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Richard A. R. Watson

26 works· latest 2023· 2 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-2521-8255

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Principles of Philosophy1987 · 258 citations
The Downfall of Cartesianism 1673–17121966 · 153 citations
Man a machine and Man a plant1994 · 120 citations
Self-Consciousness and the Rights of Nonhuman Animals and Nature1979 · 72 citations
The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics1963 · 71 citations

Works

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Agency, Goal-Directed Behavior, and Part-Whole Relationships in Biological Systems

Biological Theory·2023·1 author·Open access

21citations

Are Developmental Plasticity, Niche Construction, and Extended Inheritance Necessary for Evolution by Natural Selection? The Role of Active Phenotypes in the Minimal Criteria for Darwinian Individuality

The MIT Press eBooks·2019·2 authors·chapter

13citations

Social niche construction and evolutionary transitions in individuality

Biology & Philosophy·2015·2 authors·Open access

32citations

The Journal of the History of Philosophy : What It All Means

Journal of the history of philosophy·2012·1 author

60citations

Compositional Evolution: The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution (Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology)

·2006·1 author·book

15citations

Minimum cost and the emergence of the Zipf-Mandelbrot law

What is the History of Philosophy and Why is it Important?

Journal of the history of philosophy·2002·1 author

69citations

The philosopher's demise : learning French

·1995·1 author

13citations

Man a machine and Man a plant

Hackett Pub. Co. eBooks·1994·4 authors·book

120citations

Shadow History in Philosophy

Journal of the history of philosophy·1993·1 author

58citations

Occult Powers and Hypotheses

International Studies in Philosophy·1992·1 author

43citations

Descartes’ Philosophy of Science

International Studies in Philosophy·1992·1 author

26citations

What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]

Current Anthropology·1991·10 authors

28citations

Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics, and Post-Structuralism

Journal of Field Archaeology·1991·2 authors

48citations

Principles of Philosophy

International Studies in Philosophy·1987·1 author

258citations

Self-Consciousness and the Rights of Nonhuman Animals and Nature

Environmental Ethics·1979·1 author

72citations

Inference in Archaeology

American Antiquity·1976·1 author

24citations

The Politics of the Bench and Bar: Judicial Selection Under the Missouri Non-partisan Court Plan.

Midwest Journal of Political Science·1971·3 authors

18citations

Explanation and Prediction in Geology

The Journal of Geology·1969·1 author

30citations

The Downfall of Cartesianism 1673–1712

Springer eBooks·1966·1 author·book

153citations

The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics

Journal of the history of philosophy·1963·1 author

71citations