Intelligent Design - Evolutionary Theory - Other Topics

On Intelligent Design and  Naturalism v. Supernaturalism:

"Why Methodological Naturalism?"

"What Is Wrong with Intelligent Design?" Quarterly Review of Biology, 2007, 82: 3-8.

"Evolution without Naturalism ."  In J. Kvanvig (ed.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, volume 3, forthcoming.

"Intelligent Design and the Supernatural -- the 'God or Extraterrestrials' Reply." Faith and Philosophy, 2007, 24: 72-82.

"Sex Ratio Theory, Ancient and Modern --  An 18th Century Debate about Intelligent Design and the Development of Models in Evolutionary Biology."   In J. Riskin (ed.), The Sistine Gap – Essays on the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life, University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 131-162.

"The Design Argument". An expanded version of a paper first published in W. Mann, ed., The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Religion, 2004.

"Intelligent Design and Probability Reasoning." International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 2002, 52: 65-80.

(with Branden Fitelson and Christopher Stephens)  "How Not to Detect Design--- A Review of William Dembski's The Design Inference. Philosophy of Science, 1999, 66: 472-488.

(with Branden Fitelson). “Plantinga’s Probability Arguments Against Evolutionary Naturalism.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 1998, 79: 115-129.

On Evolutionary Theory:

 “Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?”  Proceedings  of  the National Academy of Science USA, 2009, 106: 10048-10055; Spanish translation (¿Escribió Darwin el Origen al revés?) in Revista Filosofia Teorema, 2009, 28:  45-69.

“Realism, Conventionalism, and Causal Decomposition in Units of Selection ─ Reflections on Samir Okasha’s Evolution and the Levels of Selection.”   Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, forthcoming.

"Fodor's Bubbe Meise Against Darwinism."   Mind and Language, 2008, 23: 42-49.

"The Contest between Likelihood and Parsimony." Systematic Biology, 2004, 53: 644-653.

"Contingency or Inevitability?  What would happen if the evolutionary tape were replayed?" A review of Simon Conway Morris's  Life’s Solution – Inevitable humans in a lonely universe. New York Times, November 30, 2003.

(with Michael Steel) "Testing the Hypothesis of Common Ancestry", Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2002, 218: 395-408.

(with Steven Hecht Orzack) "Common Ancestry and Natural Selection", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2003, 54: 423-437.

"The Two Faces of Fitness"  in R. Singh, D. Paul, C. Krimbas, and J. Beatty (eds.), Thinking about Evolution:  Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp.309-321.

"Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of Biology" Philosophy of Science, 1997, 64: S458-S467.

"What Is Evolutionary Altruism?"  In B. Linsky and M. Matthen (eds.), New Essays on Philosophy and Biology   (Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supp. Vol XIV), University of Calgary Press, 1988, pp. 75‑99.

On Other Topics in Philosophy of Science:

"Parsimony Arguments in Science and Philosophy -- a Test Case for Naturalism_p."  Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, forthcoming.

"Parsimony and Models of Animal Minds."  This is a preliminary version a paper that has been accepted for publication and will appear in a revised form, subsequent to editorial input, in Robert Lurz (ed.), The Philosophy of Animal Minds.  Cambridge University Press.

 "Absence of Evidence and Evidence of Absence -- Evidential Transitivity in Connection with Fossils, Fishing, Fine-Tuning, and Firing Squads."  Philosophical Studies, forthcoming

“Empiricism.” In S. Psillos and M. Curd (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Science, 2008, pp. 129-138.

(with Larry Shapiro) "Epiphenomenalism -- the Do's and the Don'ts."  In G. Wolters and P. Machamer (eds), Studies in Causality: Historical and Contemporary.  University of Pittsburgh Press,.2007, pp. 235-264.

"Evolutionary Theory and the Reality of Macro Probabilities." in E. Eells and J. Fetzer (eds.), Probability in Science, Open Court, forthcoming.

"Coincidences and How to Reason about Them," 2004, unpublished.

(with Christopher Hitchcock) "Prediction Versus Accommodation and the Risk of Overfitting." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 2004, 55: 1-34.

“Likelihood, Model Selection, and the Duhem-Quine Problem.” Journal of Philosophy, 2004, 101: 1-22.

 "A Modest Proposal, a Review of John Earman's Hume's  Abject Failure – the Miracles Argument.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2004, 118: 487-494.

(with Ken Burnham) "Akaike without Tears -- a derivation of a special case of Akaike's Theorem (one that simplifies the proof)."

"Parsimony" forthcoming in S. Sarkar, ed., The Philosophy of Science -- An Encyclopedia, Routledge).

"What is the Problem of Simplicity?" In. A. Zellner, H. Keuzenkamp, and M. McAleer (eds.) Simplicity, Inference, and Modelling.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 13-32.

"Two Uses of Unification" in F. Stadler, ed., Institute Vienna Circle Yearbook 2002, Kluwer, 2003, pp. 205-216.   

For the following papers co-authored with Malcolm Forster, go to http://philosophy.wisc.edu/forster: "How to Tell When Simpler, More Unified, or Less Ad Hoc Theories Will Provide More Accurate Predictions." British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1994, 45: 1-36; "Why Likelihood?", in M. Taper and S. Lee (ed.), The Nature of Scientific Evidence, University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

"Bayesianism -- Its Scope and Limits" in R. Swinburne, ed., Bayes' Theorem, Proceedings of the British Academy Press, vol. 113, 2002, pp. 21-38.

"Instrumentalism, Parsimony, and the Akaike Framework." Philosophy of Science, 2002, 69: S112-S123.

"An Empirical Critique of Two Versions of the Doomsday Argument -- Gott's Line and Leslie's Wedge"  Synthese, 2003, 135: 415-30.

"To Give a Surprise Exam, Use Game Theory" Synthese, 1998, 115: 355-373.  "Addendum" (to "To Give a Surprise Exam, Use Game Theory").

"The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism" Philosophy of Science, 1999, 66: 542-564.

"Testability" Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1999, 73: 47-76.

 “Quine’s Two Dogmas” Proceedings of the Aristotlean Society, 2000, Supplementary Volume 74: 237-280.

"Physicalism from a Probabilistic Point of View" Philosophical Studies, 1999, 95: 135-174.

"Mathematics and Indispensability."  Philosophical Review, 1993, 102, 35-58

"Independent Evidence About A Common Cause," Philosophy of Science, 1989, 56:  275‑287.

"Apportioning Causal Responsibility."  Journal of Philosophy, 1988, 85:303-318.

(with Martin Barrett) "The Second Law of Probability Dynamics"  British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1994, pp. 941-954.

(with Gregory Mougin) "Betting Against Pascal's Wager" Nous, 1994, 28: 382-395.