Thomas A.C. Reydon (reydon)
Thomas Reydon (geboren 1969 in Den Haag, Niederlande) studierte Physik und Wissenschaftsphilosophie an der Universität Leiden (Niederlande). M.Sc. in Physik mit einer experimentellen Arbeit über Supraleitung bei niedrigen Temperaturen. M.A. in Wissenschaftsphilosophie mit einer Arbeit zur Everettschen „relative state“-Interpretation der Quantenmechanik. Promotion in Philosophie der Biologie am Institut für Biologie (Abt. theoretische Biologie, Lehrstuhl für Philosophie der Biologie) der Universität Leiden mit einer Dissertation zum Artproblem ("Species as Units of Generalization in Biological Science: A Philosophical Analysis").
My contributions to Philosophie.ch
Bibliography
Crest, Agathe du, Valković, Martina, Ariew, André, Desmond, Hugh, Huneman, Philippe and Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2023. Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines. Problems and
Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism. Synthese
Library. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3.
Ereshefsky, Marc and Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2015.
“Scientific Kinds.” Philosophical
Studies 172(4): 969–986.
Franssen, Maarten, Kroes, Peter, Reydon, Thomas A. C. and Vermaas, Pieter E., eds. 2014a. Artefact Kinds. Ontology and the Human-Made
World. Synthese Library n. 365. Dordrecht:
Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00801-1.
Franssen, Maarten, Kroes, Peter, Reydon, Thomas A. C. and Vermaas, Pieter E. 2014b. “Introduction: The Ontology of Technical
Artefacts.” in Artefact
Kinds. Ontology and the Human-Made World, edited by Maarten
Franssen, Peter Kroes, Thomas A. C. Reydon, and Pieter E. Vermaas, pp. 1–15. Synthese
Library n. 365. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00801-1.
Lohse, Simon and Reydon, Thomas A. C., eds. 2017.
Grundriss Wissenschaftsphilosophie. Die Philosophien der
Einzelwissenschaften. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag.
Plaisance, Kathryn S. and Reydon, Thomas A. C., eds. 2012a. Philosophy of Behavioral Biology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
n. 282. Dordrecht: Springer.
Plaisance, Kathryn S. and Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2012b. “The Philosophy of Behavioral Biology.” in
Philosophy of Behavioral Biology,
edited by Kathryn S. Plaisance and Thomas
A. C. Reydon, pp. 3–24. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
n. 282. Dordrecht: Springer.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2005a. “Review of LaPorte (2004).”
The Philosophical Quarterly 55(221): 672–674.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2005b. “Species as Units of Generalization in Biological Science:
A Philosophical Analysis.” PhD dissertation, Leiden:
Leiden University.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2009. “Do the Life Sciences Need Natural Kinds?”
Croatian Journal of Philosophy 9(2): 167–190.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2010. “How Special are the Life Sciences? A View from the
Natural Kinds Debate.” in The
Present Situation in the Philosophy of Science, edited by
Friedrich Stadler, pp. 173–188. The Philosophy of Science in a European
Perspective n. 1. Berlin: Springer.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2011. “The Arrival of the Fittest What?”
in Explanation, Prediction, and
Confirmation, edited by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Stephan Hartmann, Thomas E. Uebel, and Marcel Weber, pp. 223–240. The
Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 2. Berlin:
Springer.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2012. “Essentialism about Kinds: An Undead Issue in the
Philosophies of Physics and Biology?” in Probabilities, Laws, and Structures, edited
by Dennis Dieks, Wenceslao J. González, Stephan Hartmann, Michael Stöltzner, and Marcel Weber, pp. 217–230. The
Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective n. 3. Berlin:
Springer.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2013. “Symmetry and the Explanation of Organismal
Form.” in Models, Simulations,
and the Reduction of Complexity, edited by Ulrich Gähde, Stephan Hartmann, and Jörn Henning Wolf, pp. 43–52. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2014. “Metaphysical and Epistemological Approaches to Developing
a Theory of Artifact Kinds.” in Artefact Kinds. Ontology and the Human-Made
World, edited by Maarten Franssen, Peter Kroes, Thomas A. C. Reydon, and Pieter E. Vermaas, pp. 125–144. Synthese
Library n. 365. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00801-1_8.
Reydon, Thomas A. C. 2020.
“Was Wissenschaftsphilosophie mit Naturschutz zu tun
hat.” Philosophie.ch, the Swiss Portal for
Philosophy, https://www.philosophie.ch/de/2020-01-06-reydon.
Further References
LaPorte, Joseph. 2004. Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change. Cambrige Studies in Philosophy and Biology.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511527319.