Paul is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He was educated at Cambridge and the Australian National University, receiving his PhD in 1989. He taught at Otago University in New Zealand and later headed the History and Philosophy of Science program at the University of Sydney, before taking up a Chair in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He returned to Australia in 2004, first as an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow and from 2007 as a Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sydney.

Paul co-leads the Theory and Method in Biosciences group with Pierrick Bourrat.

Paul is based at the Charles Perkins Centre, a major University of Sydney initiative focused on interdisciplinary research into obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. He served as Associate Academic Director for Humanities and Social Sciences while the Centre was being established, and continues to serve on the Executive Committee as Domain Leader for Society and Environment. Paul is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and of the Royal Society of NSW. He was President of the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology from 2011-2013. From 2006-2012 he was a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee of NHMRC.

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