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51Natural Selection in "The Origin of Species"Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 1 (4): 311. 1971.
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8Do the History of Science and the Philosophy of Science Have Anything to Say to Each Other?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992. 1992.
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21The Place of Artificial Selection in Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution through Natural SelectionIn Gregory J. Morgan (ed.), Philosophy of Science Matters: The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein, Oxford University Press. pp. 203. 2011.
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1Human Sociobiology: A Philosophical PerspectiveEidos: The Canadian Graduate Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 46-88. 1984.
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243Moral Philosophy as Applied SciencePhilosophy 61 (236): 173-192. 1986.(1) For much of this century, moral philosophy has been constrained by the supposed absolute gap between is andought, and the consequent belief that the facts of life cannot of themselves yield an ethical blueprint for future action. For this reason, ethics has sustained an eerie existence largely apart from science. Its most respected interpreters still believe that reasoning about right and wrong can be successful without a knowledge of the brain, the human organ where all the decisions about …Read more
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52David Hull: A memoirBiology and Philosophy 25 (5): 739-747. 2010.David Hull: a memoir Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s10539-010-9236-0 Authors Michael Ruse, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA Journal Biology and Philosophy Online ISSN 1572-8404 Print ISSN 0169-3867.
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72The Morality of the GeneThe Monist 67 (2): 167-199. 1984.The relationship between biology, the science of organisms, and ethics, the philosophy of morality, has never been a particularly happy or fruitful one. Indeed, for much of this century, attempts to relate our animal nature to our sense of right and wrong have been taken as paradigms of how not to do moral philosophy. It has been argued that such systems of “evolutionary ethics” commit the most basic fallacies, and can serve only as dreadful warnings to those who would cross interdisciplinary di…Read more
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Biodiversity, Darwin, and the Fossil RecordIn Markku Oksanen & Juhani Pietarinen (eds.), Philosophy and Biodiversity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 101-118. 2004.
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2Book Reviews : Faces of Science. BY V. V. NALIMOV. Edited by ROBERT G. COLODNY. Philadelphia: ISI Press, 1981. Pp. 298. $22.50 U.S.A., $25.50 in other countries (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 16 (2): 249-251. 1986.
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91Medicine as social science: The case of Freud on homosexualityJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 6 (4): 361-386. 1981.This paper considers the question of whether the explanation of homosexual orientation offered by Sigmund Freud qualifies as a genuine explanation, judged by the criteria of the social sciences. It is argued that the explanation, namely that homosexual orientation is a function of atypical parental influences, is indeed an explanation of the kind found in the social sciences. Nevertheless, it is concluded that to date Freud's hypotheses about homosexuality are no more than unproven speculations.…Read more
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6The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859. Dov Ospovat (review)Isis 74 (2): 292-293. 1983.
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38Evolution, Morality, and the Meaning of Life Jeffrie G. Murphy Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982. Pp. 158, index. $14.95 (review)Dialogue 23 (3): 527-530. 1984.
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19Reduction in GeneticsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1974. 1974.
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49Julian Huxley on Darwinian evolution: A snapshot of a theory Content Type Journal Article DOI 10.1007/s11016-010-9499-8 Authors Michael Ruse, Department of Philosophy, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32303, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
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176Response to the Commentary: Pro JudiceScience, Technology, and Human Values 7 (41): 19-23. 1982.
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5Sociobiology: Sound Science or Muddled Metaphysics?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1976. 1976.
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41Charles Darwin and group selectionAnnals of Science 37 (6): 615-630. 1980.The question of the levels at which natural selection can be said to operate is much discussed by biologists today and is a key factor in the recent controversy about sociobiology. It is shown that this problem is one to which Charles Darwin addressed himself at some length. It is argued that apart from some slight equivocation over man, Darwin opted firmly for hypotheses supposing selection always to work at the level of the individual rather than the group. However, natural selection's co-disc…Read more
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6Philip F. Rehbock, "The Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 24 (3): 423. 1986.
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