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Michael Ruse and His Fifteen Years of Booknotes – For Better or for Worse

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In this paper I trace Michael Ruse's Booknotes from the first volumeof Biology and Philosophy in 1986 to the present. I deal withboth the style and the content of these booknotes. Ruse paid specialattention to authors outside of the traditional English axis as wellas to feminist writers. He complained that too much attention wasbeing paid to certain topics (e.g., evolutionary ethics, evolutionaryepistemology, the species problem and reduction) while other, moreimportant topics were all but ignored (e.g., natural selection,population genetics, levels of selection and extraterrestrial life).He also dealt with the Darwin Industry. Creationism, his love-haterelationships with several authors and his undiluted love of CharlesDickens.

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Hull, D.L. Michael Ruse and His Fifteen Years of Booknotes – For Better or for Worse. Biology & Philosophy 16, 423–435 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010691630774

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