André Ariew

Andre' Ariew
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies & Admissions
234 Middlebush Hall
573-953-1825
Faculty
Education

Ph.D.  University of Arizona

Research

Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology

Select Publications

Holmes, T. & Ariew, A. (Forthcoming). Statistical autonomous explanations and the patterns of nature: A modified account. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Sciencehttps://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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