Dr. Bruce Weber
Professor- Biochemistry
Office MH 504A  
Phone (714) 278-3885  
Email bhweber@fullerton.edu  
Web Site  
Currently Teaching
Chem 423B - General Biochemistry
Phil 333 - Evolution and Creation
Education
Postdoctoral 1968  University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Ph.d  1968  University of California, San Diego,La Jolla, CA
B.Sc. 1963  San Diego State University, San Diego, CA   

Research

Professor Weber's research interests are in macromolecular evolution with special emphasis on the application of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to the problems of the emergence of life, and the history of biochemistry, especially the conceptual development of bioenergetics.
Recent Publications
  1. D.J. Depew and B.H. Weber, Darwinism Evolving: Systems and the Genealogy of Natural Selection, MIT Press, (1995).
  2. D.J. Depew and B.H. Weber, "Evolution, Ethics, and the Complexity Revolution," in Evolutionary Journeys, R. Wesson and P.Williams (eds.), Rodopi, pp. 49-77 [1995].
  3. B.H. Weber and D.J. Depew, "Natural Selcion and Self-Organization: Dynamical Models as Clues to Possible New Evolutionary Synthesis," Biology and Philosophy 13, 133-144 (1998).
  4. B.H. Weber, "Origins of Order in Dynamical Models," Biology and Philosophy 13, 133-144 (1998).
  5. B.H. Weber, "Early Adventures in Biochemistry," The Biochemist 18(2), 15 [1996]
  6. B.H. Weber and D.J. Depew, "Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Refute the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis?" in Sociobiology and Bioeconomics: The Theory of Evolution in Biological and Economic Theory, P. Koslowski (ed.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 50-75 (1999).
  7. B.H. Weber, "Emergence of Life and Biological Selection from the Perspective of Complex Systems Dynamics," in Evolutionary Systems, G. van de Vijver, S.S. Salthe and M Delpos (eds), Kluwerpp. 59-66 (1998).
  8. S.A. Hewitt, B.H. Weber, J. Olmsted III, and A. Flores, "Ethics in Undergraduate Research: Getting Students Involved," Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly 18, 117-119 (1998).
  9. D.J. Depew and B.H. Weber, "Self-Organization," MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, MIT Press, pp. 737-739 (1999).
  10. D.J. Depew and B.H. Weber, "What Does Natural Selection Have to Be Like In Order to work with Self-Organization?" Cybernetics and Human Knowing 5, 18-31 (1998).
  11. B.H. Weber, "Irreducible Complexity and the Problem of Biochemical Emergence," Biology and Philosphy 14, 593-605.
  12. B.H. Weber and D.J. Depew, "The Modern Evolutionary Synthesis and Complex Systems Dynamics: Prospects for a New Synthesis," in Semiosis.Energy.Evolution, E.Taborsky (ed), Shaker Verlag, pp. 263-281 (2000)
  13. B.H. Weber, "Closure > in the Emergence and Evolution of Life," New York Academy of Sciences 901, 132-138 (2000)
  14. B.H. Weber and T.C. Deacon, "Thermodynamic Cycles, Developmental Systems, and Emergence," Cybernetics and Human Knowing 7, 21-43 (2000).
  15. Prebble, J. and B.H. Weber (2003), Wandering in the Gardens of the Mind: Peter Mitchell and the Making of Glynn, New York: Oxford University Press.
    Weber, B.H. (2003), “ Emergence of Mind and the Baldwin Effect,” in Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered (B.H. Weber and D.J. Depew, eds), Cambridge MA: MIT Press , pp. 309-326.
  16. Weber, B.H. and D.J. Depew (2003), Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered, Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
  17. Weber, B.H. and D.J. Depew (2004), “Darwinism, Design, and Complex Systems Dynamics,” in The Appearance of Design in Nature (W. Dembski, and M. Ruse eds), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 173-190.
  18. Weber, B.H. and J. Prebble (2005), “An Issue of Originality and Priority: The Correspondence and Theories of Oxidative Phosphorylation of Peter Mitchell and Robert J.P. Williams, 1961-1980.” Journal of the History of Biology (accepted, in press).
  19. Weber, B.H., “Life”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2003 edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URP=http://plato.stoanford.edu/archives/fall2003/entries/life/
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