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Books
The Language of Nature: Reassessing the Mathematization of Natural Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century, Volume XX of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, edited with Geoffrey Gorham, Benjamin Hill, and Edward Slowik, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016 [Amazon]
Scientific Pluralism, Volume XIX of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, edited with Stephen Kellert and Helen Longino, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006 [pdf] [Amazon] [Hull review] [Kat review] [philpapers] Julian Huxley: Biologist and Statesman of Science, edited with Albert Van Helden, Houston, TX: Rice University Press, 1992 [Amazon] [Google Books] [Maienschein review] [Cain review] |
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Books Forthcoming
Philosophical Perspectives on Causal Reasoning in Biology, Volume XXI of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, to be edited with Brian J Hanley, and James Woodward
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Books in Progress
From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, to be edited with William Bausman, Janella Baxter, Oliver Lean, and Alan Love
Why Genetics Succeeds: An Epistemology of Scientific Practice, sole author |
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Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“PSA Presidential Address: An Epistemology for Scientific Practice”, Philosophy of Science Vol. 86, no. 4 (2019): 585-611. DOI: n/a [open access on journal site]
“Ask Not ‘What is an Individual” in M. Slater and Z. Yudell (eds.) Metaphysics in Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2o18, pp. 91 –113. DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190636814.003.000 [pre-print on PhilSci-Archive.pitt.edu] “No General Structure” in M. Slater and Z. Yudell (eds.) Metaphysics in Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2o16. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199363209.003.0005 [pre-print on PhilSci-Archive.pitt.edu] “Shifting Attention From Theory to Practice in Philosophy of Biology” in M.C. Galavotti, D. Dieks, W.J. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel, and M. Weber (eds.) New Directions in the Philosophy of Science, Berlin: Springer International Publishing, 2014, pp. 121-139. [pre-print on PhilSci-Archive.pitt.edu] [philpapers] “Okasha’s Unintended Argument for Toolbox Theorizing”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 82 (1) (2010): 232-240. [pre-print of non-abridged version on PhilSci-Archive.pitt.edu] [philpapers] [Wiley] [jstor] “How Practical Know-how about Experimentation Contextualizes Theoretical Knowledge”, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 75, no. 5 (2008): 707- 719. [pre-print on PhilSci-Archive.pitt.edu] [philpapers] [jstor] [publisher pdf] “Beyond Theoretical Reduction and Layer-cake Antireduction: How DNA Retooled Genetics and Transformed Biological Practice”, in Michael Ruse (ed.) Oxford Handbook to the Philosophy of Biology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 238–262. [pre-print on PhilSci-Archive.pitt.edu] [philpapers] “The Nature and Context of Exploratory Experimentation: An Introduction to Three Case Studies of Exploratory Research”, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Volume 29 (2007): 275–284. [pre-print on PhilSci-Archive.pitt.edu] [philpapers] [jstor] “Causes that Make a Difference”, The Journal of Philosophy. Volume CIV, Number 11 (2007): 551–579. [pre-print on PhilSci-Archive.pitt.edu] [philpapers] “Julian Huxley”, The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Farmington Hills, MI: Frank Menchaca, Charles Scribner’s Sons, imprint of Thomas Gale, 2007. [publisher website] [Amazon] “Molecular Genetics”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/molecular-genetics/, 2007. [SEP page] “The Pluralist Stance” with Stephen Kellert and Helen Longino, in Scientific Pluralism, Volume XIX of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, edited with Stephen Kellert, Helen Longino, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, pp. 7–29. [publisher pdf] “A Pluralist Interpretation