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Philosophy of Science, Biology, and Values Hub

Reading

Godfrey-Smith, Philosophy of Biology Chapter 1
Darwin, Introduction to "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"
Ruse, Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology, Ch.1
Moore, "Darwin’s progress and the problem of slavery"
Progress in Human Geography. Oct. 2010, Vol. 34 Issue 5, p555-582.
Sober, "“Evolution, Population thinking, and essentialism"
Philosophy of Science, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Sep., 1980), pp. 350-383
Godfrey-Smith & Wilkins, "Adaptionism", Companion to the Philosophy of Biology Ch.11
Gould & Lewontin, “The Spandrels of San Marco – a Critique of the Adaptationist Programme”
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol. 205, No. 1161, The Evolution of Adaptation by Natural Selection (Sep. 21, 1979), pp. 581-598
Perez, “Evolutionary activism: Stephen Jay Gould, the New Left, and Sociobiology”
Endeavour, June 2013 37(2):104-111
Borrello and Sepkoski, "Ideology as Biology"
The New York Review, Feb. 5, 2022
Griffiths, "Ethology, Sociobiology, and Evolutionary Psychology”, Companion to Philosophy of Biology, Ch.21
Roughgarden, "Gender Identity", Evolution’s Rainbow Ch.13
Fausto-Sterling,"Wy Sex is not Binary"
The New York Times, October 29, 2018
Andreasen, "Race: Biological Reality or Social Construct?"
Philosophy of Science, Vol. 67, Supplement.
Glasgow, " On the New Biology of Race"
The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 100, No. 9 (Sep., 2003), pp. 456-474
Comfort, “A New Eugenics”
The Nation, 301(31): 27-32.
Baxter, “When is it safe to edit the human germline?"
Science and Engineering Ethics. 27(4)
Anomaly, “Defending eugenics: from cryptic choice to conscious selection”
Monash Bioethics Review. 35(1-4):24-35
Diane, “Eugenics and the Left"
Journal of the History of Ideas, 1984 Oct 01. 45(4), 567-590.

eBooks in UML Library

Sex Itself by Sarah S. Richardson
ISBN: 9780226084688

Publication Date: 2013-11-06
Biology after the Sociobiology Debate by Carmen James Schifellite
ISBN: 9781433100185

Publication Date: 2011-11-21
The Case of the Female Orgasm by Elisabeth A. Lloyd
ISBN: 9780674017061

Publication Date: 2005-04-22
Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden
ISBN: 9780520280458

Publication Date: 2013-09-14
The New Biology by Michael J. Reiss; Michael Ruse
ISBN: 9780674972247

Publication Date: 2023-06-20