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15Review of Richard D. Alexander: The Biology of Moral Systems (review)Ethics 99 (1): 182-183. 1988.
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15Evolutionary Biology and the Question of TrustIn Noretta Koertge (ed.), Scientific Values and Civic Virtues, Oup Usa. pp. 99. 2005.
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14A Meaning to LifeOup Usa. 2019.Does human life have meaning? Ever since Darwin, there has been great skepticism about whether a "meaning of life" was possible outside of religious belief. Is it possible to find meaning in human life? Philosopher of science Michael Ruse examines the question of meaning in life within Darwinian views of human nature. He argues that meaning in the Darwinian age can be found if we turn to a kind of Darwinian existentialism, seeing our evolved human nature as the source of all meaning, both in the…Read more
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14Formal Thought and the Science of Man (review)International Studies in Philosophy 20 (1): 82-83. 1988.
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14Philosophy of Biology Today: On the Outside of Europe Looking InState University of New York Press. 1988.This short and highly accessible volume opens up the subject of the philosophy of biology to professionals and to students in both disciplines. The text covers briefly and clearly all of the pertinent topics in the subject, dealing with both human and non-human issues, and quite uniquely surveying not only scholars in the English-speaking world but others elsewhere, including the Eastern block. As molecular biologists peer ever more deeply into life’s mysteries, there are those who fear that suc…Read more
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14Social Darwinism updated? (review)Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 33 (4): 753-760. 2002.
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14What Kind of Revolution Occurred in Geology?PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978. 1978.
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14Science and the Humanities: Stephen Jay Gould’s Quest to Join the High TableScience & Education 22 (9): 2317-2326. 2013.
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13The Possibility of Naturalism: A Philosophical Critique of the Contemporary Human Sciences by Roy Bhaskar (review)Isis 72 493-495. 1981.
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13Book 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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13Evelyn Fox Keller, The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. viii+107. ISBN 978-0-8223-4731-6. £12.99 (review)British Journal for the History of Science 44 (4): 617-618. 2011.
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13Evolution: The First Four Billion Years (edited book)Harvard University Press. 2009.The history of evolutionary thought / Michael Ruse -- The origin of life / Jeffrey L. Bada and Antonio Lazcano -- Paleontology and the history of life / Michael Benton -- Adaptation / Joseph Travis and David N. Reznick -- Molecular evolution / Francisco J. Ayala -- Evolution of the genome / Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth -- The pattern and process of speciation / Margaret B. Ptacek and Shala J. Hankison -- Evolution and development / Gregory A. Wray -- Social behavior and sociobiolo…Read more
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13Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?Harvard University Press. 2003.Preface ix Introduction 1 1 Two Thousand Years of Design 9 2 Paley and Kant Fight Back 31 3 Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 51 4 A Plurality of Problems 69 5 Charles Darwin 89 6 A Subject Too Profound 107 7 Darwinian against Darwinian 129 8 The Century of Evolutionism 151 9 Adaptation in Action 171 10 Theory and Test 195 11 Formalism Redux 223 12 From Function to Design 249 13 Design as Metaphor 271 14 Natural Theology Evolves 291 15 Turning Back the Clock 313 Sources and Suggested Reading 339 Ill…Read more
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12Nature, Human Nature, and Society (review)International Studies in Philosophy 18 (3): 63-65. 1986.
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12Teaching the Classics: The Origin of Species as a Case StudyScience & Education 22 (9): 2255-2265. 2013.
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12Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About EvolutionOxford University Press USA. 2016.The Darwinian Revolution--the change in thinking sparked by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, which argued that all organisms including humans are the end product of a long, slow, natural process of evolution rather than the miraculous creation of an all-powerful God--is one of the truly momentous cultural events in Western Civilization. Darwinism as Religion is an innovative and exciting approach to this revolution through creative writing, showing how the theory of evolution as expres…Read more
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12Evo-devo: A New Evolutionary Paradigm?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 56 105-124. 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, however, 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 c…Read more
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12Building blocks of moralityHTS Theological Studies 76 (1): 10. 2020.Most of us agree about the rules or norms of morality, what philosophers call substantive or normative ethics: be kind to small children, do not cheat on exams and return your library books on time. The big disputes come over foundations, metaethics. This article considers the four main positions. Firstly, religious ethics : Here you appeal to the will of God. The problem is not everyone believes in God, and could God make it okay to mark up library books and not return them? Secondly, platonic …Read more
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12Essays in Philosophical Analysis. By Nicholas Rescher. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1969, pp. x, 430, $14.95 (review)Dialogue 8 (4): 721-724. 1970.
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12Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America (review)Isis 96 149-150. 2005.
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11Abusing Science: The Case against CreationismPhilosophy of Science 51 (2): 348-354. 1984.Several years ago, I was asked to participate in a forum on evolution. Flattered, I accepted, only discovering later that I was to participate in a “debate”, involving me and a scientist squaring off against two Creationists, Henry M. Morris and Duane T. Gish. The topic for discussion was which doctrine has the greatest scientific merit: organic evolution through natural processes set against the background of a very old earth, or special instantaneous appearance of all organisms, about 6000 yea…Read more
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