We Not Me

Gregory Radick is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds. Educated at Rutgers University in New Jersey (where he was born and raised) and then at Cambridge University, he has published widely in the history of the life and human sciences since 1800. His book The Simian Tongue: The Long Debate about Animal Language (Chicago, 2007) was awarded the 2010 Suzanne J. Levinson Prize of the History of Science Society for best book in the history of the life sciences and natural history. His other books include Disputed Inheritance: The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology (Chicago, 2023) and, as co-editor, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin (Cambridge, 2003; 2nd edition, 2009). He has held fellowships from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust, and served as President of the British Society for the History of Science (2014‒16) and the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (2019‒21). He writes and lectures frequently for general audiences, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time and in the PBS/National Geographic television series Genius with Stephen Hawking. In 2022 he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum Group. Tom is a Lecturer in Metaphysics and Epistemology at the University of Cambridge. He recently completed a research project on mental actions (the things we do with our mind like attending, imagining and deliberating) funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Tom is interested in how our expertise works and in the markers of skilful performance. His work draws on a rich seam of research in philosophy and psychology and has real implications for business. Tom creates professional development workshops that will help participants to understand their own skills, allowing them to develop and deploy those skills more effectively. Tom previously worked and studied at the Universities of Cambridge, York, Sussex, Glasgow, Manchester and Warwick. Beyond academia.