David Hull

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David Hull is affiliated with the following schools: Northwestern University , Indiana University, Northwestern University, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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According to Wikipedia, David Lee Hull was an American philosopher who was most notable for founding the field philosophy of biology. Additionally, Hull is recognized within evolutionary culture studies as contributing heavily in early discussions of the conceptualization of memetics. In addition to his academic prominence, he was well known as a gay man who fought for the rights of other gay and lesbian philosophers. Hull was partnered with Richard "Dick" Wellman, a Chicago school teacher, until Wellman's passing during the drafting of Science as Process.

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Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science, David L. Hull. 1988. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. 608 pages. ISBN: 0-226-35060-4. $39.95 (1989) (1489)
Individuality and Selection (1980) (905)
Are Species Really Individuals (1976) (733)
A Matter of Individuality (1978) (698)
THE EFFECT OF ESSENTIALISM ON TAXONOMY—TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF STASIS (I) * (1965) (469)
Mechanisms and Models (2007) (360)
Philosophy Of Biological Science (1974) (309)
A general account of selection: Biology, immunology, and behavior (2001) (291)
In defence of generalized Darwinism (2008) (289)
In Defense of Presentism (1979) (224)
Universal Darwinism (1995) (219)
Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth. (1977) (210)
The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology (2007) (182)
Renewing the Hunt for Heffalump: Identifying Potential Entrepreneurs by Personality Characteristics (1980) (173)
Darwin and His Critics: The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community (1973) (164)
Central Subjects and Historical Narratives (1975) (158)
THE LIMITS OF CLADISM (1979) (151)
Science and Selection: Essays on Biological Evolution and the Philosophy of Science (2000) (126)
Contemporary Systematic Philosophies (1970) (125)
A mechanism and its metaphysics: An evolutionary account of the social and conceptual development of science (1988) (120)
Planck's Principle (1978) (111)
Helping and Communal Breeding in Birds@@@Science as a Process (1989) (110)
The Metaphysics of Evolution (1967) (109)
How Classification Works Nelson Goodman Among the Social Sciences (1995) (107)
Reduction in Genetics--Biology or Philosophy? (1972) (105)
The Logical Structure of the Linnaean Hierarchy (1966) (101)
CERTAINTY AND CIRCULARITY IN EVOLUTIONARY TAXONOMY (1967) (82)
The spirit of system: Lamarck and evolutionary biology (1977) (81)
The Operational Imperative: Sense and Nonsense in Operationism (1968) (79)
Informal Aspects of Theory Reduction (1974) (76)
Consistency and Monophyly (1964) (69)
At last: Serious consideration (2001) (68)
Altruism in science: A sociobiological model of co-operative behaviour among scientists (1978) (63)
The construction of modern science. Mechanisms and mechanics (1979) (62)
Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences (2002) (62)
Taking memetics seriously: Memetics will be what we make it (2001) (61)
The Ontological Status of Species as Evolutionary Units (1977) (61)
A period of development: A response (1988) (54)
On Human Nature (1980) (52)
What philosophy of biology is not (1969) (49)
The Use and Abuse of Sir Karl Popper (1999) (45)
Selection Theory and Social Construction: The Evolutionary Naturalistic Epistemology of Donald T. Campbell (2001) (42)
Rich man, poor man (1984) (37)
Scientific bandwagon or traveling medicine show? (1978) (36)
Reduction in Genetics (1979) (35)
What the philosophy of biology is : essays dedicated to David Hull (1989) (34)
Darwin’s science and Victorian philosophy of science (2003) (34)
What's Wrong with Invisible-Hand Explanations? (1997) (33)
Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology (1994) (33)
What philosophy of biology is not (1969) (31)
Philosophy and biology (1982) (29)
Kitts and Kitts and Caplan on Species (1981) (29)
