Articles & Chapters

John Dewey, Evolutionary Anthropology, and Comparative Jurisprudence. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 16 (2024): in press.

Protoplasm and the Mind-Body Problem: The Case of Edmund Montgomery. Forthcoming in The Early Years of “Mind”: Making Contemporary Philosophy and Psychology, ed. Lukas M. Verburgt. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Darwinism, Positivism, Materialism, Relativism: Science and Philosophy in the 1860s. Forthcoming in The History and Philosophy of Materialism, ed. Charles T. Wolfe and John Symons. New York: Routledge.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell: Woman’s Rights and Woman’s Evolution. Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Lydia Moland and Alison Stone. New York: Oxford University Press. (link)

James and Evolution. In The Oxford Handbook of William James, ed. Alexander Mugar Klein, 109–133. Oxford University Press, 2024. (PDF)

Grace de Laguna’s Evolutionary Critique of Pragmatism. Australasian Philosophical Review 6, no. 1 (2022): 88–97. (PDF)

Dewey, le darwinisme et la variation dirigée. Trans. Paul Walter. In Penser l’évolution: Nietzsche, Bergson, Dewey, ed. Antoine Daratos & Paul Walter, pp. 141–154. Paris: Vrin, 2019. (PDF)

“Protoplasm Feels”: The Role of Physiology in Peirce’s Evolutionary Metaphysics. HOPOS 8 (2018): 28–61. (PDF)

American Pragmatism, Evolution, and Ethics. In The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics, ed. Michael Ruse and Robert J. Richards, pp. 43–57. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. (PDF)

Naturalism and Despair: George Herbert Mead and Evolution in the 1880s. In The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead, ed. Daniel R. Huebner and Hans Joas, pp. 117–143. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. (PDF)

“Science Organized”: Positivism and the Metaphysical Club, 1865–1875. Journal of the History of Ideas 76 (2015): 441–465. (PDF)

The Dialectical Biologist, circa 1890: John Dewey and the Oxford Hegelians. Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (2014): 747–777. (PDF)

The Origins and Development of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction. In Entangled Life: Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences, ed. Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, and Trevor Pearce, pp. 13–32. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. (PDF)

Puzzles for ZFEL, McShea and Brandon’s Zero Force Evolutionary Law. (With Martin Barrett et al.) Biology & Philosophy 27 (2012): 723–735. (PDF)

Convergence and Parallelism in Evolution – A Neo-Gouldian Account. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 63 (2012): 429–448. (PDF)

Evolution and Constraints on Variation: Variant Specification and Range of Assessment. Philosophy of Science 78 (2011): 739–751. (PDF)

Ecosystem Engineering, Experiment, and Evolution. Biology & Philosophy 26 (2011): 793–812. (PDF)

From ‘Circumstances’ to ‘Environment’: Herbert Spencer and the Origins of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 41 (2010): 241-252. (PDF)

“A Great Complication of Circumstances” – Darwin and the Economy of Nature.” Journal of the History of Biology 43 (2010): 493–528. (PDF)

Biomechanics of Byssal Threads outside the Mytilidae – Atrina rigida and Ctenoides mitis. (With Michael LaBarbera.) Journal of Experimental Biology 212 (2009): 1449–1454. (PDF)

A Comparative Study of the Mechanical Properties of Mytilid Byssal Threads. (With Michael LaBarbera.) Journal of Experimental Biology 212 (2009): 1442–1448. (PDF)

Tonal Functions and Active Synthesis: Hugo Riemann, German Psychology, and Kantian Epistemology. Intégral 22 (2008): 81–116. (PDF)

Simple Mathematical and Computational Wear Model for Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight Polyethylene Total Hip Replacements. (With K.H.S. Chan et al.) Applied Bionics and Biomechanics 4 (2007): 83–88. (PDF) (press)

More than an Analogy: Rudolf Carnap and Theodor Adorno on Music and Philosophy. voiceXchange 2 (2006): 3–11. (PDF)