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24Darwin versus the Liberals: The third assault of the intelligent designersStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 46 (1): 89-92. 2014.
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122The Romantic Conception of Robert J. RichardsJournal of the History of Biology 37 (1). 2004.In his new book, "The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe," Robert J. Richards argues that Charles Darwin's true evolutionary roots lie in the German Romantic biology that flourished around the beginning of the nineteenth century. It is argued that Richards is quite wrong in this claim and that Darwin's roots are in the British society within which he was born, educated, and lived.
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70Review. Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research. TF Murphy (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (3): 487-493. 2000.
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15Philosophy of Biology Today: On the Outside of Europe Looking InState University of New York Press. 1988.This short and highly accessible volume opens up the subject of the philosophy of biology to professionals and to students in both disciplines. The text covers briefly and clearly all of the pertinent topics in the subject, dealing with both human and non-human issues, and quite uniquely surveying not only scholars in the English-speaking world but others elsewhere, including the Eastern block. As molecular biologists peer ever more deeply into life’s mysteries, there are those who fear that suc…Read more
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84Naturalism and the scientific methodIn Stephen Bullivant & Michael Ruse (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, Oxford University Press. pp. 383. 2013.Methodological naturalism is the claim that there is no need to invoke the supernatural, including God or gods, in giving scientific explanations. Metaphysical naturalism is the claim that there is no supernatural, including God or gods. Does methodological naturalism entail metaphysical naturalism? Many seem to think that it does, in practice if not in principle. This essay questions this assumption.
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10Belief in God in a Darwinian ageIn J. Hodges & Gregory Radick (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, Cambridge University Press. pp. 333. 2003.
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A Darwinian Understanding of EpistemologyIn A. J. Sanford & P. N. Johnson-Laird (eds.), The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding, T & T Clark. pp. 111. 2003.
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1Bringing in Culture: how the Study of Meta-phor enriches Evolutionary EpistemologyIn A. A. Derksen (ed.), The Promise of Evolutionary Epistemology, Tilburg University Press. pp. 5--157. 1998.
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22Alfred Russel Wallace, the Discovery of Natural Selection, and the Origins of HumankindIn Oren Harman & Michael Dietrich (eds.), Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology, Yale University Press. pp. 20. 2008.
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Biodiversity, Darwin, and the Fossil RecordIn Markku Oksanen & Juhani Pietarinen (eds.), Philosophy and Biodiversity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 101-118. 2004.
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104The Compatibility of Science and Religion: Why the Warfare Thesis Is FalseIn Yujin Nagasawa (ed.), Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 255. 2012.
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26Popular Science to Professional ScienceIn Massimo Pigliucci & Maarten Boudry (eds.), Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem, University of Chicago Press. pp. 225. 2013.
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21The Place of Artificial Selection in Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution through Natural SelectionIn Gregory J. Morgan (ed.), Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein, Oxford University Press. pp. 203. 2011.
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86Evolution and Ethics: The Sociobiological ApproachIn Philosophy After Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Princeton University Press. pp. 489-511. 2009.
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39Bad arguments about DarwinismThink 3 (8): 41-46. 2004.In Think 7, philosopher Jenny Teichman accused the geneticist Professor Stephen Jones and other contemporary Darwinists of confusion and of overestimating Darwinism's explanatory power. Here, Micheal Ruse explains why he believes it is actually Teichman who is confused
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41Charles Darwin and group selectionAnnals of Science 37 (6): 615-630. 1980.The question of the levels at which natural selection can be said to operate is much discussed by biologists today and is a key factor in the recent controversy about sociobiology. It is shown that this problem is one to which Charles Darwin addressed himself at some length. It is argued that apart from some slight equivocation over man, Darwin opted firmly for hypotheses supposing selection always to work at the level of the individual rather than the group. However, natural selection's co-disc…Read more
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53Intelligent design theory and its contextThink 4 (11): 7-16. 2005.Michael Ruse introduces the debate over intelligent design creationism
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