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74Epistemology from an evolutionary point of viewIn Elliott Sober (ed.), Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, The Mit Press. Bradford Books. pp. 453--476. 1994.
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5Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to PhilosophyMichael RuseIsis 79 (2): 286-287. 1988.
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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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47Sociobiology and the roots of normativityThink 2 (6): 73-82. 2004.Michael Bradie challenges the assumption, common among sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists, that it is to science, not philosophy, that we must look if we wish to answer the fundamental questions of ethics
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222Assessing evolutionary epistemologyBiology and Philosophy 1 (4): 401-459. 1986.There are two interrelated but distinct programs which go by the name evolutionary epistemology. One attempts to account for the characteristics of cognitive mechanisms in animals and humans by a straightforward extension of the biological theory of evolution to those aspects or traits of animals which are the biological substrates of cognitive activity, e.g., their brains, sensory systems, motor systems, etc. (EEM program). The other program attempts to account for the evaluation of ideas, scie…Read more
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62Rationality and the Objectivity of ValuesThe Monist 67 (3): 467-482. 1984.One of the central themes of Hilary Putnam’s recent book, Reason, Truth and History, is the objectivity of values. The objectivity of values is a central component of the position Putnam calls “internal realism.” Internal realism is an attempt to delimit a point of view which is, on the one hand, objective, and, on the other, non-absolutistic. Internal realism is located precariously between an absolutist position which Putnam calls “metaphysical realism” and a sceptical relativism. The trick is…Read more
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1Nicholas Rescher, ed., Current Issues in Teleology Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 7 (1): 22-24. 1987.
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41Is Scientific Realism a Contingent Thesis?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1972. 1972.
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44The ‘new science of memetics’: The case againstThink 2 (5): 27-30. 2003.Michael Bradie does not share Blackmore's enthusiasm for the ‘new science of memetics’.
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73Recent 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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105Recent developments in the physics of time and general cosmologyJournal of Chinese Philosophy 12 (4): 371-395. 1985.
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18The Secret Chain: Evolution and EthicsState University of New York Press. 1996.Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1 Ethics and Evolution The Secret Chain Epistemology from an Evolutionary Point of View Ethics from an Evolutionary Point of View Morals and Models Evolution and Ethics 2 Altruism, Benevolence, and Self-Love in Eighteenth Century British Moral Philosophy Introduction Benevolence and Self-Love from Hobbes to Mackintosh The Eighteenth Century Legacy 3 The Moral Realm of Nature: Nineteenth Century Views on Ethics and Evolution Introduction Natural Facts and Natural …Read more
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108Evolutionary game theory meets the social contractBiology and Philosophy 14 (4): 607-613. 1999.
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20The Evolution of Scientific LineagesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990. 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. At the second level, Hull presents a theoretical model of the scientific process which draws heavily on invoked similarities between biological and scientific change. I first situate the model as one alternative among several which loosely fit under the umbrella of 'evolutionary epistemologies.' Se…Read more
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18Beyond Evolution (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (1): 235-238. 2001.Anthony O’Hear’s target is the claim that Darwinism provides a complete explanation of what it means to be human. The gist of his argument is that there are key normative dimensions to being human that escape the explanatory net of Darwinian or other naturalistic explanations. This is not to say that Darwinian and evolutionary accounts are not relevant to understanding what it means to be human. The point rather is that these accounts do not provide “complete” explanations. That human beings hav…Read more
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