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1William Whewell: OmniscientistIn Menachem Fisch & Simon Schaffer (eds.), William Whewell: A Composite Portrait, Clarendon Press. 1991.
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39Making 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. 1998.
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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 H. Brinkworth & Friedel Weinert (eds.), Evolution 2.0: Implications of Darwinism in Philosophy and the Social and Natural Sciences, Springer. pp. 177-189. 2012.
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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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A Darwinian Understanding of EpistemologyIn A. J. Sanford & P. N. Johnson-Laird (eds.), The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding, T & T Clark. pp. 111. 2003.
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126Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution: An AnalysisJournal of the History of Biology 8 (2). 1975.
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16The theory of punctuated equilibriaIn Peter K. Machamer, Marcello Pera & Aristeidēs Baltas (eds.), Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives, Oxford University Press. pp. 230. 2000.
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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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The Philosophy of Biology Comes of Age in Wissenschaftstheorie am Ende der 80er JahrePhilosophia Naturalis 25 (3-4): 269-284. 1988.
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3Nature, Human Nature, and Society (review)International Studies in Philosophy 18 (3): 63-65. 1986.
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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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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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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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