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16Aryeh Kosman is the John Whitehead Professor of Philosophy at Haver-ford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He works on the interpretation of ancient philosophy, particularly the works of Plato and Aristotle. Zvi Biener is a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh's depart-ment of History and Philosophy of Science. He specializes in the history of (review)Perspectives on Science 12 (3). 2004.
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16Book Review:From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy Elliott Sober (review)Philosophy of Science 63 (1): 143-. 1996.
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15You Must Have Thought This Book Was About You1: Reply to Daniel DennettPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3): 691-695. 2007.Daniel Dennett's review2 of my book, Human Nature and the Limits of Science,3 was apparently conceived as part of a multiple review, anticipating an author's response, so I am grateful for the opportunity to satisfy this expectation. Indeed, Dennett uses this excuse to justify devoting his own contribution to responding to those parts of the book directed explicitly at his own work, leaving other imagined reviewers to take care of other issues. Since he has things to say about most of the topics…Read more
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146. Reflections on Biology and CultureIn James J. Sheehan & Morton Sosna (eds.), The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines, University of California Press. pp. 125-132. 1991.
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14How Do Scientists Define Openness? Exploring the Relationship Between Open Science Policies and Research PracticeBulletin of Science, Technology and Society 36 (2): 128-141. 2016.This article documents how biomedical researchers in the United Kingdom understand and enact the idea of “openness.” This is of particular interest to researchers and science policy worldwide in view of the recent adoption of pioneering policies on Open Science and Open Access by the U.K. government—policies whose impact on and implications for research practice are in need of urgent evaluation, so as to decide on their eventual implementation elsewhere. This study is based on 22 in-depth interv…Read more
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14Disciplinary baptisms: a comparison of the naming stories of genetics, molecular biology, genomics, and systems biologyHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29 (1): 5. 2007.
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13Review of From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy by Elliott Sober (review)Philosophy of Science 63 (1): 143-145. 1996.Biological knowledge has increased exponentially in the last century or so, and it would be surprising if some of this knowledge did not have implications for philosophy. In contrast with a good deal of Elliott Sober's best known work, which aims to bring philosophical methods to bear on issues within biology, the theme of this collection of essays is to explore some ways in which biological ideas, or more specifically evolutionary ideas, may be brought to bear on philosophical issues. Sober not…Read more
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11It is not possible to reduce biological explanations to explanations in chemistry and/or physicsIn Francisco José Ayala & Robert Arp (eds.), Contemporary debates in philosophy of biology, Wiley-blackwell. 2010.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: No Need for Special Biological Laws? The Reductionist Principle Strong Emergence Complex Relations in Biology A Misinformed Slogan and Its Contributions Genes Causation Systems Biology Metaphysical Coda Postscript: Counterpoint Acknowledgments Notes References.
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10John Dupré, Review of the Mind Works by Steven Pinker (review)Philosophy of Science 66 (3): 489-493. 1999.
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10Social empiricism by Miriam Solomon Bradford Books/MIT press, 2001. Pp. 175 + XI £21.95Philosophy 78 (1): 123-145. 2003.
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916 Economics without mechanismIn Uskali Mäki (ed.), The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 308. 2001.
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8ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society University of ExeterPerspectives on Science 12 (3): 320-338. 2004.. Recent molecular biology has seen the development of genomics as a successor to traditional genetics. This paper offers an overview of the structure, epistemology, and history of contemporary genomics. A particular focus is on the question to what extent the genome contains, or is composed of anything that corresponds to traditional conceptions of genes. It is concluded that the only interpretation of genes that has much contemporary scientific relevance is what is described as the “developmen…Read more
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8The mental lives of nonhuman animalsIn Marc Bekoff & Dale W. Jamieson (eds.), Readings in Animal Cognition, Mit Press. 1996.
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62 The Miracle of MonismIn Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.), Naturalism in Question, Harvard University Press. pp. 36-58. 2004.
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54. The Polygenomic OrganismIn Sarah S. Richardson & Hallam Stevens (eds.), Postgenomics: Perspectives on Biology after the Genome, Duke University Press. pp. 56-72. 2015.
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5Review of Elliott Sober: Philosophy of Biology (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (4): 1084-1087. 1994.
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5The miracle of monismIn Mario De Caro & David Macarthur (eds.), Naturalism in question, Harvard University Press. pp. 36--58. 2004.This chapter defends a pluralistic view of science: the various projects of enquiry that fall under the general rubric of science share neither a methodology nor a subject matter. Ontologically, it is argued that sciences need have nothing in common beyond an antipathy to the supernatural. Epistemically one central virtue is defended, empiricism, meaning just that scientific knowledge must ultimately be answerable to experience. Prima facie science is as diverse as the world it studies; and reje…Read more
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4Natural KindsIn W. H. Newton‐Smith (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Blackwell. 2017.A central aspect of science is the classification of natural phenomena. Not only is this to some extent an end in itself, an account of what kinds of things there are being an important part of the picture of the world that science aims to provide. but classification is also inextricably connected with the development of scientific theories. The change from phlogiston theory to atomic chemistry, for example, involved not just a different theory but an entirely new way of sorting the domain of ch…Read more
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4Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology by Daniel R. Brooks; E. O. Wiley (review)Isis 81 14-150. 1990.
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4ELLIOTT SOBER Did Darwin Write The Origin Backwards? Philosophical Essays on Darwin’s Theory (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64 (4): 889-893. 2013.
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University of ExeterDepartment of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology
Egenis, Centre for the Study of Life SciencesProfessor
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology |
Metaphysics |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |
Metaphysics |