The Professionalization of Science Studies: Cutting Some Slack (2000) (28)
THE EFFECT OF ESSENTIALISM ON TAXONOMY—TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF STASIS (II)* (1965) (28)
Reply to Gregg (1969) (27)
Exemplars and Scientific Change (1982) (26)
Ernst Mayr's influence on the history and philosophy of biology: A personal memoir (1994) (25)
Contemporary Logic and Evolutionary Taxonomy: A Reply to Gregg (1969) (25)
Deconstructing Darwin: Evolutionary theory in context (2005) (24)
Common sense and science (1991) (23)
The role of theories in biological systematics (2001) (22)
A Function for Actual Examples in Philosophy of Science (1989) (22)
Recent Philosophy of Biology: A Review (2002) (20)
Chapter 26: Darwinism as a Historical Entity: A Historiographic Proposal (1988) (20)
Species, subspecies, and races (1998) (20)
1. Cladistic Theory: Hypotheses That Blur and Grow (1984) (20)
The God of the Galápagos (1991) (19)
Reductionism (and Antireductionism) in Biology (2007) (19)
Sex and sensibility (1992) (18)
Reduction In Genetics—Doing the Impossible (1973) (16)
In search of epistemological warrant. (2001) (16)
Planck ' s Principle Do younger scientists accept new scientific ideas with greater alacrity than older scientists ? (2005) (15)
A Clash of Paradigms or the Sound of One Hand Clapping (1998) (15)
An evolutionary account of science: A response to Rosenberg's critical notice (1992) (14)
Can Kripke Alone Save Essentialism? A Reply to Kitts (1984) (14)
Metaphysics and common usage (1981) (14)
Philosophy and Phylogenetics: Historical and Current Connections (2007) (13)
On being a scientist. Committee on the Conduct of Science, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. (1989) (13)
The Principles of Biological Classification: The Use and Abuse of Philosophy (1978) (12)
Conceptual Evolution and the Eye of the Octopus (1986) (12)
Reduction and genetics. (1981) (11)
THIRTY-ONE YEARS OF SYSTEMATIC ZOOLOGY (1983) (10)
Historical Narratives and Integrating Explanations (1981) (10)
ARE THE ‘MEMBERS’ OF BIOLOGICAL SPECIES ‘SIMILAR’ TO EACH OTHER? (1974) (9)
Activity anorexia: Biological, behavioral, and neural levels of selection (2001) (9)
Biology in the Nineteenth Century: Problems of Form, Function, and Tranformation. History of Science.William Coleman (1979) (8)
The Logic Behind the Science (2009) (8)
Taking Darwin Seriously. Michael Ruse (1988) (8)
The Essence of Scientific Theories (2006) (8)
Species, Languages and the Comparative Method (2002) (8)
A neural-network interpretation of selection in learning and behavior (2001) (7)
Comments on Beatty (1983) (7)
The History of the Philosophy of Biology (2008) (7)
Nurturing a view of human nature (2002) (6)
A LOGICAL EMPIRICIST LOOKS AT BIOLOGY* (1977) (6)
The ontogeny of phylogeny (1982) (6)
Bias and commitment in science: Phenetics and cladistics (1985) (5)
MORPHOSPECIES AND BIOSPECIES: A REPLY TO RUSE (1970) (5)
Taking vechicles seriously (1994) (5)
The success of science and social norms. (2001) (5)
Ernst Mayr on the Philosophy of Biology: A Review Essay (1990) (5)
Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology (2007) (4)
WORDS ABOUT WORDS ABOUT SPECIES1 (2002) (4)
The Herd as a Means (1980) (4)
Uncle Sam Wants You (1999) (4)
Human Evolution: The Three Grand Challenges of Human Biology (2007) (4)
Particularism in Science (1990) (4)
Varieties of Reductionism: Derivation and Gene Selection (2003) (4)
The Social Responsibility of Professional Societies (2002) (4)
The Triumph of the Darwinian Method (1969) (3)
Farris on Haeckel, History, and Hull (1990) (3)
The Syntax of Numericlature (1968) (3)
Systemic Dynamic Social Theory (1970) (3)
A Populational Approach to Scientific Change. (Book Reviews: Human Understanding. Vol. 1, General Introduction and Part 1, The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts) (1973) (3)
Philosophy of the Life Sciences (2001) (3)
Cladism gets Sorted Out (1980) (3)
Conceptual selection (1990) (2)
Genes, free will and intracranial musings (2000) (2)
Introduction to the Symposium (1973) (2)
Transformed Cladistics, Taxonomy and Evolution (1990) (2)
Philosophy of Natural Science.@@@The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.@@@Galileo: A Philosophical Study. (1975) (2)
