurture opposition and on the concepts of development, evolution, and genetic information. She wrote and edited Aggression with others, under the pen name John Klama (Wiley in the US and Longman in the UK, 1988), and in 2000, her essay collection, Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide was published, along with an expanded edition of The Ontogeny of I...
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Prof. Susan Oyama Trained at Harvard University’s Social Relations Department, Susan Oyama has written widely on the nature/nurture opposition and on the concepts of development, evolution, and genetic information. She wrote and edited Aggression with others, under the pen name John Klama (Wiley in the US and Longman in the UK, 1988), and in 2000, her essay collection, Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide was published, along with an expanded edition of The Ontogeny of Information, considered by many to be the foundational text of the “developmental systems” perspective. With Paul Griffiths and Russell Gray, Oyama also edited Cycles of Contingency, a volume of papers on developmental systems by scholars from many fields. Oyama is Professor Emerita at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The Graduate School and University Center, both of The City University of New York. She has also taught at Sarah Lawrence College and in the Program in Science, Technology and Power of The New School’s Eugene Lang College. Recent publications include: 2007 Sin techo, sin muros, sin piso. In E. Suárez Díaz (Ed.), Variedad infinita: Ciencia y representación un enfoque histórico y filosófico (pp. 91-105). UNAM Publications and Editorial Limusa: Mexico. 2006 Speaking of nature. In Y. Haila & C. Dyke (Eds.), How does nature speak? The dynamics of the human ecological condition (pp. 49-65). Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Boundaries and (constructive) interaction. In Christoph Rehmann-Sutter & Eva M. Neumann-Held (Eds.), Genes in development. Re-reading the molecular paradigm (pp. 272-289). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
