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    Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology.Max Dresow & Alan C. Love - 2023 - Biological Theory 18 (2):101-113.
    The concept of teleonomy has been attracting renewed attention recently. This is based on the idea that teleonomy provides a useful conceptual replacement for teleology, and even that it constitutes an indispensable resource for thinking biologically about purposes. However, both these claims are open to question. We review the history of teleological thinking from Greek antiquity to the modern period to illuminate the tensions and ambiguities that emerged when forms of teleological reasoning interacted with major developments in biological thought. This (...)
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    Explaining the apocalypse: the end-Permian mass extinction and the dynamics of explanation in geohistory.Max Dresow - 2021 - Synthese 199 (3-4):10441-10474.
    Explanation is a perennially hot topic in philosophy of science. Yet philosophers have exhibited a curious blind spot to the questions of how explanatory projects develop over time, as well as what processes are involved in generating their developmental trajectories. This paper examines these questions using research into the end-Permian mass extinction as a case study. It takes as its jumping-off point the observation that explanations of historical events tend to grow more complex over time, but it goes beyond this (...)
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    Re-forming Morphology: Two Attempts to Rehabilitate the Problem of Form in the First Half of the Twentieth Century.Max Dresow - 2020 - Journal of the History of Biology 53 (2):231-248.
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    History and philosophy of science after the practice-turn: From inherent tension to local integration.Max Dresow - 2020 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 82:57-65.
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    Measuring Time with Fossils: A Start-Up Problem in Scientific Practice.Max Dresow - 2021 - Philosophy of Science 88 (5):940-950.
    This article is about a start-up problem in scientific practice. Specifically, it is about the problem of justifying paleontological correlation—the practice of using fossils to establish time relations among fossiliferous rocks. Paleontological correlation was the key to assembling a geological timescale during the nineteenth century and remains an important practice in stratigraphic geology to this day. Yet contrary to philosophical expectations, this practice lacked a robust theoretical justification during the first half of the nineteenth century. This article examines what this (...)
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    Before hierarchy: the rise and fall of Stephen Jay Gould’s first macroevolutionary synthesis.Max W. Dresow - 2017 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 39 (2).
    Few of Stephen Jay Gould’s accomplishments in evolutionary biology have received more attention than his hierarchical theory of evolution, which postulates a causal discontinuity between micro- and macroevolutionary events. But Gould’s hierarchical theory was his second attempt to supply a theoretical framework for macroevolutionary studies—and one he did not inaugurate until the mid-1970s. In this paper, I examine Gould’s first attempt: a proposed fusion of theoretical morphology, multivariate biometry and the experimental study of adaptation in fossils. This early “macroevolutionary synthesis” (...)
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    Biased, Spasmodic, and Ridiculously Incomplete: Sequence Stratigraphy and the Emergence of a New Approach to Stratigraphic Complexity in Paleobiology, 1973–1995.Max Dresow - 2023 - Journal of the History of Biology 56 (3):419-454.
    This paper examines the emergence of a new approach to stratigraphic complexity, first in geology and then, following its creative appropriation, in paleobiology. The approach was associated with a set of models that together transformed stratigraphic geology in the decades following 1970. These included the influential models of depositional sequences developed by Peter Vail and others at Exxon. Transposed into paleobiology, they gave researchers new resources for studying the incompleteness of the fossil record and for removing biases imposed by the (...)
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    Macroevolution evolving: Punctuated equilibria and the roots of Stephen Jay Gould's second macroevolutionary synthesis.Max Dresow - 2019 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 75:15-23.
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    Gould’s laws: a second perspective.Max Dresow - 2019 - Biology and Philosophy 34 (5):46.
    In a recent paper, Chris Haufe paints a provocative portrait of the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. His principal aim is to resolve a “paradox” arising from a prima facie inconsistent pair of commitments: Gould believed that the biological facts could have been otherwise, and Gould believed that there are evolutionary laws. In order to resolve this paradox, Haufe makes two substantive claims: Gould was aware of the challenges that the Replay Thesis posed for a law-centered science of evolution, even (...)
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    Uniformitarianism Re-Examined, or the Present is the Key to the Past, Except When It Isn’t (And Even Then It Kind of Is).Max Dresow - 2023 - Perspectives on Science 31 (4):405-436.
    Perhaps no term in the geological lexicon excites more passions than uniformitarianism, whose motto is “the present is the key to the past.” The term is controversial in part because it contains several meanings, which have been implicated in creating a situation of “semantic chaos” in the geological literature. Yet I argue that debates about uniformitarianism do not arise from a simple chaos of meanings. Instead, they arise from legitimate disagreements about substantive questions. This paper examines these questions and relates (...)
