In chapter seven of my book I deliberately described some threads left open. I think some of these would make for interesting doctoral projects.
And there are funding schemes available, such as https://www.thebsps.org/funding/doctoral-scholarships/
Get in touch if you're looking for a project/supervisor and think one of these sounds like you!
- Looking at the connection between agency and individuality. Do agents have to be individuals? In what sense? Is it possible to have multilevel agents?
- Looking at work in developmental biology and evo devo and thinking about how it relates to my evolutionary individual concept.
- Plasmid individuality and the identification of parts versus parasites.
- Alternating generations in plants and how to make sense of them.
- Species concepts in plants, in particular how the nuances of plant individuality complicate plant species concepts.
- Biodiversity measures in conservation ecology, and how the nuances of individuality complicate them.
- Looking at artificial and extraterrestrial life: Is life necessarily composed of individuals, as I argue?
- Cooperation problems across substrates: looking for common rules and lessons between biological and social instances of individuation: what are the mechanisms, what are the constraints. Some game theory would help you with this one!
- HeLa cell lineages and how they challenge our ideas about biological ontology.
I'm also up for anything to do with environmental conservation metaphysics!
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