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Dr. Iris Fry teaches the history and philosophy of biology
at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at
Tel Aviv University and in the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion
- Israel Institute of Technology. Initially trained in Chemistry and Biochemistry
at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, she subsequently studied philosophy at
Haifa University (M.A. Thesis on Kant's principle of logical purposiveness).
The subject of her Ph.D. thesis at Tel Aviv University was L. J. Henderson's
theory of the fitness of the environment for life. Iris Fry's publications deal
with the concept of teleology in the philosophy of Kant, the history of evolutionary
ideas and the origin of life. Her book, The Origin of Life - Mystery of Scientific
Problem? was published in Israel in 1997. The Emergence of Life on Earth: A
Historical and Scientific Overview was issued by Rutgers University Press in
2000.
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