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PUBLICATIONS

 

Journal Articles

Love, A.C. (forthcoming) “Explaining Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty: Criteria of Adequacy and Multidisciplinary Prerequisites”, Philosophy of Science.

Love, A.C. (forthcoming) “Typology Reconfigured: From the Metaphysics of Essentialism to the Epistemology of Representation”, Acta Biotheoretica.

Love, A.C., A.E. Lee, M.E. Andrews, and R.A. Raff (2008) “Co-option and Dissociation in Larval Origins and Evolution: The Sea Urchin Larval Gut”, Evolution & Development 10: 74-88

Love, A.C. (2008) “From Philosophy to Science (to Natural Philosophy): Evolutionary Developmental Perspectives”, The Quarterly Review of Biology 83: 65-76.

Love, A.C. (2007) “Functional Homology and Homology of Function: Biological Concepts and Philosophical Consequences”, Biology and Philosophy 22: 691-708.

Love, A.C., M.E. Andrews, R.A. Raff (2007) “Gene Expression Patterns in a Novel Animal Appendage: The Sea Urchin Pluteus Arm”, Evolution & Development 9: 51-68.

Love, A.C. (2006) “Evolutionary Morphology and Evo-Devo: Hierarchy and Novelty”, Theory in Biosciences 124: 317-333.

Love, A.C. (2006) “Reflections on the Middle Stages of Evo-devo's Ontogeny”, Biological Theory 1: 94-97.

Love, A.C. and R.A. Raff (2006), “Larval Ectoderm, Organizational Homology, and the Origins of Evolutionary Novelty”, Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 306B: 18-34.

Ingram, E.L., E. Lehman, A.C. Love, and K.M. Polacek (2004) “Fostering Inquiry in Nonlaboratory Settings”, Journal of College Science Teaching 34: 39-43.

Raff, R.A. and A.C. Love (2004) “Kowalevsky, Comparative Evolutionary Embryology, and the Intellectual Lineage of Evo-Devo”, Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 302B: 19-34.

Love, A.C. (2003) “Evolvability, Dispositions, and Intrinsicality”, Philosophy of Science 70: 1015-1027.

Love, A.C. and R.A. Raff (2003) “Knowing Your Ancestors: Themes in the History of Evo-Devo”, Evolution & Development 5: 327-330.

Love, A.C. (2003) “Evolutionary Morphology, Innovation, and the Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology”, Biology and Philosophy 18: 309-345.

Love, A.C. (2002) “Darwin and Cirripedia Prior to 1846: Exploring the Origins of the Barnacle Research”, Journal of the History of Biology 35: 251-289.

 

Book Chapters and Related

Love, A.C. (forthcoming) “The structure of evolutionary theory and biological knowledge”, in G. Müller and M. Pigliucci (eds.) Toward an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Brigandt, I. and A.C. Love (2008) “Reductionism in biology”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reduction-biology/.

Love, A.C. (2008) “Explaining the ontogeny of form: philosophical issues”, in S. Sarkar and A. Plutynski (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 223-247.

Love, A.C. (2007) “Morphological and Paleontological Perspectives for a History of Evo-Devo”, in M. Laubichler and J. Maienschein (eds.) From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 267-307.

Love, A.C. (2002) “Comments on Robert Brandon’s “The difference between drift and selection: A reply to Millstein””, http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/documents/disk0/00/00/08/55/index.html.

 

Essay Review Articles/Symposia

Love, A.C., I. Brigandt, K. Stotz, D. Schweitzer, and A. Rosenberg (2008) “More worry, less love?”, (Review symposium of Alex Rosenberg’s Darwinian reductionism: or, how to stop worrying and love molecular biology [2006]), Metascience 17: 1-26.

Love, A.C. (2006) “Taking Development Seriously: Who, What, Where, Why, When, How?”, Biology and Philosophy 21: 575-589. (Essay Review of Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution: Taking Development Seriously, by Jason Robert, [2004])

Love, A.C. (2005) “The Return of the Embryo”, Biology and Philosophy 20: 567-584. (Essay Review of Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, edited by Brian Hall and Wendy Olson, [2003])

 

Book Reviews

Love, A.C. (forthcoming) “Scientific realism: just out of reach?”, (A Review of Exceeding our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives by P. Kyle Stanford [2006]), Review of Metaphysics.

Love, A.C. (2008) “Revisiting evolutionary foundations”, (A Review of Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology by Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan [2006]), Mind 117: 201-205.

Love, A.C. (2007) “Revolutionary Evo-devo?”, (A Review of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo-devo by Sean Carroll, [2005]), Journal of the History of Biology 40: 594-597.

Love, A.C. (2007) “The hedgehog, the fox, and reductionism in biology”, (A Review of Darwinian reductionism: or, how to stop worrying and love molecular biology by Alexander Rosenberg, [2006]), Evolution 61: 2736-2738.

Love, A.C. (2007) “Putting the pieces together”, (A Review of Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation edited by Brian Hall, [2007]), Science 317: 1502-1503. (Abstract - Full Text)

Love, A.C. (2006) “Looking Beyond Gene Concepts”, (A Review of What Genes Can't Do by Lenny Moss, [2004]), Philosophy of Science 73: 247-250.

Love, A.C. (2006) “Evolvability, Plausibility, and Possibility”, (A Review of The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma by Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart, [2005]), BioScience 56: 772-774.

Love, A.C. (2006) “History, Scientific Methodology, and the ‘Squishy’ Sciences”, (A Review of Science Rules: A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods edited by Peter Achinstein, [2004]), Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 49: 452-456.

Love, A.C. (2005) “Thinking Historically about Embryos and Evolution”, (A Review of The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo by Ron Amundson, [2005]), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=4421

Love, A.C. (2002) “Christianity for Darwinians?” (A Review of Can a Darwinian be a Christian? by Michael Ruse, [2001]), Metascience 11: 115-118.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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