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  1. Philosophically speaking, how many species concepts are there?John S. Wilkins - 2011 - Zootaxa 2765:58–60.
  2. Biological essentialism and the tidal change of natural kinds.John S. Wilkins - 2013 - Science & Education 22 (2):221-240.
    The vision of natural kinds that is most common in the modern philosophy of biology, particularly with respect to the question whether species and other taxa are natural kinds, is based on a revision of the notion by Mill in A System of Logic. However, there was another conception that Whewell had previously captured well, which taxonomists have always employed, of kinds as being types that need not have necessary and sufficient characters and properties, or essences. These competing views employ (...)
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  3. Selection without replicators: the origin of genes, and the replicator/interactor distinction in etiobiology.John S. Wilkins, Ian Musgrave & Clem Stanyon - 2012 - Biology and Philosophy 27 (2):215-239.
    Genes are thought to have evolved from long-lived and multiply-interactive molecules in the early stages of the origins of life. However, at that stage there were no replicators, and the distinction between interactors and replicators did not yet apply. Nevertheless, the process of evolution that proceeded from initial autocatalytic hypercycles to full organisms was a Darwinian process of selection of favourable variants. We distinguish therefore between Neo-Darwinian evolution and the related Weismannian and Central Dogma divisions, on the one hand, and (...)
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  4. The concept and causes of microbial species.Wilkins Js - 2006 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28 (3).
     
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    Replication and reproduction.John Wilkins & Pierrick Bourrat - 2018 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  6. The Infinitely Iterated Labyrinth: Conceivability and Higher-Order Knowledge.Shane Maxwell Wilkins - 2015 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1 (3):509-516.
    Some time ago I wrote a paper about conceivability and knowledge. An anonymous referee rejected it on the grounds that the result had already been established in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. Intrigued, I looked for the story but found no mention of it in Louis and Ziche’s extensive bibliography. I spent months consulting archives and electronic records to no avail. I had begun to doubt whether the story even existed when I had the curious good luck to (...)
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    Species: The Evolution of the Idea.John S. Wilkins - 2018 - Boca Raton: CRC Press.
    Features Covers the philosophical and historical development of the concept of "species" Documents that variation was recognized by pre-Darwinian scholars Includes a section on the debates since the time of the New Synthesis Better suited to non-philosophers Summary Over time the complex idea of "species" has evolved, yet its meaning is far from resolved. This comprehensive work is a fresh look at an idea central to the field of biology by tracing its history from antiquity to today. Species is a (...)
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    Species Problems and Beyond: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy and Practice.John S. Wilkins, Igor Pavlinov & Frank Zachos (eds.) - 2022 - Boca Raton: CRC Press.
    Species, or ‘the Species Problem’, is a topic in science, in the philosophy of science, and in general philosophy. There is not one, but many, species problems, and these are dealt with in this volume. Species are often thought of as units of biology, to be used in ecology, conservation, classification, and theory. The chapters in this book present opposing views on the current philosophical and conceptual issues of the Species Problem in biology. -/- Divided into four sections Theories and (...)
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  9. The role of secularism in protecting religion.John S. Wilkins - 2010 - In Warren Bonett, The Australian Book of Atheism. Scribe Publications.
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    The Neo-Performative Teacher: School Reform, Entrepreneurialism and the Pursuit of Educational Equity.Chris Wilkins, Brad Gobby & Amanda Keddie - 2021 - British Journal of Educational Studies 69 (1):27-45.
    The impact of neoliberal reforms of education systems on the work of teachers and school leaders, particularly in relation to high-stakes accountability frameworks, has been extensively studied in recent decades. One significant aspect of neoliberal schooling is the emergence of quasi-autonomous public schools (such as Academies in England, Charter Schools in the USA and Independent Public Schools in Australia), characterised by heterarchical governance models, the promotion of entrepreneurial leadership cultures, and the promotion of a discourse of pursuing educational equity by (...)
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  11. Cicero Rhetorica. Vol. Ii.A. S. Wilkins (ed.) - 1963 - Oxford University Press UK.
  12. Charles Mills, The Racial Contract Charles Mills, Blackness Visible: Essays on Race and Philosophy.B. Wilkins - forthcoming - Radical Philosophy.
  13. Evolution-no old synthesis and no new paradigm-reply.A. Wilkins - 1987 - Bioessays 6 (4):187-188.
     
