Alison K Mcconwell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1064674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison K Mcconwell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison K |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcconwell |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONWELL A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Lowell |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2963-9436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Were Huxley’s social views constituted by his biological work, and vice versa? Progress, perfection, & social values in Julian Huxley’s biological worldview
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy
There is an “underrepresentation problem” in philosophy departments and journals. Empirical data suggest that while we have seen some improvements since the 1990s, the rate of change has slowed down. Some posit that philosophy has disciplinary norms making it uniquely resistant to change. We present results from an empirical case study of a philosophy department that achieved and maintained male-female gender parity among its faculty as early as …
George G. Simpson and Stephen J. Gould on Values
George G. Simpson (1902–1984) and Stephen J. Gould (1941–2002) were both engaged with the normative – i.e., social, cultural, political, and even ethical – consequences of their evolutionary theorizing. However, there is a normative point of departure between Simpson and Gould’s work in that regard that has received little attention. Yet, their motivations converge into a larger program of resistance and social protection from misconstrued and il…
Historical Contingency
Contingency and Individuality
Recently, philosophers have sought to determine the nature of individuals relevant to evolution by natural selection or evolutionary individuals. The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis is a claim about evolution that emphasizes the role of contingency or dependency relations and chance-based factors in how evolution unfolds. In this article, I argue that if we take evolutionary contingency seriously, then we should be pluralists about the types of i…
Contingency and Individuality
Recently, philosophers have sought to determine the nature of individuals relevant to evolution by natural selection or evolutionary individuals. The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis is a claim about evolution that emphasizes the role of contingency or dependency relations and chance-based factors in how evolution unfolds. In this article, I argue that if we take evolutionary contingency seriously, then we should be pluralists about the types of i…
Contingency and Individuality
Recently, philosophers have sought to determine the nature of individuals relevant to evolution by natural selection or evolutionary individuals. The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis is a claim about evolution that emphasizes the role of contingency or dependency relations and chance-based factors in how evolution unfolds. In this article, I argue that if we take evolutionary contingency seriously, then we should be pluralists about the types of i…
George G. Simpson and Stephen J. Gould on Values
George G. Simpson (1902–1984) and Stephen J. Gould (1941–2002) were both engaged with the normative – i.e., social, cultural, political, and even ethical – consequences of their evolutionary theorizing. However, there is a normative point of departure between Simpson and Gould’s work in that regard that has received little attention. Yet, their motivations converge into a larger program of resistance and social protection from misconstrued and il…
Historical Contingency
Were Huxley’s social views constituted by his biological work, and vice versa? Progress, perfection, & social values in Julian Huxley’s biological worldview
Changing Working Environments in Philosophy
There is an “underrepresentation problem” in philosophy departments and journals. Empirical data suggest that while we have seen some improvements since the 1990s, the rate of change has slowed down. Some posit that philosophy has disciplinary norms making it uniquely resistant to change. We present results from an empirical case study of a philosophy department that achieved and maintained male-female gender parity among its faculty as early as …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Contingency (2 works) · Evolution and Science Education (2 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works)