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Gabriel Segal
and
Elliott Sober
,
The causal efficacy of content
Philosophical Studies
63 (July): 1-30. 1991.
Elliott Sober
,
Extremum descriptions, process laws and minimality heuristics
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
14 (2): 232-233. 1991.
Elliott Sober
,
Temporally asymmetric inference in a Markov process
Philosophy of Science
58 (3): 398-410. 1991.
Leda Cosmides,
D. D. Martin
, Richard Dawkins,
Daniel C. Dennett
, W. D. Hamilton,
Philip Kitcher
, John Maynard Smith,
Steven Pinker
,
Elliott Sober
, and
Dan Sperber
,
Conference on evolution and the human sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
23 (4): 699-700. 1991.
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Alan Sidelle
,
Remnants of Meaning
(review)
Philosophical Review
99 (2): 255. 1990.
Elliott Sober
,
Anatomizing the rhinoceros
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
13 (4): 764-765. 1990.
Elliott Sober
,
Contrastive empiricism
In C. Wade Savage (ed.),
Scientific Theories
, University of Minnesota Press. pp. 392--410. 1990.
Elliott Sober
,
Explanation in Biology: Let's Razor Ockham's Razor
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
27 73-93. 1990.
Elliott Sober
,
Explanation in Biology: Let's Razor Ockham's Razor
Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
27 73-93. 1990.
Elliott Sober
,
Putting the function back into functionalism
In William G. Lycan (ed.),
Mind and Cognition
, Blackwell. 1990.
Elliott Sober
,
The Illusory Riches of Sober's Monism
Journal of Philosophy
87 (3): 158-161. 1990.
Alan Sidelle
,
Necessity, essence, and individuation: a defense of conventionalism
Cornell University Press
. 1989.
Alan Sidelle
,
Necessity, Essence, and Individuation: A Defense of Conventionalism
Cornell University Press
. 1989.
Elliott Sober
,
Independent evidence about a common cause
Philosophy of Science
56 (2): 275-287. 1989.
Elliott Sober
,
What is psychological egoism?
Behaviorism
17 (2): 89-102. 1989.
Elliott Sober
,
Is the theory of natural selection unprincipled? A reply to Shimony
Biology and Philosophy
4 (3): 275-279. 1989.
Ivan Soll
,
On desire and its discontents
Ratio
2 (2): 169-184. 1989.
Elliott Sober
,
Apportioning Causal Responsibility
Journal of Philosophy
85 (6): 303. 1988.
Elliott Sober
,
Confirmation and law-likeness
Philosophical Review
97 (1): 93-98. 1988.
Elliott Sober
,
Likelihood and convergence
Philosophy of Science
55 (2): 228-237. 1988.
Elliott Sober
,
Reconstructing The Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference
MIT Press
. 1988.
Elliott Sober
,
What Is Evolutionary Altruism?
Canadian Journal of Philosophy
18 (sup1): 75-99. 1988.
Elliott Sober
,
What Is Evolutionary Altruism?
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume
14 (n/a): 75-99. 1988.
Ivan Soll
,
Pessimism and the Tragic View of Life
In Robert C. Solomon & Kathleen Marie Higgins (eds.),
Reading Nietzsche
, Oxford University Press. pp. 104--31. 1988.
Ellery Eells and
Elliott Sober
,
Old problems for a new theory: Mayo on Giere's theory of causation
Philosophical Studies
52 (3). 1987.
Elliott Sober
,
"Comments on Maynard Smith's" How to model evolution
In John Dupre (ed.),
The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality
, Mit Press. pp. 133--145. 1987.
Elliott Sober
,
Does "fitness" fit the facts?: A reply to Williams and Rosenberg's rejoinder
Journal of Philosophy
84 (4): 220-223. 1987.
Elliott Sober
,
Does "Fitness" Fit the Facts?
Journal of Philosophy
84 (4): 220-223. 1987.
Elliott Sober
,
Explanation and causation
(review)
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
38 (2): 243-257. 1987.
Elliott Sober
,
Optimist/pessimist
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
10 (1): 87-88. 1987.
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