David Lee Hull (June 15, 1935 – August 11, 2010)[1] was an American philosopher who was most notable for founding the field philosophy of biology.
[2] Hull is recognized within evolutionary culture studies as contributing heavily in early discussions of the conceptualization of memetics.
Hull was a former president of the Philosophy of Science Association, the ISHPSSB, and the Society for Systematic Biology.
Hull proposed an elaborate discussion of science as an evolutionary process in his 1988 book, which also offered a historical account of the "taxonomy wars" of the 1960s and 1970s between three competing schools of taxonomy: phenetics, evolutionary systematics, and cladistics.
In relation to Richard Dawkins' theory of replicators, Hull introduced the notion of interactors.