Michael Ruse

• From Lecturer to Professor (History, Philosophy, and Zoology) University of Guelph, 1965-2000
• Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University, 2000-2020
• Director Program in History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State University, 2004-2019
• Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, 2018-

• John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1983-4. 
• Isaak Walton Killam Fellowship, 1985-7.
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 1986.
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1986.
• Associate, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1972 (and life member)
• Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge, 1986
• Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1994.
• Donald Gordon Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, 2014
• Honorary Doctoral Degree (D. Philos.), University of Bergen, 1990.
• Honorary Doctoral Degree (D. Litt.), McMaster University, 2003
• Honorary Doctoral Degree (D. Litt.), University of New Brunswick, 2007
• Honorary Doctoral Degree (D. Sc.) University College London, 2014
• Herbert Spencer Lecturer, Oxford University, 1994        
• Gifford Lecturer, Glasgow University, 2001
• Herbert Reynolds Lecturer, Baylor University, 2002        
• John Templeton Book Award, 1999
• American Risk and Insurance Association, RMIR Feature Award (2006), for “Regulating genetic information in insurance markets,” in Risk Management and Insurance Review, 2005 (co-authored with Michael Hoy)
• PROSE award for Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought, 2013, Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences
• Bertrand Russell Society Award, 2014, for outstanding philosopher of the year in the spirit of Bertrand Russell
• Paul Thompson and Denis Walsh, editors, Evolutionary Biology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), Festschrift for Michael Ruse
• Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored by Choice, for On Faith and Science, with Edward J. Larson.
• David Hull prize and medal from the International Society for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology for distinguished contributions to the field, 2021.

Editing:

• Founding editor of Biology and Philosophy, 1985-2000
• Editor of Cambridge University Press Series in the Philosophy of Biology, 1992-2006
• Editor of Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology, 2006-2020
• Co-editor (with Grant Ramsey) of Cambridge Elements in the Philosophy of Biology, 2018-
• Books:    
•     The Philosophy of Biology, London:  Hutchinson, 1973.  Also
•     translated into Spanish, Russian and Italian.
• Sociobiology: Sense or Nonsense? Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979.
• Second edition, with new Afterword, 1985.  Also translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
• The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1979.  Second edition, with new Afterword, 1999.  Also translated into Spanish and Korean.
• Is Science Sexist?  And Other Problems in the Biomedical Sciences.  Dordrecht:  Reidel, 1981.  (Collected Essays)
• Darwinism Defended:  A Guide to the Evolution Controversies.  Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1982.
• Nature Animated.  (Edited volume of conference papers.)  Dordrecht: Reidel, 1980.
• Taking Darwin Seriously: A Naturalistic Approach to Philosophy.  Oxford:  Blackwell, 1986.  Also translated into Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian.   Second edition with new preface 1998, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY      
• Homosexuality: A Philosophical Inquiry. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988. Also translated into Spanish                
• The Philosophy of Biology.  (Edited volume).  New York: Macmillan, 1989.  New edition with additional material 1998, Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY; Second edition 2007
• But is it Science?  The Philosophical Question in the Evolution/Creation Controversy.  (Edited Volume).  Buffalo: Prometheus, 1988; second edition with Robert Pennock, 2008.     
• Philosophy of Biology Today.  Albany:  SUNY Press, 1988.
• What the Philosophy of Biology Is.  Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989. (Edited Volume).
