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Ron Amundson's Degrees

PhD Philosophy University of California, San Diego
Masters Philosophy University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Philosophy University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Ronald Amundson is an American philosopher currently Professor Emeritus at University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, retired since 2012, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Ron Amundson's Published Works

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Function without purpose (1994) (226)
Evolutionary Developmental Biology (2009) (208)
Two Concepts of Constraint: Adaptationism and the Challenge from Developmental Biology (1994) (203)
Against Normal Function (2000) (197)
Typology Reconsidered: Two Doctrines on the History of Evolutionary Biology (1998) (87)
Disability, handicap, and the environment. (1992) (79)
E. C. Tolman and the Intervening Variable: A Study in the Epistemological History of Psychology (1983) (74)
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: References (2005) (72)
Quality of Life and Human Difference: Disability, Ideology, and Quality of Life: A Bias in Biomedical Ethics (2005) (71)
Adaptationism and Optimality: Adaptation and Development: On the Lack of Common Ground (2001) (66)
Clark Hull, Robert Cummins, and Functional Analysis (1984) (58)
Quality of Life, Disability, and Hedonic Psychology (2010) (49)
Reviews-Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology (1998) (48)
On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse (2008) (36)
Psychology and epistemology: The place versus response controversy (1985) (31)
On a bioethical challenge to disability rights. (2007) (25)
Bioethics and Disability Rights: Conflicting Values and Perspectives (2008) (23)
Knowledge or Certainty? A Reply to Cziko (1990) (21)
Our Lives and Ideologies (2005) (20)
Embryology and evolution 1920-1960: worlds apart? (2000) (19)
Phylogenic Reconstruction Then and Now (2002) (17)
The unknown epistemology of E. C. Tolman (1986) (16)
A Wholesome Horror: The Stigmas of Leprosy in 19th Century Hawaii (2010) (15)
EvoDevo as Cognitive Psychology (2006) (12)
The epistemological status of a naturalized epistemology (1983) (9)
The Uses ofCausal Role Function in EvolutionaryBiology (1994) (9)
On the Threats That Do Not Face Educational Research (1992) (9)
Doctor Dennett and Doctor Pangloss: Perfection and selection in biology and psychology (1990) (7)
Why don’t you write about something more interesting, Lisa? (2008) (7)
Science, Ethnoscience, and Ethnocentrism (1982) (7)
Disability Rights: Do We Really Mean It? (2009) (5)
Charles Darwin's reputation: how it changed during the twentieth-century and how it may change again. (2014) (5)
Whose Security is Important? Communicating Environmental Risk About Soil to a Diverse Audience (2017) (4)
Homology and Homoplasy: A Philosophical Perspective (2012) (4)
Subjective and Objective Knowledge: Persistent Puzzles (2016) (4)
The Effect of Life Experience on the Perceived Morality of the Policy of Physician-Assisted Suicide (2005) (3)
Sanford and Garibaldi (2013) (3)
Development and Evolution (2008) (3)
On the plurality of psychological naturalisms: A response to ringen☆ (1993) (3)
An Alternative Synthesis (2007) (3)
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Introduction (2005) (2)
Logical adaptationism (1988) (2)
The Minority Body by Elizabeth Barnes (review) (2017) (1)
Darwins for everyone (2005) (1)
Review. Monad to man: the concept of progress in evolutionary biology. Michael Ruse (1998) (1)
/ Dennett : The intentional stance Open Peer (2013) (1)
Richard Owen and Animal Form (2019) (1)
Holier than Thou: Stigma and the Kokuas of the Kalaupapa Settlement (2014) (1)
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Interlude (2005) (0)
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: The Invention of Heredity (2005) (0)
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Owen and Darwin, The Archetype and the Ancestor (2005) (0)
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: The Origins of Morphology, the Science of Form (2005) (0)
Form and Function in Evo-Devo (2021) (0)
On Scientific Thinking (1983) (0)
How to be naturalistic: Garrett, Graham, and Fodor on psychology (1988) (0)
Pain, Chronic Pain, and Sickle Cell Chronic Pain (2013) (0)
Book Review:Dictionary of Concepts in the Philosophy of Science Paul T. Durbin (1990) (0)
George W. Smalley: Forty Years A Foreign Correspondent (review) (2013) (0)
We encourage comments and feedback. Please direct any ideas to the Chair of the Executive Committee. (2006) (0)
Description of Plate I. (2007) (0)
S.OIL (2018) (0)
Systematics and the Birth of the Natural System (2005) (0)
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Evolutionary Morphology: The First Generation of Evolutionists (2005) (0)
The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Structuralist Reactions to the Synthesis (2005) (0)
Recent Debates and the Continuing Tension (2005) (0)

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