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Ingo Brigandt

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Epistemology

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Metaphysics

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Logic

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According to Wikipedia, Ingo Brigandt is a German Canadian philosopher and Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Biology at the University of Alberta. He is an executive editor of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy and an associate editor of Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. Brigandt has held various grants and fellowships from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, and the University of Alberta.

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When Traditional Essentialism Fails: Biological Natural Kinds (2007) (169)
Beyond Reduction and Pluralism: Toward an Epistemology of Explanatory Integration in Biology (2010) (141)
Typology now: homology and developmental constraints explain evolvability (2007) (130)
Homology in comparative, molecular, and evolutionary developmental biology: the radiation of a concept. (2003) (127)
Conceptualizing evolutionary novelty: moving beyond definitional debates. (2012) (125)
Natural Kinds in Evolution and Systematics: Metaphysical and Epistemological Considerations (2009) (114)
The epistemic goal of a concept: accounting for the rationality of semantic change and variation (2010) (108)
The importance of homology for biology and philosophy (2007) (92)
Systems Biology and the Integration of Mechanistic Explanation and Mathematical Explanation (2013) (86)
Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims (2013) (83)
Species Pluralism Does Not Imply Species Eliminativism (2003) (79)
Evolutionary Novelty and the Evo-Devo Synthesis: Field Notes (2010) (63)
Homology and the origin of correspondence (2002) (60)
Multilevel Research Strategies and Biological Systems (2014) (55)
Network analyses in systems biology: new strategies for dealing with biological complexity (2018) (54)
Homology: Homeostatic Property Cluster Kinds in Systematics and Evolution (2009) (51)
Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation (2015) (43)
“The Instinct Concept of the Early Konrad Lorenz” (2005) (43)
Integration in biology: Philosophical perspectives on the dynamics of interdisciplinarity. (2013) (37)
Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science (2011) (35)
Natural kinds and concepts: A pragmatist and methodologically naturalistic account (2011) (34)
The Dynamics of Scientific Concepts: The Relevance of Epistemic Aims and Values (2012) (33)
Scientific Reasoning Is Material Inference: Combining Confirmation, Discovery, and Explanation (2010) (33)
From Developmental Constraint to Evolvability: How Concepts Figure in Explanation and Disciplinary Identity (2015) (33)
Homology and heterochrony: the evolutionary embryologist Gavin Rylands de Beer (1899-1972). (2006) (28)
Social values influence the adequacy conditions of scientific theories: beyond inductive risk (2015) (26)
Why the Difference Between Explanation and Argument Matters to Science Education (2016) (26)
Reductionism in Biology (2018) (21)
Systems biology and mechanistic explanation (2017) (18)
Strategic Conceptual Engineering for Epistemic and Social Aims (2020) (17)
Intelligent Design and the Nature of Science: Philosophical and Pedagogical Points (2012) (15)
The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought: Roots of evo-devo (2005) (14)
A Theory of Conceptual Advance : Explaining Conceptual Change in Evolutionary, Molecular, and Evolutionary Developmental Biology (2006) (11)
Philosophical dimensions of individuality (2017) (11)
Typology and Natural Kinds in Evo-Devo (2021) (8)
How to Philosophically Tackle Kinds without Talking about “Natural Kinds” (2020) (8)
How Are Biology Concepts Used and Transformed? (2020) (7)
10. Bodily Parts in the Structure- Function Dialectic (2019) (7)
Holism, Concept Individuation, and Conceptual Change (2007) (6)
The Role a Concept Plays in Science - The Case of Homology (2001) (6)
Accounting for Vertebrate Limbs: From Owen’s Homology to Novelty in Evo-Devo (2009) (6)
ELLIOTT SOBER, Evidence and Evolution: The Logic behind the Science. Cambridge: (2011) (5)
Philosophical issues in experimental biology (2006) (4)
Explanation of Molecular Processes without Tracking Mechanism Operation (2018) (4)
Biological Kinds and the Causal Theory of Reference (2007) (3)
Conceptual Role Semantics, the Theory Theory, and Conceptual Change (2004) (3)
:Networks of Networks in Biology: Concepts, Tools and Applications (2022) (3)
Historical and philosophical perspectives on the study of developmental bias (2019) (3)