• The Darwinian Paradigm:  London:  Routledge, 1989, (Collected Essays)  
• Evolutionary Naturalism London:  Routledge, 1994, (Collected Essays)       
• Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996.   Paperback edition 2009
• Biology and Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 (Edited volume, with Jane Maienschein)
• Readings in the Philosophy of Biology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998, edited with David Hull
• Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999.  Also translated into Spanish and Portuguese
• The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Controversies, Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2000.  Paperback, Rutgers University Press, 2001; second edition of hardback 2008
• Can a Darwinian be a Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press 2001. Also translated into Spanish, Chinese and Korean
• Cloning (edited with Aryne Sheppard), Buffalo: Prometheus, 2001
• Of the Plurality of Worlds: An Essay, by William Whewell (edited with preface), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001
• Genetically Modified Foods (edited with David Castle), Buffalo: Prometheus, 2002
•  Stem Cell Research (edited with Christopher Pynes) Buffalo: Prometheus, 2003, second edition 2006
• Darwin and Design: Does Evolution have a Purpose?  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.  Also translated into Japanese
• Debating Design: Darwin to DNA (edited with William Dembski), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Darwinian Heresies (edited with Abigail Lustig and Robert J. Richards), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• A Darwinian Evolutionist’s Philosophy, Seoul, Korea, 2004 (Korean and English)
• The Evolution/Creation Struggle, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005, also in Dutch and Korean
• Darwinism and its Discontents, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.  Also translated into Italian and Greek
• Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology, edited with David Hull, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
• Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Biology, edited volume, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
• Charles Darwin, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, also in Dutch and Spanish
• Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species, edited with Robert J. Richards, Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2008
• Descended from Darwin: Insights into the History of Evolutionary Studies, 1900-1970 The Darwinian Legacy, edited with Joseph Cain, APS, 2008
• Evolution and Religion: A Dialogue, Rowman and Littlefield, 2008; second revised edition, 2016
• Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley, edited with an introduction.  Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2008
• The Paleontological Revolution, edited with David Sepkoski, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009
• Defining Darwin: Understanding the Legacy, Buffalo: Prometheus, 2009.  Collected essays
• Evolution: The First Four Billion Years (edited with Joseph Travis), Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009
• Philosophy after Darwin: Classic and Contemporary Readings (edited volume), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009
• Science and Spirituality: Making Room for Faith in the Age of Science, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, also in Dutch
• The Philosophy of Human Evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
• The Gaia Hypothesis: Science on a Pagan Planet, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought, (edited volume), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
• The Oxford Handbook to Atheism, edited volume with Stephen Bullivant, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
• The Self-Organizing Universe, edited volume with Charley Lineweaver and Paul Davies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
• Le Darwinism.  Louvain-Paris: Editions Peeters, 2013.
• Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know, Oxford: Oxford University Press.  2015.  Also in Polish.
• Simply Darwin. New York: Simply Charly.  2016.  eBook, paperback, and audiobook.
• Debating Darwin, with Robert J. Richards.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2016.
• Science, Evolution, and Religion: A Debate about Atheism and Theism.  With Michael Peterson.  Oxford: Oxford University Press.  2016.
• Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution.  New York: Oxford University Press.  2017.
• The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Ethics, edited volume with Robert J. Richards.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  2017.
• On Faith and Science, with Edward J. Larson.  New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2017.   (Winner of the Outstanding Academic Title for 2018 award sponsored by Choice)
• On Purpose.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.  2017.
• The Problem of War: Darwinism, Christianity, and their Battle to Understand Human Conflict.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• The Darwinian Revolution.  Cambridge University Press Elements Series in the Philosophy of Biology.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.  Also translated into Persian (Farsi).
• A Meaning to Life.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, also e-book and audio-book.
• Monotheism and Contemporary Atheism.  Cambridge University Press Elements Series in Monotheism.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.  
• Taking God Seriously: Two Different Voices.  With Brian Davies.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• Social Darwinism.  With Jeff O’Connell.  Cambridge University Press Elements Series in the Philosophy of Biology.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• The Cambridge History of Atheism.  Edited with Stephen Bullivant.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• A Philosopher Looks at Human Beings.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• Three Views on Christianity and Science. (Counterpoints: Bible and Theology). Paul Copan (Editor), Christopher L. Reese (Editor), Michael Ruse (Contributor), Alister E. McGrath (Contributor), Bruce L. Gordon (Contributor), Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Academic (January 12, 2021).
• Why We Hate: The Roots of Human Conflict.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Also, in Spanish
• Understanding Natural Selection.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2022.
• The New Biology: The Battle between Mechanism and Organicism.  With Michael Reiss.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.  (Forthcoming, Fall 2022)
• Evolution and Christianity.  Cambridge University Press Elements Series in Christianity and Philosophy.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  (Forthcoming Spring 2003)
• Understanding Christianity and Darwinism.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.  (Forthcoming 202
• Selected Shorter Professional Publications (2000-)

Articles:

• Teleology: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow?  Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences 31 (2000): 213-232.
• Robert Boyle and the machine metaphor. Zygon 37 (2002): 581-96.
