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Evidence, Explanation, and Adaptationism

  • Debating the power and scope of adaptation, 2013. Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators.
  • The perils of tweaking: how to use macrodata to set parameters in complex simulations (with Brian Epstein), 2013. Synthese190:203-218.
  • Conjecture and explanation: a reply to Reydon, 2012. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43:298-301.
  • Modeling scientific inference: the challenge of specifying likelihoods, 2012. EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009.
  • Reconceiving eliminative inference, 2011. Philosophy of Science 78:185-208.
  • Historical reconstruction: gaining access to the deep past (with Eric Griffith), 2011. Philosophy and Theory in Biology open access.
  • Confirmation and explaining how possible, 2010. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 41:32-40.
  • Adaptationism (with Steven Hecht Orzack), 2010. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 
  • A primer on adaptationism. Introduction to the special issue, Spandrels and Adaptationism: Marking Thirty Years of Controversy, 2009. Biology and Philosophy 24:155-159.
  • Spandrels and a pervasive problem of evidence, 2009. Biology and Philosophy 24:247-266.
  • On the explanatory roles of natural selection, 2005. Biology and Philosophy 20:329-342.

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