Alan C. Love

Service

To the profession...

  • President (elected), Philosophy of Science Association, 2025-2026 (President-Elect), 2027-2028 (President)
  • Founding Editor of Foundations for Interdisciplinarity in the Life Sciences: Concise Monographs (Springer), 2023–

    • Schulz, A.W. 2025. Presentist Social Functionalism: Bringing Contemporary Evolutionary Biology to the Social Sciences. Cham, Switzerland: Springer-Nature.

    • Moreno, A. and J. Peretó. 2026. An Evolutionary Story of Agency: How Life Evolved to Act on its Own. Cham, Switzerland: Springer-Nature.
  • Advisory Board member, R3ISE Graduate Science Program, W. Harry Feinstone Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2023–
  • Grant Review Panelist (Standard and DDRIG), National Science Foundation, Science, Technology, and Society Division, 2017-2018
  • Chair, 1st Annual Poster Forum, Philosophy of Science Association, 2016
  • Nominating Committee member (elected), Philosophy of Science Association, 2020-2021
  • Member-at-Large (elected), Section on History & Philosophy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2016–2020
  • Organizing Committee Co-Chair, Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Minneapolis, MN, 2016
  • General Editor of Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, 2014–present

    • Volume 20: Gorham, G., B. Hill, E. Slowik, and C.K. Waters (eds.). 2016. The Language of Nature Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

    • Volume 21: Peschard, I. and B. van Fraassen (eds.). 2018. The Experimental Side of Modeling. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
    • Volume 22: Love, A.C. and W.C. Wimsatt (eds). 2019. Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
    • Volume 23: Baxter, J., O. Lean, and W.C. Bausman (eds). 2023. From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Founding editor of Philosophy & Theory in Biology (online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal) with Massimo Pigliucci (CUNY-Lehman), Jonathan Kaplan (Oregon State University), and Joan Roughgarden (Stanford University), 2009–2014
  • Philosophy, Theory & Practice in Biology, Editorial Board, 2015–present
  • Section editor of “Philosophy of Evo-devo” (12 entries) for Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Reference Guide (2021), edited by L. Nuño de la Rosa and G.B. Müller. Springer.
  • Research Topic editor (with Scott Lidgard [Field Museum]) of “New Perspectives on Living Fossils” for Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022-3.
  • Co-Editor of European Philosophy of Science Association Biennial Meeting 2021 Proceedings, published in European Journal of Philosophy of Science, 2022-3.
  • &HPS – Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Steering Committee, 2009–present; Executive Committee, 2015-present
  • Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice Steering Committee, 2018–2024
  • Philosophy of Science, Associate Editor, 2019–
  • HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Editorial Board, 2018–
  • History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences Editorial Board, 2018–
  • Metascience, Editorial Board, 2010–present
  • Bioscience, Editorial Board, 2012–present
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol. Dev. Evol.), Editorial Board, 2013–present
  • Science: Philosophy, History and Education Book Series (Springer), Editorial Board, 2013–present
  • Council Member (elected), International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, 2013–2017
  • FWO: Research Foundation – Flanders (Belgium), Review College, 2021 – 2026
  • Board of Directors, “Building Foundations in Science-Engaged Theology: Insights from Philosophy of Science”

Journal Referee

  • &HPS5 Proceedings
  • Acta Biotheoretica
  • BioEssays
  • Biology & Philosophy
  • Bioscience
  • British Journal for Philosophy of Science
  • Developmental Biology
  • Erkenntnis
  • European Journal for Philosophy of Science
  • Evolution & Development
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Genome
  • Heredity
  • History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
  • International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology
  • Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol)
  • Journal of the History of Biology
  • Journal of Morphology
  • Mind & Matter
  • Philosophical Studies
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy, Theory & Practice in Biology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
  • Psychology Research and Behavioral Management
  • Science & Education
  • Science Education
  • Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science
  • Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science
  • Synthese
  • The Quarterly Review of Biology
  • Zoologischer Anzeiger

Peer Review

  • Annual Meeting Reviewer for Society for Exact Philosophy
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Canada Research Chairs Program – College of Reviewers
  • French Philosophy of Science Society
  • Graduate Women in Science National Fellowship Program
  • John Templeton Foundation
  • Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research
  • KU Louvain
  • MIT Press
  • National Science Foundation
  • Oxford University Press
  • Program Committee for "Reduction and Emergence in the Sciences" (CAS-LMU Munich)
  • Program Committee for “(Re)engineering Biology” (Pittsburgh-CPS)
  • Program Committee for “Infinite Idealizations in Science” (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy)
  • Research Foundation – Flanders (Postdoctoral Fellow Referee)
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
  • Springer
  • Swiss National Science Foundation
  • University of Chicago Press
  • Western Canadian Philosophical Association

To the University of Minnesota...

