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PUBLICATIONS (reprints available upon request; the pdf links below will be active in the near future)

 

Journal Articles

Hüttemann, A. and A.C. Love (2011) “Aspects of Reductive Explanation in Biological Science: Intrinsicality, Fundamentality, and Temporality”, The British Journal for Philosophy of Science. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Brigandt, I. and A.C. Love (2010) “Evolutionary Novelty and the Evo-devo Synthesis: Field Notes”, Evolutionary Biology 37: 93–99. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2010) “Darwin’s ‘Imaginary Illustrations’: Creatively Teaching Evolutionary Concepts and the Nature of Science”, The American Biology Teacher 72: 82–89. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2010) “Idealization in Evolutionary Developmental Investigation: A Tension Between Phenotypic Plasticity and Normal Stages”, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 679–690. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2009) “Marine Invertebrates, Model Organisms, and the Modern Synthesis: Epistemic Values, Evo-devo, and Exclusion”, Theory in Biosciences 128: 19–42. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2009) “Typology Reconfigured: From the Metaphysics of Essentialism to the Epistemology of Representation”, Acta Biotheoretica 57:51–75. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2008) “Explaining Evolutionary Innovation and Novelty: Criteria of Adequacy and Multidisciplinary Prerequisites”, Philosophy of Science 75: 874–886. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [pdf]

Love, A.C. (2008) “From Philosophy to Science (to Natural Philosophy): Evolutionary Developmental Perspectives”, The Quarterly Review of Biology 83: 65–76. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2007) “Functional Homology and Homology of Function: Biological Concepts and Philosophical Consequences”, Biology & Philosophy 22: 691–708. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [pdf]

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

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

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2003) “Evolvability, Dispositions, and Intrinsicality”, Philosophy of Science 70: 1015–1027. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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

Love, A.C. (2003) “Evolutionary Morphology, Innovation, and the Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology”, Biology & Philosophy 18: 309–345. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

 

Book Chapters and Related

Love, A.C. (forthcoming) “Material versus Formal Theories in Philosophy of Science: A Methodological Interpretation”, in H. de Regt, S. Okasha, and S. Hartmann (eds), Proceedings of the Second European Philosophy of Science Association Meeting. Berlin: Springer. [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (in press) “Darwin’s Functional Reasoning and Homology”, in M. Wheeler (ed), 150 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Impact on the Humanities and the Social Sciences. San Diego: SDSU Press. [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. and A. Hüttemann (in press) “Comparing Part-whole Explanations in Biology and Physics”, in D. Dieks, W.J. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel, and M. Weber (eds), Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation: New Trends and Old Ones Reconsidered. Berlin: Springer. [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2010) “Rethinking the structure of evolutionary theory for an extended synthesis”, in M. Pigliucci and G. Müller (eds) Evolution—The Extended Synthesis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 403–441. [preprint pdf]

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. [preprint pdf]

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. [preprint pdf]

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?”, Metascience 17:1–26. (Review symposium of Alexander Rosenberg’s Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology [2006].) [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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

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

 

Book Reviews

Love, A.C. (forthcoming) “The Allure of Perennial Questions in Biology: Temporary Excitement or Substantive Advance?” (A Review of Form and Function in Developmental Evolution edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein, [2009]), Metascience. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (in press) “Walking in Darwin’s Galápagos Shoes” (A Review of Darwin in Galápagos: Footsteps to a New World by K. Thalia Grant and Gregory B. Estes, [2009]), Metascience. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

Love, A.C. (2008) “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 62: 155–157. [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]

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. [journal pdf] [preprint pdf]


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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