Peter Godfrey-Smith (godfreysmith-p)

My contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Barrett, Matthew and Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2002. “Group Selection, Pluralism, and the Evolution of Altruism [on Sober and Wilson (1998)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(3): 685–691.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1989. “Misinformation.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 19: 533–550.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1991. “Signal, Decision, Action.” The Journal of Philosophy 88: 709–722.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1992. “Additivity and the Units of Selection.” in PSA 1992: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Kathleen Okruhlik, pp. 315–328. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1993. “Functions: consensus without unity.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 74: 196–208.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1994a. “A Modern History Theory of Functions.” Noûs 28: 344–362.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1994b. “Of Nulls and Norms.” in PSA 1994: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Richard M. Burian, pp. 280–290. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1996. Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1997. “Replies to Sober (1997), Sterelny (1997) and Neander (1997).” Biology and Philosophy 12(4): 581–590.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1999. “Adaptationism and the Power of Selection.” Biology and Philosophy 14(2): 181–194.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2002a. “On the Evolution of Representational and Interpretive Capacities.” The Monist 85(1): 50–69.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2002b. “On Genetic Information and Genetic Coding.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science XI: In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Volume Two of the Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kraków, 1999, edited by Peter Gärdenfors, Jan Woleński, and Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, pp. 387–401. Synthese Library n. 316. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2003a. Theory and Reality. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2003b. “Goodman’s Problem and Scientific Methodology.” The Journal of Philosophy 100(11): 573–588, doi:10.2307/3655745.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2004. “Genes do not Encode Information for Phenotypic Traits.” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, edited by Christopher R. Hitchcock, pp. 275–290. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 2. Boston, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishers.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2005. “Folk Psychology as a Model.” Philosophers’ Imprint 5(6).
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2006. “Mental Representation, Naturalism, and Teleosemantics.” in Teleosemantics. New Philosophical Essays, edited by Graham F. Macdonald and David Papineau, pp. 42–68. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2007. “Is it a Revolution?” Biology and Philosophy 22(3): 429–437.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2008a. “Recurrent Transient Underdetermination and the Glass Half Full [on Stanford (2006)].” Philosophical Studies 137(1): 141–148.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2008b. “Reduction in Real Life.” in Being Reduced. New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation, edited by Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup, pp. 52–74. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199211531.001.0001.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2008c. “Information in Biology.” in The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, edited by David L. Hull and Michael E. Ruse, pp. 103–119. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2009a. Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199552047.001.0001.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2009b. “Models and Fictions in Science.” Philosophical Studies 143(1): 101–116.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2009c. “Triviality Arguments against Functionalism.” Philosophical Studies 145(2): 273–295.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2009d. “Causal Pluralism.” in The Oxford Handbook of Causation, edited by Helen Beebee, Christopher R. Hitchcock, and Peter Menzies, pp. 326–339. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199279739.001.0001.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2009e. “Knowledge, Trade-Offs, and Tracking Truth [on Roush (2005)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79(1): 231–239.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2009f. “Representationalism Reconsidered.” in Stich and His Critics, edited by Dominic Murphy and Michael A. Bishop, pp. 30–45. Philosophers and Their Critics. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781444308709.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2010. “Dewey, Continuity, and McDowell.” in Naturalism and Normativity, edited by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur, pp. 304–321. New York: Columbia University Press.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2011a. “Induction, Samples, and Kinds.” in Carving Nature at Its Joints. Natural Kinds in Metaphysics and Science, edited by Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O’Rourke, and Matthew H. Slater, pp. 33–52. Topics in Contemporary Philosophy n. 7. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262015936.003.0002.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2011b. “Senders, Receivers, and Genetic Information: Comments on Bergstrom and Rosvall (2011).” Biology and Philosophy 26(2): 177–181.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2011c. “Agents and Acacias: Replies to Dennett, Sterelny, and Queller.” Biology and Philosophy 26(4): 501–515.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2012. “Metaphysics and the Philosophical Imagination.” Philosophical Studies 160(1): 97–113.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2013. “Signals, Icons, and Beliefs.” in Millikan and Her Critics, edited by Dan Ryder, Justine Kingsbury, and Kenneth Williford, pp. 41–58. Philosophers and Their Critics. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781118328118.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2014a. Philosophy of Biology. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2014b. “Quine and Pragmatism.” in A Companion to W.v.O. Quine, edited by Gilbert H. Harman and Ernest LePore, pp. 54–68. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781118607992.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2016a. “Pain in Parallel.” Animal Sentience 1(3).
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2016b. “Mind, Matter, and Metabolism.” The Journal of Philosophy 113(10): 481–506.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2016c. “Animal Evolution and the Origins of Experience.” in How Biology Shapes Philosophy. New Foundations for Naturalism, edited by David Livingstone Smith, pp. 51–71. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781107295490.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2016d. “Popper’s Philosophy of Science: Looking Ahead.” in The Cambridge Companion to Popper, edited by Jeremy Shearmur and Geoffrey Stokes, pp. 104–124. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cco9781139046503.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2016e. “Individuality and Life Cycles.” in Individuals Across the Sciences, edited by Alexandre Guay and Thomas Pradeu, pp. 85–102. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199382514.001.0001.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2016f. “The Evolution of Consciousness in Phylogenetic Context.” in, pp. 216–226.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2017. “John Dewey’s Experience and Nature.” in John Dewey: Erfahrung und Natur, edited by Michael Hampe, pp. 175–186. Klassiker Auslegen n. 66. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2018. “Towers and Trees in Cognitive Evolution.” in The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett, edited by Bryce Huebner, pp. 225–249. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199367511.001.0001.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 2020. “Scientific Realism and Epistemic Optimism.” in Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective. Themes from Michael Devitt, edited by Andrea Bianchi, pp. 345–354. Cham: Springer.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter and Sterelny, Kim. 2007. “Biological Information.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2007/entries/information-biological/.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter and Sterelny, Kim. 2016. “Biological Information.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/information-biological/.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter and Wilkins, Jon F. 2008. “Adaptationism.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski, pp. 186–202. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9780470696590.
Levy, Arnon and Godfrey-Smith, Peter, eds. 2020. The Scientific Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190212308.001.0001.

Further References

Bergstrom, Carl T. and Rosvall, Martin. 2011. “The Transmission Sense of Information.” Biology and Philosophy 26(2): 159–176.
Neander, Karen. 1997. “The Function of Cognition: Godfrey-Smith’s Environmental Complexity Thesis [on Godfrey-Smith (1996)].” Biology and Philosophy 12(4): 567–580.
Roush, Sherrilyn. 2005. Tracking Truth. Knowledge, Evidence, and Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0199274738.001.0001.
Sober, Elliott R. 1997. “Is the Mind an Adaptation for Coping with Environmental Complexity? [on Godfrey-Smith (1996)].” Biology and Philosophy 12(4): 539–550.
Sober, Elliott R. and Wilson, David Sloan. 1998. Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Stanford, P. Kyle. 2006. Exceeding our Grasp. Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195174089.001.0001.
Sterelny, Kim. 1997. “Where does Thinking Come From: A Commentary on Godfrey-Smith (1996).” Biology and Philosophy 12(4): 551–566.