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24Why Carbon‐Based Fuels Are Not “Bad” − Or Will We Ever Learn from Biology?Bioessays 41 (3): 1900026. 2019.
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24Developing a Journal's Influence Without Impact Factor Madness: Quality in ShapeBioessays 40 (2): 1800002. 2018.
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23Systems biology of mammalian cells: A report from the Freiburg conferenceBioessays 32 (12): 1099-1104. 2010.
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23Ineffability and NonsenseSupplement to the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 77 (1): 169-193. 2003.Criteria of ineffability are presented which, it is claimed, preclude the possibility of truths that are ineffable, but not the possibility of other things that are ineffable—not even the possibility of other things that are non-trivially ineffable. Specifically, they do not preclude the possibility of states of understanding that are ineffable. This, it is argued, allows for a reappraisal of the dispute between those who adopt a traditional reading of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and those who adop…Read more
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22Between cell‐level damage theories of ageing and whole organismsBioessays 34 (11): 915-915. 2012.
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22Counterpoints in cancer: The somatic mutation theory under attackBioessays 33 (5): 313-314. 2011.
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21The future of the h‐index: Can bending an already non‐linear metric work?Bioessays 34 (10): 821-822. 2012.
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21A day of systems and synthetic biology for non‐expertsBioessays 31 (1): 119-124. 2009.From understanding ageing to the creation of artificial membrane‐bounded ‘organisms’, systems biology and synthetic biology are seen as the latest revolutions in the life sciences. They certainly represent a major change of gear, but paradigm shifts? This is open to debate, to say the least. For scientists they open up exciting ways of studying living systems, of formulating the ‘laws of life’, and the relationship between the origin of life, evolution and artificial biological systems. However,…Read more
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20On the State of Scientific English and How to Improve it − Part 12: Keeping it Simple When Under Time Pressure…Bioessays 40 (12): 1800218. 2018.
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18We Must Use Less: A Year of Climate Crisis, a Glimpse of Hope, but not in Mere TechnologyBioessays 41 (12): 1900214. 2019.
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17The mark of metabolism: Another nail in the coffin of nucleic‐acids‐first in the origin of life?Bioessays 36 (3): 221-222. 2014.
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17We must preserve wonder in words to preserve nature: perhaps the time has come for “caring” prose beside logical languageBioessays 43 (1): 2000310. 2021.
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17Conferences After COVID and Academics in Adversity: Physical Globalization is Fragile, But so Too is Internet NeutralityBioessays 42 (7): 2000137. 2020.
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16Wittgenstein and Transcendental IdealismIn Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), Wittgenstein and His Interpreters, Blackwell. 2007-08-24.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction1 Was the Early Wittgenstein a Transcendental Idealist? Was the Later Wittgenstein a Transcendental Idealist?
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16Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline (edited book)Princeton University Press. 2006.What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses these questions and presents a striking vision of philosophy as fundamentally different from science in its aims and methods even though there is still in philosophy "something that counts as getting it right." Written with his distinctive combination of rigor, imagination, depth, and humanism, the boo…Read more
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16Getting fat from an inflamed relationship? The revenge of the holobiontBioessays 38 (2): 119-119. 2016.
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16Brownian Ratchets of Life: Stochasticity Combined with Disequilibrium Produces OrderBioessays 41 (6): 1900076. 2019.
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16Peroxisomes: A small step from mitochondria but a giant leap for eukaryotesBioessays 37 (2): 113-113. 2015.
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17th/18th Century Philosophy |