Alexander Rosenberg (rosenberg-a)

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Bibliography

Balashov, Yuri and Rosenberg, Alexander, eds. 2001. Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings. Contemporary Readings in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Beauchamp, Tom L. and Rosenberg, Alexander. 1981. Hume and the Problem of Causation. New York: Oxford University Press.
Braddock, Matthew and Rosenberg, Alexander. 2012. “Reconstruction in Moral Philosophy? [on Kitcher (2011)].” Analyse & Kritik 34(1): 63–80.
Brandon, Robert N. and Rosenberg, Alexander. 2003. “Philosophy of Biology.” in Philosophy of Science Today, edited by Peter Clark and Katherine Hawley, pp. 147–180. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hoefer, Carl and Rosenberg, Alexander. 1994. “Empirical Equivalence, Underdetermination and Systems of the World.” Philosophy of Science 61: 592–607.
Lange, Marc and Rosenberg, Alexander. 2011. “Can there be A Priori Causal Models of Natural Selection?” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89(4): 591–599.
Linquist, Stefan and Rosenberg, Alexander. 2007. “Review Essay on Sterelny (2003).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 476–497.
McIntyre, Lee and Rosenberg, Alexander, eds. 2017a. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
McIntyre, Lee and Rosenberg, Alexander. 2017b. “Introduction.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science, edited by Lee McIntyre and Alexander Rosenberg, pp. 1–4. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Neander, Karen and Rosenberg, Alexander. 2012. “Solving the Circularity Problem for Functions: A Response to Nanay.” The Journal of Philosophy 109(10): 613–622.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1973. “Causation and Recipes: the Mixture as Before.” Philosophical Studies 24: 378–385.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1974. “On Kim’s Account of Events and Event Identity.” The Journal of Philosophy 71: 327–336.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1975. “Proper Hoc, Ergo Post Hoc.” American Philosophical Quarterly 12: 245–254.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1976. Microeconomic Laws: A Philosophical Analysis. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1977. “Concrete Occurrences vs. Explanatory Facts: Mackie on the Extensionality of Causal Statements.” Philosophical Studies 31(2): 133–140.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1978a. “Supervenience of Biological Concepts.” Philosophy of Science 45: 368–386.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1978b. “The Puzzle of Economic Modeling.” The Journal of Philosophy 75: 679–683.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1979a. “Can Economic Theory Explain Everything?” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 9: 509–529.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1979b. “Causation and Counterfactuals: Lewis’ Treatment Reconsidered.” Dialogue. Revue canadienne de philosophie / Canadian Philosophical Review 18: 210–219.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1980a. Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Sciences. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1980b. “Obstacles to the Nomological Connection of Reasons and Actions.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 10: 79–91.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1980c. “Ruse’s Treatment of the Evidence for Evolution: A Reconsideration.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part I: Contributed Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 83–93. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1981. “A Skeptical History of Microeconomic Theory.” in Philosophy in Economics, edited by Joseph C. Pitt, pp. 47–62. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science n. 16. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1982. “Causation and Teleology in Contemporary Philosophy of Science.” in Contemporary Philosophy: A new survey. Volume 2: Philosophy of Science, edited by Guttorm Fløistad, pp. 51–86. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1983. “Fitness.” The Journal of Philosophy 80: 457–474.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1984a. “Mackie and Shoemaker on Dispositions and Properties.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 9: Causation and Causal Theories, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 77–91. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1984b. “Fitness, Reinforcement and Underlying Mechanisms.” Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7: 495–496.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1985a. The Structure of Biological Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1985b. “Davidson’s Unintended Attack on Psychology.” in Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, edited by Ernest LePore and Brian P. McLaughlin, pp. 399–407. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1985c. “Darwinism Today – And Tomorrow, but Not Yesterday.” 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. 157–173. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1986. “On the Explanatory Role of Existence Proofs.” Ethics 97: 177–186.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1987. “Why does the Nature of Species Matter? Comments on Ghiselin (1987) and Mayr (1987).” Biology and Philosophy 2(2): 192–197.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1988. Philosophy of Social Science. 1st ed. Dimensions of Philosophy Series. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. Second edition: Rosenberg (1995a).
