André Ariew
André Ariew
Ph.D. University of Arizona
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology
Holmes, T. & Ariew, A. (Forthcoming). Statistical autonomous explanations and the patterns of nature: A modified account. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. https://doi.org/10.1086/720804
Ariew, A., & da Silva, G. (2023). Vitalism. In J.M. Mattingly (Ed.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (Vol. 2, pp. 941-944). SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071872383
Ariew, A., & Panchanathan, K. (2023). Adding agency to Tinbergen’s four questions. In A. du Crest, M. Valković, A. Ariew, H. Desmond, P. Huneman, & T.A.C. Reydon (Eds.), Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism. Synthese Library, 478 (pp. 477-499). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3_21
Du Crest, A., Valković, M., Ariew, A., Desmond, H., Huneman, P., & Reydon, T.A.C. (2023). Generalizing Darwinism as a topic of multidisciplinary debate. In A. du Crest, M. Valković, A. Ariew, H. Desmond, P. Huneman, & T.A.C. Reydon (Eds.), Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines: Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism. Synthese Library, 478 (pp. 1-17). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3
Ariew, A. (2022). Charles Darwin as a statistical thinker. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 95, 215-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2022.08.005
Charlat, S., Ariew, A., Bourrat, P., Ferreira Ruiz, M., Heams, T., Huneman, P., Krishna, S., Lachmann, M., Lartillot, N., Le Sergeant D'Hendecourt, L., Malaterre, C., Nghe, P., Rajon, E., Rivoire, O., Smerlak, M., & Zeravcic, Z. (2021). Natural selection beyond life? A workshop report. Life, 11(10), 1051. https://doi.org/10.3390/life11101051
Rice, C., Rohwer, Y., & Ariew, A. (2019). Explanatory schema and the process of model building. Synthese, 196(11), 4735–4757. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1686-y
Ariew, A., Rohwer, Y., & Rice, C. (2017). Galton, reversion and the quincunx: The rise of statistical explanation. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 66, 63-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2017.08.001
Walsh, D.M.; Ariew, A. & Matthen, M. (2017). Four pillars of Statisticalism. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 9(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3998/ptb.6959004.0009.001
Ariew, A., Cummins, R., & Perlman, M. (Eds.). (2002). Functions: New essays in the philosophy of psychology and biology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199255801.001.0001
Ariew, A., Rice, C., & Rohwer, Y. (2015). Autonomous-statistical explanations and natural selection. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 66(3), 635-658. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axt054
Ariew, A. (2009). Innovation and invention from a logical point of view. In M.J. O’Brien & S.J. Shennan (Eds.), Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/8102.003.0006
Ariew, A., & Ernst, Z. (2009). What fitness can’t be. Erkenntnis, 71(3), 289-301. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40267438
Matthen, M., & Ariew, A. (2009). Selection and causation. Philosophy of Science, 76(2), 201–224. https://doi.org/10.1086/648102
Ariew, A. (2008). Population Thinking. In M. Ruse (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology (pp. 64-86). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195182057.003.0004
Ariew, A. (2007). Innateness. In M. Matthen & C. Stephens (Eds.), Philosophy of Biology, (pp. 567-584). Dordrecht: Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-044451543-8/50026-5
Ariew, A. (2007). Teleology. In D.L. Hull & M. Ruse (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology (pp. 160-181). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521851282
Ariew, A. (2007). Under the influence of Malthus's law of population growth Darwin eschews the statistical techniques of Aldolphe Quetelet. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 38(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2006.12.002
Matthen, M., & Ariew, A. (2005). How to understand casual relations in natural selection: Reply to Rosenberg and Bouchard. Biology and Philosophy, 20, 355–364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-005-5589-1
Ariew, A., & Lewontin, R.C. (2004). The confusions of fitness. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55 (2), 347-363. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/55.2.347
Ariew, A. (2003). Ernst Mayr's 'ultimate/proximate' distinction reconsidered and reconstructed. Biology and Philosophy, 18, 553-565. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025565119032
Ariew, A. (2003). Natural selection doesn’t work that way: Jerry Fodor vs. evolutionary psychology on gradualism and saltationism. Mind & Language, 18(5), 478-483. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0017.00238
Matthen, M., & Ariew, A. (2002): Two ways of thinking about fitness and natural selection. The Journal of Philosophy, 99(2), 55-83. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3655552
Walsh, D. M., Lewens, T., & Ariew, A. (2002). The trials of life: Natural selection and random drift. The Philosophy of Science, 69(3), 452–473. https://doi.org/10.1086/342454
Ariew, A. (1999). Innateness is canalization: In defense of a developmental account of innateness. In V. G. Hardcastle (Ed.), Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays (pp. 117-138). MIT Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/7220.001.0001
Ariew, A. (1998). Are probabilities necessary for evolutionary explanations? Biology & Philosophy, 13, 245–253. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006595706470
Walsh, D. M., & Ariew, A. (1996). A taxonomy of functions. The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 26(4), 493–514. https://doi.org/10.1080/00455091.1996.10717464
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