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    The Interdisciplinary Entanglement of Characterization and Explanation.Max Walter Dresow & Alan Love - forthcoming - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
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    Catherine Kendig, ed. Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. xx+247. $153.00.Max Dresow & Alan C. Love - 2018 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8 (1):217-222.
    Nobody wants unnatural kinds. Just as we prefer all natural ingredients in our food, so also we prefer natural kinds in our ontology and epistemology. Philosophers contrast natural with merely “conventional” kinds, and scientists advocate for natural rather than artificial classification systems. A central plank of the desired naturalness is “mind independence”—the property of existing independent of human interests and desires. Natural kinds are discovered, not made. They reflect the structure of the world (“nature’s joints”) and for this reason justify (...)
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    Correction to: Teleonomy: Revisiting a Proposed Conceptual Replacement for Teleology.Max Dresow & Alan C. Love - forthcoming - Biological Theory:1-1.
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    Tales from the extinction imaginary: David Sepkoski: Catastrophic thinking: extinction and the value of diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2019, 360 pp, $35.00.Max Dresow - 2021 - Metascience 30 (3):437-440.
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    The world view of a biologist: Nicholas P. Money The selfish ape: human nature and our path to extinction. London: Reaktion Books, 2019, 152 pp, £ 14.99.Max W. Dresow - 2020 - Metascience 29 (2):275-277.
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    How fossils become specimens.Max Dresow - 2023 - Metascience 32 (2):181-184.
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    Luck versus Cunning: Denis M. Walsh: Organisms, agency and evolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, ix+279pp, £64.99 HB.Max Dresow - 2017 - Metascience 27 (1):79-82.
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    Models in ecology: ubiquitous, idealized, useful: Jay Odenbaugh: Ecological models. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 75 pp, $18.00 PB.Max Dresow & Daniel Stanton - 2020 - Metascience 29 (3):409-412.
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    Gesammelte Aufsätze Zur Religionssoziologie.Max Weber - 2018 - Wentworth Press.
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain (...)
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  20. Models and metaphors.Max Black - 1962 - Ithaca, N.Y.,: Cornell University Press.
    Author Max Black argues that language should conform to the discovered regularities of experience it is radically mistaken to assume that the conception of language is a mirror of reality.
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    Models and metaphors.Max Black - 1962 - Ithaca, N.Y.,: Cornell University Press.
    Author Max Black argues that language should conform to the discovered regularities of experience it is radically mistaken to assume that the conception of language is a mirror of reality.
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    Wirtschaft Und Gesellschaft.Max Weber - 1976 - Mohr Siebeck.
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps, and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may (...)
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  23. Science as a vocation.Max Weber - unknown
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    Dialectic of enlightenment: philosophical fragments.Max Horkheimer - 2002 - Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Edited by Theodor W. Adorno & Gunzelin Schmid Noerr.
    Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking into a new kind of barbarism." Yet the work goes far beyond a mere critique of (...)
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  25. The Myth of the Intuitive.Max Deutsch - 2015 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
    This book is a defense of the methods of analytic philosophy against a recent empirical challenge to the soundness of those methods. The challenge is raised by practitioners of “experimental philosophy” and concerns the extent to which analytic philosophy relies on intuition—in particular, the extent to which analytic philosophers treat intuitions as evidence in arguing for philosophical conclusions. Experimental philosophers say that analytic philosophers place a great deal of evidential weight on people’s intuitions about hypothetical cases and thought experiments. This (...)
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  26. Politics as a vocation.Max Weber - unknown
  27. Speaker’s reference, stipulation, and a dilemma for conceptual engineers.Max Deutsch - 2020 - Philosophical Studies 177 (12):3935-3957.
    Advocates of conceptual engineering as a method of philosophy face a dilemma: either they are ignorant of how conceptual engineering can be implemented, or else it is trivial to implement but of very little value, representing no new or especially fruitful method of philosophizing. Two key distinctions frame this dilemma and explain its two horns. First, the distinction between speaker’s meaning and reference and semantic meaning and reference reveals a severe implementation problem for one construal of conceptual engineering. Second, the (...)
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  28. The Religion of China, Confucianism and Taoism.Max Weber & Hans H. Gerth - 1953 - Philosophy 28 (105):187-189.
     