• Is evolution a secular religion? Science 299 (2003): 1523-4.
• The romantic conception of Robert J. Richards. Journal of the History of Biology 37 (2004): 3-23.
• The Darwinian Revolution as seen in 1979 and as seen twenty-five years later in 2004. Journal of the History of Biology 38 (2005): 3-17.
• Darwin and mechanism: Metaphor in science.  Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences 36 (2005): 285-302.
• Regulating genetic information in insurance markets,” in Risk Management and Insurance Review, 2005 (co-authored with Michael Hoy)
• Forty years as a philosopher of biology: why evo-devo makes me still excited about my subject. Biological Theory 1 (2006): 35-37.
• Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Topoi 26 (2007): 159-65.
• Darwinian struggles: But is there progress? History of Science 47 (2009): 407-30.
• Darwinism then and now: the divide over form and function. Science and Education. (2009).
• The Darwinian Revolution: Rethinking its meaning and significance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106 (2009), supplement 1: 10040-10047.ib
• Charles Darwin on Cross and Self-Fertilization of Plants. Comptes-Rendus Biologies, (2010).
• Is Darwinism past its "Sell-by" date? Studies in History and Philosophy of Biology and Biomedical Sciences 42 (2010).
• Is Darwinism Past its ‘Sell-By’ Date? The Origin of Species at 150.  European       Review. 18, 311-327.
• Science and religion today.  International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion. 70 (2011), 167-177.
• Making room for faith in an age of science: The science-religion relationship revisited. Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.  85 (2011), 43-58.
• Making room for faith in an age of science: A response to David Wisdo.  Zygon, 46 (3) (2011), 665-672.
• Science and values: My debt to Ernan McMullin.  Zygon, 47 (4) (2012), 666-685.
• “A Man’s Gotta Do What a Man’s Gotta Do” And Other Memorable Lines from     “Philosophy and Film.”  Soundings, 95, 2012, 206-226.
• Symposium on the Origin of Species: Teaching the classics: the Origin of Species as a case study. Science and Education, 22 (2013), 2255-2265; David N. Reznick’s The “Origin” Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the “Origin of Species”: A précis.  Science and Education, 22 (2013), 2295-2316; Science and the humanities: Stephen Jay Gould’s quest to join the high table.  Science and Education. 22 (2013), 2317-2326.
• The current status of the philosophy of biology.  Science and Education.                       2013, 22, 5-48.  With Peter Takacs.
• Charles Robert Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace: their dispute over the units of selection.  Theory in Biosciences. 132 (2013), 215-224.   
• Making Room for Faith: Does Science Exclude Religion?  Midwest Studies in Philosophy.  37 (2013), 11-24.
• Was there a Darwinian Revolution?  Yes, no, and maybe!   Endeavour.  38 (2014), 159-168.
• Religion, misallodoxy and the teaching of evolution: the influence of Michael Matthews.  Science & Education, 24 (2015), 815-820
• Evolutionary biology and the question of teleology, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2016, 58, 100-106.
• Creencias Y Biología Evolutiva: Cómo La Ideología Pueda Reprentar Diferentes Posturas Sociales a Partir de la Ciencia.  Mẻtode, 90 (2016), 51-57
• Is Darwinism a religion?  Toronto Theology Journal. (2016), 32(2), 369 –389.
• Evolutionary Theory and the Challenge of Evo-Devo: Do We Need a New Paradigm?  Journal of Dialectics of Nature (2016), 38 (6), with Peter Takacs.
• L’etat, c’est moi. Fifty years of history and philosophy of evolutionary biology. Theoretical Biology Forum (2016), 1-2, 111-122.
• An entangled bank: Charles Darwin and romanticism.  Metascience, 2017.
• The role of biology in philosophy.  Metascience, 2017, 26, 285-288.
• The Christian’s dilemma: organicism or mechanism?  Zygon (2017), 52 (2), 442-467.
• Darwin made me do it.  The New Atlantis, 2017, 52: 57-69.
• Christianity, Darwinism and War: A Paradox, Soundings, 2018, 101: 273-290
• Curate’s Egg: Pinker on Progress.  Quarterly Review of Biology, 2018, 93: 347-353.  (With Jeff O’Connell.)