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    Feminism and Natural Right in François Poulain de la Barre and Gabrielle Suchon.Rebecca Wilkin - 2019 - Journal of the History of Ideas 80 (2):227-248.
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    Searching for the Ethical Journalist: An Exploratory Study of the Moral Development of News Workers.Lee Wilkins & Renita Coleman - 2002 - Journal of Mass Media Ethics 17 (3):209-225.
    This study gathered preliminary baseline data on the moral development of journalists using the Defining Issues Test, an instrument based on Kohlberg's 6 stages. Results show that a sample of journalists scored 4th highest among professionals tested using the DIT. The journalists ranked behind seminarians/philosophers, medical students, and physicians but above dental students, nurses, graduate students, undergraduate college students, veterinary students, and adults in general. No significant differences were found between various groups of journalists, including men and women, and broadcast (...)
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    Modernising School Governance: Corporate Planning and Expert Handling in State Education.Andrew Wilkins - 2016 - Routledge.
    __Modernising School Governance__ examines the impact of recent market-based reforms on the role of governors in the English state education system. A focus of the book concerns how government and non-government demands for ‘strong governance’ have been translated to mean improved performance management of senior school leaders and greater monitoring and disciplining of governors. This book addresses fundamental questions about the neoliberal logic underpinning these reforms and how governors are being trained and responsibilised in new ways to enhance the integrity (...)
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    Terrorism and Collective Responsibility.Burleigh Taylor Wilkins - 1992 - Routledge.
    The terrorist threat remains a disturbing issue for the early 1990s. This book explores whether terrorism can ever be morally justifiable and if so under what circumstances. Professor Burleigh Taylor Wilkins suggests that the popular characterisation of terrorists as criminals fails to acknowledge the reasons why terrorists resort to violence. It is argued that terrorism cannot be adequately understood unless the collective responsibility of organised groups, such as political states, for wrongs allegedly done against the groups which the terrorists (...)
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    Stigma and Status: Interracial Intimacy and Intersectional Identities among Black College Men.Amy C. Wilkins - 2012 - Gender and Society 26 (2):165-189.
    In this article, I use in-depth interviews with Black college students at two predominantly white universities to investigate the coconstruction of race, gender, and sexuality, and to examine intersectional identities as a dynamic process rather than bounded identity. I focus on Black college men’s talk about interracial relationships. Existing research documents Black women’s angry reactions to interracial relationships, but for Black men, interracial relationships present both problems and opportunities. I examine how Black men use two distinct forms of interracial talk— (...)
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    Darwin.John S. Wilkins - unknown
    This chapter contains sections titled: Progress and the Tree of History Discovering the Past Teleological Thinking References and Further Reading.
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  20. The Discovery of a World in the Moone. Or, a Discourse Tending to Prove, That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World in That Planet. By J. Wilkins.John Wilkins - 1684
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  21. Connecting care and duty : how neuroscience and feminist ethics can contribute to understanding professional moral development.Lee Wilkins - 2008 - In Stephen John Anthony Ward & Herman Wasserman, Media ethics beyond borders: a global perspective. Johannesburg: Heinemann.
  22. What is a species? Essences and generation.John S. Wilkins - 2010 - Theory in Biosciences 129:141-148.
    Arguments against essentialism in biology rely strongly on a claim that modern biology abandoned Aristotle's notion of a species as a class of necessary and sufficient properties. However, neither his theory of essentialism, nor his logical definition of species and genus (eidos and genos) play much of a role in biological research and taxonomy, including his own. The objections to natural kinds thinking by early twentieth century biologists wrestling with the new genetics overlooked the fact that species have typical developmental (...)
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    Margaret Cavendish and the Royal Society.Emma Wilkins - 2014 - Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 68 (3):245-260.
    It is often claimed that Margaret Cavendish was an anti-experimentalist who was deeply hostile to the activities of the early Royal Society—particularly in relation to Robert Hooke's experiments with microscopes. Some scholars have argued that her views were odd or even childish, while others have claimed that they were shaped by her gender-based status as a scientific ‘outsider’. In this paper I examine Cavendish's views in contemporary context, arguing that her relationship with the Royal Society was more nuanced than previous (...)
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    “So Full of Myself as a Chick”: Goth Women, Sexual Independence, and Gender Egalitarianism.Amy C. Wilkins - 2004 - Gender and Society 18 (3):328-349.
    Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and Internet postings, this article analyzes gender in a local Goth scene. These Goths use the confines of the subcultural scene, where they are relatively safe from outsider view, and the scene’s celebration of sexuality as resources to resist mainstream notions of passive femininity. This article probes the struggles of women in this Goth scene to examine the broader possibilities and limitations of strategies of active feminine sexuality in gaining gender egalitarianism. I argue that although (...)
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    On Metaphysical Equivalence and Equivocation.Jeremy D. Wilkins - 2018 - Method 32 (2):75-99.
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  26. Does the fetus have a right to life?Burleigh T. Wilkins - 1993 - Journal of Social Philosophy 24 (1):123-137.
  27. Communitarian and Environmental Journalism iment.Lee Wilkins - 1997 - In Jay Black, Mixed news: the public/civic/communitarian journalism debate. Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum. pp. 200.
     
