Online Papers

These papers are in penultimate form.  For the final copy consult the relevant journal:

On Innateness:

"Innateness and Canalization" (1996) Philosophy of Science, 63 (Proceedings) pp. S19-S27.

"Innateness is Canalization: A Defense of a Developmental Account of Innateness" (1999) in Valerie Hardcastle (ed.) Biolology Meets Psychology: Conjectures, Connections, Constraints. MIT Press.

Innateness and Triggering from a biological point of view. (forthcoming in M. Matthen and C. Stephens, Handbook of Philosophy of Biology. Elsevier. )

On the nature of evolutionary explanations:

"Are Probabilities Necessary for Evolutionary Explanations?" (1998), Biology and Philosophy, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 245-253.

"Two Ways of Thinking About Fitness and Natural Selection" (co-author Mohan Matthen), Journal of Philosophy, February 2002, Volume 49, No. 2, pp. 53-83.

 

"Ernst Mayr's 'ultimate/proximate' distinction reconsidered and reconstructed" Biology and Philosophy (2003), Volume 18, No. 4, pp. 553-565

 

Walsh, D., Lewens,T.,Ariew,A."Trials of Life: Natural Selection and Random Drift". Philosophy of Science, 69, pp. 429-446.

 

"Confusions of Fitness"(co-author Richard Lewontin) British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2004), 55, 347-363.

 

Mohan Matthen and Andre Ariew, "How to Understand Causal Relations in Natural Selection: A Reply to Rosenberg and Bouchard" Biology and Philosophy (2005), Vol. 20, No. 2-3, pp. 355-364

Under the Influence of Malthus's Law of Population Growth: Darwin Eschews The Statistical Techniques of Aldolphe Quetelet 2007:  Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science)

Population Thinking (forthcoming).  Ruse, M. and Hull, D. (eds). Oxford U. Press.

Ariew, A. and Ernst, Z (under review) “What Fitness Can’t Be”

Mohan Matthen and Andre Ariew, "Selection and Causation"

On Adaptationism:

Adaptationism and its Alternatives: Explaining origins, prevalence, and diversity of organic forms (forthcoming Denis Walsh, ed., Twenty-Five Years of Spandrels)

“Natural Selection Doesn’t Work That Way: Fodor on Adaptationism”.  Mind and Language (2003), Volume 18, No. 5, pp. 447-477

On Teleology:

"Platonic and Aristotelian Roots of Teleological Arguments in Cosmology and Biology" (2002) in A. Ariew, R. Cummins, M. Perlman (eds.) Functions: New Reading in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. Oxford University Press.

        Teleology. (2007) in Ruse, M. and Hull, D. (eds.) Cambridge

    U. Press.

On Evolutionary Anthropology:

“Invention and Innovation From a Logical Point of View”. (forthcoming).  M. O’Brien and S. Shennan (eds).  MIT Press.