of Gene-centered Biology” in Scientific Pluralism, Volume XIX of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, edited by Stephen Kellert, Helen Longino, and C. Kenneth Waters, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2006, pp. 190–214. [Google Books] “Why Genic and Multilevel Selection Theories are Here to Stay”, Philosophy of Science 72 (2) (2005): 311–333. [philpapers] [jstor] [publisher pdf] “Julian Sorrell Huxley”, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Nature Publishing Group, eMacmillan, http://www.els.net/WileyCDA/ElsArticle/refId-a0003584.html, 2005. [publisher site] [publisher pdf] “What Concept Analysis Should Be (and why competing philosophical analyses of gene concepts cannot be tested by polling scientists)”, History and Philosophy of the Life Science 26 (2004): 29–58. [philpapers] [jstor] "What was Classical Genetics?”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 35 (2004): 783–809. [philpapers] [publisher pdf] [publisher page] “The Arguments in Darwin’s Origin of Species”, in The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, edited by Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 116–139. [Amazon] [publisher page] “Molecules Made Biological”, Revue Internationale de Philosophie, 4/2000—n 214—(2000), pp. 539–564. Condensed and translated: "Le gene moléculaire: la vie réduite, ou les molécules promues?" Biofur, November 2001. [philpapers] [jstor] “Causal Regularities in the Biological World of Contingent Distributions”, Biology and Philosophy, 13 (1998): 5–36. [pdf] [philpapers] [Springer] “Genes Made Molecular”, Philosophy of Science, 61 (1994): 163–185. [philpapers] [jstor] [publisher pdf] “Revising our Picture of Huxley”, in Julian Huxley: Biologist and Statesman of Science (1992), C. Kenneth Waters and Albert Van Helden (editors), Houston, TX: Rice University Press, pp. 1–27. [Amazon] [Google Books] “Tempered Realism about the Force of Selection”, Philosophy of Science, 58 (1991): 553-573. [philpapers] [jstor] [publisher pdf] “Why the Anti-reductionist Consensus Won't Survive: The Case of Classical Mendelian Genetics”, in PSA 1990 1 (1990): pp. 125–139. Reprinted in Elliott Sober (ed.) Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, 2nd Edition (1993) and 3rd edition (2006). Cambridge, MA: Bradford, The MIT Press. [philpapers] [jstor] “Rosenberg's Rebellion”, Biology and Philosophy 5 (1990): pp. 225–239. [publisher pdf] [philpapers] [Springer] “The Illusory Riches of Sober’s Monism”, with Philip Kitcher and Kim Sterelny, Journal of Philosophy 85 (1990): 158–161. [philpapers] [jstor] “Confessions of a Creationist”, in Nicholas Rescher, ed., Evolution, Cognition, and Realism, CPS Publications, University Press of America, Lanham, Maryland (1990): pp. 79–90. (This paper concerns meta-issues in epistemology; its subject matter is not biological or theological creationism.) [Google Books] “Relevance Logic Brings Hope to Hypothetico-deductivism”, Philosophy of Science 54 (1987): 453–464. [philpapers] [jstor] [publisher pdf] “Taking Analogical Inference Seriously: Darwin’s Argument from Artificial Selection”, PSA 1986 1 (1986): pp. 502–13. [philpapers] [jstor] “Why Chisholm’s Analysis of Justification Won't Do”, Analysis 46 (1986): pp. 134–137. [publisher pdf] [philpapers] [jstor] “Natural Selection without Survival of the Fittest”, Biology and Philosophy 1 (1986): pp. 207–225. [philpapers] [Springer] [publisher pdf] Articles in Progress
“Scientific Metaphysics of Hierarchy”, chapter in From Biological Practice to Scientific Metaphysics, Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science
“Tracing Pathways and Decomposing Mechanisms in Ecology, with TJ Perkins |
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Letter in Scientific Journals
“The Conceptual Basis of a Non-equilibrium Theory of Succession”, Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5 (1990): p. 123. [journal page] [pdf]
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Book Reviews
Review of Biology and Philosophy by Elliott Sober, Isis, 86 (1), (March, 1995): pp. 147–48. [philpapers] [journal pdf] [jstor]
Review of Taking Darwin Seriously by Michael Ruse, Teaching Philosophy 12 (1990): pp. 179–81. [philpapers] [publisher pdf] |