Preparatory readings and minutes of discussions by local participants before Workshop 1.

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.