PUBLICATIONS
organised per topic

1. Historicity and Scientific Explanation

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(2019) Shades of Grey: Granularity, Pragmatics, and Non-Causal Explanation. Perspectives on Science, 27(1): 68-87. DOI: 10.1162/posc_a_00300

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(2017) Symmetry breaking and the emergence of path-dependence. Synthese. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1130-0

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2. Philosophy of Biology & Philosophical Bioethics

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Natural Selection

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(under contract) Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism. Editors: Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman & Thomas A.C. Reydon. Springer
 

(invited) The Generalized Environment. In: du Crest et al. (ed), Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism. Springer.
 

(invited) Sexual Selection as an Agential, not Selective Mechanism. In: Gayon, E., Huneman, P., Petit, V., Veuille, M. (eds). 150 Years of the Descent of Man. Springer.
 

(under review) The Fitness Commensurability Problem. With Grant Ramsey. 
 

(2021) On the Ubiquity of Heterogeneity Adaptations. Biological Theory. DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00373-y
 

(2018) Natural Selection: Deriving Causality from Stable Equilibrium. Erkenntnis. DOI: 10.1007/s10670-017-9889-z

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Progress, Trends, and Evolutionary Laws

 

(2021) The Selectionist Rationale for Evolutionary Progress. Biology and Philosophy. DOI: 10.1007/s10539-021-09806-1

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(2018) Natural Selection, Plasticity, and the Rationale for Largest-Scale Trends. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science C. DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2018.04.002

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Organismic Agency

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(2020) The Ontology of Organismic Agency: A Kantian Approach. In: Altobrando, A., Biasetti, P., Natural Born Monads: On the Metaphysics of Organisms and Human Individuals. Berlin: De Gruyter. (With Philippe Huneman.)

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Human Nature, Human Success
 

(forthcoming) Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications. Oxford University Press. (With Grant Ramsey.)

 

(forthcoming) Generalized Evolutionary Success and Human Evolution. In: Desmond, H., & Ramsey, G. (eds), Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 

Human Enhancement

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(2021) The Service View on Enhancement: A New Evolutionary Perspective. The Hastings Center Report.

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(forthcoming) Enhancement and Success: Beyond Techno-Libertarianism. In: Desmond, H., & Ramsey, G. (eds), Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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(2020) Service and Status may Help Explain Perceived Ethical Acceptability. The American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1080/21507740.2020.1830874