William C. Wimsatt (wimsatt)

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Bibliography

Griesemer, James R. and Wimsatt, William C. 1989. “Picturing Weismannism: A Case Study of Conceptual Evolution.” in What the Philosophy of Biology Is. Essays dedicated to David Hull, edited by Michael E. Ruse, pp. 75–138. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series n. 32. Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
Love, Alan C. and Wimsatt, William C., eds. 2019. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XXII: Beyond the Meme. Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Schank, Jeffrey C. and Wimsatt, William C. 1987. “Generative Entrenchment and Evolution.” in PSA 1986: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine and Peter K. Machamer, pp. 33–60. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Soler, Léna, Trizio, Emiliano, Nickles, Thomas and Wimsatt, William C., eds. 2012. Characterizing the Robustness of Science. After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 292. Dordrecht: Springer.
Wimsatt, William C. 1971. “Some Problems with the Concept of ‘Feedback’ .” in PSA 1970: In Memory of Rudolf Carnap. Proceedings of the 1970 second Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Boston, Fall, 1970, edited by Roger C. Buck and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 241–256. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 8. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Wimsatt, William C. 1974. “Complexity and Organization.” in PSA 1972: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, edited by Kenneth F. Schaffner and Robert S. Cohen, pp. 67–86. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 20. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Reprinted in Grene and Mendelsohn (1976, 174–196).
Wimsatt, William C. 1976a. “Reductive Explanation: A Functional Account.” in PSA 1974: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, edited by Robert S. Cohen, Clifford A. Hooker, Alex C. Michalos, and James W. van Evra, pp. 671–710. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 32. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Wimsatt, William C. 1976b. “Reductionism, Levels of Organization, and the Mind-Body Problem.” in Consciousness and the Brain: A Scientific and Philosophical Inquiry, edited by Globus G. Gordon, Grover Maxwell, and Irwin Savodnik, pp. 205–268. New York: Plenum Press.
Wimsatt, William C. 1980. “Reductionist Research Strategies and their Biases in the Units of Selection Controversy.” in Scientific Discovery: Case Studies, edited by Thomas Nickles, pp. 213–259. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 60. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Wimsatt, William C. 1981. “The Units of Selection and the Structure of the Multi-Level Genome.” 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. 122–183. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Wimsatt, William C. 1986. “Forms of Aggregativity.” in Human Nature and Natural Knowledge. Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her seventy-fifth Birthday, edited by Alan Donagan, Anthony N. Perovich Jr., and Michael V. Wedin, pp. 259–293. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 89. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.
Wimsatt, William C. 1991. “Taming the Dimensions – Visualizations in Science.” in PSA 1990: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Part II: Symposium Papers, edited by Arthur I. Fine, Micky Forbes, and Linda Wessels, pp. 111–135. East Lansing, Michigan: Philosophy of Science Association.
Wimsatt, William C. 1994. “The Ontology of Complex Systems.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 20(suppl. 20): 207–274.
Wimsatt, William C. 1997. “Aggregativity: Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence.” Philosophy of Science 64(suppl.): 372–384.
Wimsatt, William C. 1999. “Genes, Memes, and Cultural Heredity.” Biology and Philosophy 14(2): 279–310.
Wimsatt, William C. 2002. “Functional Organization, Analogy, and Inference.” in Functions. New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology, edited by André Ariew, Robert Cummins, and Mark Perlman, pp. 173–221. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wimsatt, William C. 2010. “Memetics Does Not Provide a Useful Way of Understanding Cultural Evolution: A Developmental Perspective.” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology, edited by Francisco José Ayala and Robert Arp, pp. 273–292. Contemporary Debates in Philosophy n. 12. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781444314922.
Wimsatt, William C. 2012a. “Robustness, Reliability, and Overdetermination (1981).” in Characterizing the Robustness of Science. After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science, edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Thomas Nickles, and William C. Wimsatt, pp. 61–88. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 292. Dordrecht: Springer.
Wimsatt, William C. 2012b. “Robustness: Material, and Inferential, in the Natural and Human Sciences.” in Characterizing the Robustness of Science. After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science, edited by Léna Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Thomas Nickles, and William C. Wimsatt, pp. 89–104. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 292. Dordrecht: Springer.
Wimsatt, William C. 2013. “Evolution and the Stability of Functional Architectures.” in Functions: Selection and Mechanisms, edited by Philippe Huneman, pp. 19–42. Synthese Library n. 363. Dordrecht: Springer.
Wimsatt, William C. 2015. “Entrenchment as a Theoretical Tool in Evolutionary Developmental Biology.” in Conceptual Change in Biology. Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development, edited by Alan C. Love, pp. 365–404. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science n. 307. Dordrecht: Springer.
Wimsatt, William C. 2019. “Articulating Babel: A Conceptual Geography for Cultural Evolution.” in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XXII: Beyond the Meme. Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution, edited by Alan C. Love and William C. Wimsatt, pp. 1–41. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.

Further References

Grene, Marjorie and Mendelsohn, Everett, eds. 1976. Topics in the Philosophy of Biology. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science n. 27. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co.