• A Darwinian Pilgrim’s Early Progress; A Darwinian Pilgrim’s Middle Progress; A Darwinian Pilgrim’s Late Progress.  Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 2019.
• Pseudo-science: objective or subjective?  Disputatio: Philosophical Research Bulletin, 2019.  Also in Chinese in The Journal for the Scientific Study of Cults, 2019.
• Can Christians Live with Extinction, or Will They Get Wiped Out?  Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences.  2019, 6:1.
• Why did the stegosaurus have plates, or is biology second-rate because it thinks in terms of ends?  Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso, 2019, No 14, 9-25
• After Darwin: Morality in a secular world.  Secular Studies, 2019, 1, 161-185, with Jeffrey O’Connell.
• Building blocks of morality. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2020, 76:1
• Christianity and Darwinism: The Journey Is More Important than The Destination.  Religions.  2021
• Charles Darwin y la ética: por qué El origen del hombre es la obra más importante en la filosofía moral desde la Ética a Nicómaco de Aristóteles (traducción al español), 9-34; Charles Darwin and Ethics: why the Descent of Man is the most important work in moral philosophy since Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (original en inglés) 35-58.  Humanities Journal of Valparaiso 2021
• Come fu che un quacchero perse Dio e trovò Darwin, La società degli individui, n. 70, XXIV, 53-71, 2021
• Willem Drees on the Humanities, Zygon 56, 2021.
• Ética evolutiva: o ressurgir da fênix, Boletim de História e Filosofia da Biologia, Volume 15, Número 3, Setembro De 2021.  [“Evolutionary ethics: a phoenix arisen,” originally in Zygon, 1986.]   
• Evolution and Ethics Viewed from Within Two Metaphors: Machine and Organism, History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 2022.
• Darwin and Design.  Filozoficznych Aspektów Genezy. (Poland) 2022.
• Selected contributions to books:
• Evolutionary naturalism.  The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding (Gifford Lectures, 2001). Editor A. Sanford, 109-62. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark.
• Evolutionary Biology and Teleological Thinking. Functions: New Essays in the Philosophy of Psychology and Biology. Edited by Andre Ariew, Robert Cummins, and Mark Perlman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• A Darwinian Naturalist's Perspective on Altruism.  Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue.  Edited by Stephen G. Post, Lynn G. Underwood, Jeffrey P. Schloss, and William B. Hurlbut.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Adaptive landscapes and dynamic equilibrium: The Spencerian contribution to twentieth-century American evolutionary biology.  Darwinian Heresies. Editors A. Lustig, R. J. Richards, and M. Ruse, 131-50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
• Evo-devo: A new evolutionary paradigm?  Philosophy, Biology, and Life (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements). Editor A. O'Heare, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Evolutionary Biology and the Question of Trust.  Scientific Values and Civic Virtues.  Edited by Noretta Koertge.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Kant and evolution.  Theories of Generation.  Editor Justin Smith, 402-15.     Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2006.
• Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress.  Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think.  Editors A. Grafen and M. Ridley,
• Biodiversity, Darwin and the fossil record (with Kim Cuddington). Philosophy and Biodiversity.  Editors: Markku Oksanen and Juhani Pietarinen.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Intelligent Design: a dialogue, with William A. Dembski.  Robert B. Stewart, editor.  Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski & Michael Ruse in Dialogue. Philadelphia: Fortress, 2007, 12-43.
• Alfred Russel Wallace, the discovery of natural selection and the origins of humankind.  Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology.  Editors O. Harman, and M. R. Dietrich, 20-36. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2008.
• Belief in God in a Darwinian age.  The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Editors M. J. S. Hodge, and G. Radick, 368-89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Myth 23: That "intelligent design" represents a scientific challenge to evolution.  Galileo Goes to Jail, and Other Myths about Science and Religion. Editor R. N. Numbers, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.
• Charles Darwin.  Nineteenth Century Philosophy of Religion.  Editors, G. Oppy and N. N. Trakakis.  161-174.  Bristol: Durham, 2009.
• Self-Organization and Complexity in Evolutionary Theory, or, in this Life the Bread Always Falls Jammy Side Down, in Mapping the Future of Biology, sous la dir. d’A. Barberousse, M. Morange et T. Pradeu, Springer, Netherlands, 2009, 141–154.
