Ernst Mayr (mayr-e)

Contributions to Philosophie.ch

Bibliography

Mayr, Ernst. 1969. “Comments on Goodfield (1969).” in Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1966/1968, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, pp. 450–456. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 5. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-010-3378-7.
Mayr, Ernst. 1974. “Teleological and Teleonomic, a New Analysis.” in Methodological and Historical Essays in the Natural and Social Sciences. Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1969/1972, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, pp. 91–118. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 14. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Mayr, Ernst. 1976. “Species Concepts and Definitions.” in Topics in the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Marjorie Grene and Everett Mendelsohn, pp. 353–371. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 27. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Mayr, Ernst. 1983. “Comments on David Hull’s Paper on Exemplars and Type Specimens [Hull (1983)].” in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia and Invited Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 504–511. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Mayr, Ernst. 1985a. “What is Darwinism Today?” in PSA 1984: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Philip Kitcher, pp. 145–156. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Mayr, Ernst. 1985b. “Darwin’s Five Theories of Evolution.” in The Darwinian Heritage, edited by David Kohn, pp. 755–772. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Mayr, Ernst. 1987a. “The Ontological Status of Species: Scientific Progress and Philosophical Terminology.” Biology and Philosophy 2(2): 145–166.
Mayr, Ernst. 1987b. “Answers to These Comments.” Biology and Philosophy 2(2): 212–225.
Mayr, Ernst. 1988. “The Why and How of Species.” Biology and Philosophy 3(4): 431–441.
Mayr, Ernst. 1989. “Attaching Names to Objects.” in What the Philosophy of Biology Is. Essays dedicated to David Hull, edited by Michael E. Ruse, pp. 235–244. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series n. 32. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Mayr, Ernst. 1993. “Proximate and Ultimate Causations.” Biology and Philosophy 8(1): 93–94.
Mayr, Ernst. 1994. “Response to Beatty (1994).” Biology and Philosophy 9(3): 357–358.
Mayr, Ernst. 1995. “Systems of Ordering Data.” Biology and Philosophy 10(4): 419–434.
Mayr, Ernst. 1997. This is Biology. The Science of the Living World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Mayr, Ernst. 2001. What Evolution Is. New York: Basic Books. Foreword by Jared Diamond.
Mayr, Ernst. 2004. What Makes Biology Unique? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Further References

Beatty, John. 1994. “The Proximate/Ultimate Distinction in the Multiple Careers of Ernst Mayr.” Biology and Philosophy 9(3): 333–356.
Goodfield, June. 1969. “Theories and Hypotheses in Biology: Theoretical Entities and Functional Explanations.” in Proceedings of the Boston Colloquium for the Philosophy of Science 1966/1968, edited by Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky, pp. 421–449. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 5. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-94-010-3378-7.
Hull, David L. 1983. “Exemplars and Scientific Change.” in PSA 1982: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposia and Invited Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Thomas Nickles, pp. 479–503. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.