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    Countenances as Lightning. The Materiality of the Noli me tangere Fresco in Assisi.Sarah S. Wilkins - 2018 - Convivium 5 (2):82-97.
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    Lonergan’s Isomorphism of Knowing and Being.Jeremy D. Wilkins - 2019 - International Philosophical Quarterly 59 (1):77-91.
    Gaven Kerr argues that Lonergan is a metaphysical realist but follows an inherently idealist method. Furthermore, Kerr claims, Lonergan’s isomorphism of cognitional and ontological elements does not hold, because ontological act is not parallel to cognitional judgment. In so arguing, however, Kerr conflates ontological act with efficient causality, misunderstands the nature of the parallel asserted by Lonergan’s isomorphism, and involves himself in a priori speculation about the implications of Lonergan’s method. An efficient cause is an extrinsic principle, whereas “act” names (...)
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    Topos of Noise.Inigo Wilkins - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (3):144-162.
    This paper focuses on the significance of the concept of noise for cognition and computation. The concept of noise was massively transformed in the twentieth century with the advent of information theory, cybernetics, and computer science, all of which provide formal accounts of information and noise centrally concerned with contingency. We show how the concept has changed from these classical formulations, through developments in mathematics (topology and topos theory), computing (interactive computing and univalent foundations), and cognitive science (predictive processing and (...)
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    The One Human Family.Rose Hudson-Wilkin - 2002 - Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 19 (1):52-54.
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    A matter of standards. II. grants and academic positions.Adam S. Wilkins - 2008 - Bioessays 30 (10):923-925.
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  33. Consilience, complexity and communication: three challenges at the start of the new century.A. Wilkins - 1999 - Bioessays 21:983-984.
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  34. Crime, quantification and the quality of life.Leslie T. Wilkins - 1982 - In N. Bowie & F. Elliston, Ethics, Public Policy and Criminal Justice. Oelgeschalger, Gunn & Hain.
     
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  35. Genes, molecules and behaviour: A special issue.Adam S. Wilkins - 1997 - Bioessays 19 (12):1043-1044.
     
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  36. Mathematical and Philosophical Works to Which is Prefix'd the Author's Life, and an Account of His Works.John Wilkins - 1708 - Nicholson.
     
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    Origins of the natural law tradition.Robert N. Wilkin & Arthur Leon Harding (eds.) - 1954 - Port Washington, N.Y.,: Kennikat Press.
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    Review. From Feasting to Fasting, the Evolution of a Sin: Attitudes to Food in Late Antiquity. VE Grimm.John Wilkins - 1999 - The Classical Review 49 (2):453-454.
  39. Travelling around the human genome By Berrand Jordan.A. S. Wilkins - 1993 - Bioessays 15:843-843.
     
