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    (1 other version)The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo.Ron Amundson - 2005 - Cambridge University Press.
    In this book Ron Amundson examines two hundred years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary developmental biology. This perspective challenges several popular views about the history of evolutionary thought by claiming that many earlier authors had made history come out right for the Evolutionary Synthesis. The book starts with a revised history of nineteenth-century evolutionary thought. It then investigates how development became irrelevant with the Evolutionary Synthesis. It concludes with an examination of the contrasts (...)
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    (1 other version)Function without Purpose: The Uses of Causal Role Function in Evolutionary Biology.Ron Amundson & George V. Lauder - 1998 - In David L. Hull & Michael Ruse (eds.), The philosophy of biology. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 227--57.
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  3. Against normal function.Ron Amundson - 2000 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 31 (1):33-53.
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  4. Two concepts of constraint: Adaptationism and the challenge from developmental biology.Ron Amundson - 1994 - Philosophy of Science 61 (4):556-578.
    The so-called "adaptationism" of mainstream evolutionary biology has been criticized from a variety of sources. One, which has received relatively little philosophical attention, is developmental biology. Developmental constraints are said to be neglected by adaptationists. This paper explores the divergent methodological and explanatory interests that separate mainstream evolutionary biology from its embryological and developmental critics. It will focus on the concept of constraint itself; even this central concept is understood differently by the two sides of the dispute.
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  5. Typology reconsidered: Two doctrines on the history of evolutionary biology.Ron Amundson - 1998 - Biology and Philosophy 13 (2):153-177.
    Recent historiography of 19th century biology supports the revision of two traditional doctrines about the history of biology. First, the most important and widespread biological debate around the time of Darwin was not evolution versus creation, but biological functionalism versus structuralism. Second, the idealist and typological structuralist theories of the time were not particularly anti-evolutionary. Typological theories provided argumentation and evidence that was crucial to the refutation of Natural Theological creationism. The contrast between functionalist and structuralist approaches to biology continues (...)
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  6. Disability, handicap, and the environment.Ron Amundson - 1992 - Journal of Social Philosophy 23 (1):105-119.
  7. Disability, Ideology, and Quality of Life: A Bias in Biomedical Ethics.Ron Amundson - 2005 - In David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach & Robert Wachbroit (eds.), Quality of Life and Human Difference: Genetic Testing, Health Care, and Disability. Cambridge University Press. pp. 101-24.
  8. Quality of Life, Disability, and Hedonic Psychology.Ron Amundson - 2010 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 40 (4):374-392.
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    Logical adaptationism.Ron Amundson - 1988 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 11 (3):505.
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  10. On a bioethical challenge to disability rights.Ron Amundson & Shari Tresky - 2007 - Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 32 (6):541 – 561.
    Tensions exist between the disability rights movement and the work of many bioethicists. These reveal themselves in a major recent book on bioethics and genetics, From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice. This book defends certain genetic policies against criticisms from disability rights advocates, in part by arguing that it is possible to accept both the genetic policies and the rights of people with impairments. However, a close reading of the book reveals a series of direct moral criticisms of the (...)
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    Doctor Dennett and Doctor Pangloss: Perfection and selection in biology and psychology.Ron Amundson - 1990 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 (3):577-581.
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    EvoDevo as Cognitive Psychology.Ronald A. Amundson - 2006 - Biological Theory 1 (1):10-11.
  13. E. C. Tolman and the intervening variable: A study in the epistemological history of psychology.Ron Amundson - 1983 - Philosophy of Science 50 (2):268-282.
    E. C. Tolman's 'purposive behaviorism' is commonly interpreted as an attempt to operationalize a cognitivist theory of learning by the use of the 'Intervening Variable' (IV). Tolman would thus be a counterinstance to an otherwise reliable correlation of cognitivism with realism, and S-R behaviorism with operationalism. A study of Tolman's epistemological background, with a careful reading of his methodological writings, shows the common interpretation to be false. Tolman was a cognitivist and a realist. His 'IV' has been systematically misinterpreted by (...)
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    The epistemological status of a naturalized epistemology.Ron Amundson - 1983 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 26 (3):333 – 344.
    Philosophically inclined psychologists and psychologically inclined philosophers often hold that the substantive discoveries of psychology can provide an empirical foundation for epistemology. In this paper it is argued that the ambition to found epistemology empirically faces certain unnoticed difficulties. Empirical theories concerned with knowledge?gaining abilities have been historically associated with specific epistemological views such that the epistemology gives preferential support to the substantive theory, while the theory empirically supports the epistemology. Theories attribute to the subject just those epistemic abilities which (...)
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  15. Clark Hull, Robert Cummins, and functional analysis.Ron Amundson & Laurence D. Smith - 1984 - Philosophy of Science 51 (December):657-666.
    Robert Cummins has recently used the program of Clark Hull to illustrate the effects of logical positivist epistemology upon psychological theory. On Cummins's account, Hull's theory is best understood as a functional analysis, rather than a nomological subsumption. Hull's commitment to the logical positivist view of explanation is said to have blinded him to this aspect of this theory, and thus restricted its scope. We will argue that this interpretation of Hull's epistemology, though common, is mistaken. Hull's epistemological views were (...)
