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19Reduction in GeneticsPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1974. 1974.
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34Philosophy of biology today: No grounds for complacency (review)Philosophia 8 (4): 785-796. 1979.
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51Evo-devo: A New Evolutionary Paradigm?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 56 8-9. 2005.The homologies of process within morphogenetic fields provide some of the best evidence for evolution—just as skeletal and organ homologies did earlier. Thus, the evidence for evolution is better than ever. The role of natural selection in evolution, how–ever, is seen to play less an important role. It is merely a filter for unsuccessful morphologies generated by development. Population genetics is destined to change if it is not to become as irrelevant to evolution as Newtonian mechanics is to …Read more
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18Book Review:The Young Darwin and His Cultural Circle Edward Manier (review)Philosophy of Science 46 (1): 165-. 1979.
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3Nature, Human Nature, and Society (review)International Studies in Philosophy 18 (3): 63-65. 1986.
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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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46From belief to unbelief-and halfway backZygon 29 (1): 25-35. 1994.Through autobiography, I explain why I cannot accept conventional Christianity or any other form of religious belief. I sketch how, through modern evolutionary theory, I try to find an alternative world‐picture, one which is, however, essentially agnostic about ultimate meanings. I characterize my position as being that of “David Hume brought up‐to‐date by Charles Darwin.” I express sad skepticism about ever realizing the hopes on which Zygon was founded.
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4The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences. Roy Bhaskar (review)Isis 72 (3): 493-495. 1981.
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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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204Methodological Naturalism Under AttackSouth African Journal of Philosophy 24 (1): 44-60. 2005.Methodological naturalism is the assumption or working hypothesis that understanding nature (the physical world including humans and their thoughts and actions) can be understood in terms of unguided laws. There is no need to Suppose interventions (miracles) from outside. It does not commit one to metaphysical naturalism, the belief that there is nothing other than nature as we can see and observe it (in other words, that atheism is the right theology for the sound thinker). Recently the Intelli…Read more
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45The philosophical naturalists: Themes in early nineteenth-century british biology (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 24 (3): 423-425. 1986.
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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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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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38Review of The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth by Peter Bowler; and of The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society by Peter J. Bowler (review)Philosophy of Science 60 (1): 171-172. 1993.
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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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104The Compatibility of Science and Religion: Why the Warfare Thesis Is FalseIn Yujin Nagasawa (ed.), Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 255. 2012.
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