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Stephen M. Downes
Publications
Papers In Journals:
- “Models, Pictures and Unified Accounts of Representation: Lessons from aesthetics for philosophy of science,” Perspectives on Science (Forthcoming).
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“Integrating the Multiple Biological Causes of Human Behavior,”
Biology
and Philosophy 20: 177-190 (2005).
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“Alternative Splicing, the Gene Concept, and Evolution,” History
and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 26: 91-104 (2004).
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“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).
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“Some recent developments in evolutionary approaches to the
study of human behavior and cognition,” Biology and Philosophy, Vol.
16, No. 5: 575-595 (2001)
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“Agents
and Norms in the New Economics of Science,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences,
Vol. 31, No. 2: 224-238 (2001).
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“Truth, Selection and Scientific Inquiry,” Biology and Philosophy, Vol.
15, No. 3: 425-442 (2000).
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“Can
Scientific Development and Children’s Cognitive Development be the
Same Process?,” Philosophy
of Science, Vol. 66, No. 4: 565-578 (1999).
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“Socializing
Naturalized Philosophy of Science," Philosophy of Science, Vol. 60,
No. 3: 452-469 (1993).
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“Modeling Scientific Practice: Paul Thagard's Computational Approach,”
New Ideas in Psychology,
Vol. 11, No. 2: 229-243 (1993).
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“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).
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“Rational Reconstruction or Empirical Psychology: Reply to Paul
Thagard,” Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, Vol. 14, No. 4: 742-3 (1991).
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“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).
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“Reply to Harry Redner on ‘Pathologies of Science’,” Social Epistemology,
Vol. 1, No. 3: 259-261 (1987).
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“A Philosophical Ethnography of Human-Computer Interaction,”
Social Epistemology,
Vol. 1, No. 1: 27-36 (1987).
Papers In Edited Volumes:
- “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).
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“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).
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“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:
- “Evolutionary Psychology” The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2008/entries/evolutionary-psychology/>.
- “Evolutionary Psychology” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition, W.A Darity (Ed.). Detroit, Macmillan Reference: Vol. 9, 33-34 (2008).
- “Biological Information” in Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia,
J. Pfeiffer & S. Sarkar (Eds.). New York: Routledge: 64-68
(2006).
- "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/>.
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“Constructivism,” The
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E.Craig (Ed.). New
York: Routledge: Vol. 2: 624-30 (1998).
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“Science” in The Encyclopedia
of Empiricism, D.Garrett & E. Barbanell (Eds.). Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press: 218-24 (1997).
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“Logical Positivism and Logical Empiricism” in The Encyclopedia of Empiricism,
D.Garrett & E. Barbanell (Eds.). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press:
386-8 (1997).
Reviews:
- “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).
- "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).
- “Pluralistic biology of human behavior: A review of K. Laland
and J. Brown, Sense and Nonsense.” Metascience
14: 269-271 (2005).
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“Review of David Hull, Science and Selection.” Biology
and Philosophy 17: 739-742 (2002).
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“Review of Kim Sterelny, The Evolution of Agency and Other
Essays.” Philosophy of Science Vol. 69, No. 3: 538-540
(2002).
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"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).
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"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).
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“Review of Merlin Donald, A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of
Human Consciousness.” American Scientist 89: 560-562 (2001).
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"Review of Susan Oyama, The Ontogeny of Information (Second
Edition)." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 44: 464-469
(2001).
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“Review of Steve Fuller, Science.” Philosophy
of the Social Sciences 30: 140-5 (2000).
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“Review of Jarrett Leplin, A Novel Defense of Scientific
Realism.” ISIS, Vol. 90, No. 1: 161-2 (1999).
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"Review of Peter Galison and David Stump, The Disunity of
Science.” ISIS, Vol. 88, No. 3: 517-8 (1997).
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"Science as it is: Review of Frederick Grinnell, The Scientific
Attitude." Biology and Philosophy 11: 117-120 (1996).
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"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).
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"Review of Michael Gorman, Simulating Science."
ISIS, Vol. 85, No. 1: 195-197 (1994).
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“Workshop Report: Second International Workshop on Human and
Machine Cognition” (Co-authored with Eric Dietrich). AI Magazine,
Vol. 14, No. 3: 17-20 (1992).
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"Review of Steve Woolgar, Science: The Very Idea." Explorations
in Knowledge, Vol. VII, No. 4 (1990).
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"Review of Rainer Born (ed.), Artificial Intelligence: The
Case Against." Explorations in Knowledge, Vol. VI, No.
1: 73 (1989).
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