Several years ago Sujatha Raman urged me to write a book explicitly dedicated to 'social
theory', since it was clear that social theorists were no less parochial than any other …

Twenty-first-century biology rejects genetic determinism, yet an exaggerated view of the
power of genes in the making of bodies and minds remains a problem. What accounts for …

This paper presents a survey of the literature on the problem of contingency in science. The
survey is structured around three challenges faced by current attempts at understanding the …

Since the late 1980s, presentism has seen a resurgence among some historians of science.
Most of them draw a line between a good form of presentism and typical anachronism, but …

In this book, Esposito presents a historiography of organicist and holistic thought through an
examination of the work of leading biologists from Britain and America. He shows how this …

Various forms of underdetermination that might threaten the realist stance are examined.
That which holds between different 'formulations' of a theory (such as the Hamiltonian and …

Philosophical research on the virtue of humility has blossomed in the last decade or so after
years of relative neglect. The history of the philosophical study of humility is also …

Textbook presentations of genetics have changed remarkably little since their earliest days.
Typically an initial chapter introduces Mendel's pea-hybridization experiments and the …

This paper challenges the common assumption that some phenotypic traits are quantitative
while others are qualitative. The distinction between these two kinds of traits is widely …

This paper offers an epistemological framework for the debate about whether the results of
scientific enquiry are inevitable or contingent. I argue in Sections 2 and 3 that inevitabilist …