Michael Ruse

Michael Ruse nel 2020

Michael Escott Ruse (Birmingham, 21 giugno 1940 – 1º novembre 2024) è stato un filosofo britannico.

Biografia

Le sue aree di specializzazione furono la filosofia della biologia e l'interazione tra scienza e religione.

Autore prolifico, pubblicò diversi libri e articoli per prestigiose case editrici universitarie. Fondò la rivista Biology and Philosophy.

Fu professore di filosofia presso la Florida State University. Dichiaratosi ateo e agnostico, divenne particolarmente noto per il suo ruolo nel dibattito tra creazionismo ed evoluzione darwiniana negli Stati Uniti.

Opere

• The Darwinian revolution (1979) ISBN 0-226-73164-2
• Is science sexist? and other problems in the biomedical sciences (1981) ISBN 90-277-1250-6
• Darwinism defended, a guide to the evolution controversies (1982) ISBN 0-201-06273-9
• Sociobiology, sense or nonsense? (1st ed. 1979, 2nd ed. 1985) ISBN 90-277-1798-2
• Taking Darwin seriously: a naturalistic approach to philosophy (1986) ISBN 0-631-13542-1
• Homosexuality: A Philosophical Inquiry (1988) ISBN 0-631-17553-9
• The Philosophy of biology today (1988) ISBN 0-88706-911-8
• The Darwinian paradigm: essays on its history, philosophy and religious implications (1989) ISBN 0-415-08951-4
• Evolution: The First Four Billion Years. (edited with Michael Travis) (2009) ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3
• Evolutionary naturalism: selected essays (1995) ISBN 0-415-08997-2
• Monad to man: the concept of progress in evolutionary biology (1996) ISBN 0-674-58220-9
• But is it science? the philosophical question in the creation/evolution controversy (1996) (ed.) ISBN 0-87975-439-7
• Mystery of mysteries: is evolution a social construction? (1999) ISBN 0-674-00543-0
• Biology and the foundation of ethics (1999) ISBN 0-521-55923-5
• Can a Darwinian be a Christian? the relationship between science and religion (2001) ISBN 0-521-63716-3
• The evolution wars: a guide to the debates (2003) ISBN 1-57607-185-5
• Darwin and Design: Does evolution have a purpose? (2003) ISBN 0-674-01631-9
• Darwinian Heresies (edited with Abigail Lustig and Robert J. Richards) (2004) ISBN 0521815169
• The Evolution-Creation Struggle (2005) ISBN 0-674-01687-4
• Darwinism and its Discontents (2006) ISBN 0-521-82947-X
• Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species (edited with Robert J. Richards) (2008) ISBN 978-0-521-87079-5
• Philosophy after Darwin (2009) ISBN 0-691-13553-3
• Defining Darwin: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology (2009) ISBN 1-59102-725-X
• Science and Spirituality: Making room for faith in the age of science (2010) ISBN 0-521-75594-8
• The Philosophy of Human Evolution (2012) ISBN 0-521-11793-3
• The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet (2013) ISBN 978-0226731704
• Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know (2015) ISBN 0-199-33458-7

Voci correlate

• Evoluzione
• Biologia
• Creazionismo

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Michael Ruse, su Enciclopedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
• (EN) Opere di Michael Ruse, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Michael Ruse, su Goodreads.
• (EN) Michael Ruse, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
• Michael Ruse's Homepage at Florida State, su philosophy.fsu.edu (archiviato dall'url originale il 7 marzo 2016).
• Michael Ruse's page at FSU's History and Philosophy of Science site Archiviato l'11 febbraio 2021 in Internet Archive.
• Michael Ruse on Charles Darwin: Evolution Is No Monkey Business Archiviato il 4 gennaio 2017 in Archive.is.
• Can a Christian be a Darwinian? Lecture given in 2007 at The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
• Speech by Michael Ruse 1993 to American Association for the Advancement of Science, su leaderu.com.
• Biography and summary of Gifford Lectures Archiviato il 23 luglio 2014 in Internet Archive. (2001, University of Glasgow), by Dr Brannon Hancock
• An autobiographical interview with Michael Ruse at What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?, su whatisitliketobeaphilosopher.com.