Research

Current
PHILOSOPHY AND HISTORY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES

CURRENT MAIN PROJECT:

History of conceptualisations of animals, plants and nature in the West: taking its inspiration from Foucault. Being developed in the first place as a website.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS IN THIS AREA:

  • (Jointly with Emily Brady and Jane Howarth) Philosophy and the Environment, London, 2000, Routledge, pp xii +175.
  • (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.
  • 'One for Leibniz', Sorites, 4, 1996, pp 1-20.
  • 'Biological Classification', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 23 (1972), pp 305-327.
  • 'Foucault and the History of Biological Classification' Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 8 (1977) pp 163-71.
  • The Philosophy of the Social Sciences London, 1978, Methuen, x + 189pp.
  • '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.
Past
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAIN PUBLICATION:

  • Thinking Machines: The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence, Oxford, 1987, Blackwell, pp. xii+254.
PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION, INCLUDING TRADITIONAL AFRICAN THOUGHT

MAIN PUBLICATIONS IN THIS AREA:

  • Religion and Secularisation, London, 1970, Macmillan, pp 84. (In W.D. Hudson's series New Studies in the Philosophy of Religion.)
  • 'Science and Traditional African Religion', Second Order I (1972), pp 7-20.

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