Stephen M. Downes

Publications

Papers In Journals:

  1. “Models, Pictures and Unified Accounts of Representation: Lessons from aesthetics for philosophy of science,” Perspectives on Science (Forthcoming).
  2. “Integrating the Multiple Biological Causes of Human Behavior,” Biology and Philosophy 20: 177-190 (2005).

  3. “Alternative Splicing, the Gene Concept, and Evolution,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 26: 91-104 (2004).

  4. “The Theory Theory Thrice Over: The Child as Scientist, Superscientist or Social Institution?” (Co-authored with Michael Bishop), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Vol. 33, No. 1: 117-132 (2002).

  5. “Some recent developments in evolutionary approaches to the study of human behavior and cognition,” Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 5: 575-595 (2001)

  6. Agents and Norms in the New Economics of Science,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Vol. 31, No. 2: 224-238 (2001).

  7. “Truth, Selection and Scientific Inquiry,” Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 15, No. 3: 425-442 (2000).

  8. Can Scientific Development and Children’s Cognitive Development be the Same Process?,” Philosophy of Science, Vol. 66, No. 4: 565-578 (1999).

  9. Socializing Naturalized Philosophy of Science," Philosophy of Science, Vol. 60, No. 3: 452-469 (1993).

  10. “Modeling Scientific Practice: Paul Thagard's Computational Approach,” New Ideas in Psychology, Vol. 11, No. 2: 229-243 (1993).

  11. The Importance of Models in Theorizing: A Deflationary Semantic Approach,” Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association,Vol.1,  D. Hull, M. Forbes & K. Okrulik (eds.):142-153, (1992).

  12. “Rational Reconstruction or Empirical Psychology: Reply to Paul Thagard,” Behavioral and Brain Sciences,  Vol. 14, No. 4: 742-3 (1991).

  13. Herbert Simon's Computational Models of Scientific Discovery,” Proceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1,  A.Fine, M.Forbes, & L.Wessels (eds.): 97-108, (1990).

  14. “Reply to Harry Redner on ‘Pathologies of Science’,” Social Epistemology, Vol. 1, No. 3: 259-261 (1987).

  15. “A Philosophical Ethnography of Human-Computer Interaction,” Social Epistemology, Vol. 1, No. 1: 27-36 (1987).

Papers In Edited Volumes:

  1. “The Basic Components of the Human Mind Were Not Solidified During the Pleistocene Epoch?” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology, R. Arp and F. Ayala (Eds.), Blackwell (Forthcoming).
  2. “Baldwin Effects and the Expansion of the Explanatory Repertoire in Evolutionary Biology” in Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered, B. Weber and D. Depew (Eds.), MIT Press: 33-52 (2003).

  3. “Ontogeny, Phylogeny and Scientific Development,” in V. Hardcastle (ed.) Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays. Cambridge: MIT Press: 273-85 (1999).

Entries In Encyclopedias/Companions to Philosophy:

  1. Evolutionary PsychologyThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2008/entries/evolutionary-psychology/>.
  2. “Evolutionary Psychology” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, W.A Darity (Ed.).  Detroit, Macmillan Reference: Vol. 9, 33-34 (2008).
  3. “Biological Information” in Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, J. Pfeiffer & S. Sarkar (Eds.).  New York: Routledge: 64-68 (2006).
  4. "Heredity and Heritability", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  (Fall 2004 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), forthcoming URL =  <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2004/entries/heredity/>.
  5. “Constructivism,” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E.Craig (Ed.). New York: Routledge: Vol. 2: 624-30 (1998).
  6. “Science” in The Encyclopedia of Empiricism, D.Garrett & E. Barbanell (Eds.). Westport, CT:   Greenwood Press: 218-24 (1997).
  7. “Logical Positivism and Logical Empiricism” in The Encyclopedia of Empiricism, D.Garrett & E. Barbanell (Eds.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press: 386-8 (1997).

Reviews:
  1. “Life after Evolutionary Psychology. Review of David Buller Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature.” Metascience  Vol. 16, No. 1: 1-6 (2007).
  2. "From philosophy of biology to social philosophy: Review of Philip Kitcher, In Mendels’ Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology." Biology and Philosophy 21: 299-307 (2006). 
  3. “Pluralistic biology of human behavior: A review of K. Laland and J. Brown, Sense and Nonsense.”  Metascience 14: 269-271 (2005).
  4. “Review of David Hull, Science and Selection.” Biology and Philosophy 17: 739-742 (2002).
  5. “Review of Kim Sterelny, The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays.” Philosophy of Science Vol. 69, No. 3: 538-540 (2002).
  6. "Review of Paul Feyerabend, Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being and John Preston, Gonzalo Munevar and David Lamb (Eds.), The Worst Enemy of Science? Essays in Memory of Paul Feyerabend."  Science, Technology and Human Values Vol. 27, No. 1: 160-4 (2002).
  7. "Getting over the science wars: Review of Noretta Koertge (Ed.), A House Built on Sand and Gonzalo Munevar, Evolution and the Naked Truth."  Social Epistemology Vol. 15, No. 4: 384-387 (2001).
  8. “Review of Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness.” American Scientist 89: 560-562 (2001).
  9. "Review of Susan Oyama, The Ontogeny of Information (Second Edition)." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 44: 464-469 (2001).
  10. “Review of Steve Fuller, Science.”  Philosophy of the Social Sciences 30: 140-5 (2000).
  11. “Review of Jarrett Leplin, A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism.”  ISIS, Vol. 90, No. 1: 161-2 (1999).
  12. "Review of Peter Galison and David Stump, The Disunity of Science.” ISIS, Vol. 88, No. 3: 517-8 (1997).
  13. "Science as it is: Review of Frederick Grinnell, The Scientific Attitude." Biology and Philosophy 11: 117-120 (1996).
  14. "Review of Dirk Stemerding, Plants, Animals and Formulae: Natural History in the Light of Latour's Science in Action and Foucault's The Order of Things." History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 16: 395-6 (1994).
  15. "Review of  Michael Gorman, Simulating Science."  ISIS, Vol. 85, No. 1: 195-197 (1994).
  16. “Workshop Report: Second International Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition” (Co-authored with Eric Dietrich). AI Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 3: 17-20 (1992).
  17. "Review of Steve Woolgar, Science: The Very Idea." Explorations in Knowledge,  Vol. VII, No. 4 (1990).
  18. "Review of Rainer Born (ed.), Artificial Intelligence: The Case Against." Explorations in Knowledge, Vol. VI, No. 1: 73 (1989).



 
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