Sandra Mitchell
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American historian and philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sandra D. Mitchell is an American philosopher of science and historian of ideas. She holds the position of distinguished professor in the department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, the top rated school in the world for the subject according to the 2011 Philosophical Gourmet Report. Her research focuses on the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of social science, and connections between the two.
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- Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity, and Policy (2009) (357)
- Dimensions of Scientific Law (2000) (207)
- Integrative Pluralism (2002) (187)
- Self-organization and the evolution of division of labor (1998) (115)
- Human By Nature : Between Biology and the Social Sciences (1998) (94)
- Competing Units of Selection?: A Case of Symbiosis (1987) (83)
- Pragmatic Laws (1997) (79)
- Integration without Unification: An Argument for Pluralism in the Biological Sciences (2006) (69)
- Function, fitness and disposition (1995) (62)
- Multilevel Research Strategies and Biological Systems (2014) (55)
- Self Organization and Adaptation in Insect Societies (1990) (55)
- Emergence: logical, functional and dynamical (2012) (51)
- Ceteris Paribus — An Inadequate Representation For Biological Contingency (2002) (50)
- Dispositions or Etiologies? A Comment On Bigelow and Pargetter (1993) (43)
- On pluralism and competition in evolutionary explanations (1992) (37)
- The Life of a Leaf (2013) (27)
- After Fifty Years, Why Are Protein X-ray Crystallographers Still in Business? (2015) (24)
- The causal background of functional explanation (1989) (24)
- Modularity—More Than a Buzzword? (2006) (23)
- Exporting Causal Knowledge in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology (2008) (23)
- The whys and hows of interdisciplinarity (1997) (18)
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Complexity and Explanation in the Social Sciences (2009) (17)
- The Superorganism Metaphor: Then and Now (1995) (16)
- Perspectives, Representation, and Integration (2019) (9)
- Complex, historical, self-reflexive: Expect the unexpected! (2009) (5)
- Through the Fractured Looking Glass (2020) (5)
- The Import of Uncertainty (2000) (5)
- Rough Waters between genes and culture: An anthropological and philosophical view on coevolution (1994) (4)
- Can Sociobiology Adapt to Cultural Selection? (1986) (4)
- Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology. (2013) (2)
- PSA 2002 : proceedings of the 2002 biennial meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association (2002) (2)
- Between Biology and the Social Sciences (2006) (1)
- Bees as superorganisms: An evolutionary reality: by R.F.A. Moritz and E.E. Southwick, Springer-Verlag, 1992. DM 188.00 hbk (xvi + 395 pages) ISBN 3 540 548211 (1993) (1)
- 5. Policy: How we act in the world (2019) (1)
- Symposium: Are There Laws in Biology? (1997) (1)
- Modes of Explanation: Complex Phenomena (2014) (1)
- Anthropomorphism: Cross-Species Modeling (2001) (1)
- 6. Integrative pluralism (2019) (1)
- Why integrative pluralism?* Œ Emergence: Complexity and Organization (2020) (1)
- Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism: Dynamic Complexity (2003) (1)
- GMOs and Policy in a Complex, Diverse World (2011) (1)
- 20. The Import of Uncertainty (2009) (0)
- Complex Systems, Trade‐Offs, and Theoretical Population Biology: Richard Levin's “Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology” Revisited (2004) (0)
- The Units of Behavior in Evolutionary Explanations (2021) (0)
- Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism: Pluralism or Disunity (2003) (0)
- All About Eve : Bias in Evolutionary Explanations of Women ’ s Sexuality 1 (2002) (0)
- Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism: Constitutive Complexity (2003) (0)
- Edexcel 360 Science. Teacher pack : for GCSE biology, chemistry and physics (2006) (0)
- Chapter 7: The etiological theory (2001) (0)
- The paradigm shift, in perspective (2016) (0)
- Titles and abstracts for the Pitt-London Workshop in the Philosophy of Biology and Neuroscience: September 2001 (2001) (0)
- The Hazards of Reductionism (2013) (0)
- Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism: References (2003) (0)
- Emergence: logical, functional and dynamical (2010) (0)
- Modes of Explanation (2014) (0)
- Instrumental Perspectivism: Is AI Machine Learning Technology Like NMR Spectroscopy? (2019) (0)
- 2. Complexities of organization: How we think about the world (2019) (0)
- MPIfG Working Paper MPIfG Working Paper 09/15 Sandra Mitchell and Wolfgang Streeck Complex, Historical, Self-reflexive: Expect the Unexpected! (2009) (0)
- Function , Fitness and Disposition 1 (2004) (0)
- Preface (2003) (0)
- 4: The Bearable Thinness of Being: A Pragmatist Metaphysics of Affordances (2022) (0)
- Session 2: Female Orgasms and Evolutionary Theory (2002) (0)
- Vittorio Hösle;Christian Illies (Editors).Darwinism and Philosophy.392 pp., figs., table, bibls., index. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. $70 (cloth); $35 (paper). (2007) (0)
- How Evidence Gets Deformed (2020) (0)
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