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15Naturalism and evolutionary epistemologiesIn M. Sintonen, J. Wolenski & I. Niiniluoto (eds.), Handbook of Epistemology, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 735--745. 2004.
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12William D. Casebeer, Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press , x + 214pp., $35.00 (review)Philosophy of Science 71 (4): 620-623. 2004.
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11Discussions of the moral status of animals typically address the key questions from an anthropocentric point of view. An alternative approach adopts a non-anthropocentric perspective. In this paper, I explore the theoretical and experimental results which make this approach plausible and address two key questions: [1] to what extent is it proper to speak of the moral lives of non-human animals? [2] How might we empirically establish that animals lead moral lives?
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10The Philosophy of Biology by David L. Hull and Michael Ruse (review)Quarterly Review of Biology 74 (4): 453-454. 1999.
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8Darwinism and the Moral Status of AnimalsIn Dag Prawitz & Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 499--509. 1994.
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7Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary ExplanationPhilosophical and Phenomenological Research 62 (1): 235-238. 2001.
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6Recent Work on Criteria for Event Identity, 1967-1979Philosophy Research Archives 9 29-77. 1983.The paper reviews the arguments for and against a number of criteria for event identity. The proliferation of such criteria in the 1970’s raises the question of how one is to choose between them. Eight adequacy conditions, whose own adequacy has been argued for elsewhere, are determined to be insufticient for deciding among the criteria. Some concluding remarks about the role of the adequacy conditions and the problem of choosing a criterion are offered. Finally, questions about the nature of an…Read more
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6The Evolution of Scientific LineagesPSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990 (2): 245-254. 1990.The fundamental dialectic of Science as a Process is the interaction between two narrative levels. At one level, the book is a historical narrative of one aspect of one ongoing problem in systematics - the dispute between cladists and more traditional evolutionary taxonomists and amongst the cladists themselves on the correct method of classifying species. This narrative is replete with details of the process whereby scientists promote and publish their ideas. It is an informative and somewhat ‘…Read more
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6Normalizing Naturalized EpistemologyThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 45 35-40. 1998.The most trenchant criticism of naturalistic approaches to epistemology is that they are unable to successfully deal with norms and questions of justification. Epistemology without norms, it is alleged, is epistemology in name only, an endeavor not worth doing. What one makes of this depends on whether one takes epistemology to be worth doing in the first place. However, I shall argue, it is possible to account for justification within a naturalistic framework broadly construed along Quinean lin…Read more
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5The Moral Status of Animals in Eighteenth-Century British PhilosophyIn , Cambridge University Press. pp. 32-51. 1999.INTRODUCTIONThe contemporary debate over the moral status of animals reflects a mixture of traditions. Utilitarianism, which measures moral standing in terms of the ability to suffer, has been used to defend the widening-circle conception of morality. The difference between humans and other animals vis-à-vis moral standing diminishes in its light. Focusing on questions of agency, conscience, and reflective powers, the differences between humans and nonhumans seem greater. Darwinism has been invo…Read more
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5Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to PhilosophyMichael RuseIsis 79 (2): 286-287. 1988.
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1Nicholas Rescher, ed., Current Issues in Teleology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 7 (1): 22-24. 1987.
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Review of Gary Cziko's Without miracles: universal selection theory and the second Darwinian revolution (review)Philosophical Psychology 10 399-401. 1997.
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Reviews: Philosophical Aspects of Science-Complexity and Evolution (review)Annals of Science 55 (4): 428. 1998.
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Darwin's Legacy. A Review of Robert J. Richards, "Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior" (review)Biology and Philosophy 7 (1): 111. 1992.
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The Secret Chain: Evolution and EthicsBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (2): 317-319. 1996.