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  1. The extended replicator.Kim Sterelny, Kelly C. Smith & Michael Dickison - 1996 - Biology and Philosophy 11 (3):377-403.
    This paper evaluates and criticises the developmental systems conception of evolution and develops instead an extension of the gene's eye conception of evolution. We argue (i) Dawkin's attempt to segregate developmental and evolutionary issues about genes is unsatisfactory. On plausible views of development it is arbitrary to single out genes as the units of selection. (ii) The genotype does not carry information about the phenotype in any way that distinguishes the role of the genes in development from that other factors. (...)
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    Life as Adaptive Capacity: Bringing New Life to an Old Debate.Kelly C. Smith - 2018 - Biological Theory 13 (2):76-92.
    Whatever we take “life” to mean, it must involve an attempt to describe the objective reality beyond scientists’ biases. Traditionally, this is thought to involve comparing our scientific categories to “natural kinds.” But this approach has been tainted with an implicit metaphysics, inherited from Aristotle, that does not fit biological reality. In particular, we must accept that biological categories will never be specifiable in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions or shared underlying physical structures that produce clean boundaries. Biology blurs (...)
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    Appealing to Ignorance Behind the Cloak of Ambiguity.Kelly C. Smith - 2001 - In Robert T. Pennock (ed.), Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics: Philosophical, Theological, and Scientifc Perspectives. MIT Press. pp. 705-35.
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    Social and Conceptual Issues in Astrobiology.Carlos Mariscal & Kelly C. Smith (eds.) - 2020 - Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
    This book focuses on the emerging scientific discipline of astrobiology, exploring the humanistic issues of this multidisciplinary field. To be sure, there are myriad scientific questions that astrobiologists have only begun to address. However, this is not a purely scientific enterprise. More research on the broader social and conceptual aspects of astrobiology is needed. Just what are our ethical obligations toward different sorts of alien life? Should we attempt to communicate with life beyond our planet? What is “life” in the (...)
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    Manifest Complexity: a foundational ethics for astrobiology?Kelly C. Smith - 2014 - Space Policy 30 (4):209-14.
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  6. The trouble with intrinsic value : an ethical primer for astrobiology.Kelly C. Smith - 2009 - In Constance M. Bertka (ed.), Exploring the Origin, Extent, and Future of Life: Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
     
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  7. The Great Colonization Debate.Kelly C. Smith, Keith Abney, Gregory Anderson, Linda Billings, Carl L. DeVito, Brian Patrick Green, Alan R. Johnson, Lori Marino, Gonzalo Munevar, Michael P. Oman-Reagan, Adam Potthast, James S. J. Schwartz, Koji Tachibana, John W. Traphagan & Sheri Wells-Jensen - 2019 - Futures 110:4-14.
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  8. Towards an Adequate Account of Genetic Disease.Kelly C. Smith - 2007 - In Kincaid McKitrick (ed.), Establishing Medical Reality: Essays in Metaphysics and Epistemology of Medicine. Springer. pp. 83-110.
     
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  9. Ethics is Not Rocket Science: How to have ethical discussions in your science class.Kelly C. Smith - 2015 - Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education 15 (12):201-07.
     
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    Foiling the Black Knight.Kelly C. Smith - 2011 - Synthese 178 (2):219-235.
    Why is the academy in general, and philosophy in particular, not more involved in the fight against the creationist threat? And why, when a response is offered, is it so curiously ineffective? I argue, by using an analogy with the battle against the Black Knight from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail, that the difficulty lies largely in a failure to see the nature of the problem clearly. By modifying the analogy, it is possible to see both why (...)
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    Can Intelligent Design Become Respectable?Kelly C. Smith - 2001 - Reports of the National Center for Science Education 20 (4):40-43.
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  12. Using Ethics Labs to set a Framework for Ethical Discussion in an Undergraduate Course.Kelly C. Smith - 2007 - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 35 (5):332-36.
     
