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Peter Godfrey-Smith: Publications
Books:
Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Articles and Chapters:
"Why Semantic Properties Won't Earn their Keep," Philosophical Studies 50 (1986): 223-236.
"Misinformation," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 19 (1989): 533-50.
"Signal, Decision, Action," Journal of Philosophy 88 (1991): 709-722.
"Additivity and the Units of Selection," PSA 1992 Volume 1 (1992): 315-328.
"Indication and Adaptation," Synthese 92 (1992): 283-312.
"The Dimensions of Selection," with R. C. Lewontin, Philosophy of Science 60 (1993): 373-395.
"Functions: Consensus Without Unity," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 74 (1993): 196-208. Reprinted in D. Hull and M. Ruse (eds.), The Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 280-92. Reprinted also in D. Buller (ed.) Function, Selection and Design. Albany: Suny Press, 1999, pp. 185-197.
"Of Nulls and Norms," PSA 1994 Volume 1 (1994): 280-290.
"A Continuum of Semantic Optimism," in S. Stich and T. Warfield (eds.), Mental Representation: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994, pp. 259-277.
"Spencer and Dewey on Life and Mind," in R. Brooks and P. Maes (eds.), Artificial Life 4. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994, pp. 80-89. Reprinted with revisions in M. Boden (ed.) The Philosophy of Artificial Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 314-331.
"A Modern History Theory of Functions," Nous 28 (1994): 344-362. Reprinted in C. Allen, M. Bekoff and G. Lauder (eds.), Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology. Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 453-77. Reprinted also in D. Buller (ed.) Function, Selection and Design. Albany: Suny Press, 1999, pp. 199-220.
"On the Evolution of Behavioral Complexity in Individuals and Populations," with (first author) C. Bergstrom, Biology and Philosophy 13 (1998): 205-231.
"Three Kinds of Adaptationism," S. H. Orzack and E. Sober (eds.), Adaptationism and Optimality. Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 335-357.
"Organism, Environment and Dialectics," in R. Singh, C. Krimbas, D. Paul and J. Beatty (eds.), Thinking About Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives. (Volume 2 of a Festschrift for R. C. Lewontin). Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 253-266.
"Genes and Codes: Lessons from the Philosophy of Mind?" in V. Hardcastle (ed.), Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays. MIT Press, 1999, pp. 305-331.
"Adaptationism and the Power of Selection," Biology and Philosophy 14 (1999): 181-194.
"Environmental Complexity and the Evolution of Cognition," in R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (eds.) The Evolution of Intelligence. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, pp. 233-249.
"On the Status and Explanatory Structure of DST," in S. Oyama, P. Griffiths and R. Gray (eds.) Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. MIT Press, 2001, pp. 283-297.
"Information and the Argument from Design," in R. Pennock (ed.), Intelligent Design Creationism and its Critics: Philosophical, Theological and Scientific Perspectives. MIT Press, 2001, pp. 575-596.
"On the Theoretical Role of 'Genetic Coding,'" Philosophy of Science 67 (2000): 26-44.
"The Replicator in Retrospect," Biology and Philosophy 15 (2000): 403-423.
"On Genetic Information and Genetic Coding," in P. Gardenfors, J. Wolenski and K. Kajania-Placek (eds.), In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and the Philosophy of Science, Vol. II. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002, pp. 387-400.
"Explanatory Symmetries, Preformation and Developmental Systems Theory," Philosophy of Science 67 (2000): S322-S331. (Proceedings of PSA 1998).
"On the Evolution of Representational and Interpretive Capacities," The Monist 85 (2002): 50-69.
"Between Baldwin Boosterism and Baldwin Skepticism," in B. Weber and D. Depew (eds.), Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered. MIT Press, 2003, pp. 53-67.
"Dewey on Naturalism, Realism and Science," Philosophy of Science 69 (2002): S1-S11 (Proceedings of PSA 2000).
"Individualist and Multi-level Perspectives on Selection in Structured Populations," with (first author) B. Kerr. Biology and Philosophy 17 (2002): 477-517. With commentaries, and replies by the authors pp. 539-550.
"On Price's Equation and Average Fitness," with (first author) B. Kerr. Biology and Philosophy 17 (2002): 551-565.
"Genes do not Encode Information for Phenotypic Traits," in C. Hitchcock (ed.), Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, pp. 275-289.
"Goodman's Problem and Scientific Methodology," Journal of Philosophy 100 (2003): 573-590.
"On Folk Psychology and Mental Representation," in H. Clapin, P. Staines, and P. Slezak (eds.) Representation in Mind: New Approaches to Mental Representation. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishers, 2004, pp. 147-162.
"What is Altruism?" with (first author) B. Kerr and M. Feldman. To appear in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
"Untangling the Evolution of Mental Representation," to appear in A. Zilhao (ed.) Cognition, Evolution, and Rationality - A Cognitive Science for the XXIst Century. Routledge.
"Mental Representation, Naturalism, and Teleosemantics," to appear in D. Papineau and G. McDonald (eds.), Teleosemantics.
Book Reviews, Discussion Notes, Replies to Critics, Encyclopedia Entries, etc:
Review of Ruth Millikan's Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (1984). Australasian Journal of Philosophy 66 (1988): 556-560.
"Optimality and Psychological Explanation," (invited commentary) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 14 (1991): 496.
Review of Elliott Sober's Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution and Inference (1988). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1993): 487-490.
"Function" in J. Kim and E. Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Metaphysics. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995, pp. 187-88.
"Preface to Chapters 15 and 16," in R. Belew and M. Mitchell (eds.), Adaptive Individuals in Evolving Populations: Models and Algorithms. Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Vol. XXIII. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995, pp. 227-31. The Preface is to selections from Herbert Spencer's writings on evolution, chosen by me.
"Meaning, Models and Selection: A Review of [David Papineau's] Philosophical Naturalism." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (1996): 673-578.
Review of Elliot Sober's From a Biological Point of View (1994). Journal of Philosophy 94 (1997): 160-164.
"Can We Control Disease?" (Review of Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, 1995). Boston Review 22 (1997): 16-19.
"Precis of Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature," and "Replies to Four Critics," Adaptive Behavior 4 (1996): 453-465, 486-93.
"Replies to Sober, Sterelny and Neander," Biology and Philosophy 12 (1997): 581-590. (Replies to reviews of Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature .)
"Author's Outline" and "Replies to Critics" of Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature, in Metascience 12 (1997): 7-12, 31-37.
Entry for "J. A. Fodor," in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Entry for "Semantics, Teleological/Biological," in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
"Maternal Effects: On Dennett and Darwin's Dangerous Idea," Philosophy of Science 65 (1988): 709-720.
"Procrustes Probably: Comments on Sober's 'Physicalism from a Probabilistic Point of View,'" Philosophical Studies 95 (1999): 175-181. (Proceedings of the 1997 Oberlin Philosophy Colloqium)
Entry for "Pragmatism" in the Elsevier Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.
"Information, Arbitrariness and Selection: Comments on Maynard Smith," Philosophy of Science 67 (2000): 202-207.
"Group Selection, Pluralism, and the Evolution of Altruism: A Review of [E. Sober and D. S. Wilson's] Unto Others," (with M. Barrett), Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 65 (2002): 685-691.
Review of Kim Sterelny's The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays (2001), to appear in Mind.
"Folk Psychology Under Stress: Comments on Susan Hurley's 'Animal Action in the Space of Reasons," Mind and Language 18 (2003): 266-272.
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