Richard A. Richards, Professor at the University of Alabama, received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University with a certificate in the History and Philosophy of Science. He has wide-ranging research interests, writing on a variety of topics in the history and philosophy of biology and aesthetics. He has published three books through Cambridge University Press: The Species Problem: A Philosophical Analysis (2010), Biological Classification: A Philosophical Introduction (2016) and The Biology of Art (2019).