University of New England (Australia), Department of Philosophy - PhilPeople

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Sandy C. Boucher, What was really wrong (and right) with vitalism? Methodological naturalism, organicism and immaterialist theories in biology
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 2026.

Samantha Capon, Robyn Bartel, Sandy C. Boucher, Felicity Joseph, and Anthony Lynch, Green fields, ugly ducklings and black swans: aesthetic dimensions of ecological science
People and Nature 7 1286-1295. 2025.

Sandy C. Boucher, Functionalism and structuralism in biology: stances or explanatory strategies?
Synthese 206 (1): 1-23. 2025.

Sandy C. Boucher, Empiricism, Naturalism and the Metaphysics of Biology: Taking a Stance
Springer Nature Switzerland. 2025.

Sandy C. Boucher, Conceptual engineering and conceptual extension in science
Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 67 (9): 3110-3139. 2024.

Sandy C. Boucher and Curtis Forbes, The pragmatic turn in the scientific realism debate
Synthese 203 (4): 1-23. 2024.

Sandy C. Boucher, ‘Units of selection’ is polysemous?: Javier Suárez and Elisabeth A. Lloyd: Units of selection. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 75 pp, £49.99 HB (review)
Metascience 33 (3): 423-426. 2024.

Sandy C. Boucher, An argument for global realism about the units of selection
Biology and Philosophy 38 (5): 1-22. 2023.

Adrian Walsh and Sandy C. Boucher, Who’s watching? Surveillance, big data and applied ethics in the digital age
Research in Ethical Issues in Organisations 26. 2022.

Sandy C. Boucher, Cladism, Monophyly and Natural Kinds
Croatian Journal of Philosophy 22 (64): 39-68. 2022.

Sandy C. Boucher, Biological Teleology, Reductionism, and Verbal Disputes
Foundations of Science 26 (4): 859-880. 2021.

Sandy C. Boucher, Methodological naturalism in the sciences
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 88 (1): 57-80. 2020.

Sandy C. Boucher, Evolutionary debunking arguments, commonsense and scepticism
Synthese 198 (12): 11217-11239. 2020.

Sandy C. Boucher, Pluralism, Realism and the Units of Selection
South African Journal of Philosophy 1 (39): 47-62. 2020.

Adrian Walsh and Sandy C. Boucher, Scientific imperialism, pluralism, and folk morality
In Manuela Fernandez Pinto, Uskali Mäki & Adrian Walsh (eds.), Scientific Imperialism: Exploring the Boundaries of Interdisciplinarity, Routledge. pp. 13-30. 2019.

Sandy C. Boucher, Stances and Epistemology: Values, Pragmatics, and Rationality
Metaphilosophy 49 (4): 521-547. 2018.

Sandy C. Boucher, What is the Relation between a Philosophical Stance and Its Associated Beliefs?
Dialectica 72 (4): 509-524. 2018.

Sandy C. Boucher, An Empiricist Conception of the Relation Between Metaphysics and Science
Philosophia 47 (5): 1355-1378. 2018.

Sandy C. Boucher, Gould on species, metaphysics and macroevolution: A critical appraisal
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 62 25-34. 2017.

Sandy C. Boucher, Functionalism and structuralism as philosophical stances: van Fraassen meets the philosophy of biology
Biology and Philosophy 30 (3): 383-403. 2015.

Sandy C. Boucher, What is a philosophical stance? Paradigms, policies and perspectives
Synthese 191 (10): 2315-2332. 2014.

Ian Gold and Sandy C. Boucher, A computational approach to linguistic knowledge
Language and Communication 1 (22): 211-229. 2002.

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