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3The Process of Model-Building in the Behavioral Sciences (review)Theory and Decision 4 (3/4): 401. 1974.
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1Bringing in Culture: how the Study of Meta-phor enriches Evolutionary EpistemologyIn A. A. Derksen (ed.), The Promise of Evolutionary Epistemology, Tilburg University Press. pp. 5--157. 1998.
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Teleology and the Biological SciencesIn Nicholas Rescher (ed.), Current Issues in Teleology, University Press of America. pp. 61. 1986.
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65Why I am an accommodationist and proud of itZygon 50 (2): 361-375. 2015.There is a strong need of a reasoned defense of what was known as the “independence” position of the science–religion relationship but that more recently has been denigrated as the “accommodationist” position, namely that while there are parts of religion—fundamentalist Christianity in particular—that clash with modern science, the essential parts of religion do not and could not clash with science. A case for this position is made on the grounds of the essentially metaphorical nature of science…Read more
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15Studies in the Philosophy of Biology. Reduction and Related Problems by Franciso José Ayala; Theodosius Dobzhansky (review)Isis 67 479-481. 1976.
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28Critical Notice of Andrew Woodfield, Teleology, and Larry Wright, Teleological Explanations (review)Canadian Journal of Philosophy 8 (1): 191-203. 1978.
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43Problems of scientific revolution: Progress and obstacles to progress in the sciences (review)Erkenntnis 13 (1): 407-416. 1978.
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18The Structure of Biological Theories (review)International Studies in Philosophy 25 (1): 109-110. 1993.
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35Evolutionary biology and the question of teleologyStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 58 100-106. 2016.
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29Are Pictures Really Necessary? The Case of Sewell Wright's "Adaptive Landscapes"PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990. 1990.Philosophical analyses of science tend to ignore illustrations, implicitly regarding them as theoretically dispensible. If challenged, it is suggested that such neglect is justifiable, because the use of illustrations only leads to faulty reasoning, and thus is the mark of bad or inadequate science. I take as an example one of the most famous illustrations in the history of evolutionary biology, and argue that the philosophers' scorn is without foundation. I take my conclusions to be support for…Read more
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44Pat Duffy Hutcheon, Leaving the Cave: Evolutionary Naturalism in Social-Scientific ThoughtStudies in Philosophy and Education 17 (2/3): 155-158. 1998.
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36Scott F. Gilbert—second to the right, straight on till morning (review)Biological Theory 2 (2): 182-182. 2007.
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105Science and religion today (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70 (2): 167-177. 2011.Science and religion today Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-11 DOI 10.1007/s11153-011-9316-3 Authors Michael Ruse, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA Journal International Journal for Philosophy of Religion Online ISSN 1572-8684 Print ISSN 0020-7047
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31Creationism and its critics in antiquity (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (3). 2009.he history of evolutionary theory is a little bit of a puzzle. Charles Darwin, the author of the Origin of Species in 1859, was the man who made evolutionary ideas reasonable—ideas that were generally accepted—and it was Darwin who provided the major mechanism of natural selection. He was not the first evolutionist, however. For at least one hundred and fifty years, starting with people like the French encyclopediast Denis Diderot, people had been speculating that organisms had a natural origin,…Read more
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