• Is Darwinian metaethics possible (and if it is, is it well taken)?  Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology.  Editors: Giovanni Boniolo and Gabriele De Anna.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• Evolution and progress.  Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins. Editors D. Alexander, and R. N. Numbers, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010
• A Naturalistic Perspective.  The Oxford Handbook of Religious Diversity.  Edited by Chad V. Meister.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010
• Form and function: On biology and buildings.  CENTER Volume 15: Divinity, Creativity, Complexity.  Editor M. Benedikt, Austin, TX: Center for American Architecture and Design, 2010, 94-111.
• Atheism, naturalism and science: Three in one?  Cambridge Companion to     Science and Religion.  Editor Peter Harrison, Cambridge: Cambridge     University Press, 2011, 229-243.
• The place of artificial selection in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through natural selection. Philosophy of Science Matters. The Philosophy of Peter Achinstein. Editor Gregory J. Morgan, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 203-215.
• Origins.  The Routledge Companion to Religion and Science.  Edited by James     W. Haag, Gregory R. Peterson, and Michael L. Spezio. London and New     York: Routledge, 2012, 381-390.
• Can Darwinism offer existential reassurance at times of personal or social     crisis?  Editor, Albert Polani, Pragmatic Evolution: Applications of     Evolutionary Theory.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.      313-325.
• Darwinism and atheism: A marriage made in heaven?  The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity. Editors J. B. Stump, and A. G. Padgett, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012, 247-257.
• Natural theology: the biological sciences.  The Oxford Handbook of Natural     Theology.  Edited Russell Re Manning, Oxford: Oxford University Press,     2013.
• The primate who knew too much.  Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike.  Editor J. Huss, Chicago: Open Court, 2013, 153-163.
• The paradox of Samuel Butler: Insider or outsider?  Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. Editors O. Harman, and M. Dietrich, 75-89. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• From organicism to mechanism and halfway back.  Beyond Mechanism: Putting Life Back into Biology.  Editors B. G. Henning and A. Scare, 409-430. Lexington Books. 2013.
• Evolution: From pseudoscience to popular science, from popular science to professional science. Editors, Massimo Pigliucci and Maarten Boudry, Philosophy of Pseudoscience: Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem.  
• 225-245. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• Form and function in biology: placing Brian Goodwin.  The Intuitive Way of Knowing: A Tribute to Brian Goodwin. Editors C. Chetland, M. Craig, and D. Lambert, 55-70. Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2013.
• Biologically evolutionary explanations of religious belief.  Evolution, Religion, and Cognitive Science: Critical and Constructive Essays.  Edited by Fraser Watts and Leon Turner, 38-55.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Evolution and ethics in Victorian Britain.  The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century.  Edited by W. J. Mander, 233-256.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• Creationism considered.  Science and the World: Philosophical Approaches.  Edited by Jeffrey Foss.  Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2014, 353-381.
• Sexual Selection: Why does it Play such a Large Role in the Descent of Man?  Current Perspectives on Sexual Selection: What's left after Darwin?  Edited by T. Hoquet.  New York: Springer, 2015, 3-17.
• The Naturalist Challenge to Religion.  Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, Fifth Edition.  Edited by Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• ‘Klaatu barada nikto’ – or, do they really think like us?  The Impact of Discovering Life Beyond Earth.  Edited by Steven J. Dick.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 175-188.
• Sociobiology and evolutionary psychology (with Abraham H. Gibson).  A Companion to the History of American Science.  Edited by Georgina M. Montgomery and Mark A. Largent.  Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 252-262, 2016.
• Genomics and spirituality. Genomics and Society: Ethical, Legal, Cultural and Socioeconomic Implications, Edited by Dhavendra Kumar and Ruth Chadwick, London: Academic Press, 2016, 321-333.
• Philosophy of Biology.  Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics.  Edited by Henk ten Have.  New York: Springer, 2016
• Darwinian Evolution and a Providential God: The Human Problem.  Abraham's Dice: Chance and Providence in the Monotheistic Traditions.  Edited by Karl W. Giberson.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016
• Social Darwinism.  On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion.  Edited by Michel Tibayrence and Francisco J. Ayala.  Amsterdam: Academic Press, 2017, 651-660.
