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Review of W.M. Elsasser's Atom and Organism, Princeton, 1966, in Theoria to Theory 2 (1967) pp 84-89.

'The inexplicable and the Supernatural', Philosophy XLIII (1968), pp 248-257.

'Time to Stop', Analysis, December 1968, pp 52,3.

'Time for a Change', Analysis, January 1970, pp 111-112

'Feeling awed by God' Mind LXX1X (1970), pp 607-612.

Religion and Secularisation, London, 1970, Macmillan, pp 84. (In W.D. Hudson's series New Studies in the Philosophy of Religion.)

'Ducks, Geese and Mr. Bennett', Mind LXXX1 (1972), pp 258-259.

'Science and Traditional African Religion', Second Order I (1972), pp 7-20.

Review article: Lakatos and Musgrave (eds.) Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, C.U.P., 1970, in Theoria to Theory 6 (1972), pp 68-79.

'Numerical Taxonomy', Journal of Theoretical Biology 36 (1972), pp 581-592.

'Biological Classification', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 23 (1972), pp 305-327.

'Explaining the Properties of Organisms', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 5 (1974), pp 1-15.

'Numerical Taxonomy: On the Incoherence of its Rationale', Journal of Theoretical Biology 48 (1974), pp 497-499.

'Group Selection', Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 6 (1975), pp 32-33.

Reprint of (12) above in Topics in the Philosophy of Biology, ed. Grene and Mendelsohn, Synthese Library 74 (1975).

'A biological approach to Sociological functionalism', Inquiry 18 (1975), 371-89.

Review of W.M. Elsasser: the Main Abstractions of Biology in Philosophical Books 17 (1976), pp 78-9.

'Foucault and the History of Biological Classification' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 8 (1977) pp 163-71.

Review of A. Woodfield: Teleology in Mind LXXXVII (1978), pp 312-4.

The Philosophy of the Social Sciences Methuen, London, (1978), X - pp 189.

Review of W. H. Thorpe: Purpose in a World of Chance, B.J.P.S. 30 (1979), pp 309-312.

Review of J.A. Barnes: The Ethics of Inquiry in Social Science, Philosophical Books XX (1979), pp 72-73.

Review article: 'Creatures Great and Small', (Mary Midgley's Beast and Man), Philosophical Books, XXI (1980), pp 1-6.

'Helping the Disadvantaged', Chapter in Social Welfare: Why and How? ed. Noel Timms, Routledge (1980), pp 200-210.

Review of Kwasi Wiredu: Philosophy and an African Culture C.U.P., 1980, Mind XCI (1082), pp 130-132.

'Support for the Independent Learner' Journal of the Association of Colleges Implementing Dip. H.E. Programmes, 3 (1980), pp 20-25.

Review of Michael Ruse: Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense? Philosophical Books 23 (1982), pp 61-62.

'Aristotle and the Essence of Natural History' in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 4, 2, (1982), pp 203-223.

'The Essence of Aristotle's Biology' in Phronesis XXIXX (1984), pp 267-278.

'System Building in the 18thC' in North and Roche (eds.) The Light of Nature, Martinus Nijhoff.

Thinking Machines: The Evolution of Artifical Intelligence, Oxford, 1987, Blackwell, pp. xii+254.

(Joint editor with Nigel Farrow and Brian Last)An English Library, Gower & The Book Trust, Aldershot, 1990, pp. ix + 385.

'Artificial Intelligence', article in Twentieth Century Social Thought, Oxford, 1993, Blackwell, pp.31-34.

Macchine Pensanti, Italian translation of Thinking Machines, 1987, above.

(Jointly with Alan Holland) 'The Ethical Dimension of Crop Biotechnology' in University of Wales Agricultural Journal.

'One for Leibniz', Sorites, 4, 1996, pp 1-20.

Review of Elliot Sober: Philosophy of Biology, Philosophical Quarterly, 45, (1995), pp.251-254.

(Jointly with Isis Brook) 'Goethe's Archetype and the romantic concept of the self', Studies in Philosophy and History of Science 27, 1996, pp.351-365.

Review of Robert Brandon, Concepts & Methods in Evolutionary Biology, in Philosophical Books.

Machines à Penser, French translation of Thinking Machines, above; Paris, 1999, Presses Universitaires de France.

(Jointly with Emily Brady and Jane Howarth) Philosophy and the Environment, London, 2000, Routledge, pp xii +175.

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