Jonathan Michael Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 844302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Michael Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8003-7855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Between prescriptivism and polemic: L’écriture inclusive in the opinion pieces of Le Monde , Le Figaro , and Libération
L’écriture inclusive sparked major language debates in the French Press. I use critical discourse analysis to examine how l’écriture inclusive is discussed, the contexts in which the term is evoked and its indexical field in a corpus of opinion pieces from Le Figaro, Le Monde , and Libération from 2017–2021. After establishing that l’écriture inclusive is a formula—heterogeneously employed and inherently polemical—my thematic analysis explores pa…
Binary-constrained code-switching among non-binary French-English bilinguals
This paper presents data on non-binary French-English bilinguals’ metalinguistic analyses of their code-switching behavior in discussing their gender identities. Six non-binary French-English bilinguals were recruited for sociolinguistic interviews via Montréal-based LGBT+ organizations and asked about their experiences using non-binary French and English, especially how they describe themselves in each language. Participants’ preferences for usi…
Pluri-Grammars for Pluri-Genders: Competing Gender Systems in the Nominal Morphology of Non-Binary French
Although much has been written in recent years on the emergence of non-binary English linguistic innovations, comparatively little has been written on non-binary French forms, especially neo-morphemes marking non-binary gender on nouns. As French is a grammatical-gender language with a traditionally binary (masculine and feminine) system, many non-binary Francophones have circumvented the social connection between grammatical gender and human gen…
Reflecting on what philosophy of epidemiology is and does, as the field comes into its own: Introduction to the Special Issue on Philosophy of Epidemiology
Galton's Quincunx: Probabilistic causation in developmental behavior genetics
Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual
What, precisely, does Ockham's razor recommend that we believe, and (why) ought we follow it? In Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual, Elliott Sober attempts to answer this question, revealing a fascinating variety of meanings, approaches, and justifications for arguments that purport to be about parsimony. Along the way, readers are introduced to some of the recent work on the philosophy of statistics, especially as it is used in discussions of what…
Gould on Morton, Redux: What can the debate reveal about the limits of data
Realism, Antirealism, and Conventionalism about Race
This paper distinguishes three concepts of “race”: bio-genomic cluster/race, biological race, and social race. We map out realism, antirealism, and conventionalism about each of these, in three important historical episodes: Frank Livingstone and Theodosius Dobzhansky in 1962, A. W. F. Edwards’s 2003 response to Lewontin’s 1972 paper, and contemporary discourse. Semantics is especially crucial to the first episode, while normativity is central to…
Race, Genomics, and Philosophy of Science
Keywords: race; racism; ignorance; epistemology; IQ; hereditarian; JensenismMost White Americans are startlingly ignorant about the prevalence and significance of racism in the United States (see, e.g., Norton and Sommers 2011, Adams and Salter 2012; see also Sullivan and Tuana, eds. 2007). This ignorance has structural causes, and serves to prevent meaningful social and political action that might address some of the causes and effects of racism…
Adaptive landscapes: Concepts, tools and metaphors (Reviewing E.I. Svensson and R. Calsbeek (Eds.), The adaptive landscape in evolutionary biology)
Ontologies and Politics of Biogenomic 'Race
All eyes are turned towards genomic data and models as the source of knowledge about whether human races exist or not. Will genomic science make the final decision about whether racial realism (e.g. racial population naturalism) or anti-realism (e.g. racial scepticism) is correct? We think not. The results of even our best and most impressive genomic technologies under-determine whether biogenomic races exist, or not. First, different sub-discipl…
When Socially Determined Categories Make Biological Realities: Understanding Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S.
