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17Grete Henry-HermannJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 51 (4): 511-511. 2020.
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16Taxa hold little information about organisms: Some inferential problems in biological systematicsHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 41 (4): 40. 2019.The taxa that appear in biological classifications are commonly seen as representing information about the traits of their member organisms. This paper examines in what way taxa feature in the storage and retrieval of such information. I will argue that taxa do not actually store much information about the traits of their member organisms. Rather, I want to suggest, taxa should be understood as functioning to localize organisms in the genealogical network of life on Earth. Taxa store information…Read more
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16Deflating the De-Extinction Debates: Domination and Artifactuality are Not the ProblemEthics, Policy and Environment 25 (2): 113-115. 2022.In his article, Considering de-extinction, Katz (2022) mounts a two-pronged criticism of de-extinction efforts as elements of environmental policy. First, Katz argues that there is no positive case...
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15Generalizing Darwinism as a Topic for Multidisciplinary DebateIn Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman & Thomas A. C. Reydon (eds.), Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism, Springer Verlag. pp. 2147483647-2147483647. 2023.The ideas Darwin published in On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man in the nineteenth century continue to have a major impact on our current understanding of the world in which we live and the place that humans occupy in it. Darwin’s theories constitute the core of the contemporary life sciences, and elicit enduring fascination as a potentially unifying basis for various branches of biology and the biomedical sciences. They can be used to understand the biological ground of human cogni…Read more
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13David N. Stamos (2003). The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology (review)Acta Biotheoretica 52 (3): 229-232. 2004.
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13An oak is an oak, or not? Understanding and dealing with confusion and disagreement in biological classificationBiology and Philosophy 38 (5): 1-20. 2023.Human interaction with the living world, in science and beyond, always involves classification. While it has been a long-standing scientific goal to produce a single all-purpose taxonomy of life to cater for this need, classificatory practice is often subject to confusion and disagreement, and many philosophers have advocated forms of classificatory pluralism. This entails that multiple classifications should be allowed to coexist, and that whichever classification is best, is context-dependent.…Read more
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13Discussion: 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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12Philosophie und ihr Verhältnis zu den EinzelwissenschaftenIn Marcel Ackeren, Theo Kobusch & Jörn Müller (eds.), Warum Noch Philosophie?: Historische, Systematische Und Gesellschaftliche Positionen, De Gruyter. pp. 127-273. 2011.
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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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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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10Philosophy of TechnologyIn J. Feiser & B. Dowden (eds.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, . 2012.
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8Quentin D. Wheeler and Rudolf Meier (Eds.) (2000). Species Concepts and Phylogenetic Theory: A Debate (review)Acta Biotheoretica 50 (2): 137-140. 2002.
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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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7Ethnobiological kinds and material grounding: comments on LudwigEuropean Journal for Philosophy of Science 14 (1): 1-10. 2024.In a recent article, David Ludwig proposed to reorient the debate on natural kinds away from inquiring into the naturalness of kinds and toward elucidating the materiality of kinds. This article responds to Ludwig’s critique of a recently proposed account of kinds and classification, the Grounded Functionality Account, against which Ludwig offsets his own account, and criticizes Ludwig’s proposal to shift focus from naturalness to materiality in the philosophy of kinds and classification.
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4EditorialJournal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 48 (1): 1-2. 2017.
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4Symmetry and the Explanation of Organismal FormIn Ulrich Gähde, Stephan Hartmann & Jörn Henning Wolf (eds.), Models, Simulations, and the Reduction of Complexity, De Gruyter. pp. 43-52. 2013.
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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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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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Sandra D. Mitchell, Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism (review)Philosophy in Review 24 276-279. 2004.
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Metaphysical and Epistemological Approaches to Developing a Theory of Artifact KindsIn Artefact Kinds: Ontology and the Human-made World, Springer. pp. 125-144. 2013.
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The grounded functionality account of natural kindsIn William C. Bausman, Janella K. Baxter & Oliver M. Lean (eds.), From biological practice to scientific metaphysics, University of Minnesota Press. 2023.
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Grundriss Wissenschaftsphilosophie. Die Philosophien der Einzelwissenschaften (edited book)Meiner. 2017.
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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 |
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