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    AddingSpace to Your Class Discussions.Kelly C. Smith, Michael Doyle, Anna Dueholm, Aundrea Gibbons, Austin Macdonald-Shedd, Isabela Parise, Jake Ballard, Stephen Galaida, Nathan Stolzenfeld & Joseph Walker - 2022 - Teaching Ethics 22 (2):269-290.
    Our capabilities in space are growing almost as fast as our ambitions. Many nations, companies, and private actors are currently vying to secure historic “firsts” in space, raising complex social and ethical questions. There is surprisingly little serious analysis of these issues, however, and they are rarely discussed in undergraduate class discussions, despite their popularity with students. To help correct this deficit, a student research team designed 11 case studies to help instructors across the curriculum introduce space into their classes. (...)
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    Cosmic Ethics.Kelly C. Smith - 2007 - In C. Bertka N. Roth & M. Shindell (eds.), Workshop Report: Philosophical, Ethical and Theological Implications of Astrobiology. AAAS.
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    Equivocal Notions of Accuracy and Genetic Screening of the General Population.Kelly C. Smith - 1998 - Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 65 (3):178-83.
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  16. Genetic disease, genetic testing and the clinician.Kelly C. Smith - 2001 - Journal of the American Medical Association 285 (1):91.
    Modern medicine emphasizes treatment of the sick. It is often said that the widespread genetic testing soon to follow the completion of the Human Genome Project will usher in a new era of preventive medicine. Such changes require new ways of thinking, however. For example, there may be nothing clinically wrong with a healthy patient who requests genetic testing, even if the tests reveal disease genes. Since all individuals have genetic skeletons in their closets, it is important to be careful (...)
     
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  17. I also Survived a Debate with a Creationist (with reflections on the perils of democratic information).Kelly C. Smith - 2012 - Reports of the National Center for Science Education 32 (2).
  18. Lightsey fellowship proposal for summer 2000.Kelly C. Smith - manuscript
    Proposal in Brief : I have been invited by Michael Ruse, editor of the Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology series for Cambridge University Press, to submit a book proposal on the Philosophy of Developmental Biology. This is both a great honor and a magnificent opportunity for a relatively junior professor, especially since the field is new - done well, this book could help set the basic parameters of an emerging discipline.
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    Marketing Structuralism: Reflections on the Process Structuralist Critique of Neo-Darwinism.Kelly C. Smith - 1993 - Biology Forum/Revista di Biologica 86 (3-4):578-79.
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    Philosophy in Spaaaace!Kelly C. Smith - 2018 - The Philosophers' Magazine 81:51-56.
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  21. Scientific Contribution.Kelly C. Smith & Hardin Hall - unknown
    What exactly is a genetic disease? For a phrase one hears on a daily basis, there has been surprisingly little analysis of the underlying concept. Medical doctors seem perfectly willing to admit that the etiology of disease is typically complex, with a great many factors interacting to bring about a given condition. On such a view, descriptions of diseases like cancer as genetic seem at best highly simplistic, and at worst philosophically indefensible. On the other hand, there is clearly some (...)
     
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    The Terrestrial Lifeboat Project: An international undertaking to save humanity.Kelly C. Smith - 2008 - In Yangming An (ed.), A New Perspective on Applied Ethics. Renmin Press. pp. 224-38.
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  23. The Virtues of Ethical Discussion in the Classroom.Kelly C. Smith - 2004 - In Eleanor Siebert (ed.), Environmental Literacy and Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Goal of the 21st Century. Society for College Science Teachers. pp. 26-31.
     
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    Neo-rationalism versus neo-darwinism: Integrating development and evolution. [REVIEW]Kelly C. Smith - 1992 - Biology and Philosophy 7 (4):431-451.
    An increasing number of biologists are expressing discontent with the prevailing theory of neo-Darwinism. In particular, the tendency of neo-Darwinians to adopt genetic determinism and atomistic notions of both genes and organisms is seen as grossly unfair to the body of developmental theory. One faction of dissenteers, the Process Structuralists, take their inspiration from the rational morphologists who preceded Darwin. These neo-rationalists argue that a mature biology must possess universal laws and that these generative laws should be sought within organismal (...)
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    The new problem of genetics: A response to Gifford. [REVIEW]Kelly C. Smith - 1992 - Biology and Philosophy 7 (3):331-348.
    Recently, Fred Gifford attempted to explicate the meaning of the term genetic as applied to phenotypic traits. He takes as his primary goal the explication of how the term is used and tries to avoid conclusions about how it should be used. He proposes two independent criteria (DF and PI) which together capture much of what biologists mean when they describe traits as genetic. Although Gifford's approach is extremely insightful in many ways, I argue that his analysis is not sufficiently (...)
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