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1989a. “Is Lewis’s ‘Genuine Modal Realism’ Magical Too?” Mind 98: 411–421.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1989b. “From Reductionism to Instrumentalism?” in What the Philosophy of Biology Is. Essays dedicated to David Hull, edited by Michael E. Ruse, pp. 245–262. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series n. 32. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1990. “Moral Realism and Social Science.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 15: The Philosophy of the Human Sciences, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 150–166. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1991a. “How is Eliminative Materialism Possible?” in Mind and Common Sense: Philosophical Essays on Commonsense Psychology, edited by Radu J. Bogdan, pp. 123–143. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1991b. “Adequacy Criteria for a Theory of Fitness.” Biology and Philosophy 6(1): 38–41.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1991c. “Teleology.” in Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, edited by Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith. Analytica: Investigations in Logic, Ontology, and the Philosophy of Language n. 2. München: Philosophia Verlag.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1992a. Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1992b. “Neo-Classical Economics and Evolutionary Theory: Strange Bedfellows?” 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. 174–183. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1992c. “Contractarianism and the Trolley.” The Journal of Social Philosophy 23: 88–104.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1992d. “Causation, Probability and the Monarchy.” American Philosophical Quarterly 29: 305–318.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1993a. “Hume and the Philosophy of Science.” in The Cambridge Companion to Hume, edited by David Fate Norton, 1st ed., pp. 64–89. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Second edition: Norton and Taylor (2009).
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1993b. “Genie Selection, Molecular Biology and Biological Instrumentalism.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18: Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 343–362. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1994a. Instrumental Biology or the Disunity of Science. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1994b. “Subversive Reflections on the Human Genome Project.” in PSA 1994: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by David L. Hull, Micky Forbes, and Richard M. Burian, pp. 329–335. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1995a. Philosophy of Social Science. 2nd ed. Dimensions of Philosophy Series. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. First edition: Rosenberg (1988).
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1995b. “Metaphysical Foundations of Microeconomics.” The Monist 78(3): 353–367.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1996a. “Sober’s Philosophy of Biology and His Philosophy of Biology [on Sober (1993)].” Philosophy of Science 63: 452–465.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1996b. “A Field Guide to Recent Species of Naturalism.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47: 1–29.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1996c. “Research Tactics and Economic Strategies: Case of the Human Genome Project.” Social Philosophy and Policy 13: 1–18.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1996d. “Laws, Damn Laws and Ceteris Paribus Clauses.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 34: 183–204.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1996e. “Is there an Evolutionary Biology of Play?” in Readings in Animal Cognition, edited by Marc Bekoff and Dale Jamieson, pp. 217–228. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1997. “Reductionism Redux: Computing the Embryo.” Biology and Philosophy 12(4): 445–470.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1999a. “Naturalistic Epistemology for Eliminative Materialists.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59: 335–358.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 1999b. “Economics as Political Philosophy.” Journal of Social Science 36: 575–587.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2000a. Philosophy of Science. A Contemporary Introduction. 1st ed. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London: Routledge. Third edition: Rosenberg (2011a).
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2000b. Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2000c. “The Problem of Enforcement: Is there an Alternative to Leviathan?” Journal of Consciousness Studies 7: 236–239.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2000d. “Privacy as a Matter of Taste and Right.” Social Philosophy and Policy 16: 68–91.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2000e. “Limits to Biological Knowledge.” in Science at Century’s End. Philosophical Questions on the Progress and Limits of Science, edited by Martin Carrier, Laura Ruetsche, and Gerald J. Massey, pp. 247–264. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2001a. “On Multiple Realization and the Special Sciences.” The Journal of Philosophy 98(7): 365–373.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2001b. “How is Biological Explanation Possible?” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52: 735–760.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2001c. “Indeterminacy, Probability and Randomness in Evolutionary Theory.” Philosophy of Science 68: 536–544.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2001d. “Social Science, Philosophy of.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 451–460. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2003a. “The Priority of Intellectual Property.” Fraser Forum February: 12–15.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2003b. “Darwinism in Moral Philosophy and Social Theory.” in The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, edited by Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick, 1st ed., pp. 310–332. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2004. “The Political Philosophy of Intellectual Property, with Applications in Biotechnology.” Politics, Philosophy and Economics 3: 77–95.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2005a. Philosophy of Science. A Contemporary Introduction. 2nd ed. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London: Routledge. Third edition: Rosenberg (2011a).
