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22Genetics and Society—Educating Scientifically Literate Citizens: Introduction to the Thematic IssueScience & Education 23 (2): 251-258. 2014.
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27Classifying Life, Reconstructing History and Teaching Diversity: Philosophical Issues in the Teaching of Biological Systematics and BiodiversityScience & Education 22 (2): 189-220. 2013.
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30Richard A. Richards: The Species Problem: A Philosophical AnalysisScience & Education 22 (2): 381-389. 2013.
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23A Conceptual Analysis of Evolutionary Theory for Teacher EducationScience & Education 19 (6-8): 655-677. 2010.
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420Philosophie der LebenswissenschaftenInformation Philosophie 4 14-27. 2013.This paper summarizes (in German) recent tendencies in the philosophy of the life sciences.
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14Discussion: Kuhn’s Evolutionary Analogy in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and “The Road since Structure”Philosophy of Science 77 (3): 468-476. 2010.
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1Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb, Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 26 (3): 191-194. 2006.
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2Sandra D. Mitchell, Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (4): 276-279. 2004.
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10Philosophy of TechnologyIn J. Feiser & B. Dowden (eds.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, . 2012.
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12De moeizame verhouding van filosofie en ICT: een verslag van de 22e Nederlands-Vlaamse filosofiedag Leiden, 28 oktober 2000 (review)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 93 (2): 146-149. 2001.
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45Organizational Ecology: No Darwinian Evolution After All. A Rejoinder to LemosPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 40 (3): 504-512. 2010.In a recent article we argued that organizational ecology is not a Darwinian research program. John Lemos criticized our argumentation on various counts. Here we reply to some of Lemos’s criticisms
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101Natural Kinds in Philosophy and in the Life Sciences: Scholastic Twilight or New Dawn? (review)Biological Theory 7 (2): 89-99. 2013.This article, which is intended both as a position paper in the philosophical debate on natural kinds and as the guest editorial to this thematic issue, takes up the challenge posed by Ian Hacking in his paper, “Natural Kinds: Rosy Dawn, Scholastic Twilight.” Whereas a straightforward interpretation of that paper suggests that according to Hacking the concept of natural kinds should be abandoned, both in the philosophy of science and in philosophy more generally, we suggest that an alternative a…Read more
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Sandra D. Mitchell, Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism (review)Philosophy in Review 24 276-279. 2004.
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8Der universale Leibniz: Denker, Forscher, Erfinder (edited book)Steiner. 2009.Fragt man heute Vertreter verschiedener Disziplinen nach der Bedeutung des Hannoveraner Universalgelehrten Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, so hort man jeweils immer wieder: Leibniz hat Bedeutendes fur unser Fach geleistet. Leibniz beeindruckt nicht nur durch die Exzellenz seiner Leistung, sondern auch durch die Breite seiner Betatigungsfelder. Der aus einer Ringvorlesung an der Leibniz Universitat Hannover hervorgegangene Band fuhrt nun an die Vielfalt der von Leibniz ausgehenden der Leistungen und A…Read more
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120Darwinism and Organizational Ecology: A Case of Incompleteness or Incompatibility?Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (3): 365-374. 2014.Recently, Dollimore criticized our claim that Organizational Ecology is not a Darwinian research program. She argued that Organizational Ecology is merely an incomplete Darwinian program and provided a suggestion as to how this incompleteness could be remedied. Here, we argue that Dollimore’s suggestion fails to remedy the principal problem that Organizational Ecology faces and that there are good reasons to think of the program as deeply incompatible with Darwinian thinking.
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20Why does the species problem still persist?Bioessays 26 (3): 300-305. 2004.Despite many years of discussion, the species problem has still not been adequately resolved. Why is this the case? Here I discuss two recent suggested answers to this question that place the blame on the species problem's empirical aspects or on its philosophical aspects. In contrast, I argue that neither of these two faces of the species problem constitute the principal cause of the species problem's persistence. Rather, they are merely symptoms of the real cause: the species problem has not y…Read more
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299Scientific kindsPhilosophical Studies 172 (4): 969-986. 2015.Richard Boyd’s Homeostatic Property Cluster Theory is becoming the received view of natural kinds in the philosophy of science. However, a problem with HPC Theory is that it neglects many kinds highlighted by scientific classifications while at the same time endorsing kinds rejected by science. In other words, there is a mismatch between HPC kinds and the kinds of science. An adequate account of natural kinds should accurately track the classifications of successful science. We offer an alternat…Read more
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72How-possibly explanations as genuine explanations and helpful heuristics: A comment on ForberStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43 (1): 302-310. 2012.
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46David N. Stamos (2003). The species problem: Biological species, ontology, and the metaphysics of biologyActa Biotheoretica 52 (3): 229-232. 2004.
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60The Population Ecology Programme in Organisation Studies: Problems Caused by Unwarranted Theory TransferPhilosophy of Management 6 (3): 39-51. 2008.Economics and social sciences in general have a long tradition of using theories, models, concepts, and so forth borrowed from the natural sciences to describe and explain the properties and behaviours of economic and social entities. However, unwarranted application of theoretical elements from the natural sciences in the economic/social domain can have adverse consequences for organisations, their employees and society in general. Focusing on biology and organisation studies, we discuss the ge…Read more
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72Why the (gene) counting argument fails in the massive modularity debate: The need for understanding gene concepts and genotype-phenotype relationshipsPhilosophical Psychology 25 (6): 873-892. 2012.A number of debates in philosophy of biology and psychology, as well as in their respective sciences, hinge on particular views about the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes. One such view is that the genotype-phenotype relationship is relatively straightforward, in the sense that a genome contains the ?genes for? the various traits that an organism exhibits. This leads to the assumption that if a particular set of traits is posited to be present in an organism, there must be a corresp…Read more
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46Searching for Darwinism in Generalized DarwinismBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 66 (3): 561-589. 2015.While evolutionary thinking is increasingly becoming popular in fields of investigation outside the biological sciences, it remains unclear how helpful it is there and whether it actually yields good explanations of the phenomena under study. Here we examine the ontology of a recent approach to applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, the generalized Darwinism approach proposed by Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen. We examine the ontology of populations in biology and in GD, and argu…Read more
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40MATTHEW H. SLATER Are Species Real? An Essay on the Metaphysics of SpeciesBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science (4): 1-5. 2014.
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12Wim J. van der Steen (2000). Evolution as Natural History: A Philosophical Analysis (review)Acta Biotheoretica 49 (3): 203-206. 2001.
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Universität HannoverInstitute of Philosophy
Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS)Professor
Leiden University
PhD, 2005
East Lansing, MI, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |
Metaphysics |
Areas of Interest
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Philosophy of Biology |
Metaphysics |
Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
Philosophy of Social Science |
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