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    Narrative Explanation and the Theory of Evolution
    Canadian 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
  •  7
    Russell Vannoy, Sex Without Love—A Philosophical Exploration Reviewed by (review)
    Philosophy in Review 1 (1): 48-52. 1981.
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    What Kind of Revolution Occurred in Geology?
    PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1978 (2): 240-273. 1978.
    The one thing upon which we can all agree is that just over ten years ago a major revolution occurred in the science of geology. Geologists switched from accepting a static earth-picture, to endorsing a vision of an earth with its surface constantly in motion. (Cox [4]; Hallam [12]; Marvin [28]; Wilson [56]). It is true that early in this century the German geologist Alfred Wegener argued that the continents as we today find them have “drifted” to their positions from other positions widely diff…Read more
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    Biology versus culture in human behaviour
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 4 (2): 250-251. 1981.
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    Is science sexist?
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (2): 197-198. 1980.
  • Un messaggio all'umanità
    Scientia 65 (n/a): 1105. 1971.
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    These remarks preface two volumes consisting of the proceedings of the Third International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. The conference was held under the auspices of the Union, The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science. The meetings took place in Montreal, Canada, 25-29 August 1980, with Concordia University as host institutio…Read more
  • Social Darwinism: The Two Sources
    Rivista di Filosofia 22 36. 1982.
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    Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (review) (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 28 (1): 144-146. 1990.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:144 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 28" 1 JANUARY 199o name neo-Kantianism is generally used only for the time following 188o.s And is K6hnke really beingjust toward later neo-Kantianism in reckoning the 187os as a high point after which only a period of decline could follow? HELMU'r HOLZHEY Universityof Zurich Robert J. Richards. Darwin and the Emergenceof Evolutionary TheoriesofMind and Behav- /or. Science and Its Conceptual F…Read more
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    Charles Darwin, the leading evolutionist, introduces and discusses his key mechanism, natural selection, in Chapter IV of his On the Origin of Species (1859). He shows how the mechanism follows from the struggle for existence, together with random variation, and he argues that it not only explains change, but change in the direction of features of adaptive worth. He introduces the secondary mechanism of sexual selection and then, through examples, shows how selection might be expected to work in…Read more
  • The year 2009 marks the 200-year anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. This timely update of The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries.
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    Narrative Explanation Revisited
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (3). 1975.
    T. A. Gouge has argued that certain explanations in evolutionary biology should be understood as conforming to the so-called ‘narrative’ model of explanation, where the chief distinguishing feature between this model and the well-known ‘covering-law’ model is that this narrative model, unlike the covering-law model, makes no appeal at all to laws. In support of his case Goudge offered an example of an evolutionary explanation which, he claimed, comes closer to the narrative model than the coveri…Read more
  •  8
    Sociobiology: Sound Science or Muddled Metaphysics?
    PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1976. 1976.
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    This chapter argues that the phenomenon of fraud and dishonesty in science is more akin to a perversion than a straight sin. Examples from the history of evolutionary biology are used to show how scientists employ supposed examples of fraud to discredit their opponents. Examples are drawn from the history of evolutionary biology involving Darwin, the Piltdown hoax, Edward O. Wilson, and Stephen Jay Gould.
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    Introduction
    with Stephen Bullivant
    In Stephen Bullivant & Michael Ruse (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, Oxford University Press Uk. 2013.
    This introduction outlines the vision and scope of The Oxford Handbook of Atheism. While, historically speaking, the academic study of atheism has not always and everywhere received the attention it deserves, that does not mean that there is not already a significant body of scholarship on the subject. In particular, a great deal of new and exciting work—in a wide range of disciplines, and from scholars in many different countries—has emerged within the past decade. The Oxford Handbook of Atheis…Read more
  • Taking Darwin Seriously. A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy
    Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 50 (1): 172-173. 1988.
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    Is the Theory of Evolution Different?
    Scientia 65 (6): 1069. 1971.
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    With the coming of evolutionary speculations in the middle of the nineteenth century, there was much interest in the possible implications of these ideas for ethical thinking and action. Two basic approaches can be discerned, that of Herbert Spencer who saw ongoing progress in life’s history and used this to promote and justify proper conduct and that of Charles Darwin who used his theory of evolution through natural selection to explain moral thought and behavior. Both approaches found supporte…Read more
  • The Philosophy of Biology comes of Age
    Philosophia Naturalis 25 (3): 269-285. 1988.
  • C. H. Anderson , "Sociological Essays and Research" (review)
    Theory and Decision 1 (4): 399. 1971.
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    Booknotes
    Biology and Philosophy 9 (2): 253-259. 1994.
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    Issue six• spring 2004
    with Adam Swift, Richard Swinburne, Frank Jackson, Piers Benn, Richard Double, Marilyn Mason, Roy Jackson, Alan Sidelle, and Michael Bradie
    In David Papineau (ed.), Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 175003. 2009.