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2005b. “Lessons from Biology for the Philosophy of Social Science.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 35: 3–19.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2005c. “Defending Information-Free Genocentrism.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27(3–4): 345–359.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2006. Darwinian reductionism. Or, how to stop worrying and love molecular biology. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226727318.001.0001.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2007a. Wilfrid Sellars: Fusing the Images. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2007b. “Reductionism in Biology.” in Philosophy of Biology, edited by Mohan Matthen and Christopher Stephens, pp. 349–368. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 3. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2008a. “Biology.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 511–519. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2008b. “Reductionism in Biology.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, edited by Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski, pp. 550–567. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9780470696590.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2008c. “Reductionism (and Antireductionism) in Biology.” in The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, edited by David L. Hull and Michael E. Ruse, pp. 120–138. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2009a. “Lessons for Cognitive Science from Neurogenomics.” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Neuroscience, edited by John Bickle, pp. 143–165. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195304787.001.0001.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2009b. “If Economics Is a Science, What Kind of a Science Is It?” in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics, edited by Harold Kincaid and Don Ross, pp. 55–67. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2011a. Philosophy of Science. A Contemporary Introduction. 3rd ed. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London: Routledge. First edition: Rosenberg (2000a).
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2011b. The Atheist’s Guide to Reality. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2012. “Designing a Successor to the Patent as Second Best Solution to the Problem of Optimum Provision of Good Ideas.” in New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property, edited by Annabelle Lever, pp. 88–109. Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2013. “Disenchanted Naturalism.” in Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications, edited by Bana Bashour and Hans D. Muller, pp. 17–36. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 13. London: Routledge.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2014a. “Why I am a Naturalist.” in Philosophical Methodology: The Armchair or the Laboratory?, edited by Matthew C. Haug, pp. 32–35. London: Routledge.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2014b. “Can Naturalism save the Humanities?” in Philosophical Methodology: The Armchair or the Laboratory?, edited by Matthew C. Haug, pp. 39–42. London: Routledge.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2015. “The Genealogy of Content or the Future of an Illusion [on Hutto and Satne (2015)].” Philosophia 43(3): 537–547.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2016. “Darwinism as Philosophy: Can the Universal Acid Be Contained?” in How Biology Shapes Philosophy. New Foundations for Naturalism, edited by David Livingstone Smith, pp. 23–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781107295490.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2017a. “Theism and Allism.” in Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from the Philosophy of Peter van Inwagen, edited by John Adorno Keller, pp. 227–240. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198715702.001.0001.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2017b. “Functionalism.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Social Science, edited by Lee McIntyre and Alexander Rosenberg, pp. 147–158. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2018a. How History Gets Things Wrong. The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander. 2018b. “Making Mechanism Interesting.” Synthese 195(1): 11–33.
Rosenberg, Alexander and Arp, Robert, eds. 2010. The Philosophy of Biology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Rosenberg, Alexander and Bouchard, Frédéric. 2002. “Fitness.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2002/entries/fitness/.
Rosenberg, Alexander and Bouchard, Frédéric. 2005. “Matthen and Ariew’s Obituary for Fitness: Reports of Its Death Have been Greatly Exaggerated.” Biology and Philosophy 20(2–3): 343–353.
Rosenberg, Alexander and Bouchard, Frédéric. 2008. “Fitness.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2008/entries/fitness/.
Rosenberg, Alexander and Bouchard, Frédéric. 2015. “Fitness.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2015/entries/fitness/.
Rosenberg, Alexander and Kaplan, Craig A. 2005. “How to Reconcile Physicalism and Antireductionism about Biology.” Philosophy of Science 72(1): 43–68.
Rosenberg, Alexander and Linquist, Stefan. 2005. “On the Original Contract: Evolutionary Game Theory and Human Evolution.” Analyse & Kritik 27(1): 136–157.
Rosenberg, Alexander and Martin, Robert M. 1979. “The Extensionality of Causal Contexts.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 4: Studies in Metaphysics, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 401–408. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Rosenberg, Alexander and McShea, Daniel W. 2007. Philosophy of Biology. A Contemporary Introduction. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London: Routledge.

Further References

Ghiselin, Michael T. 1987. “Species Concepts, Individuality, and Objectivity.” Biology and Philosophy 2(2): 127–143.
Hutto, Daniel D. and Satne, Glenda. 2015. “The Natural Origins of Content.” Philosophia 43(3): 521–536.
Kitcher, Philip. 2011. The Ethical Project. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Mayr, Ernst. 1987. “The Ontological Status of Species: Scientific Progress and Philosophical Terminology.” Biology and Philosophy 2(2): 145–166.
Sober, Elliott R. 1993. Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sterelny, Kim. 2003. Thought in a Hostile World. The Evolution of Human Cognition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.