Review Symposium : Laurens Laudan. Progress and Its Problems: Toward a Theory of Scientific Growth. Berkeley and Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1977. Pp. x + 257. $10.00. Laudan's Progress and Its Problems (1979) (2)
Book Review:The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science Harry Collins, Trevor Pinch (1995) (2)
The Great Success of a "Foul Book" (2001) (2)
Evolutionists red in tooth and claw (1999) (2)
Natural truths (1994) (2)
A revolutionary philosopher of science (1996) (2)
Book Review:Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Daniel C. Dennett (1996) (2)
The Immune Self: Theory or Metaphor? (1997) (2)
The Non-Darwinian Revolution. Reinterpreting a Historical Myth. Peter . Bowler. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1988. xii, 238 pp., illus. $27.50. (1988) (2)
The evolution of conceptual systems in science (1992) (2)
The Macmillan Guide to Child Health (1985) (1)
Michael Ruse and His Fifteen Years of Booknotes – For Better or for Worse (2001) (1)
Philosophy of reductionism in biology (1975) (1)
Sociobiology: Another New Synthesis (2019) (1)
Professional problems: scientists and journalists. (1987) (1)
Variations and active versus reactive behavior as factors of the selection processes (2001) (1)
The rights of animals. (1976) (1)
Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology (2007) (1)
- 1In Defence of Generalized Darwinism (2011) (1)
Universality and species specificity (1979) (1)
A recent huxley. (1993) (1)
Martha's revenge (1984) (1)
Evolutionary thinking observed: dimensions of darwinism. (1984) (1)
Book Review:Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism Philip Kitcher (1983) (1)
Darwinism and dialectics (1986) (1)
Science and the Modern World View (1994) (0)
Book Reviews : Problems of Scientific Revolution: Progress and Obstacles to Progress in the Sciences. The Herbert Spencer Lectures 1973. Edited by ROM HARRÉ. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. vi + 104. Can. $5.75 (1976) (0)
Book Review:Vaulting Ambition: Sociobiology and the Quest for Human Nature Philip Kitcher (1986) (0)
Reply to Randal and Scott (1969) (0)
Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1772-1844: A Visionary Naturalist (review) (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
The Creative Process in Science and Medicine. Proceedings of the C. H. Boehringer Sohn Symposium Held at Kronberg, Taunus, 16-17 May 1974. Hans A. Krebs , Julian H. Shelley (1976) (0)
Gay Ideas.Richard D. Mohr (1994) (0)
Book Review:The Biology of Moral Systems. Foundations of Human Behavior. Richard D. Alexander (1988) (0)
Book Reviews : Greg Myers, Writing Biology: Texts in the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison,1990. Pp. 304. $37.50 (cloth), $15.75 (paper (1993) (0)
Book Review:Studies in History of Biology. Volume 1. William Coleman, Camille Limoges (1978) (0)
The Logical Structure of the Linnaen Hierarchy (1966) (0)
Book Review:Darwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies Michael Ruse (1983) (0)
Issues and alliances in Victorian paleontology (1984) (0)
The Loical Structure of tke Linnaean Hierarchy (2016) (0)
A BELATED REPLY TO GRUNER (1973) (0)
The real solution to rising health care costs. (1986) (0)
Preface (1992) (0)
The good, the bad and the ugly (1983) (0)
Not Huxley's Student. (1994) (0)
Book Review:Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research. Timothy F. Murphy (1998) (0)
The Use and Abuse of Sir (1999) (0)
A Philosophical Testament. Marjorie Grene (1997) (0)
Book Review:A Rational Animal and Other Philosophical Essays on the Nature of Man Antony Flew (1979) (0)
Book Review:Evolution, Morality, and the Meaning of Life. Jeffrie G. Murphy (1983) (0)
Multiply concurrent replication (2004) (0)
American response to Darwin (1976) (0)
Book Review:The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions Philip Kitcher (1994) (0)
Making Science: Between Nature and Society.Stephen Cole (1993) (0)
Book Review:The Reward System in British and American Science Jerry Gaston (1980) (0)
Book Review:Readings in Sociobiology. T. H. Clutton-Brock, Paul H. Harvey (1978) (0)
