Robert T. Pennock

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Robert T. Pennock

Philosophy

#215

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#520

Historical Rank

#101

USA Rank

Logic

#588

World Rank

#1055

Historical Rank

#227

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Bachelors Philosophy University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Robert T. Pennock is a philosopher working on the Avida digital organism project at Michigan State University where he has been full professor since 2000. Pennock was a witness in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, testifying on behalf of the plaintiffs, and described how intelligent design is an updated form of creationism and not science, pointing out that the arguments were essentially the same as traditional creationist arguments with adjustments to the message to eliminate explicit mention of God and the Bible as well as adopting a postmodern deconstructionist language. Pennock also laid out the philosophical history of methodological and philosophical naturalism as they underpin to science, and explained that if intelligent design were truly embraced it would return Western civilization to a pre-Enlightenment state.

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Robert T. Pennock's Published Works

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Published Works

The evolutionary origin of complex features (2003) (714)
Evolving coordinated quadruped gaits with the HyperNEAT generative encoding (2009) (204)
The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities (2018) (191)
Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism (1999) (183)
On the Performance of Indirect Encoding Across the Continuum of Regularity (2011) (157)
Naturalism, evidence and creationism: The case of Phillip Johnson (1996) (74)
Can’t philosophers tell the difference between science and religion?: Demarcation revisited (2009) (71)
Creationism and intelligent design. (2003) (65)
The sensitivity of HyperNEAT to different geometric representations of a problem (2009) (60)
Intelligent design creationism and its critics : philosophical, theologocal, and scientific perspectives (2001) (56)
Models, simulations, instantiations, and evidence: the case of digital evolution (2007) (49)
Should Creationism be Taught in the Public Schools? (2002) (43)
Moral Darwinism: Ethical evidence for the descent of man (1995) (41)
Developing a Scientific Virtue-Based Approach to Science Ethics Training (2016) (40)
Using Avida-ED for Teaching and Learning About Evolution in Undergraduate Introductory Biology Courses (2009) (39)
How a Generative Encoding Fares as Problem-Regularity Decreases (2008) (35)
HybrID: A Hybridization of Indirect and Direct Encodings for Evolutionary Computation (2009) (35)
Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting: evidence from digital evolution for difficult-to-test aspects of inclusive fitness theory (2011) (33)
The evolutionary origin of complex (2003) (29)
The Postmodern Sin of Intelligent Design Creationism (2010) (28)
LEARNING EVOLUTION AND THE NATURE OF SCIENCE USING EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL LIFE (2007) (25)
Investigating the Emergence of Phenotypic Plasticity in Evolving Digital Organisms (2007) (22)
Early Evolution of Memory Usage in Digital Organisms (2010) (21)
Ontogeny Tends to Recapitulate Phylogeny in Digital Organisms (2012) (20)
Negotiating boundaries in the definition of life: Wittgensteinian and Darwinian insights on resolving conceptual border conflicts (2012) (19)
Kin-Selection : The Rise and Fall of Kin-Cheaters (2004) (19)
An Instinct for Truth: Curiosity and the Moral Character of Science (2019) (15)
A New Method for a Virtue-Based Responsible Conduct of Research Curriculum: Pilot Test Results (2019) (13)
An Instinct for Truth (2019) (12)
An Avida-ED digital evolution curriculum for undergraduate biology (2016) (12)
DNA by Design (2004) (11)
Fostering a Culture of Scientific Integrity: Legalistic vs. Scientific Virtue-Based Approaches (2015) (10)
Clever creatures: Case studies of evolved digital organisms (2011) (9)
On the evolution of motility and intelligent tactic response (2008) (9)
A Case Study of the De Novo Evolution of a Complex Odometric Behavior in Digital Organisms (2013) (9)
Can Darwinian Mechanisms Make Novel Discoveries?: Learning from discoveries made by evolving neural networks (2000) (9)
Cockroaches, drunkards, and climbers: Modeling the evolution of simple movement strategies using digital organisms (2009) (7)
Inappropriate authorship in collaborative science research. (1996) (7)
