Peter Godfrey-Smith Bibliography

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE

DEPARTMENT OF LOGIC AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

COLLOQUIUM

"Adventures in Indoor Ornithology" Abstract: Solutions to the ravens problem and the "grue" problem in confirmation theory are proposed, drawing on ideas from Reichenbach, Jackson and classical statistics.

Peter Godfrey-Smith

Stanford University

Friday, June 1, 2001

3:00 p.m.

SST 777

Peter Godfrey-Smith

A Bibliography
Compiled by
Eddie Yeghiayan

1986

"Why Semantic Properties Won't Earn Their Keep." Philosophical Studies (September 1986), 50(2):223-236.

1988

Review of R.G. Millikan's Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories. Australasian Journal of Philosophy (December 1988), 66(4):556-560.

1989

"Misinformation." Canadian Journal of Philosophy (December 1989), 19(4):533-550.

1991

"Optimality and Psychological Explanation." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (September 1991), 14(3):496.
"Signal, Decision, Action." Journal of Philosophy (December 1991), 88(12):709-722.
"Teleonomy and the Philosophy of Mind." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California at San Diego, 1991.
Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International (November 1991), 52(5A):1768-A.

1992

"Additivity and the Units of Selection." Proceedings of the Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association (1992), 1:315-328.
"Indication and Adaptation." Synthese (August 1992), 92(2):283-312.

1993

"The Dimensions of Selection." Philosophy of Science (September 1993), 60(3):373-395.
"Functions: Consensus Without Unity." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (September 1993), 74(3):196-208.
Review of Elliott Sober's Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (June 1993), 53(2):487-490.

1994

"A Modern History Theory of Functions." Nous (September 1994), 28(3):344-362.
"Of Nulls and Norms." Proceedings of the Biennial Meetings of the Philosophy of Science Association (1994), 1:280-290.

1996

Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
"Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature: Reply." Biology and Philosophy (October 1997), 12(4):581-590.
Replies to Sober, Sterelny and Neander.
"Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature - Reply." Adaptive Behavior (Winter-Spring 1996), 4(3-4):486-493.
Replies to Four Critics.
"Meaning, Models and Selection: A Review of 'Philosophical Naturalism'." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (September 1996), 56(3):673-678.
Review of David Papineau's book Philosophical Naturalism.
Précis of Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature. Adaptive Behavior (Winter-Spring 1996), 4(3-4):453-465.
"Spence and Dewey on Life and Mind." In Margaret A. Boden, ed., The Philosophy of Artificial Life. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

1997

Review of Elliott Sober's From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy. Journal of Philosophy (March 1997), 94(3):160-164.

1998

"Functions: Consensus without Unity." In David L. Hull and Michael Ruse, eds., The Philosophy of Biology. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
"Maternal Effects: On Dennett and Darwin's Dangerous Idea." Philosophy of Science (December 1998), 65(4):709-720.
Review of Daniel Dennett's Darwins's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life.
"A Modern History Theory of Functions." In Colin Allen, Marc Bekoff, and George Lauder, eds., Nature's Purposes: Analyses of Function and Design in Biology. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998.
(with Carl T. Bergstrom.) "On the Evolution of Behavioral Heterogeneity in Individuals and Populations." Biology and Philosophy (April 1998), 13(2):205-231.

1999

"Adaptationism and the Power of Selection." Biology and Philosophy (April 1999), 14(2):181-194.
"Genes and Codes: Lessons from the Philosophy of Mind?" In Valerie Gray Hardcastle, ed., Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays, pp. 305-331. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1999.
"Procrustes Probably: Comments on Sober's 'Physicalism from a Probabilistic Point of View'." Philosophical Studies (August 1999), 95(1-2):175-181.

2000

"Explanatory Symmetries, Preformation, and Developmental Systems Theory." Philosophy of Science (September 2000), 67(3):S322-S331.
"Information, Arbitrariness, and Selection: Comments on Maynard Smith." Philosophy of Science (June 2000), 67(2):202-207.
"Niche Construction in Biological and Philosophical Theories." Behavioral and Brain Sciences (February 2000), 23(1):153-154, 172-175.
"On the Theoretical Role of 'Genetic Coding'." Philosophy of Science (March 2000), 67(1):26-44.
"The Replicator in Retrospect." Biology and Philosophy (June 2000), 15(3):403-423.