Genetics and reductionism: by Sahotra Sarker Cambridge University Press, 1998. £37.50 hardback, £13.95 paperback (x + 246 pages) ISBN 052163146 7 (hbk) 052163713 9 (pbk) (1999) (0)
The Search for Solutions.Horace Freeland Judson (1981) (0)
Book Review:Science, Ideology, and World View. Essays in the History of Evolutionary Ideas. John C. Greene (1982) (0)
Across the chessboard of life (1983) (0)
Book Review: In Darwin's Shadow: The life and science of Alfred Russel Wallace (2003) (0)
Chemistry (1974) (0)
Niche Construction: The Neglected Process in Evolution (review) (2004) (0)
Spring Systematics Symposium Field Museum of Natural History (2016) (0)
11. Leon Croizat: A Radical Biogeographer (2017) (0)
Round Table Discussion 2: Chair – Marc Van Regenmortel (2002) (0)
Conceptual Evolution: A Response (1990) (0)
Activism, scientists and sociobiology (2000) (0)
Round Table Discussion 3: Chair – Kenneth F. Schaffner (2002) (0)
A strange type of addiction (1989) (0)
The human factor (2004) (0)
Milestones in Systematics.Based on a symposium held in London, 3–7 September 2001. The Systematics Association Special Volume Series, Volume 67.Edited byDavid M Williamsand, Peter L Forey.Boca Raton (Florida): CRC Press. $99.95. xvii + 290 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–415–28032‐X. 2004. (2005) (0)
Book Review:Studies in History of Biology. Volume 2. William Coleman, Camille Limoges (1979) (0)
Descent is what matters (1980) (0)
Book Review:Studies in History of Biology 3. William Coleman, Camille Limoges (1980) (0)
CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHIES 4001 (1970) (0)
Book Review:Evolution at a Crossroads: The New Biology and the New Philosophy of Science David J. Depew, Bruce H. Weber (1986) (0)
Book Review:Animal Revolution: Changing Attitudes Towards Speciesism. Richard D. Ryder (1991) (0)
Genetics and Criminal Behavior (Book) (2002) (0)
IV. Teaching Philosophy of Science at a State University (1977) (0)
Philosophical Issues in Systematics (1979) (0)
Steven Rose's alternative to ultra-Darwinism (1999) (0)
Operant learning and selectionism: Risks and benefits of seeking interdisciplinary parallels (2001) (0)
Preface (1994) (0)
Evolutionist. (Book Reviews: The Evolution of Theodosius Dobzhansky. Essays on His Life and Thought in Russia and America.) (1994) (0)
Book Review:The Age of Lamarck: Evolutionary Theories in France 1790-1830. Pietro Corsi, Jonathan Mandelbaum (1989) (0)
Richard M. Burian.The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics: Selected Essays. xiii + 274 pp., bibls., index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. $75 (cloth). (2006) (0)
Preface (1992) (0)
Round Table Discussion 1: Chair – Alex Rosenberg (2002) (0)
Lee Alan Dugatkin.The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness. xi + 188 pp., illus., table, index. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. $24.95 (cloth). (2007) (0)
A Quartet of Volumes on Genetics and Evolution (1987) (0)
Review of Stephen H. Kellert, Helen E. Longino, C. Kenneth waters (eds.), Scientific Pluralism (2008) (0)
Review article (1994) (0)
Synopsis (1980) (0)
Book Review:Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research Into Homosexuality. Simon LeVay (1997) (0)
Tales retold. (1991) (0)
The ascent of ideas in evolution (1997) (0)
Book Review:Teleology Revisited and Other Essays in the Philosophy and History of Science Ernest Nagel (1980) (0)
The essence of sociobiology (1981) (0)
Book Review:The Collected Papers of Charles Darwin Paul H. Barrett (1977) (0)
Happy repitition (1985) (0)
Telling it like it really is (2001) (0)
Limit theorems with weighted averages of random variables (1969) (0)
Book reviews (1976) (0)
Book Review:Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference Elliott Sober (1990) (0)
Not Huxley's Student (1994) (0)
Preface (1994) (0)
Complexity, Design, and Natural Selection (2004) (0)
Consensus Institute Staff (1990) (0)
The sociology of sociobiology. (1978) (0)
Defining Darwinism. (2011) (0)
Book Review:Darwinism. Twayne's Studies in Intellectual and Cultural History. Peter J. Bowler (1994) (0)
Conceptual Issues in Ecology. (1980) (0)
22. Prematurity and Promise: Why Was Stent’s Notion of Prematurity Itself So Premature? (2019) (0)

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