Books
Wilkins, John S., ed. 2010. Intelligent design and religion as a natural phenomenon, The international library of essays on evolutionary thought. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Pub. Co.
2009. Defining Species: a sourcebook from antiquity to today. New York: Peter Lang. In production.
2009. Species: A history of an idea. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Refereed
Under review. Species are not theoretical objects, or, On what there is in biology.
Under review. What is it to be an atheist (or an agnostic)?
Under review. Essentialism and natural kinds in biology.
Under review. A deflationary account of information in biology.
In press. Myths about Darwin on species evolution and inheritance. Evolution: Education and Outreach.
Wilkins, John S. 2009. Evidence and Evolution: The Logic behind the Science. Systematic Biology.
2011. Are creationists rational? Synthese 178 (2):207-218..
2010. What is a species? Essences and generation. Theory in Biosciences 129:141–148.
2009. Not Saint Darwin. Resonance 14 (February):154-171.
2008. The adaptive landscape of science. Biology and Philosophy 23 (5):659–671
2007. The Concept and Causes of Microbial Species. Studies in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 28 (3):389–408. [Note: the figures have been interchanged. It should be obvious which is which]
2007. The dimensions, modes and definitions of species and speciation. Biology and Philosophy 22 (2):247–266.
2005. A scientific modern amongst medieval species University of Queensland Historical Proceedings 16:1–5.
2005. Is “meme” the new “idea”? Reflections on Aunger. Biology and Philosophy 20 (2-3):585–598.
2003. How to be a chaste species pluralist-realist: The origins of species modes and the Synapomorphic Species Concept. Biology and Philosophy 18:621–638. [production error at end - some text repeated]
2002. Darwinism as metaphor and analogy: language as a selection process. Selection: Molecules, Genes, Memes 3 (1):57–74.
1999. On choosing to evolve: strategies without a strategist. Journal of Memetics – Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission: 3.
1999. Memes ain’t (just) in the head. Journal of Memetics – Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission 3.
1998. What’s in a Meme? Reflections from the perspective of the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology. Journal of Memetics – Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission 2: 2–33.
1998. The evolutionary structure of scientific theories. Biology and Philosophy 13 (4): 479–504.
Jointly authored
with Gareth J. Nelson. 2008. Trémaux on species: A theory of allopatric speciation (and punctuated equilibrium) before Wagner Studies in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 30:179–206.
with Wesley R Elsberry. 2001. The advantages of theft over toil: the design inference and arguing from ignorance. Biology and Philosophy 16 (November): 711–724.
Book chapters
Forthcoming. Philosophy of Biology in Australasia. In A Companion to Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, edited by G. Oppy, N. Trakakis, L. Burns and F. Leigh.
2009. Darwin, The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of History and Historiography, Tucker, A. (ed.). Blackwell Publications:405–415.
2001. The appearance of Lamarckism in the evolution of culture. In Darwinism and evolutionary economics, edited by J. Laurent and J. Nightingale. Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 160–183.
Brusic, V., Wilkins, J.S., Stanyon, C.A. and Zeleznikow, J. (1998) Data learning: understanding biological data. In Merrill, G. and Pathak, D.K. (eds.), Knowledge sharing across biological and medical knowledge based systems: Papers from the 1998 AAAI Workshop. AAAI Technical Report WS-98-04.
Encyclopedia entries
2006. Encyclopedia of Anthropology entries: “The Ontology of Evolution”, “Memes”, and “Theory”. Ed. James Birx. SAGE Publications. Not published: “Evolutionary epistemology”
2005. Hull, David L., and John S. Wilkins. “Replication.” In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, 2005.
Book reviews and review articles
2007. Book Review: Remembering Gould. Metascience 16 (1):169–173. Review of Vrba, Elisabeth S., and Niles Eldredge, Eds. Macroevolution: Diversity, Disparity, Contingency.
2007. Mayr’s centenary festschrift. Review of Hey, Jody; Fitch, Walter M.; Ayala, Francisco J., eds. 2005. Systematics and the origin of species: On Ernst Mayr’s 100th Anniversary. Biology and Philosophy 22 (4):603–610.
2006. Book Review: Ronald Amundson: The Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought. Philosophy in Review, February 2006.
2005. Book Review: Evolving Ethics. Neil Levy, What makes us moral? The Human Nature Review 5:14–17.
2005. Book Review: Tim Lewens, Organisms and Artifacts. Reports of the National Centre for Science Education, In press
2003. Book Review: Beethoven’s Anvil: Music in mind and culture, by William L. Benzon. The Human Nature Review 3:53–54.
2003. Book review: Frogs, flies and dandelions: the making of species, Menno Schilthuizen. Reports of the National Centre for Science Education 23 (1):37–38.
2003. Book review: Alfred Russel Wallace: a life, Peter Raby. Reports of the National Centre for Science Education 23 (1):39.
2002. Book Review: The Darwinian Revolution: Science red in tooth and claw, Michael Ruse. Reports of the National Centre for Science Education 22 (4):33–34.
2002. Book Review: Genes, Categories, and Species, Jody Hey. Biology and Philosophy. [Accepted but unpublished due to production error]
2001. Defining evolution. Reports of the National Centre for Science Education 21 (1-2): 29–37.
2001. Book Review – Robert T Pennock, Tower of Babel: the evidence against the new creationism. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (July):402–404.
Popular articles
2008. Ancestors. In The Open Laboratory: The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2007, edited by R. A. Cartwright. Chapel Hill, NC: Coturnix: 92–95.
2007–2008. Buffon: an evolutionary thinker? Museum Quarterly (quarterly magazine of Auckland War Memorial Museum) (113): 10–11.
2007. Dissecting science: Does philosophy have a role in science today? COSMOS: The Science of Everything 18: 44–45.
2007. The Demarcation Problem… Again. In The Open Laboratory: The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006, edited by B. Zivkovic. Chapel Hill, NC: Lulu.
2006. Species, Kinds, and Evolution. Reports of the National Center for Science Education 26 (4):36–45.