Roger S. Taylor and Michel Ferrari (eds): Epistemology and Science Education: Understanding the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Controversy (2012) (3)
The Homeopathy of Kin Selection: An Evaluation of van den Berghe's Sociobiological Approach to Ethnic Nepotism (2001) (3)
Do we need a ‘theory’ of development? (2016) (3)
Review: The Mind's Arrows: Bayes Nets and Graphical Causal Models in Psychology by Clark Glymour (2003) (2)
Evolvability as a Disposition: Philosophical Distinctions, Scientific Implications (2021) (2)
AN ALTERNATIVE TO KITCHER'S THEORY OF CONCEPTUAL PROGRESS AND HIS ACCOUNT OF THE CHANGE OF THE GENE CONCEPT (2004) (2)
Roger S. Taylor and Michel Ferrari (eds): Epistemology and Science Education: Understanding the Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Controversy (2011) (2)
Philosophy of Biology (2011) (1)
A Critique of David Chalmers' and Frank Jackson's Account of Concepts (2013) (1)
Being Reduced: New Essays on Reduction, Explanation, and Causation – Jakob Hohwy and Jesper Kallestrup (eds) (2010) (1)
More worry and less love? (2008) (1)
John Tyler Bonner: Remembering a scientific pioneer. (2019) (1)
Conceptual Roles of Evolvability across Evolutionary Biology: Between Diversity and Unification (2021) (1)
Philosophy of Molecular Biology (2018) (0)
Evolution & Development (2019) (0)
Why the Difference Between Explanation and Argument Matters to Science Education (2016) (0)
Do we need a ‘theory’ of development? (2015) (0)
A special issue on The Evolution of Evolution. (2019) (0)
[Review of the book In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries across the Life Sciences, by C.Fraver, & Larden] (2014) (0)
The early theoretical development of Konrad Lorenz The motivating factors behind his instinct concept (2004) (0)
Quantifier elimination in tame infinite p-adic fields (2001) (0)
Engaging with Science, Values, and Society: Introduction (2022) (0)
Carl F. Craver;, Lindley Darden.In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries across the Life Sciences. xxii + 228 pp., illus., index. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. $25 (paper). (2014) (0)
Draft of a contribution to The Continuum Companion to the Philosophy of Science (2010) (0)
Peter Carruthers, The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought . Reviewed by (2008) (0)
The Nature of Scientific Laws by Yang Zhao A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (2018) (0)
Standards, Aims and Values: Biological Explanation and Beyond (2015) (0)
A fierce debate about our picture of evolution (2002) (0)
What Functions Explain (2002) (0)
[Review of the book Causation and Explanation, by Ssillos] (2003) (0)
Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims (2011) (0)
Network analyses in systems biology: new strategies for dealing with biological complexity (2017) (0)
Acknowledgements (2013) (0)
[Review of the book Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection by, Podfrey-Smith] (2011) (0)
Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation and Other Modelling Aims (2016) (0)
[Review of the book Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences, by Maiser] (2016) (0)
Scientific Practice , Conceptual Change , and the Nature of Concepts (2006) (0)
[Review of the book Reductionism in the Philosophy of Science, by Cachse] (2007) (0)
GAVIN RYLANDS DE BEER ( 1899 – 1972 ) 3 (2006) (0)
Critical Notice (2011) (0)
Reference Determination and Conceptual Change (2005) (0)
Review: From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution by Manfred Daubichler; Jane Maienschein (2007) (0)
Accounting for vertebrate limbs: from Owen’s homology to novelty in evo-devo [Review of the book Richard Owen’s On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse, by ed. R. Amundson] (2009) (0)
[Review of the book The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought, by Parruthers] (2008) (0)
Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (2011) (0)
Titles and abstracts for the Pitt-London Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience: September 2001 (2001) (0)
P. Kyle Stanford.Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives.xi + 234 pp., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. $45 (cloth). (2007) (0)
The Linnean Tradition of Classifying Organisms under attack (2002) (0)
DO WE NEED A ‘ THEORY ’ OF DEVELOPMENT ? 3 Diverse aspects of and perspectives on development (2015) (0)
Jason Robert,Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution: Taking Development Seriously. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004), 174 pp., $60.00 (cloth). (2005) (0)
[Review of the book Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution: Taking Development Seriously, by Jobert] (2005) (0)
Book Review (2003) (0)

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