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  29. The Sociology of Religion.Max Weber & Ephraim Fischoff - 1963 - Philosophy 41 (158):363-365.
     
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  30. Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Wissenschaftslehre.Max Weber - 1924 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 98:151-152.
     
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    Die "Objektivität" sozialwissenschaftlicher und sozialpolitischer Erkenntnis.Max Weber - 1995
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    Gesammelte Aufsätze Zur Wissenschaftslehre.Max Weber - 1988 - J.C.B. Mohr.
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps, and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may (...)
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  33. Experimental philosophy and the theory of reference.Max Deutsch - 2009 - Mind and Language 24 (4):445-466.
    It is argued on a variety of grounds that recent results in 'experimental philosophy of language', which appear to show that there are significant cross-cultural differences in intuitions about the reference of proper names, do not pose a threat to a more traditional mode of philosophizing about reference. Some of these same grounds justify a complaint about experimental philosophy as a whole.
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  34. Intuitions, counter-examples, and experimental philosophy.Max Deutsch - 2010 - Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1 (3):447-460.
    Practitioners of the new ‘experimental philosophy’ have collected data that appear to show that some philosophical intuitions are culturally variable. Many experimental philosophers take this to pose a problem for a more traditional, ‘armchair’ style of philosophizing. It is argued that this is a mistake that derives from a false assumption about the character of philosophical methods; neither philosophy nor its methods have anything to fear from cultural variability in philosophical intuitions.
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    The Philosophy of Transhumanism.Max More - 2013 - In Max More & Natasha Vita‐More (eds.), The Transhumanist Reader. Oxford: Wiley. pp. 3–17.
    To write of “the” philosophy of transhumanism is a little daring. The growth of transhumanism as a movement and philosophy means that differing perspectives on it have formed.
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  36. Laws of organization in perceptual forms.Max Wertheimer - 1923 - Psycologische Forschung 4:301-350.
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    Still the same dilemma for conceptual engineers: reply to Koch.Max Deutsch - 2021 - Philosophical Studies 178 (11):3659-3670.
    Steffen Koch raises several objections to my critique of conceptual engineering. Here, I reply to these objections, arguing that Koch fails to adequately defend the “standard rationale” for conceptual engineering, and that the dilemma I have posed for “conceptual re-engineering”, a dilemma that presents this practice as either infeasible or else trivial, survives Koch’s objections unscathed. I conclude that conceptual engineering, both in terms of its conception and rationale, remains problematic.
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  38. On truth.Max Wertheimer - 1934 - Social Research: An International Quarterly 1 (2):135-146.
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    The Rational and Social Foundations of Music.Max Weber - 1958 - [Carbondale]Southern Illinois University Press.
  40. Gestalt theory.Max Wertheimer - 1944 - In Willis D. Ellis (ed.), Social Research: An International Quarterly. Harcourt, Brace and Co.
  41. Conceptual analysis without concepts.Max Deutsch - 2020 - Synthese 198 (11):11125-11157.
    “Conceptual analysis” is a misnomer—it refers, but it does not refer to a method or practice that involves the analysis of concepts. Once this is recognized, many of the main arguments for skepticism about conceptual analysis can be answered, since many of these arguments falsely assume that conceptual analyses target concepts. The present paper defends conceptual analysis from skepticism about its viability and, positively, presents an argument for viewing conceptual analyses as targeting philosophical phenomena, not our concepts of these phenomena.
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    The Proactionary Principle.Max More - 2013 - In Max More & Natasha Vita‐More (eds.), The Transhumanist Reader. Oxford: Wiley. pp. 258–267.
    In the past, it was possible to approach transhumanism as primarily involving philosophical discussion and technological speculation. While transhumanist goals such as radical life extension, uploading, and cognitive, sensory, and physical enhancement were speculative they were also considered scientifically feasible, even if the technologies to achieve those goals appeared remote.
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  43. Le Savant et le Politique.Max Weber, Julien Freund & Raymond Aron - 1961 - Les Etudes Philosophiques 16 (4):475-476.
     
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  44. Der Sinn der "Wertfreiheit" der soziologischen und ökonomischen Wissenschaften.Max Weber - 1917 - Rivista di Filosofia 7:40.
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    Critique of Stammler.Max Weber - 1977
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    On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization.Max Wertheimer - 2012 - MIT Press.
    Two seminal articles by a founder of the Gestalt school of psychology, newly translated and accompanied by essays that connect his work to current research.
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    A Letter to Mother Nature.Max More - 2013 - In Max More & Natasha Vita‐More (eds.), The Transhumanist Reader. Oxford: Wiley. pp. 449–450.
    Dear Mother Nature: Sorry to disturb you, but we humans – your offspring – come to you with some things to say. (Perhaps you could pass this on to Father, since we never seem to see him around.).
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    The Method of Cases Unbound.Max Deutsch - 2020 - Analysis 80 (4):758-771.
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  49. Gestalt Theory,[Über Gestalttheorie], an address before the Kant Society, Berlin, 7th December 1924'.Max Wertheimer - 1938 - In Willis D. Ellis (ed.), Source Book of Gestalt Psychology. Harcourt, Brace and Co.
     
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    Replies to commentators.Max Deutsch - 2017 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 60 (4):420-442.
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