Publications

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Published and in press

• Witteveen, J. (2021). ‘Soort’ zoekt soort: het soortenprobleem van Darwin tot nu. Wijsgerig Perspectief, 3, 6–13.

• Green, S., Andersen, H., Danielsen, K., Emmeche, C., Joas, C., Johansen, M. W., Nagayoshi, C., Witteveen, J. & Sørensen, H. K., (2021). Adapting practice-based philosophy of science to teaching of science students. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 11:75, 1–18.

• Witteveen, J. (2021). Taxon names and varieties of reference. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 43:78, 1–12.

• Witteveen, J. (2021). Biological markets, cooperation, and the evolution of morality. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 72(2), 401–430.

• Kendig, C. & Witteveen, J. (2020). The history and philosophy of taxonomy as an information science. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 42:40, 1–9. (equal first authorship)

• Witteveen, J. & Green, S. (2020). Pocketable philosophy of biology. Metascience, 29, 413–416. (book review)

• Witteveen, J. & Müller-Wille, S. (2020). Of elephants and errors: Naming and identity in Linnaean taxonomy. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 42:43, 1–34.

• Witteveen, J. (2020). Linnaeus, the essentialism story, and the question of types. Taxon, 69, 1141–1149.

• Sterner, B. Witteveen, J. & Franz, N. (2020). Coordinating dissent as an alternative to consensus classification: insights from systematics for bio‑ontologies. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.

• Witteveen, J. (2019). Evolutionary debunking arguments and the explanatory scope of natural selection. Synthese. [preprint]

• Witteveen, J. (2019). Natural selection and contrastive explanation. Philosophy of Science, 86, 412–430.

• Witteveen, J. (2019). Regression explanation and statistical autonomy. Biology & Philosophy, 34–51.

• Witteveen, J. (2018). Typological thinking: then and now. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 330, 123–131.

• Witteveen, J. (2018). Objectivity, historicity, taxonomy. Erkenntnis, 83(3), 445–463.

• Witteveen, J. (2017). Making sense of biology in the data age. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 92(3), 292–295. (essay review)

• Birch, J. & Witteveen, J. (2017). Dividing the Pleistocene pie. BioScience, 67(2), 180–182. (book review)

• Witteveen, J. (2016). Het boekje te buiten? Bolhuis en Düwell over de pseudowetenschap van de moraliteit. Bij Nader Inzien. (blogpost in Dutch)

  • See the response by Bolhuis en Düwell and my response to theirs.

• Witteveen, J. (2016). “A temporary oversimplification”: Mayr, Simpson, Dobzhansky, and the origins of the typology/population dichotomy (Part 2 of 2). Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 57, 96–105.

• Witteveen, J. (2016). Suppressing synonymy with a homonym: the emergence of the nomenclatural type concept in nineteenth century natural history. Journal of the History of Biology, 49(1), 135–189.

• Witteveen, J. (2015). “A temporary oversimplification”: Mayr, Simpson, Dobzhansky, and the origins of the typology/population dichotomy (Part 1 of 2). Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 54, 20–33.

• Witteveen, J. (2015). Naming and contingency: the type method of biological taxonomy. Biology & Philosophy, 30(4), 569–586.

• Witteveen, J. (2015). Natural classification. Metascience, 24(2), 275–278. (essay review) [PDF]

• Witteveen, J. (2014). Philosophy of biology. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 36(2), 296–298. (book review)

• Witteveen J. (2013). Rethinking “typological” vs. “population” thinking: A historical and philosophical reassessment of a troubled dichotomy. PhD thesis. University of Cambridge (defended in November 2013).

• Witteveen, J. (2012). The softening of the Modern Synthesis. Acta Biotheoretica, 59, 333–345. (essay review)

• Witteveen, J. (2011). Mayr, Haldane and beanbag genetics. Isis, 102(4), 801–802. (book review)

• Witteveen, J. (2010). Darwinism about Darwinism. Biological Theory, 4(2), 207–213. (essay review)

• Witteveen, J. (2008). Emergent philosophy of biology in Europe. Biological Theory, 3(4), 391–392. (conference report)

• Witteveen, J. (2008). Morrelen aan Darwin. Natuurwetenschap en Techniek, 76(12), 62–65. (in Dutch)