In this paper, I go back to Bas van Fraassen's seminal discussion of perspectivity in the
context of scientific representation as a springboard for distinguishing between two possible …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

The paper works towards an account of explanatory integration in biology, using as a case
study explanations of the evolutionary origin of novelties—a problem requiring the …

The recent sequencing of the complete genome of the peach, together with the availability of
new high-throughput genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome analysis …

Ethnographic analogy, the use of comparative data from anthropology to inform
reconstructions of past human societies, has a troubled history. Archaeologists often express …

This essay analyzes and develops recent views about explanation in biology. Philosophers
of biology have parted with the received deductive-nomological model of scientific …

Many biological investigations are organized around a small group of species, often referred
to as 'model organisms', such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The terms 'model'and …

The evolutionary origin of teeth from dermal denticles (odontodes) that developed in the
mouth cavity, designated as outside‐in hypothesis, has long been undisputed. The outside …

In this chapter we introduce the notion of a natural classification and the role classification
plays in sciences. We consider the difference between taxonomy and systematics, and …

This article aims to build a bridge between two areas of philosophical research: the structure
of kinds and metaphysical modality. Our central thesis is that kinds typically involve super …