Biology & Philosophy

Title Publication Date Language Citations
Causation in biology: stability, specificity, and the choice of levels of explanation2010/02/06English230
The strategy of model-based science2006/12/13English212
Top-down Causation Without Top-down Causes2006/05/27English198
It’s the song, not the singer: an exploration of holobiosis and evolutionary theory2016/10/13English110
The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review2005/03/01English95
More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited2012/08/07English92
The cognitive and evolutionary psychology of religion2004/11/01English91
Redefining animal signaling: influence versus information in communication2010/07/21English90
On the transfer of fitness from the cell to the multicellular organism2006/03/14English86
Size doesn’t matter: towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology2007/03/20English82
Weismann Rules! OK? Epigenetics and the Lamarckian temptation2006/12/13English81
Idealized, Inaccurate but Successful: A Pragmatic Approach to Evaluating Models in Theoretical Ecology2005/03/01English81
John Maynard Smith and the importance of consistency in evolutionary game theory2006/03/09English76
On emergence, agency, and organization2006/11/15English76
If we are all cultural Darwinians what’s the fuss about? Clarifying recent disagreements in the field of cultural evolution2015/06/03English76
Innateness and the Sciences2006/03/01English74
Holobionts and the ecology of organisms: Multi-species communities or integrated individuals?2016/10/20English74
Forty Years of ‘The Strategy’: Levins on Model Building and Idealization2007/01/05English68
From allostatic agents to counterfactual cognisers: active inference, biological regulation, and the origins of cognition2020/04/29English62
Typology now: homology and developmental constraints explain evolvability2007/09/29English61
Functional homology and homology of function: biological concepts and philosophical consequences2007/10/02English60
Biological regulation: controlling the system from within2015/08/06English60
How to demarcate the boundaries of cognition2012/02/19English59
Race: a social destruction of a biological concept2010/01/12English58
The Poverty of Taxonomic Characters2006/12/13English56
Representation in the genome and in other inheritance systems2006/12/13English55
The formal darwinism project in outline2014/01/25English54
Organisms or biological individuals? Combining physiological and evolutionary individuality2016/11/01English51
Structural representations: causally relevant and different from detectors2017/02/02English51
Microbiology and the species problem2010/05/04English49