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2001
Schank JC, Wimsatt WC. Evolvability: Adaptation and modularity. In: Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspectives, vol. 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2001. p. 322-35.
1999
Wimsatt WC. Generativity, entrenchment, evolution, and innateness: Philosophy, evolutionary biology, and conceptual foundations of science. In: Where Biology Meets Psychology: Philosophical Essays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; 1999. p. 139-79.
1998
Wimsatt WC. Simple systems and phylogenetic diversity. Philosophy of Science. 1998;65:267-75.
1997
Wimsatt WC. Aggregativity: Reductive heuristics for finding emergence. In. PSA 96, part. 1997;2:372-84.
Wimsatt WC. Functional organization, functional analogy, and functional inference. Evolution and Cognition. 1997;3:102-32.
1994
Wimsatt WC. The ontology of complex systems: Levels, perspectives and causal thickets. In: Canadian Journal of Philosophy, suppl. volume. Vol 20.; 1994. p. 207-74.
1992
Wimsatt WC. Golden generalities and co-opted anomalies: Haldane vs Müller and the Drosophila Group on the theory and practice of linkage mapping. In: The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics: A Centenary Reappraisal. Dordrecht: Kluwer; 1992. p. 107-66.
1989
Griesemer JR, Wimsatt WC. Picturing Weismannism: A case study in conceptual evolution. In: What the Philosophy of Biology Is: Essays Dedicated to David Hull. Dordrecht: Kluwer; 1989. p. 75-137.
1988
Schank JC, Wimsatt WC. Generative entrenchment and evolution. In. PSA, vol.. 1988;2:33-60.
Wimsatt WC, Schank JC. Two constraints on the evolution of complex adaptations and the means for their avoidance. In: Evolutionary Progress. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1988. p. 231-73.
1987
Wimsatt WC. False models as means to truer theories. In: Neutral Models in Biology. London: Oxford University Press; 1987. p. 23-55.
1986
Wimsatt WC. Developmental constraints, generative entrenchment, and the innate-acquired distinction. In: Integrating Scientific Disciplines: Case Studies From the Life Sciences. Dordrecht: Nijhoff; 1986.
Wimsatt WC. Forms of aggregativity. In: Human Nature and Natural Knowledge: Essays Presented to Marjorie Grene on the Occasion of Her seventy-fifth Birthday. Dordrecht: Reidel; 1986. p. 259-91.
Wimsatt WC. Heuristics and the study of human behavior. In: Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 1986. p. 293-314.
1981
Wimsatt WC. Robustness, reliability, and overdetermination. In: Scientific Inquiry and the Social Sciences: A Volume in Honor of Donald T. Campbell. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1981. p. 124-63.
Wimsatt WC. Units of selection and the structure of the multi-level genome.; 1981. p. 122-83.
1980
Wimsatt WC. Randomness and perceived-randomness in evolutionary biology. Synthese. 1980;43:287-329.
Wimsatt WC. Reductionistic research strategies and their biases in the units of selection controversy. In: Scientific Discovery: Case Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 60. Dordrecht/Boston: Reidel; 1980. p. 213-59.
1979
Wimsatt WC. Reduction and reductionism. In: Current Research in the Philosophy of Science. East Lansing, MI: Philosophy of Science Association; 1979. p. 352-77.
1976
Wimsatt WC. Reductionism, levels of organization and the mind-body problem. In: Consciousness and the Brain: A Scientific and Philosophical Inquiry. New York: Plenum Press; 1976. p. 199-267.
1974
Wimsatt WC. Complexity and organization.; 1974. p. 67-86.
1972
Wimsatt WC. Teleology and the logical structure of function statements. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. 1972;3(1):1-80.