Institutional

  • Distinguished McKnight University Professorship Selection Committee (2024)
  • CLA FRAC reviewing (2023)
  • CLA DDF reviewing (2023)
  • Center for Austrian Studies Advisory Board (2022-)
  • CLA DFRACS Undergraduate Mentor (2019-2020)
  • Search Committee, Director of the Center for Bioethics (2019)
  • CLA Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Reviewer (2019)
  • DIS/CLA Learning Abroad for Educated Futures Symposium Panelist (2019)
  • CLA Time Past, Time Present, Time Future Symposium Chair/Organizer (“Looking Forward: CLA in 2068”; 2018)
  • CLA ‘Sneak Preview’ for prospective students (2017, 2007)
  • HSTM Director Search Committee (2017)
  • CLA Showcase (2017)
  • McKnight Land-Grant Professorship Selection Committee (2016, 2015)
  • CLA Roadmap Initiative Committee – Research (2014–2015)
  • Academic Innovation Grants Committee (2013–2015)
  • Graduate School Interdisciplinary Committee (2013–2014)
  • CLA Winton Chair Committee (2013–2014)
  • Biology, Society, and Environment Advisory Committee (2013–)
  • CLA Individual Degree Program Committee (2012–2015)
  • CLA Undergraduate Freshmen Scholarship Reviewer (2013, 2011)
  • Imagine Fund Deputy Reviewer (2012)
  • CLA College Day (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009)
  • Honors Program Preview Seminar (2013, 2012)
  • CLA Undergraduate Continuing Scholarship Reviewer (2010, 2009, 2008)
  • CLA Course Review Committee (2009–2011)
  • CLA Faculty Calling Outreach (2009)
  • CLA Freshmen Research Award Faculty Participant (2008–2009)

Departmental

  • Placement Committee (2024–25, 2013–14)
  • Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Advising (2024)
  • Admission and Aid Committee (2023-24, 2008)
  • Brodbeck Event Planning Committee (2024, 2020)
  • Salary Review Committee (2024, 2023, 2021, 2017, 2015, 2013)
  • Committee on Committees (2023, 2020, 2014, 2013, 2012)
  • Staffing and Awards (2022-3, 2018-20, 2014-5)
  • Tenure and Promotion Committee [Chair] (2020)
  • Committee on Committees (2020, 2014, 2013, 2012)
  • Placement Committee Chair (2017–18)
  • Chair of Faculty Search Committee, History of Philosophy (2015–16)
  • Library Liaison (2015–17)
  • MCPS Governing Board (2014–)
  • MCPS Executive Committee (2014-)
  • Executive Advisory Committee (2014–)
  • Colloquium Committee (2012–14, 2009, 2007)
  • Curriculum Development Committee (2012)
  • Woodbridge Scholarship Award Committee (2012, 2007)
  • Website Coordinator (2009–2014)
  • Standing Search Committee (2008–2014)
  • Departmental Planning Committee (2008)

Other (prior to the University of Minnesota)

  • Co-organizer of the History and Philosophy of Science and Mathematics Seminar Series (2005–2006; sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC)
  • Pitt/CMU Graduate Conference Referee: 1998, 2002
  • Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Representative for HPS Department (University of Pittsburgh), 1999–2001
  • Graduate Student Representative for HPS departmental meetings (University of Pittsburgh), 1999–2002
  • Instructor for Teaching Assistant Orientation and Training (University of Pittsburgh) - Center for Instructional Development and Distance Education: (1) 2000: “Getting Started in the Classroom” & “Creating an Inclusive Classroom”; (2) 2001: “The 50-Minute Lecture”; (3) 2001: “Getting Started in the Classroom”