André Ariew

Professor of Philosophy


Curriculum vitae



Department of Philosophy

University of Missouri

234 Middlebush Hall
Columbia, MO 65211



Publications


Philosophy of Science


The Varieties of Darwinism: explanation, logic, and worldview


Hugh Desmond, André Ariew, Philippe Huneman, Thomas Reydon

Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 99(2), 2024, pp. 77-98


Darwin's science


Darwin’s retraction on natural selection and sexes in the Descent of Man


André Ariew

History and Philosophy of Biology, Michel Vieuille, Sex, gender, ethics and the Darwinian evolution of mankind : 150 years of Darwin's 'Descent of Man', Routledge, 2024


The Statistical thinking of Darwin


André Ariew

Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, vol. 95, 2022, pp. 215-223


Population thinking


André Ariew

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology, Michael Ruse, Oxford University Press, 2008


Under the influence of Malthus’s law of population growth: Darwin eschews the statistical techniques of Aldolphe Quetelet


André Ariew

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 38, 2007, pp. 1-19


Ernst Mayr's 'ultimate/proximate' distinction reconsidered and reconstructed


André Ariew

Biology and Philosophy, vol. 18, 2003, pp. 553-565


Natural selection in the Modern Synthesis: fitness, drift, math models


Four pillars of statisticalism


Denis M Walsh, André Ariew, Mohan Matthen

Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, vol. 9, 2017


What fitness can’t be


André Ariew, Zachary Ernst

Erkenntnis, vol. 71, 2009, pp. 289--301


Selection and causation


Mohan Matthen, André Ariew

Philosophy of science, vol. 76, 2009, pp. 201-224


The confusions of fitness


André Ariew, Richard C. Lewontin

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 55, 2004, pp. 347-363


Trials of Life: Natural Selection and Random Drift


Denis Walsh, Tim Lewens, André Ariew

Philosophy of Science, vol. 69, 2002, pp. 452-473


Two ways of thinking about fitness and natural selection


Mohan Matthen, André Ariew

The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 99, 2002, pp. 55--83


Are probabilities necessary for evolutionary explanations?


André Ariew

Biology and Philosophy, vol. 13, Springer, 1998, pp. 245--253


Statistical explanation


Statistical Autonomous Explanations and the Patterns of Nature: A Modified Account


Travis Holmes, André Ariew

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 2022


Explanatory schema and the process of model building


Collin Rice, Yasha Rohwer, André Ariew

Synthese, vol. 196, 2019 Nov, pp. 4735-4757


Galton, reversion and the quincunx: The rise of statistical explanation


André Ariew, Yasha Rohwer, Collin Rice

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 66, 2017, pp. 63--72


Autonomous Statistical Explanations and Natural Selection


André Ariew, Collin Rice, Yasha Rohwer

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 66, 2015, pp. 635--658


Innateness: Nature and Nurture


Nature and Nurture


André Ariew, Katey Shorey

Wiley Online Library, 2016


Innateness


André Ariew

Handbook of the Philosophy of Science, Mohan Matthen, Christopher Stephens, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of Biology, Elsevier, 2007, pp. 567-584


Innateness is Canalization: In Defense of a Developmental Account of Innateness


André Ariew

Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays, VG Hardcastle, Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1999, pp. 117-138


Innateness and canalization


André Ariew

Philosophy of Science, vol. 63, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. S19--S27


Teleology and functional explanation


Vitalism


André Ariew, Gesiel DaSilva

The SAGE encyclopedia of theory in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, J. Mattingly, vol. 1, SAGE Publications, Inc., 2022, pp. 941-944


Teleology


André Ariew

Cambridge Companion to Philosophy of Biology, David Hull, Michael Ruse, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 160-181


Platonic and Aristotelian Roots of Teleological Arguments


André Ariew

André Ariew, Mark Perlman, Robert Cummins, Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology, Oxford U. Press, 2002, pp. 7-21


Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology


André Ariew, Robert Cummins, Mark Perlman

Oxford U. Press, 2002


A taxonomy of functions


Denis M Walsh, André Ariew

Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 493--514


Darwinism across disciplines


Tinbergen in the 21st Century


André Ariew, Karthik Panchanathan

Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman, Thomas A.C. Reydon, Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism, Elsevier


Adding Agency to Tinbergen’s Four Questions


André Ariew, Karthik Panchanathan

Synthese Library, , Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines, Springer Cham


Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism


Agathe du Crest, Marina Valkovic, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman, Thomas Reydon

Synthese Library, Springer Cham, 2023


Generalizing Darwinism as a Topic for Multidisciplinary Debate


Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman, Thomas A. C. Reydon

Synthese Library, Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines, 2023


Innovation and invention from a logical point of view


André Ariew

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology , Michael J. O'Brien, Stephen J. Shennan, Innovation in cultural systems: Contributions from evolutionary anthropology, MIT Press, 2009, pp. 20-36




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