Exploring the Relationship between Experiences with Digital Evolution and Students' Scientific Understanding and Acceptance of Evolution (2018) (6)
Evolving artificial neural networks with generative encodings inspired by developmental biology (2010) (5)
Modeling Evolution in the Classroom: The Case of Fukushima's Mutant Butterflies (2014) (4)
Biology and religion (2007) (4)
Death of the self: changing medical definitions in Japan and the U.S. (1995) (4)
Epistemic and Ontic Theories of Explanation and Confirmation (1995) (3)
The Pre‐modern Sins of Intelligent Design (2008) (3)
Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (2010) (3)
Scientific Integrity and Science Museums (2006) (3)
A digital technology‐based introductory biology course designed for engineering and other non‐life sciences STEM majors (2018) (3)
Reply: Johnson's reason in the balance (1996) (2)
Models of Artificial Life - Herbert Simon and Evolutionary Computation (2010) (2)
Evidential Relevance and the Grue Paradox (1998) (2)
Comparing Human and Automated Evaluation of Open-Ended Student Responses to Questions of Evolution (2016) (2)
Scientists Reflect about Ethics and Trust (2021) (1)
Erratum to:Using Avida-ED for Teaching and Learning About Evolution in Undergraduate Introductory Biology Courses (2009) (1)
Getting a Handle on the Holidays. (1991) (1)
Evolution--Once More, with Feeling (2007) (1)
Should Students Be Able to Opt Out of Evolution? Some Philosophical Considerations (2010) (1)
Bayesianism, Ravens, and Evidential Relevance (2004) (1)
Whose God? What Science?: Reply to Michael Behe (2001) (1)
Explaining Explanation. David-Hillel Ruben (1994) (1)
Evolution and Computing (2013) (0)
The Trouble with Science.Robin Dunbar (1998) (0)
The Influence of Instructor Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge on Implementation and Student Affective Outcomes (2020) (0)
Avida-ED Lab Book (2019) (0)
Exploring the Introduction of Genetic Variation by Random Mutation: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 1 (2020) (0)
Scientific Integrity and the Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design Creationism (2016) (0)
Bringing Multiculturalism to a Unicultural School. (1993) (0)
Beyond research ethics (2018) (0)
Avida-ED: An artificial life platform for teaching evolutionary principles and the nature of science (2015) (0)
Managing the Megaschool. (1991) (0)
Chapter 14. Evolution and Computing (2016) (0)
Book Review:The Social Ecology of Religion. Vernon Reynolds, Ralph Tanner (1996) (0)
Scientific Values and Character Virtues (2016) (0)
A New Method for a Virtue-Based Responsible Conduct of Research Curriculum: Pilot Test Results (2018) (0)
fitness theory from digital evolution for difficult-to-test aspects of inclusive Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting : evidence (2010) (0)
Epistemic and Ontic Explanation and Confirmation (1995) (0)
An Avida-ED digital evolution curriculum for undergraduate biology (2016) (0)
Bowler on science and religion (2003) (0)
Erratum: Creationism and intelligent design (Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics 4 (150)) (2004) (0)
Avida-ED Experimental Evolution Project (2020) (0)
How generative encodings fare on less regular problems (2008) (0)
The Evolution of the Scientific Virtues Toolbox Approach to Responsible Conduct of Research Training (2020) (0)
Developing a Scientific Virtue-Based Approach to Science Ethics Training (2016) (0)
VIII.8. Evolution and Computing (2013) (0)
Exploring Fitness and Population Change under Selection: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 3 (2020) (0)
Exploring Random Mutation and Selection: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 2 (2020) (0)
Exploring Population Change without Selection: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 4 (2020) (0)
Wendy Wagner;, Rena Steinzor (Editors).Rescuing Science from Politics: Regulation and the Distortion of Scientific Research. xxiii + 304 pp., illus., table, index. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $88.95 (cloth). (2009) (0)
Studying Scientific Virtues (2021) (0)
Are Pre-existing Condition Exclusion Clauses Just?: Lessons from Causal and Ethical Considerations Regarding Genetic Testing (2012) (0)
Avida-ED Lab Book Summer 2017 (2017) (0)
Negotiating boundaries in the definition of life: Wittgensteinian and Darwinian insights on resolving conceptual border conflicts (2011) (0)
Pre-existing conditions: genetic testing, causation, and the justice of medical insurance (2008) (0)
A Bridgewater Treatise for the 21st Century (2003) (0)

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