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Michael Ruse is a philosopher of science who specializes in the philosophy of biology and is well known for his work on the relationship between science and religion, the creation-evolution controversy and the demarcation problem within science. He was born in England, attending Bootham School,York. He took his undergraduate degree at the University of Bristol (1962), his master's degree at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1964), and PhD. at the University of Bristol (1970). Ruse founded the journal Biology and Philosophy, of which he is now Emeritus Editor, and has published numerous books and articles.
2019
What Everyone Needs to Know®
2014
The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy
1988
The Relationship between Science and Religion
2000
2008
Does Evolution Have a Purpose?
2003
2006
What Literature Tells Us about Evolution
2016
Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
2009
The First Four Billion Years
2009
A Dialogue
2008
Debating Biotechnology
2002
Is Evolution a Social Construction?
1999
2017
Classic and Contemporary Readings
2009
2016
A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy
1987
2008
Science Red in Tooth and Claw
1979
A Guide to the Debates
2000
2005
Science on a Pagan Planet
2013
A Battle between Mechanism and Organicism
2023
2012
Debating the Issues
2003
Understanding the Roots of Human Conflict
2022
