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Barrett, Martin and Sober, Elliott R. 1995. “When and Why does Entropy Increase?” in Time’s Arrow Today. Recent Physical and Philosophical Work on the Direction of Time, edited by Steven F. Savitt, pp. 230–257. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Elgin, Mehmet and Sober, Elliott R. 2015. “Causal, A Priori True, and Explanatory: A Reply to Lange and Rosenberg.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 93(1): 167–171.
Ellenberg, Jordan and Sober, Elliott R. 2011. “Objective Probabilities in Number Theory.” Philosophia Mathematica 19(3): 308–322.
Forster, Malcolm R. and Sober, Elliott R. 2011. “AIC Scores as Evidence – a Bayesian Interpretation.” in Philosophy of Statistics, edited by Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay and Malcolm R. Forster, pp. 535–552. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 7. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Orzack, Steven Hecht and Sober, Elliott R., eds. 2001. Adaptationism and Optimality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Roche, William A. and Sober, Elliott R. 2013. “Explanatoriness is Evidentially Irrelevant, or Inference to the Best Explanation Meets Baysian Confirmation Theory.” Analysis 73(4): 659–668.
Roche, William A. and Sober, Elliott R. 2014. “Explanatoriness and Evidence: A Reply to McCain and Poston.” Thought 3(3): 193–199.
Roche, William A. and Sober, Elliott R. 2019. “Discrimination-Conduciveness and Observation Selection Effects.” Philosophers' imprint 19(40).
Segal, Gabriel M. A. and Sober, Elliott R. 1991. “The Causal Efficacy of Content.” Philosophical Studies 63: 1–30.
Shapiro, Lawrence A. and Sober, Elliott R. 2007. “Epiphenomenalism: The Dos and Don’ts.” in Thinking about Causes. From Greek Philosophy to Modern Physics, edited by Peter K. Machamer and Gereon Wolters, pp. 235–264. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Shapiro, Lawrence A. and Sober, Elliott R. 2012. “Against Proportionality.” Analysis 72(1): 89–93.
Sober, Elliott R. 1975. Simplicity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198244073.001.0001.
Sober, Elliott R. 1976. “Mental Representations.” Synthese 33: 101–148.
Sober, Elliott R. 1978. “Psychologism.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 8: 165–191.
Sober, Elliott R. 1980a. “Language and Psychological Reality: Some Reflections on Chomshy’s Rules and Representations.” Linguistics and Philosophy 3(3): 395–405.
Sober, Elliott R. 1980b. “Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism.” Philosophy of Science 47: 350–383.
Sober, Elliott R. 1981a. “Evolutionary Theory and the Ontological Status of Properties.” Philosophical Studies 40: 147–176.
Sober, Elliott R. 1981b. “The Evolution of Rationality.” Synthese 46: 95–120.
Sober, Elliott R. 1981c. “Holism, Individualism, and the Units of Selection.” in PSA 1980: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Peter D. Asquith and Ronald N. Giere, pp. 93–121. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Sober, Elliott R. 1982a. “Why Logically Equivalent Predicates May Pick Out Different Properties.” American Philosophical Quarterly 19(2): 183–189.
Sober, Elliott R. 1982b. “Dispositions and Subjunctive Conditionals, or, Dormative Virtues are no Laughing Matter.” The Philosophical Review 91: 591–596.
Sober, Elliott R. 1983. “The Modern Synthesis: Its Scope and Limits.” 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. 314–321. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Sober, Elliott R. 1984a. The Nature of Selection. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 1984b. “Sets, Species, and Evolution: Comments on Philip Kitcher’s Species.” Philosophy of Science 51: 334–341.
Sober, Elliott R. 1984c. “Force and Disposition in Evolutionary Theory.” in Minds, Machines, and Evolution: Philosophical Studies, edited by Christopher Hookway, pp. 43–62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 1985a. “Panglossian Functionalism and the Philosophy of Mind.” Synthese 64: 165–193.
Sober, Elliott R. 1985b. “Two Concepts of Cause.” 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. 405–424. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Sober, Elliott R. 1985c. “Darwin on Natural Selection: A Philosophical Perspective.” in The Darwinian Heritage, edited by David Kohn, pp. 867–900. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 1986. “Causal Factors, Causal Inference, Causal Explanation.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 60: 97–113.
Sober, Elliott R. 1988. “The Principle of Common Cause.” in Probability and Causality. Essays in Honor of Wesley C. Salmon, edited by James H. Fetzer, pp. 211–228. Synthese Library n. 192. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Sober, Elliott R. 1989a. “Evolutionary Altruism and Psychological Egoism.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science VIII: Proceedings of the Eight International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Moscow, 1987, edited by Jens Erik Fenstad, Ivan T. Frolov, and Risto Hilpinen, pp. 495–515. Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics n. 126. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Sober, Elliott R. 1989b. “Is the Theory of Natural Selection Unprincipled? A Reply to Shimony (1989).” Biology and Philosophy 4(3): 275–279.
