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Karola Stotz (born 08 September 1963 in Neumüenster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is a leading German scholar of philosophy of biology, philosophy of science and cognitive science. She and her husband Paul E. Griffiths pioneered the use of experimental philosophy methods in the field of philosophy of science. They are also considered leading experts in philosophical studies of non-genetic (exogenetic, extended) inheritance and Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.

Education and career
Stotz received her Magister Artium in Biology and Social Sciences (Anthropology) in 1993 from the University of Mainz and her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Ghent (Belgium) in 1999 under supervision of Gertrudis Van de Vijver and Werner Callebaut. In the period 1999-2007, she worked in different universities of Australia and United States of America. From 2008 until 2012 Stotz was Australian Research Fellow and, later, Bridging Support Fellow at Department of Philosophy, University of Sydney. At 2014 she received position of Senior Lecturer at Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University (Australia). From 2014, with Paul Griffiths, Stotz works on a Templeton World Charity Foundation project entitled: “Causal Foundations of Biological Information”.

Selected publications

 * Griffiths, P. E., Stotz, K. (2018). Developmental Systems Theory as a Process Theory. In: Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupre (Eds.) Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: OUP.
 * Stotz, K. (2014) Extended evolutionary psychology: the importance of transgenerational developmental plasticity // Frontiers in Psychology 5: 908. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00908
 * Griffiths, P., Stotz, K. (2013) Genetics and philosophy: An introduction. Cambridge University Press.
 * Stotz, K. (2017) Why developmental niche construction is not selective niche construction: and why it matters // Interface Focus, 7(5), 20160157.
 * Stotz, K. Allen, C. (2012) From cell-surface receptors to higher learning: a whole world of experience. In: Philosophy of Behavioral Biology. Katie Plaisance and Thomas Reydon (Eds.) Boston: Springer, 85-123.
 * Griffiths, P. E., Stotz, K. (2008) Experimental Philosophy of Science // Philosophy Compass, 3 (3): 507-721.