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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