Sober, Elliott R. 1989c. “Systematics and Circularity.” in What the Philosophy of Biology Is. Essays dedicated to David Hull, edited by Michael E. Ruse, pp. 263–274. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series n. 32. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Sober, Elliott R. 1990a. “Putting the Function Back into Functionalism.” in Mind and Cognition, edited by William G. Lycan, pp. 107–129. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Sober, Elliott R. 1990b. “Let’s Razo Ockham’s Razor.” in Explanation and its Limits, edited by Dudley Knowles, pp. 73–94. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures n. 27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 1990c. “Contrastive Empiricism.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV: Scientific Theories, edited by C. Wade Savage, pp. 392–412. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 1991a. “Biology.” 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.
Sober, Elliott R. 1991b. “Emergence.” 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.
Sober, Elliott R. 1991c. “Organisms, Individuals, and Units of Selection.” in Organisms and the Origins of Self, edited by Aflred I. Tauber, pp. 275–296. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 129. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Sober, Elliott R. 1992a. “The Evolution of Altruism: Correlation, Cost, and Benefit.” Biology and Philosophy 7(2): 177–187.
Sober, Elliott R. 1992b. “Stable Cooperation in Iterated Prisoners’ Dilemmas.” Economics and Philosophy 8(1): 127–138.
Sober, Elliott R. 1992c. “Models of Cultural Evolution.” in Trees of Life. Essays in Philosophy of Biology, edited by Paul E. Griffiths, pp. 17–40. Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science n. 11. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Sober, Elliott R. 1993a. Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 1993b. “Epistemology for Empiricists.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 18: Philosophy of Science, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 39–61. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 1993c. “Mathematics and Indispensability.” The Philosophical Review 102: 35–57.
Sober, Elliott R. 1994a. From a Biological Point of View. Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 1994b. “No Model, No Inference. A Bayesian Primer on the Grue Problem.” in Grue!, edited by Douglas F. Stalker, pp. 225–240. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Co.
Sober, Elliott R. 1996a. “Parsimony and Predictive Equivalence.” Erkenntnis 44(2): 167–197.
Sober, Elliott R. 1996b. “Evolution and Optimality: Feathers, Bowling Balls, and the Thesis of Adaptationism.” Philosophic Exchange 26: 41–57.
Sober, Elliott R. 1997a. “Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of Biology.” Philosophy of Science 64: S458–467.
Sober, Elliott R. 1997b. “Is the Mind an Adaptation for Coping with Environmental Complexity? [on Godfrey-Smith (1996)].” Biology and Philosophy 12(4): 539–550.
Sober, Elliott R. 1999a. “Physicalism from a Probabilistic Point of View.” Philosophical Studies 95: 135–174.
Sober, Elliott R. 1999b. “Modus Darwin.” Biology and Philosophy 14(2): 253–278.
Sober, Elliott R. 1999c. “Instrumentalism Revisited.” Crı́tica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofı́a 31(91): 3–39.
Sober, Elliott R. 1999d. “The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism.” Philosophy of Science 66: 542–564.
Sober, Elliott R. 2000a. “Evolution and the Problem of Other Minds.” The Journal of Philosophy 97: 365–387.
Sober, Elliott R. 2000b. “Quine.” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 74: 237–280.
Sober, Elliott R. 2000c. “Psychological Egoism.” in The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, edited by Hugh LaFollette, 1st ed., pp. 129–148. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Reprinted in LaFollette and Persson (2013, 148–168).
Sober, Elliott R. 2001a. “The Principle of Conservatism in Cognitive Ethology.” in Naturalism, Evolution and Mind, edited by Denis M. Walsh, pp. 225–238. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 49. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 2001b. “Simplicity.” in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, edited by William H. Newton-Smith, pp. 433–441. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9781405164481.
Sober, Elliott R. 2001c. “The Two Faces of Fitness.” in Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives. Volume 2, edited by Rama S. Singh, Costas B. Krimbas, Diane B. Paul, and John Beatty, pp. 309–321. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 2002a. “Reconstructing the Character States of Ancestors: A Likelihood Perspective on Cladistic Parsimony.” The Monist 85(1): 156–176.
Sober, Elliott R. 2002b. “Intelligent Design and Probability Reasoning.” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 52(2): 65–80.
Sober, Elliott R. 2003a. “Philosophy of Biology.” in The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, edited by Nicholas Bunnin and Eric P. Tsui-James, 2nd ed., pp. 317–344. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. First edition: Bunnin and Tsui-James (1996).
Sober, Elliott R. 2003b. “Metaphysical and Epistemological Issues in Modern Darwinian Theory.” in The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, edited by Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick, 1st ed., pp. 67–287. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 2003c. “An Empirical Critique of Two Versions of the Doomsday Argument – Gott’s Line and Leslie’s Wedge.” Synthese 135(3): 415–430.
