Research Interests
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Philosophy of Science
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Philosophy of Biology
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Relationship between Science and Religion
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Philosophy of Pseudoscience
Courses Recently Taught
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Hume's Philosophy of Science, Then and Now (Spring 2014)
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Philosophy of Science or Science Studies? (Fall 2012)
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Science vs. Pseudoscience (Fall 2010)
Representative Publications
Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk, University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Evolution – the Extended Synthesis. Co-Edited with Gerd Muller, MIT Press, 2010.
Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Denying Evolution: Creation, Scientism, and the Nature of Science, Sinauer, 2002.
Phenotypic Plasticity: Beyond Nature and Nurture, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
"Genotype–phenotype mapping and the end of the ‘genes as blueprint’ metaphor."
Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. B (2010) 365: 557–566.
"Samir Okasha: Evolution and the levels of selection."
Biology and Philosophy (2009) 24:551–560.
"An Extended Synthesis for Evolutionary Biology."
Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. (2009) 1168: 218–228.
"What, if Anything, Is an Evolutionary Novelty?"
Philosophy of Science (2008) 75:887–898.
"The Proper Role of Population Genetics in Modern Evolutionary Theory."
Biological Theory (2008) 3:316–324.
"The Borderlands Between Science and Philosophy: An Introduction."
Quarterly Review of Biology (2008) 83:7-15.
"Sewall Wright’s adaptive landscapes: 1932 vs. 1988."
Biology and Philosophy (2008) 23:591–603.
"Is evolvability evolvable?"
Nature Genetics (2008) 9:75-82.