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    Intention and Criminal Responsibility.Burleigh T. Wilkins - 1985 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 2 (2):271-278.
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    Cicero Rhetorica. Vol. I.A. S. Wilkins (ed.) - 1902 - Oxford University Press UK.
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    Intelligent Design and Religion as a Natural Phenomenon: Volume V.John S. Wilkins - 2010 - Routledge.
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    Review Essay on the Roots of Evil.Burleigh Wilkins - 2006 - The Journal of Ethics 10 (1-2):193-199.
    I consider two essays by Joel Feinberg: his treatment of the moral obligation to obey the law, and his exploration of the evils of the Holocaust.
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    The Fragility of Conversation: Consciousness and Self‐Understanding in Post/Modern Culture.Jeremy D. Wilkins - 2018 - Heythrop Journal 59 (5):832-847.
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  45. The Origins of Species Concepts.John Simpson Wilkins - 2003 - Dissertation, University of Melbourne
    The longstanding species problem in biology has a history that suggests a solution, and that history is not the received history found in many texts written by biologists or philosophers. The notion of species as the division into subordinate groups of any generic predicate was the staple of logic from Aristotle through the middle ages until quite recently. However, the biological species concept during the same period was at first subtly and then overtly different. Unlike the logic sense, which relied (...)
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  46. 50 words for snow.John Wilkins - manuscript
    Scientists and philosophers routinely talk about phenomena, and the ways in which they relate to explanation, theory and practice in science. However, there are very few definitions of the term, which is often used synonymously with "data'', "model'' and in older literature, "hypothesis''. In this paper I will attempt to clarify how phenomena are recognized, categorized and the role they play in scientific epistemology. I conclude that phenomena are not necessarily theory-based commitments, but that they are what explanations are called (...)
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  47. Media Ethics: Issues and Cases.Philip Patterson, Lee C. Wilkins & Chad Painter - 2018 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    The ninth edition of Media Ethics: Issues and Cases has been updated to reflect the most pressing ethical issues in media. Featuring 25 new cases on hot topic issues from fake news to drones and a new chapter on social justice, this authoritative case book gives students the tools to make ethical decisions in an increasingly complex environment.
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    Rawls on Human Rights: A Review Essay.Burleigh Wilkins - 2007 - The Journal of Ethics 12 (1):105-122.
    In this essay, I first evaluate the conceptual analysis of human rights by Wilfried Hinsch and Markus Stepanians. Next I criticize Allen Buchanan’s claim that Rawls did not address basic human interests/capabilities theories of human nature. I argue Buchanan is doubly mistaken when he claims that John Rawls sought to avoid such theories because they are comprehensive doctrines. Then I evaluate David Reidy’s defense of Rawls, while questioning his efforts to show how Rawls’s list of human rights could be expanded. (...)
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  49. Adaptationism and the adaptive landscape.Jon F. Wilkins & Peter Godfrey-Smith - 2009 - Biology and Philosophy 24 (2):199-214.
    Debates over adaptationism can be clarified and partially resolved by careful consideration of the ‘grain’ at which evolutionary processes are described. The framework of ‘adaptive landscapes’ can be used to illustrate and facilitate this investigation. We argue that natural selection may have special status at an intermediate grain of analysis of evolutionary processes. The cases of sickle-cell disease and genomic imprinting are used as case studies.
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  50. How to be a chaste species pluralist-realist: The origins of species modes and the synapomorphic species concept.John S. Wilkins - 2003 - Biology and Philosophy 18 (5):621-638.
    The biological species (biospecies) concept applies only to sexually reproducing species, which means that until sexual reproduction evolved, there were no biospecies. On the universal tree of life, biospecies concepts therefore apply only to a relatively small number of clades, notably plants andanimals. I argue that it is useful to treat the various ways of being a species (species modes) as traits of clades. By extension from biospecies to the other concepts intended to capture the natural realities of what keeps (...)
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