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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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50Julian 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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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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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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29Review. Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research. TF Murphy (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 51 (3): 487-493. 2000.
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49Charles 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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37Narrative Explanation and the Theory of EvolutionCanadian Journal of Philosophy 1 (1). 1971.A common complaint of biologists is that their subject receives poor treatment from philosophers—it gets but a fraction of the attention accorded to physics and chemistry, and what little it does receive, is usually of the type where ‘All swans are white’ is taken to be a paradigmatic example of the state of biological thinking. It cannot be denied that this complaint is, to a great extent, justified; however, there are some notable breaches in the wall of ignorance and silence, amongst which mu…Read more
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90Darwinian reductionism, or, how to stop worrying and love molecular biology – Alex rosenbergDarwinian populations and natural selection – Peter Godfrey-SmithPhilosophical Quarterly 60 (238): 204-208. 2010.
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9Book Review:Towards a Theoretical Biology C. H. Waddington (review)Philosophy of Science 39 (1): 105-. 1972.
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259Genesis revisited: Can we do better than God?Zygon 19 (3): 297-316. 1984.WE ARE FACED WITH GROWING POWERS OF MANIPULATION OF OUR HUMAN GENETIC MAKEUP. WHILE NOT DENYING THAT THESE POWERS CAN BE USED FOR GREAT GOOD, IT BEHOOVES US TO THINK NOW OF POSSIBLE UPPER LIMITS TO THE CHANGE THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO EFFECT. I ARGUE THAT THOUGHTS OF CHANGING THE HUMAN SPECIES INTO A RACE OF SUPERMEN AND SUPERWOMEN ARE BASED ON WEAK PREMISES. GENETIC FINE-TUNING MAY INDEED BE IN ORDER; WHOLESALE GENETIC CHANGE IS NOT
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26Biological Science and Feminist ValuesPSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1984. 1984.Feminist writers argue that values permeate science. Using Ernan McMullin's discussion of values in science as a guide, the feminist position is accepted and an attempt is made to show why their position is one which should be noted by conventional philosophers of science.
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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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174Darwin's debt to philosophy: An examination of the influence of the philosophical ideas of John F.W. Herschel and William Whewell on the development of Charles Darwin's theory of evolutionStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 6 (2): 159-181. 1975.
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22Review 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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122Evolutionary theory and Christian ethics: Are they in harmony?Zygon 29 (1): 5-24. 1994.Does modern evolutionary theory (specifically Darwinism) pose a problem for the Christian's thinking about morality? It certainly poses threats for those who would argue that certain practices are wrong because they are “unnatural.” Liberal Christians can probably get around these questions. But at a deeper level, despite superficial similarities between its conclusions and the Love Commandment, Darwinism points to an essential relativism about morality, thereby striking at the very core of all …Read more
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19Biology and the History of the Future, Edited by C. H. Waddington, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1972, pp. vii, 72, 50 p (review)Dialogue 13 (2): 402-403. 1974.
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61Evolutionary Ethics: What Can We Learn From from the Past?Zygon 34 (3): 435-451. 1999.In this paper I look at the question of the derivation of ethics from evolutionary biology, and I do so by considering both historical attempts to make such a derivation and contemporary work.
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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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69Moral Philosophy as Applied ScienceIn Elliott Sober (ed.), Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, The Mit Press. Bradford Books. pp. 61--421. 1994.
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