Reading Group

These key contributions to the literature on the concept of the gene were agreed as preparatory readings for the first workshop. They were discussed by local participants (see minutes) and online by all participants in the months before the workshop.

10/30/02 Overviews

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Falk, R. (1986). What is a gene? Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 17, 133-173.

Falk, R. (2000). The Gene: A concept in tension. In P. Beurton & R. Falk & H.-J. Rheinberger (Eds.), The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution (pp. 317-348). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Griffiths, P. E. (2002). Lost: One Gene Concept, Reward to Finder. Essay Review of The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution, edited by Beurton, P, Falk, R and Rheinberger, H.J,. Biology and Philosophy, 17(2), 271-283.

11/13/02 The gene as variable object

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Fogle, T. (2001). The Dissolution of Protein Coding Genes in Molecular Biology. In P. Beurton & R. Falk & H.-J. Rheinberger (Eds.), The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution (pp. 3-25). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rheinberger, H.-J. (2000). Gene Concepts: Fragments from the Perspective of Molecular biology. In P. J. Beurton & R. Falk & H.-J. Rheinberger (Eds.), The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution (pp. 219-239). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

11/20/02 Time to move on?

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Keller, E. F. (2000). The Century of the Gene. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press

12/04/02 The gene as contextualized object

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Hall, B. K. (2001). The gene is not dead, merely orphaned and seeking a home. Evolution and Development, 3(4), 225-228.

Griffiths, P. E., & Neumann-Held, E. (1999). The many faces of the gene. BioScience, 49(8), 656-662.

Falk, R. (2001). Can the norm of reaction save the gene concept? In R. Singh & C. Krimbas & D. B. Paul & J. Beatty (Eds.), Thinking about Evolution: Historical, Philosophical and Political Perspectives (pp. 119-140). New York: Cambridge University Press.

12/11/02 The gene as linear sequence

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Waters, C. K. (2000). Molecules Made Biological. Rev. Int. de Philosophie, 4(214), 539- 564.

Waters, K. (1994). Genes made molecular. Philosophy of Science, 61, 163-185.

12/18/02 Gene D and Gene P

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Moss, L. (2001). Deconstructing the gene and reconstructing molecular develomental systems. In S. Oyama, Griffiths, P.E, Gray, R.D (Ed.), Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution (pp. 85-97). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Moss, L. (In Press). One, Two (Too?) Many Genes: Review of The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution by Beurton, P, Falk, R and Rheinberger, H.J. Quarterly Review of Biology, xxx-xxx. Available from http://www.nd.edu/~ndphilo/faculty/lmo.htm

01/08/03 The gene as information

Atlan, H & Koppel, M. (1990). The Cellular Computer DNA: Program or Data? Bulletin of mathematical Biology, 52(3), 335-348.

Sarkar, S. (1996). Biological information: A sceptical look at some central dogmas of molecular biology. In S. Sarkar (Ed.), The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology: New Perspectives (Vol. 183, pp. 187-232). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

01/08/03 Genetic Causation

Gannett, L. (1999). What's the cause? The pragmatic dimensions of genetic explanation. Biology and Philosophy, 14(3), 349-374.

Robert, J. S. (2001). Interpreting the Homeobox: Metaphors of gene activation in development and evolution. Evolution and Development, 3, 287-295.