Journal Article When Socially Determined Categories Make Biological Realities: Understanding Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S. Get access Jonathan Michael Kaplan Jonathan Michael Kaplan Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 93, Issue 2, 1 April 2010, Pages 281–297, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist201093216 Published: 21 November 2014
The Paradox of Stasis and the Nature of Explanations in Evolutionary Biology
Recently, Estes and Arnold claimed to have “solved” the paradox of evolutionary stasis; they claim that stabilizing selection, and only stabilizing selection, can explain the patterns of evolutionary divergence observed over “all timescales.” While Estes and Arnold clearly think that they have identified the processes that produce evolutionary stasis, they have not. Instead, Estes and Arnold identify a particular evolutionary pattern but not the …
Evolutionary Innovations and Developmental Resources: From Stability to Variation and Back Again
Will a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology require a focus on the role of nongenetic resources in evolution? Nongenetic variation may exist but be hidden because the phenotypes are stable (developmentally canalized) under certain background conditions. In this case, those differences may come to play important roles in evolution when background conditions change. If this is so, then a focus on the way that developmental resources …
Rational Decision Making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory?
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Rational Decisions as an Ideal Rational Decision Making? Assumptions and Difficulties: Preferences, Outcome Spaces, and Probabilities in the World Reasons without Decisions What Kinds of Reasons? The Failure of RCT as a Unifying Principle The Failures of RCT and Rethinking Rationality
More Misuses of Evolutionary Psychology
Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among Herder Sites on Table Bay, South Africa
Judith Sealy, Tim Maggs, Antonieta Jerardino, Jonathan Kaplan, Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among Herder Sites on Table Bay, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 59, No. 179 (Jun., 2004), pp. 17-28
On the Concept of Biological Race and Its Applicability to Humans
Biological research on race has often been seen as motivated by or lending credence to underlying racist attitudes; in part for this reason, recently philosophers and biologists have gone through great pains to essentially deny the existence of biological human races. We argue that human races, in the biological sense of local populations adapted to particular environments, do in fact exist; such races are best understood through the common ecolo…
Historical Evidence and Human Adaptations
Phylogenetic information is often necessary to distinguish between evolutionary scenarios. Recently, some prominent proponents of evolutionary psychology have acknowledged this, and have claimed that such evidence has in fact been brought to bear on adaptive hypotheses involving complex human psychological traits. Were this possible, it would be a valuable source of evidence regarding hypothesized adaptive traits in humans. However, the structure…
Years of Hunter-Gatherer History in Natal as Seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter
When Socially Determined Categories Make Biological Realities: Understanding Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S.
Journal Article When Socially Determined Categories Make Biological Realities: Understanding Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S. Get access Jonathan Michael Kaplan Jonathan Michael Kaplan Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 93, Issue 2, 1 April 2010, Pages 281–297, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist201093216 Published: 21 November 2014
Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among Herder Sites on Table Bay, South Africa
Judith Sealy, Tim Maggs, Antonieta Jerardino, Jonathan Kaplan, Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among Herder Sites on Table Bay, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 59, No. 179 (Jun., 2004), pp. 17-28
On the Concept of Biological Race and Its Applicability to Humans
Biological research on race has often been seen as motivated by or lending credence to underlying racist attitudes; in part for this reason, recently philosophers and biologists have gone through great pains to essentially deny the existence of biological human races. We argue that human races, in the biological sense of local populations adapted to particular environments, do in fact exist; such races are best understood through the common ecolo…
Ontologies and Politics of Biogenomic 'Race
All eyes are turned towards genomic data and models as the source of knowledge about whether human races exist or not. Will genomic science make the final decision about whether racial realism (e.g. racial population naturalism) or anti-realism (e.g. racial scepticism) is correct? We think not. The results of even our best and most impressive genomic technologies under-determine whether biogenomic races exist, or not. First, different sub-discipl…
Realism, Antirealism, and Conventionalism about Race
This paper distinguishes three concepts of “race”: bio-genomic cluster/race, biological race, and social race. We map out realism, antirealism, and conventionalism about each of these, in three important historical episodes: Frank Livingstone and Theodosius Dobzhansky in 1962, A. W. F. Edwards’s 2003 response to Lewontin’s 1972 paper, and contemporary discourse. Semantics is especially crucial to the first episode, while normativity is central to…
Gould on Morton, Redux: What can the debate reveal about the limits of data
Historical Evidence and Human Adaptations
Phylogenetic information is often necessary to distinguish between evolutionary scenarios. Recently, some prominent proponents of evolutionary psychology have acknowledged this, and have claimed that such evidence has in fact been brought to bear on adaptive hypotheses involving complex human psychological traits. Were this possible, it would be a valuable source of evidence regarding hypothesized adaptive traits in humans. However, the structure…
Galton's Quincunx: Probabilistic causation in developmental behavior genetics
Race, Genomics, and Philosophy of Science
Keywords: race; racism; ignorance; epistemology; IQ; hereditarian; JensenismMost White Americans are startlingly ignorant about the prevalence and significance of racism in the United States (see, e.g., Norton and Sommers 2011, Adams and Salter 2012; see also Sullivan and Tuana, eds. 2007). This ignorance has structural causes, and serves to prevent meaningful social and political action that might address some of the causes and effects of racism…
Evolutionary Innovations and Developmental Resources: From Stability to Variation and Back Again
Will a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology require a focus on the role of nongenetic resources in evolution? Nongenetic variation may exist but be hidden because the phenotypes are stable (developmentally canalized) under certain background conditions. In this case, those differences may come to play important roles in evolution when background conditions change. If this is so, then a focus on the way that developmental resources …
Pluri-Grammars for Pluri-Genders: Competing Gender Systems in the Nominal Morphology of Non-Binary French
Although much has been written in recent years on the emergence of non-binary English linguistic innovations, comparatively little has been written on non-binary French forms, especially neo-morphemes marking non-binary gender on nouns. As French is a grammatical-gender language with a traditionally binary (masculine and feminine) system, many non-binary Francophones have circumvented the social connection between grammatical gender and human gen…
Years of Hunter-Gatherer History in Natal as Seen from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter
Historical Evidence and Human Adaptations
Phylogenetic information is often necessary to distinguish between evolutionary scenarios. Recently, some prominent proponents of evolutionary psychology have acknowledged this, and have claimed that such evidence has in fact been brought to bear on adaptive hypotheses involving complex human psychological traits. Were this possible, it would be a valuable source of evidence regarding hypothesized adaptive traits in humans. However, the structure…
On the Concept of Biological Race and Its Applicability to Humans
Biological research on race has often been seen as motivated by or lending credence to underlying racist attitudes; in part for this reason, recently philosophers and biologists have gone through great pains to essentially deny the existence of biological human races. We argue that human races, in the biological sense of local populations adapted to particular environments, do in fact exist; such races are best understood through the common ecolo…
Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among Herder Sites on Table Bay, South Africa
Judith Sealy, Tim Maggs, Antonieta Jerardino, Jonathan Kaplan, Excavations at Melkbosstrand: Variability among Herder Sites on Table Bay, South Africa, The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Vol. 59, No. 179 (Jun., 2004), pp. 17-28
More Misuses of Evolutionary Psychology
Rational Decision Making: Descriptive, Prescriptive, or Explanatory?
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Rational Decisions as an Ideal Rational Decision Making? Assumptions and Difficulties: Preferences, Outcome Spaces, and Probabilities in the World Reasons without Decisions What Kinds of Reasons? The Failure of RCT as a Unifying Principle The Failures of RCT and Rethinking Rationality
Evolutionary Innovations and Developmental Resources: From Stability to Variation and Back Again
Will a synthesis of developmental and evolutionary biology require a focus on the role of nongenetic resources in evolution? Nongenetic variation may exist but be hidden because the phenotypes are stable (developmentally canalized) under certain background conditions. In this case, those differences may come to play important roles in evolution when background conditions change. If this is so, then a focus on the way that developmental resources …
The Paradox of Stasis and the Nature of Explanations in Evolutionary Biology
Recently, Estes and Arnold claimed to have “solved” the paradox of evolutionary stasis; they claim that stabilizing selection, and only stabilizing selection, can explain the patterns of evolutionary divergence observed over “all timescales.” While Estes and Arnold clearly think that they have identified the processes that produce evolutionary stasis, they have not. Instead, Estes and Arnold identify a particular evolutionary pattern but not the …
When Socially Determined Categories Make Biological Realities: Understanding Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S.
Journal Article When Socially Determined Categories Make Biological Realities: Understanding Black/White Health Disparities in the U.S. Get access Jonathan Michael Kaplan Jonathan Michael Kaplan Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 93, Issue 2, 1 April 2010, Pages 281–297, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist201093216 Published: 21 November 2014
Adaptive landscapes: Concepts, tools and metaphors (Reviewing E.I. Svensson and R. Calsbeek (Eds.), The adaptive landscape in evolutionary biology)
Ontologies and Politics of Biogenomic 'Race
All eyes are turned towards genomic data and models as the source of knowledge about whether human races exist or not. Will genomic science make the final decision about whether racial realism (e.g. racial population naturalism) or anti-realism (e.g. racial scepticism) is correct? We think not. The results of even our best and most impressive genomic technologies under-determine whether biogenomic races exist, or not. First, different sub-discipl…
Realism, Antirealism, and Conventionalism about Race
This paper distinguishes three concepts of “race”: bio-genomic cluster/race, biological race, and social race. We map out realism, antirealism, and conventionalism about each of these, in three important historical episodes: Frank Livingstone and Theodosius Dobzhansky in 1962, A. W. F. Edwards’s 2003 response to Lewontin’s 1972 paper, and contemporary discourse. Semantics is especially crucial to the first episode, while normativity is central to…
Race, Genomics, and Philosophy of Science
Keywords: race; racism; ignorance; epistemology; IQ; hereditarian; JensenismMost White Americans are startlingly ignorant about the prevalence and significance of racism in the United States (see, e.g., Norton and Sommers 2011, Adams and Salter 2012; see also Sullivan and Tuana, eds. 2007). This ignorance has structural causes, and serves to prevent meaningful social and political action that might address some of the causes and effects of racism…
Gould on Morton, Redux: What can the debate reveal about the limits of data
Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual
What, precisely, does Ockham's razor recommend that we believe, and (why) ought we follow it? In Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual, Elliott Sober attempts to answer this question, revealing a fascinating variety of meanings, approaches, and justifications for arguments that purport to be about parsimony. Along the way, readers are introduced to some of the recent work on the philosophy of statistics, especially as it is used in discussions of what…
Reflecting on what philosophy of epidemiology is and does, as the field comes into its own: Introduction to the Special Issue on Philosophy of Epidemiology
Galton's Quincunx: Probabilistic causation in developmental behavior genetics
Binary-constrained code-switching among non-binary French-English bilinguals
This paper presents data on non-binary French-English bilinguals’ metalinguistic analyses of their code-switching behavior in discussing their gender identities. Six non-binary French-English bilinguals were recruited for sociolinguistic interviews via Montréal-based LGBT+ organizations and asked about their experiences using non-binary French and English, especially how they describe themselves in each language. Participants’ preferences for usi…
Pluri-Grammars for Pluri-Genders: Competing Gender Systems in the Nominal Morphology of Non-Binary French
Although much has been written in recent years on the emergence of non-binary English linguistic innovations, comparatively little has been written on non-binary French forms, especially neo-morphemes marking non-binary gender on nouns. As French is a grammatical-gender language with a traditionally binary (masculine and feminine) system, many non-binary Francophones have circumvented the social connection between grammatical gender and human gen…
Between prescriptivism and polemic: L’écriture inclusive in the opinion pieces of Le Monde , Le Figaro , and Libération
L’écriture inclusive sparked major language debates in the French Press. I use critical discourse analysis to examine how l’écriture inclusive is discussed, the contexts in which the term is evoked and its indexical field in a corpus of opinion pieces from Le Figaro, Le Monde , and Libération from 2017–2021. After establishing that l’écriture inclusive is a formula—heterogeneously employed and inherently polemical—my thematic analysis explores pa…
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