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| 22. | Phylogenetic Inference (with Matt Haber). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2022 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.) | Online website | Open Access! | |
| 21. | The Use of Race in eGFR: Why Racial Justice Requires Accuracy (with Brad Snodgrass). American Journal of Medicine (2021) 134(7): P827-828. |  journal page |
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| 20. | The Foundations of Concordance Views of Phylogeny Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology (2019) 11: 20. | journal page |
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| 19. | Towards a Semantics for Metanormative Constructivism (with Jeremy Schwartz). Philosophical Studies (2019) 176(11): 3061-3076. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-018-1163-y | download pdf |
journal page | 18. | Universal Common Ancestry, LUCA, and the Tree of Life: Three Distinct Hypotheses about the Evolution of Life Biology and Philosophy (2018) 33: 31 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-018-9641-3 |
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| 17. | Critical Notice of Elliott Sober's Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual Mind 127 (2018) pp. 891-902. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzx031 |
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| 16. | Updating on the Credences of Others: Disagreement, Agreement, and Synergy (with Kenny Easwaran, Luke Fenton-Glynn, and Christopher Hitchcock) Philosopher's Imprint 16(11) (2016) pp. 1-39. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.3521354.0016.011 |
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Open Access! | 15. | Axiomatic opportunities and obstacles for inferring a species tree from gene trees (with Mike Steel) Systematic Biology 63(5) (2014) pp. 772-778 |
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| 14. | Evolutionary and Newtonian Forces (with Chris Hitchcock) Ergo 1(2) (2014) pp. 39-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/ergo.12405314.0001.002 |
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| 13. | Deep Conventionalism about Evolutionary Groups (with Matt Barker) Philosophy of Science 80(5) (2013) pp. 971-982 |
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| 12. | Philosophy and Phylogenetics Philosophy Compass 8(10) (2013) pp. 990-998 |
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| 11. | Phylogeny as Population History Philosophy and Theory in Biology (2013) 5:e402 |
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| 10. | The Tree of Life -- In Michael Ruse (ed.) The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge University Press. 2013. pgs 430-435. | download pdf |
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| 9. | The Future of Systematics: Tree-Thinking Without the Tree Philosophy of Science 79(5) (2012), pp. 624-636 |
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| 8. | Objective and Subjective Probability in Gene Expression Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 110(2012), pp. 5-10 |
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| 7. | Testing for Treeness: Lateral Gene Transfer, Phylogenetic Inference, and Model Selection (with Elliott Sober) Biology and Philosophy 25 (2010), pp. 675-687 |
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| 6. | Species, Genes, and the Tree of Life British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61 (2010), pp. 599-619 |
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| 5. | When monophyly is not enough: Exclusivity as the key to defining a phylogenetic species concept Biology & Philosophy 24 (2009), pp. 473-486 |
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| 4. | Species concepts should not conflict with evolutionary history, but often do Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39 (2008), pp. 407-414 |
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| 3. | The Prior Probabilities of Phylogenetic Trees Biology & Philosophy 23 (2008), pp. 455-473 |
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| 2. | The internodal species concept: a response to “The tree, the network, and the species Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93(4) (2008) pp. 865-869 |
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| 1. | Why non-uniform priors on clades are both unavoidable and unobjectionable Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45 (2007) pp. 748–749 |
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| Philosophy and the Tree of Life: The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Phylogenetic Systematics My dissertation - completed in May, 2008 |
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Book Reviews:
Review of Richard A. Richards The Species Problem for The Philosophical Review 120 (2011) 598-602
Review of Michael Ruse (ed.) Handbook of Philosophy of Biology for Metascience 21 (2012) 359-362