Sober, Elliott R. 2003d. “The Design Argument.” in God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science, edited by Neil A. Manson, pp. 24–53. London: Routledge. Reprinted in Mann (2005, 117–147).
Sober, Elliott R. 2003e. “Two Uses of Unification.” in The Vienna Circle and Logical Empiricism. Re-evaluation and future perspectives, edited by Friedrich Stadler, pp. 205–216. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook n. 10. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Sober, Elliott R. 2004. “A Modest Proposal [review of Earman (2000)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68(2): 487–494.
Sober, Elliott R. 2005. “Is Drift a Serious Alternative to Natural Selection as an Explanation of Complex Adaptive Traits?” in Philosophy, Biology and Life, edited by Anthony O’Hear, pp. 10–11. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 56. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Sober, Elliott R., ed. 2006a. Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology. 3rd ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 2006b. “Preface.” in Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology, edited by Elliott R. Sober, 3rd ed., pp. ix–xxv. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Sober, Elliott R. 2008. “Empiricism.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd, pp. 129–138. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Sober, Elliott R. 2009. “Absence of Evidence and Evidence of Absence: Evidential Transitivity in Connection with Fossils, Fishing, Fine-Tuning, and Firing Squads.” Philosophical Studies 143(1): 63–90.
Sober, Elliott R. 2010. “Evolutionary Theory and the Reality of Macro-Probabilities.” in The Place of Probability in Science. In Honor of Ellery Eells (1953–2006), edited by James H. Fetzer, pp. 133–162. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 284. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3615-5.
Sober, Elliott R. 2011a. Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? Philosophical Essays on Darwin’s Theory. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.
Sober, Elliott R. 2011b. “Evolution without Naturalism.” in Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, volume III, edited by Jonathan L. Kvanvig, pp. 187–221. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603213.001.0001.
Sober, Elliott R. 2011c. “Reichenbach’s Cubical Universe and the Problem of the External World.” Synthese 181(1): 3–21.
Sober, Elliott R. 2011d. “Coincidences and How to Reason About Them.” in EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009, edited by Henk W. de Regt, Stephan Hartmann, and Samir Okasha, pp. 355–374. The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings n. 1. Dordrecht: Springer.
Sober, Elliott R. 2011e. “A Priori Causal Models of Natural Selection.” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89(4): 571–589.
Sober, Elliott R. 2015a. Ockham’s Razors. A User’s Manual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/cbo9781107705937.
Sober, Elliott R. 2015b. “Two Cornell Realisms: Moral and Scientific.” Philosophical Studies 172(4): 905–924.
Sober, Elliott R. 2015c. “Précis of Sober (2011a).” Philosophical Studies 172(3): 799–802.
Sober, Elliott R. 2015d. “Replies to Commentators on Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? [Sober (2011a)].” Philosophical Studies 172(3): 829–840.
Sober, Elliott R. 2019. “Methods of Science.” in A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, edited by Graham Oppy, pp. 291–302. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781119119302.
Sober, Elliott R. and Lewontin, Richard C. 1982. “Artifact, Cause and Genic Selection.” Philosophy of Science 49: 157–180.
Sober, Elliott R. and Orzack, Steven Hecht. 2003. “Common Ancestry and Natural Selection.” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 54(3): 423–437.
Sober, Elliott R. and Wilson, David Sloan. 1998. Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Wilson, David Sloan and Sober, Elliott R. 2002a. “Précis of Sober and Wilson (1998).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(3): 681–684.
Wilson, David Sloan and Sober, Elliott R. 2002b. “Replies to Commentators [Barrett, Matthew and Godfrey-Smith (2002), Dennett (2002), Skyrms (2002) and Jamieson (2002)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(3): 711–727.

Further References

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.
Dennett, Daniel C. 2002. “Review of Sober and Wilson (1998).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(3): 692–696.
Earman, John S. 2000. Hume’s Abject Failure – the Argument Against Miracles. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195127382.001.0001.
Godfrey-Smith, Peter. 1996. Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jamieson, Dale. 2002. “Sober and Wilson on Psychological Altruism [on Sober and Wilson (1998)].” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(3): 702–710.
LaFollette, Hugh, ed. 2000. The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. 1st ed. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Second edition: LaFollette and Persson (2013).
LaFollette, Hugh and Persson, Ingmar, eds. 2013. The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. 2nd ed. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. First edition: LaFollette (2000), doi:10.1111/b.9780631201199.1999.x.
Mann, William E., ed. 2005. The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470756638.
Shimony, Abner E. 1989. “The Non-Existence of a Principle of Natural Selection.” Biology and Philosophy 4(3): 255–273.
Skyrms, Brian. 2002. “Critical Commentary on Sober and Wilson (1998).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65(3): 697–701.