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    Psychology and epistemology: The place versus response controversy.Ron Amundson - 1985 - Cognition 20 (2):127-153.
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    Embryology and Evolution 1920-1960: Worlds Apart?Ron Amundson - 2000 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 22 (3):335 - 352.
    During the early part of the 20th century most embryologists were skeptical about the significance of Mendelian genetics to embryological development. A few embryologists began to study the developmental effects of Mendelian genes around 1940. Such work was a necessary step on the path to modern developmental biology. It occurred during the time when the Evolutionary Synthesis was integrating Mendelian and population genetics into a unified evolutionary theory. Why did the first embryological geneticists begin their study at that particular time? (...)
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    Phylogenic reconstruction then and now.Ron Amundson - 2002 - Biology and Philosophy 17 (5):679-694.
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    The Minority Body by Elizabeth Barnes.Ron Amundson - 2017 - Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 27 (2):5-9.
    Professor Elizabeth Barnes has produced a tightly and carefully reasoned philosophical examination of the significance of disability. It provides a clear defense of certain core principles of the disability rights movement in contrast to the many professional philosophers who consider that movement to be ill-conceived. An example of this tradition can be seen in the volume From Choice to Chance: Genetics and Justice, coauthored by four of the most prominent bioethicists of the turn of the century. I confess to the (...)
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    Science, ethnoscience, and ethnocentrism.Ron Amundson - 1982 - Philosophy of Science 49 (2):236-250.
    The conventionalist epistemology of cultural anthropology can be seen to be embedded in the methods of 'cognitive anthropology', the study of folk conceptual systems. These methods result in indiscriminately depicting all folk systems as conventional, whether or not the systems are intended by the native to represent objective features of the world. Hypothetical and actual ethnographic situations are discussed. It is concluded that the anthropologist's projection of his/her own epistemology onto a native system is ethnocentric. This epistemological prejudice may be (...)
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    Memory and Mind.Ron Amundson - 1981 - Noûs 15 (1):101-106.
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    Development and Evolution.Ron Amundson - 2008 - In Sahorta Sarkar & Anya Plutynski (eds.), Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Blackwell. pp. 248–268.
    This chapter contains section titled: Introduction The Nineteenth Century: Evolution Intertwined with Development The Twentieth Century: A New Heredity Gives Rise to a New Evolution The Nature of Developmentalist Explanation: 1920–80 Adaptationism and the Synthesis Direct Debates A Torrent of Homologous Genes What Now? Acknowledgements References Further Reading.
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    Accounting For Vertebrate Limbs: From Owen's Homology To Novelty In Evo-Devo.Ron Amundson - unknown
    This article reviews the recent reissuing of Richard Owen’s On the Nature of Limbs and its three novel, introductory essays. These essays make Owen’s 1849 text very accessible by discussing the historical context of his work and explaining how Owen’s ideas relate to his larger intellectual framework. In addition to the ways in which the essays point to Owen’s relevance for contemporary biology, I discuss how Owen’s unity of type theory and his homology claims about fins and limbs compare with (...)
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    Dictionary of Concepts in the Philosophy of SciencePaul T. Durbin.Ron Amundson - 1990 - Isis 81 (1):157-158.
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    Pain, Chronic Pain, and Sickle Cell Chronic Pain.Ron Amundson - 2013 - American Journal of Bioethics 13 (4):14 - 16.
    (2013). Pain, Chronic Pain, and Sickle Cell Chronic Pain. The American Journal of Bioethics: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 14-16. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2013.768859.
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    Testing Utility.Ronald Amundson - 1979 - Teaching Philosophy 3 (2):173-176.
  27. William Alston.Ron Amundson, Robert Arrington, Michael Levin, J. Christopher Maloney & Joseph Margolis - 1987 - Behaviorism 15:83.
     
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  28. Why don’t you write about something more interesting, Lisa?: Review of Elisabeth A. Lloyd , The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.Ron Amundson - 2008 - Biology and Philosophy 23 (3):439-446.
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    Darwins for everyone.Ron Amundson - 2005 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (1):209-220.
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    Letters to the Editor.Jim Stone, Ron Amundson, Jonathan Bennett, Joram Graf Haber, Lina Levit Haber, Jack Nass, Bernard H. Baumrin, Sarah W. Emery, Frank B. Dilley, Marilyn Friedman, Christina Sommers & Alan Soble - 1992 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 65 (5):87 - 99.
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  31. Bioethics and disability rights: Conflicting values and perspectives. [REVIEW]Ron Amundson & Shari Tresky - 2008 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (2-3):111-123.
    Continuing tensions exist between mainstream bioethics and advocates of the disability rights movement. This paper explores some of the grounds for those tensions as exemplified in From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice by Allen Buchanan and coauthors, a book by four prominent bioethicists that is critical of the disability rights movement. One set of factors involves the nature of disability and impairment. A second set involves presumptions regarding social values, including the importance of intelligence in relation to other human (...)
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    On Scientific Thinking. [REVIEW]Ron Amundson - 1983 - Teaching Philosophy 6 (3):301-304.
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    (2 other versions)Review. [REVIEW]Ron Amundson - 1998 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 49 (3):515-521.
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