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Selected Publications
Papers: FAQ
“On Being ‘Oh So Scientific’: Evolutionary Theory as Methodological Anesthesia in Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology.” To appear in Bastian, Reichardt, ed. Problems of Goodness: New Essays in Metaethics.
“How Philosophers ‘Learn’ from Biology: Reductionist and Anti-reductionist ‘Lessons.” To appear in Smith, David, ed. How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism. Cambridge University Press. (2016)
"Semantic Externalism and Knowing Our Own Minds: Ignoring Twin-Earth and Doing Naturalistic Philosophy", Theoria Vol 79, Issue 3, 204-228. (2013)
"Realism, Natural Kinds and Philosophical Methods". In Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary, eds. The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds, Routledge. (2013)
"What of Pragmatism with the World Here?" in Maria Baghramian, ed. Reading Putnam. Routledge. (2012)
“Realism, Natural Kinds and Philosophical Methods.” In Helen Beebee and Nigel Sabbarton-Leary, eds. The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds. Routledge. (2010)
"Homeostasis, higher taxa and monophyly". Philosophy of Science. Vol. 77, No. 5 (December 2010), pp. 686-701. (2010)
"Finite Beings, Finite Goods: The Semantics, Metaphysics and Ethics of Naturalist Consequentialism, Part I". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXVI, No. 3 May 2003, 505-553. (2003)
"Finite Beings, Finite Goods: The Semantics, Metaphysics and Ethics of Naturalist Consequentialism, Part II". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXVII, No. 1 July 2003, 24-47. (2003)
"The Illogical Basis of Phylogenetic Nomenclature." Botanical Review 68. (co-authored with R.A. Keller and Q.D. Wheeler.) (2003)
"Truth through Thick and Thin", in Richard Schantz, ed. What is Truth?. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. (2001)
"Homeostasis, Species, and Higher Taxa," in R. Wilson, ed. Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays. Cambridge: MIT Press. (1999)
"Kinds, Complexity and Multiple Realization: Comments on Millikan's 'Historical Kinds and the Special Sciences'." Philosophical Studies 95 (1-2), 67-98. (1999)
"Kinds as the "Workmanship of Men": Realism, Constructivism, and Natural Kinds." in Julian Nida-Rümelin, ed. Rationalität, Realismus, Revision: Proceedings of the Third International Congress, Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie. Berlin: de Gruyter. (1999)
"Metaphor and Theory Change" (second version) in A. Ortony (ed.) Metaphor and Thought, 2nd Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press. (1993)
"Constructivism, Realism, and Philosophical Method". in John Earman, ed. Inference, and Other Philosophical Frustrations. (1992)
"Realism, Anti-Foundationalism and the Enthusiasm for Natural Kinds." Philosophical Studies 61: 127-148. (1991)
"Realism, Approximate Truth and Philosophical Method" in Wade Savage, ed. Scientific Theories, Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science vol. 14. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (1990)
"Realism, Conventionality, and 'Realism About'" in Boolos, ed. Meaning and Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1990)
"Reference, (In)commensurability, and Meanings: Some (Perhaps) Unanticipated Complexities." in Paul Hoyningen-Huene and Howard Sankey, eds. Incommensurability and Related Matters. Dordrecht: Kluwer. (1990)
"What Realism Implies and What It Does Not" Dialectica: 5-29. (1989)
"How to be a Moral Realist." in G. Sayre McCord (ed) Moral Realism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. (1988)
"Lex Orandi est Lex Credendi." in Churchland and Hooker (eds.) Images of Science: Scientific Realism Versus Constructive Empiricism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1985)
"Observations, Explanatory Power, and Simplicity." In P Achinstein and O. Hannaway (eds.) Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis In Modern Physical Science. Cambridge: MIT Press. (1985)
"On the Current Status of the Issue of Scientific Realism." Erkenntnis 19: 45-90. (1983)
"Scientific Realism and Naturalistic Epistemology." in P.D. Asquith and R.N. Giere (eds.) PSA 1980. Volume Two. E. Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association. (1982)
"Materialism Without Reductionism: What Physicalism Does Not Entail." In N. Block (ed.), Readings In Philosophy of Psychology, vol.1. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (1980)
"Realism, Underdetermination and a Causal Theory of Evidence." Nous (VII): 1-12. (1973)
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