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5Is Homosexuality Bad SexualityIn Robert M. Stewart (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love, Oup Usa. pp. 113--24. 1995.
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1William Whewell: OmniscientistIn Menachem Fisch & Simon Schaffer (eds.), William Whewell: A Composite Portrait, Clarendon Press. 1991.
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40Making use of creationism. A case-study for the philosophy of science classroomStudies in Philosophy and Education 10 (1): 81-92. 1990.In this paper, I describe an approach to the teaching of philosophy of science that draws normally reluctant students into controversial issues in the philosophy of science. I have found that the topic of creationism is a good vehicle for introducing students to the more difficult issues in philosophy of science. I explore the use of creationism as a case-study in the philosophy of science and detail my own experience in the creationism debate.
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Introduction to part VIIIn David L. Hull & Michael Ruse (eds.), The philosophy of biology, Oxford University Press. 1973.
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27Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity. Dean Keith Simonton (review)Isis 92 (3): 587-589. 2001.
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6Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species by Jeffrey H. Schwartz (review)Isis 91 (3): 608-609. 2000.
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On behalf of the foolIn John Angus Campbell & Stephen C. Meyer (eds.), Darwinism, design, and public education, Michigan State University Press. pp. 475--485. 2003.
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John Preston, Gonzalo Munevar and David Lamb (eds), The Worst Enemy of Science? Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend (review)History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 23 (2): 290-290. 2002.
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8Richard Dawkins. The God Delusion. x + 406 pp., app., index. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. $27Isis 98 (4): 814-816. 2007.
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22Literature after Darwin: Human Beasts in Western Fiction, 1859–1939The European Legacy 19 (6): 812-813. 2014.
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Evolutionary medicineIn Martin Brinkworth & Friedel Weinert (eds.), Evolution 2.0: Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and Natural Sciences, Springer. pp. 177-189. 2011.
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82Genetic testing and insurance: The complexity of adverse selectionEthical Perspectives 19 (1): 123-54. 2012.The debate on whether insurance companies should be allowed to use results of individuals’ genetic tests for underwriting purposes has been both lively and increasingly relevant over the past two decades. Yet there appears to be no widely agreed upon resolution regarding appropriate and effective regulation. There exists today a gamut of recommendations and actual practices addressing this phenomenon ranging from laissez-faire to voluntary industry moratoria to strict legal prohibition. One obvi…Read more
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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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53Intelligent design theory and its contextThink 4 (11): 7-16. 2005.Michael Ruse introduces the debate over intelligent design creationism
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35Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to PhilosophyPrometheus Books. 1986.Brings together traditional philosophy and modern sociobiology to examine evolutionary biology and its relation to the evolution of knowledge and ethics
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3Darwin versus the Liberals: The third assault of the intelligent designersStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 46 89-92. 2014.
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67Gaps in the argument: A discussion of certain aspects of cosmologyZygon 45 (1): 221-227. 2010.In this discussion review of Robert John Russell's collection of essays I agree with him about the necessity of human existence given the claims of Christian theology. I look in detail at his suggestions for speaking to this issue, especially his thesis of NIODA—noninterventionist objective divine action. I end up disagreeing with the suggestion and argue that in respects Russell is tackling the science-religion relationship in the wrong way.
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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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27Making Room For Faith In An Age Of ScienceProceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 85 43-58. 2011.Are science and religion necessarily in conflict? This essay, by stressing the importance of metaphor in scientific understanding, argues that this is not so. There are certain important questions about existence, ethics, sentience and ultimate meaning and purpose that not only does science not answer but that science does not even attempt to answer. One does not necessarily have to turn to religion—one could remain agnostic or skeptical—but nothing in science precludes religion from offering an…Read more
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