Professor EmeritusPaul Griffiths

Paul Griffiths is Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney and a Domain leader at the Charles Perkins Centre, one of the university's main biomedical research institutes.

Trained in philosophy of science, Paul specialises in assembling multi-disciplinary teams of philosophers and STEM researchers to address conceptual and theoretical questions in the life sciences. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of NSW, and a recipient of the RSNSW Medal for History and Philosophy of Science. He has been awarded both a Laureate Fellowship (2018) and a Federation Fellowship (2007) by the Australian Research Council and numerous other research grants by the ARC, the US National Science Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation.