__________ Sahotra Sarkar __________
Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Waggener Hall 316, Austin, TX 78712-1180, USA.
Main research focus: Major research focus: philosophy of science; environmental issues; science and social issues; history of science; history of the philosophy of science; logical empiricism; aesthetics.
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Ashtekar, A./Cohen, R. S./Howard, D./Renn, J./Sarkar, S./Shimony, A., . 2003.
Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics: Festschrift in Honor of John Stachel
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Jaeger, G./Sarkar, S. 2003.
Coherence, entanglement, and reductionist explanation in quantum physics
In , ,
523—544.
Laubichler, M.D./Sarkar, S. 2001.
Flies, genes, and brains: Oskar Vogt, Nicolai Timofeeff-Ressovsky, and the origin of the concepts of penetrance and expressivity in classical genetics.
In
Parker/Ankeny, Medical Genetics,
#—#.
Keywords:
expressivity •
history of genetics •
penetrance.
Sarkar, S. 2001.
Reductionism in genetics and the Human Genome Project.
In
Singh et al., Thinking About Evolution,
235—252.
Keywords:
genetics •
Human Genome Project •
reduction.
Sarkar, S./Parker, N.C./Garson, J./Aggarwal, A./Haskell, S. 2001. Place prioritization for Texas using GAP data: The use of biodiversity and environmental surrogates within socioeconmic constraints.
GAP Analysis Bulletin
9:
48—50.
Gilbert, S.F./Sarkar, S. 2000. Embracing complexity: Organicism for the Twenty-first Century.
Developmental Dynamics
219:
1—9.
Keywords:
complexity •
organicism.
Sarkar, S. 2000. Information in genetics and developmental biology.
Philosophy of Science
67:
208—213.
See also: Godfrey Smith 2000; Maynard Smith 2000; Sterelny 2000.
Keywords:
biological information •
genetics.
Sarkar, S. 2000.
Physical approximations and stochastic processes in Einstein's 1905 paper on Brownian motion.
In
Howard/Stachel, Einstein: The Formative Years,
203—229.
Keywords:
approximation •
Brownian motion •
Einstein •
physics •
stochastic processes.
Sher, I./Sarkar, S. 2000.
Loop analysis of feedback in ecological models.
In
Toni/Bulajich, Dynamical Roles of Feedback Circuits and Related Topics,
52—55.
Sarkar, S. 1999. Wilderness preservation and biodiversity conservation: Keeping divergent goals distinct.
BioScience
49:
405—412.
Keywords:
biodiversity conservation •
ecology •
wilderness preservation.
Sarkar, S. 1999. From the Reaktionsnorm to the adaptive norm: The norm of reaction, 1909-1960.
Biology and Philosophy
14:
235—252.
Keywords:
adaptive norm •
history of biology •
norm of reaction.
Sarkar, S. 1999. Delusions about IQ.
Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive
18:
224—231.
Keyword:
IQ.
Stachel, J./Sarkar, S. 1999. Did Malament prove the non-conventionality of simultaneity in the special theory of relativity?
Philosophy of Science
66:
208—220.
Thieffry, D./Sarkar, S. 1999. Postgenomics? An Interdisciplinary Conference at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
BioScience
49:
223—227.
Keyword:
genomics.
Sarkar, S. 1998.
Genetics and Reductionism.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Keywords:
genetics •
reduction.
Sarkar, S. 1998. Wallace's belated revival.
Journal of Biosciences
23:
3—7.
Keyword:
Wallace.
Sarkar, S. 1998. Symbiosis in evolution.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
29:
211—218.
Keyword:
symbiosis.
Sarkar, S. 1998. Restoring wilderness or reclaiming forests?
Terra Nova
3(3):
35—51.
Translated and Reprinted as "Restaurando o Mundo Selvagem". In Diegues, A.C., ed. 2000. Etnoconservação. São Paolo: Hucitec. 47—66. Reprinted in Rothenberg, D./Ulvaeus, M., eds. 2001. The World and the Wild. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 37—55.
Keywords:
biodiversity conservation •
ecology •
wilderness preservation.
Thieffry, D./Sarkar, S. 1998. Forty years under the Central Dogma.
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
23:
312—316.
Keyword:
entral dogma.
Sarkar, S. 1997. Conservation and island biogeography [Review of Quammen, D., The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions].
BioScience
47:
124—125.
Asteris, G./Sarkar, S. 1996. Bayesian procedures for the estimation of mutation rates from fluctuation experiments.
Genetics
142:
313—326.
Keywords:
Bayesian procedures •
fluctuation experiments •
mutation rates.
Jaeger, G./Viger, C./Sarkar, S. 1996. Bell-type equalities for SQUIDs on the assumption of macroscopic realism and non-invasive measurability
Physics Letters A
210:
5—10.
Sarkar, S., ed. 1996.
Science and Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: Basic Works of Logical Empiricism.
New York: Garland.
Vol. 1: The Emergence of Logical Empiricism: From 1900 to the Vienna Circle.
Vol. 2: Logical Empiricism at Its Peak: Schlick, Carnap, and Neurath.
Vol. 3: Logic, Probability, and Epistemology: The Power of Semantics.
Vol. 4: Logical Empiricism and the Special Sciences: Reichenbach, Feigl, and Nagel.
Vol. 5: Decline and Obsolescence of Logical Empiricism: Carnap vs. Quine and the Critics.
Vol. 6: The Legacy of the Vienna Circle: Modern Reappraisals.
Keywords:
Carnap •
Feigl •
history of logical empiricism •
history of the Vienna Circle •
logic •
Neurath •
probability •
Quine •
Reichenbach •
Schlick.
Sarkar, S., ed. 1996.
The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology: New Perspectives.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Keywords:
history of biology •
molecular biology.
Sarkar, S. 1996.
Philosophy, history, and molecular biology — Introduction.
In
Sarkar, The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology,
1—13.
Keyword:
history of molecular biology.
Sarkar, S. 1996. Lancelot Hogben, 1895-1975.
Genetics
142:
655—660.
Keyword:
Hogben.
Sarkar, S. 1996. Ecological theory and anuran declines.
BioScience
46:
199—207.
Keywords:
anuran declines •
ecology.
Sarkar, S. 1996.
Biological information: A sceptical look at some central dogmas of molecular biology.
In
Sarkar, The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology,
187—231.
Keywords:
biological informantion •
central dogma.
Sarkar, S. 1996.
Form and function in the molecularization of biology.
In
Tauber, Aesthetics and Science,
153—168.
Keywords:
biological form •
function •
history of molecular biology.
Sarkar, S. 1996. Decoding 'coding': Information and DNA.
BioScience
46:
857—863.
Reprinted in S --European Journal of Semiotic Studies 9: 277—298. 1997.
Keyword:
biological information.
Sarkar, S. 1996. Postmodernism and biodiversity conservation [Review of Oelschlaeger, M., ed. Postmodern Environmental Ethics and Soulé, M./Lease, G., eds. Reinventing Nature? Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction].
Conservation Biology
10:
305—306.
Sarkar, S. 1996. Between milleniarism and the apocalypse [Review of Lee, M.F., Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse].
BioScience
46:
628—630.
Jaeger, G./Sarkar, S. 1995. On the distribution of bacterial mutants: The effects of differential fitness of mutants and non-mutants.
Genetica
96:
217—223.
Keywords:
bacteria •
differential fitness •
mutation.
Sarkar, S. 1995. J. B. S. Haldane and R. A. Fisher's draft life of Karl Pearson.
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London
49:
119—124.
Keywords:
Fischer •
Haldane •
Pearson.
Sarkar, S. 1995. A paleontological perspective on evolution [Review of Ward, P., The End of Evolution].
Conservation Biology
9:
694—695.
Lachmann-Tarkhanov, M./Sarkar, S. 1994. The alternative fitness sets which preserve allele trajectories.
Genetics
138:
1323—1330.
Sarkar, S. 1994.
The selection of alleles and the additivity of variance.
In
, PSA 1994, vol. 1,,
3—12.
Keywords:
alleles •
variance.
Williams, S.M./Sarkar, S. 1994. Assortative mating and the adaptive landscape.
Evolution
48:
868—875.
Keywords:
adaptive landscapes •
assortative mating.
Sarkar, S. 1993. Beyond neo-Darwinism: The challenge of directed mutations.
Philosophical Studies from the University of Tampere
50:
69—84.
Keyword:
directed mutations.
Tauber, A.I./Sarkar, S. 1993. The ideology of the Human Genome Project.
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
86:
537—540.
Keywords:
human genetics •
Human Genome Project •
ideology •
reduction.
Aggarwal, A./Sarkar, S. 1992.
On the evolution of complex genomes: Adaptive graph computations with a CM-2 connection machine.
In
Berghel et al., Applied Computing,
798—807.
[.pdf]
Keywords:
connection machines •
genome •
graph computation.
Falk, R./Sarkar, S. 1992. Harmony from discord.
Biology and Philosophy
7:
463—472.
Ma, W.T./Sandri, GvH./Sarkar, S. 1992. Analysis of the Luria-Delbrück distribution using discrete convolution powers.
Journal of Applied Probability
29:
255—267.
[sic]
Keyword:
Luria-Delbrück distribution.
Sarkar, S., ed. 1992.
The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics: A Centenary Reappraisal.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Keyword:
history of evolutionary genetics.
Sarkar, S. 1992.
The founders of theoretical evolutionary genetics: Editor’s introduction.
In
Sarkar, The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics,
1—22.
Keyword:
history of evolutionary genetics.
Sarkar, S. 1992.
Haldane as biochemist: The Cambridge decade, 1923-1932.
In
Sarkar, The Founders of Evolutionary Genetics,
53—81.
Keywords:
biochemistry •
Haldane •
history of biochemistry.
Sarkar, S. 1992. Science, philosophy, and politics in the work of J.B.S. Haldane, 1922-1937.
Biology and Philosophy
7:
385—409.
Keywords:
Haldane •
politics.
Sarkar, S. 1992. Models of reduction and categories of reductionism.
Synthese
91:
167—194.
Keywords:
categories of reduction •
models of reduction.
Sarkar, S., ed. 1992. Carnap: A Centenary Reappraisal.
Synthese
93(1-2).
Keyword:
Carnap.
Sarkar, S. 1992. Sex, disease and evolution: Variations on a theme from J. B. S. Haldane.
BioScience
42:
448—454.
Keywords:
disease •
Haldane •
sex.
Sarkar, S. 1992. A centenary reassessment of J. B. S. Haldane, 1892-1964.
BioScience
42:
777—785.
Keyword:
Haldane.
Sarkar, S. 1992. Rudolf Carnap, 1891-1970.
Synthese
93:
1—14.
Keyword:
Carnap.
Sarkar, S. 1992. The boundless ocean of infinite possibilities: Logic in Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language.
Synthese
93:
191—237.
[Reprinted in Sarkar 1996, vol. 2.]
Keyword:
Carnap.
Sarkar, S. 1992. Haldane and the emergence of theoretical population genetics.
Journal of Genetics
71:
73—79.
Keywords:
Haldane •
history of population genetics.
Sarkar, S. 1992. Neo-Darwinism and the problem of directed mutations.
Evolutionary Trends in Plants
6(2):
73—79.
Keyword:
directed mutations.
Sarkar, S. 1992. [Review of] Hartman, E.M., Conceptual Foundations of Organization Theory.
Philosophical Review
101:
484—485.
Sarkar, S./Aggarwal, A./Ma, W.T./Sandri, G.vH. 1992.
Adaptive graph computations with a connection machine.
In
Prasanna/Canter, Proceedings of the Sixth International Parallel Processing Symposium,
18—21.
Sarkar, S./Ma, W.T./Sandri, G.vH. 1992. Analysis of the Luria-Delbrück distribution using discrete convolution powers.
Journal of Applied Probability
29:
255—267.
Sarkar, S./Ma, W.T./Sandri, G.vH. 1992. On fluctuation analysis: A new, simple and efficient method for computing the expected number of bacterial mutants.
Genetica
85:
173—179.
Tauber, A.I./Sarkar, S. 1992. The Human Genome Project: Has blind reductionism gone too far?
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
35(1992):
220—235.
Keywords:
human genetics •
Human Genome Project •
reduction.
Falk, R./Sarkar, S. 1991. The real objective of Mendel's paper: A response to Monaghan and Corcos.
Biology and Philosophy
6:
447—451.
Keyword:
Mendel.
Sarkar, S. 1991. Haldane's solution of the Luria-Delbrück distribution.
Genetics
127:
257—261.
Keywords:
Haldane •
Luria-Delbrück distribution.
Sarkar, S. 1991. Reductionism and functional explanation in molecular biology.
Uroboros
1:
67—94.
Keywords:
functional explanation •
molecular biology •
reduction.
Sarkar, S. 1991.
Lamarck contre Darwin, reduction versus statistics: Conceptual issues in the controversy over directed mutagenesis in bacteria.
In
Tauber, Organism and the Origins of Self,
235—271.
Keywords:
bacteria •
Darwin •
directed mutations •
Lamarck •
reduction •
statistics.
Sarkar, S. 1991. What is Life? revisited.
BioScience
41:
631—634.
Keywords:
nature of life •
Schrödinger.
Sarkar, S./Ma, W.T./Sandri, G.vH. 1991. Novel representation of exponential functions of power series which arise in statistical mechanics and population genetics.
Physics Letters A
155:
103—106.
Sarkar, S. 1990. On adaptation: A reduction of the Kauffman-Levin model to a problem in graph theory and its consequences.
Biology and Philosophy
5:
127—148.
Keywords:
adaptation •
graph theory •
Kauffman-Levin model.
Sarkar, S. 1990.
On the possibility of directed mutations in bacteria: Statistical analyses and reductionist strategies.
In
, PSA 1990, vol. 1,,
111—124.
Keywords:
bacteria •
directed mutations •
reduction •
statistics.
Sarkar, S. 1990. [Review of] Fischer, E.P./Lipson, C.,
Thinking about Science: Max Delbrück and the Origins of Molecular Biology. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
33:
612—616.
Sarkar, S. 1988.
Natural selection, hypercycles and the origin of life.
In
, PSA 1988, vol. 1,,
197—206.
Keywords:
hypercycles •
natural selection •
origin of life.
Sarkar, S. 1984. [Review of] Allen, T.F.H./Starr, T.B., Hierarchy: Perspectives on Ecological Complexity.
Philosophy of Science
51:
359—361.
Sarkar, S. 1980. Geometry in physics.
Columbia Journal of Ideas
5(1):
30—45.
Keywords:
geometry •
physics.
Sarkar, S. 1980. On the concept of elementarity in particle physics.
Columbia Journal of Ideas
5(3):
93—129.
Keywords:
elementarity •
particle physics.
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