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Beckett Sterner. Published 14 articles in journals. Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Philosophy, Ethics and Religion with emphasis on History and Philisophy of Science and Technology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: biological individuality; biological information; data science; evolutionary biology; .
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Beckett Sterner

Citation names

  • Sterner, Beckett

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F910-3F9A-04A2
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5219-7616

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2006 - 2012
Concluded
 Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (Doktor (PhD))
University of Chicago Division of the Social Sciences, United States
2002 - 2006
Concluded
 Mathematics (Bachelor)
Major in Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012 - 2014 Postdoc (Research) Field Museum of Natural History, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Arizona State University, United States
2014 - 2016 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) University of Michigan, United States
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/08 - 2021/07 Standard Grant: Productive Ambiguity in Classification
1827993
 National Science Foundation Directorate for Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences
2012/08 - 2015/07 STS Postdoctoral Fellowship: The impact of mathematics on inferring classifications and phylogenies
1153114
 National Science Foundation
Outputs

Publications

Journal article
  1. Beckett Sterner; Joeri Witteveen; Nico Franz. "Coordinating dissent as an alternative to consensus classification: insights from systematics for bio-ontologies". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2020): https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-0300-z.
    10.1007/s40656-020-0300-z
  2. Michael Cullan; Scott Lidgard; Beckett Sterner. "Controlling the error probabilities of model selection information criteria using bootstrapping". Journal of Applied Statistics (2019): https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2019.1701636.
    10.1080/02664763.2019.1701636
  3. Samuel Cusimano; Beckett Sterner. "Integrative pluralism for biological function". Biology & Philosophy 34 6 (2019): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-019-9717-8.
    10.1007/s10539-019-9717-8
  4. Samuel Cusimano; Beckett Sterner. "The Objectivity of Organizational Functions". Acta Biotheoretica (2019): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10441-019-09365-9.
    10.1007/s10441-019-09365-9
  5. Beckett Sterner; Scott Lidgard. "Moving Past the Systematics Wars". Journal of the History of Biology (2018): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-017-9471-1.
    10.1007/s10739-017-9471-1
  6. Beckett Sterner. "Individuating population lineages: a new genealogical criterion". Biology & Philosophy (2017): https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10539-017-9580-4.
    10.1007/s10539-017-9580-4
  7. Beckett Sterner; Nico M. Franz. "Taxonomy for Humans or Computers? Cognitive Pragmatics for Big Data". Biological Theory (2017): https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs13752-017-0259-5.
    10.1007/s13752-017-0259-5
  8. Beckett Sterner. "Pathways to pluralism about biological individuality". Biol Philos 30 5 (2015): 609-628. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10539-015-9494-y.
    10.1007/s10539-015-9494-y
  9. Beckett Sterner; Scott Lidgard. "The normative structure of mathematization in systematic biology". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 46 (2014): 44-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.03.001.
    10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.03.001
  10. Beckett Sterner. "The Practical Value of Biological Information for Research". Philosophy of Science 81 2 (2014): 175-194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/675679.
    10.1086/675679
  11. Sterner, Beckett. "Steven Mascaro, Kevin B. Korb, Ann E. Nicholson and Owen Woodberry: Evolving ethics: The new science of good and evil. Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 2010, xv+259pp, £17.95 PB". Metascience 21 2 (2012): 403-407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-012-9660-7.
    10.1007/s11016-012-9660-7
  12. Sterner, Beckett. "Object Spaces: An Organizing Strategy for Biological Theorizing". Biological Theory 4 3 (2009): 280-286. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/biot.2009.4.3.280.
    10.1162/biot.2009.4.3.280
  13. Zhao, Feng; Li, Shuaicheng; Sterner, Beckett W.; Xu, Jinbo. "Discriminative learning for protein conformation sampling". Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 73 1 (2008): 228-240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/prot.22057.
    10.1002/prot.22057
  14. Sterner, Beckett; Singh, Rohit; Berger, Bonnie. "Predicting and Annotating Catalytic Residues: An Information Theoretic Approach". Journal of Computational Biology 14 8 (2007): 1058-1073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cmb.2007.0042.
    10.1089/cmb.2007.0042

Other

Other output
  1. To increase trust, change the social design behind aggregated biodiversity data. 2017. Nico M. Franz; Beckett W. Sterner. https://doi.org/10.1101/157214.
    10.1101/157214
  2. Well-Structured Biology. 2013. Beckett Sterner. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520276581.003.0010.
    10.1525/california/9780520276581.003.0010