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William C. Wimsatt

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21

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Active since

1970

Affiliations

University of Chicago(Current)

William C. Wimsatt is an author at University of Chicago specializing in evolutionary theory, evolution, and life sciences.

Publications per year

1970–2013

20

Publications

21

The Ontology of Complex Systems: Levels of Organization, Perspectives, and Causal Thickets

William C. Wimsatt · Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume · 1994 · 287 citations

Humanities, Philosophy, Epistemology +9

Aggregativity: Reductive Heuristics for Finding Emergence

William C. Wimsatt · Philosophy of Science · 1997 · 255 citations

Engineering, Organizational Behavior, Complex Systems +9

Genes, Memes, and Cultural Heredity

William C. Wimsatt · Biology & Philosophy · 1999 · 122 citations

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics +12

Emergence as Non-Aggregativity and the Biases of Reductionisms

William C. Wimsatt · Foundations of Science · 2000 · 116 citations

Social Sciences, Economics, Nature Of Science +3

Reductionism and its heuristics: Making methodological reductionism honest

William C. Wimsatt · Synthese · 2006 · 107 citations

Humanities, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Science +3

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