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Professor Lenny Moss

Publications

Books

What Genes Can't Do, MIT Press, 2003.

with V Pavesich, Human Detachment, Soft Naturalism and Social Criticism.

Is a Philosophy of Mechanism Philosophy Enough? Essays on Life (Human and Otherwise) from a "Critical Naturalist" Point of View.

Chapters

Detachment, Genomics, and the Nature of Being Human’, in Drenthen ,Keulartz ,Proctor (eds) New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity, Springer International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, 2009

Darwinism, Dualism and the Agency of the Organism, in Hösle V,Illies C (eds) Darwinism and Philosophy, Notre Dame: , 2005

Darwinism, Dualism and Biology Agency , in Hösle V,Illies C (eds) Darwinism and Philosophy, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, 349-363

Deconstructing the Gene and Reconstructing Molecular Developmental Systems, in Oyama S,Gray R,Griffiths P (eds) Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2001

Journal articles

Is the Philosophy of Mechanism Philosophy Enough?, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Science, 2011

with V Pavesich, Science, Normativity and Skill: Reviewing and Renewing the Anthropological Basis of Critical Theory, Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 37, no. 2, 2011, 137-165

Context,context, context! A delicate empiricism for biotechnology’. Review of Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering, Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott (2008), Nature Biotechnology, vol. 25, no. 59, 2008

The Meanings of the Gene and the Future of the Phenotype, Genomics, Society and Policy, vol. 4, 2008, 38-54

From describing to performing the socioethical engagement with systems biology., Am J Bioeth, vol. 7, no. 4, 2007, 86-87 DOI

Contra Habermas and Towards a Critical Theory of Human Nature and the Question of Genetic Enhancement, New Formations, vol. 60, no. 1, 2007, 139-149

Redundancy, Plasticity and Detachment: The Implications of Comparative Genomics for Evolutionary Thinking , Philosophy of Science, vol. 73, no. 5, 2006, 930-946 DOI

The question of questions: what is a gene? Comments on Rolston and Griffiths & Stotz., Theor Med Bioeth, vol. 27, no. 6, 2006, 523-534 DOI

Genes, Genomes and Genetic Elements: Evolutionary Implications of New Developments in Molecular Genetics - Commentary on Rafael Falk and Stephen Downes, His. Phil. Life Sci, vol. 26, 2004, 125-131

New biological books: One, two (too?), many genes?, Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 78, no. 1, 2003, 57-67

One, Two (Too?), Many Genes, The Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 78, 2003, 57-67

From Representational Preformationism to the Epigenesis of Openness to the World? Reflections on a New Vision of the Organism., Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 981, 2002, 219-229

The Gene-For Confusion, The Philosopher's Magazine, vol. 13, 2001, 46-47