• Evolutionary medicine: philosophical aspects.  The Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Philosophy of Medicine.  Edited by James A. Marcum.  London: Bloomsbury, 2017, 147-160.
• Theism and the Sociobiological Account of Religion, Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks, Philosophy: Religion. 2016
• Philosophical Foundations for a Modern Morality.  In Todd K. Shackelford and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, editors.  Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Switzerland: Springer International, 2016.
• Does Darwinian evolution mean we are here by chance?  In Grant Ramsey and Charles H. Pence, editors, Chance in Evolution.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.  122-141.
• Gould, Stephen J. in The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, Wenda Trevathan (ed).  John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (In press, 2018).
• Why God is a moral issue.  In Modern Ethics in 77 Arguments: A Stone Reader.  Editors Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley. New York: Liveright (Norton), 2017, 168-171.
• Naturalism, evil, and God.  The Cambridge Companion to the Problem of Evil.  Editors C. Meister, and P. K. Moser, 249-66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• Religion and science are independent – but why?  A 21st Century Debate on Science and Religion.  Editors, Shiva Khalili, Fraser Watts, and Harris Wiseman.  Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 165-176.
• Why really good science doesn’t have all the answers.  Science Unlimited: The Challenges of Scientism.  Edited by Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci.  Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017, 245-262.
• The Darwinian Revolution: Was it a Kuhnian revolution?  Philosophie, histoire, biologie: Mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon. editors F. Merlin, and P. Huneman, 195-218. Paris: Éditions Matériologiques, 2018.
• Darwinian naturalism.  The History of Evil from the Mid-Twentieth Century to Today: The History of Evil, Volume VI.   Edited by Jerome Gellman, Chad Meister, and Charles Taliaferro, 242-255.  Routledge: London, 2018.
• Charles Darwin and the problem of evil.  The History of Evil in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: 1700-1900 CE, Volume IV.  Edited by Douglas Hedley, Chad Meister, and Charles Taliaferro, 167-181.  Routledge: London 2018.
• Evolution and the naturalist fallacy.  The Naturalistic Fallacy.  Editor Neil Sinclair, 96-116.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• Removing God from biology.  Science Without God: Rethinking the History of Scientific Naturalism.  Edited by Peter Harrison and Jon H. Roberts, 130-147.  Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Darwinism and human origins.  Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy.  Joseph W. Koterski and Graham Oppy, eds. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2019, 387-391.
• Evil and atheistic moral skepticism. Explaining Evil: Four Views.  Edited by W. Paul Franks.  London: Bloomsbury, 2019, 32-36, 69-72, 83-103, 148-151.   
• Charles Darwin and the Plurality of Worlds:  Are We Alone?   Handbook of Astrobiology, edited by Vera M. Kolb.  Boca Raton, Fl.: CRC Press, 2019, 125-136.
• Charles Darwin.  Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.  Editors: Shackelford, Todd K., Weekes-Shackelford, Viviana. Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2022.   https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1285-1
• A Philosopher in the Age of Creationism: What Have I Learned after Fifty Years Doing Philosophy of Biology That I Want to Pass on to Biologists.  Kostas Kampourakis
• The Arkansas Creationism Trial Forty Years On.  Karl Popper's Science and Philosophy.  Editors: Zuzana Parusniková and David Merritt.  Switzerland: Springer, 2021, 257-27

I was an expert witness for the ACLU in a court case in Arkansas in 1981, testifying on the difference between science and religion, successfully combating a law mandating the teaching of Creationism in the biology classes of the publicly funded schools of the state. McLean v. Arkansas - Plaintiff's transcript, testimony of Michael Ruse (antievolution.org)

I have been a blogger for the Chronicle of Higher Education and for the Huffington Post.  I review about twenty books a year, some in professional journals, including the Quarterly Review of Biology, The Lancet, The Philosophical Quarterly, and others in more public outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the Toronto Globe and Mail.  I have written many encyclopaedia entries, including Creationism for the on-line Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.  Regularly, I write short pieces for the popular press and magazines, including Playboy and the Chronicle of Higher Education.  

I am or have been on the editorial board of several journals including Philosophy of Science, Victorian Studies, and the Quarterly Review of Biology, as well as the on-line Encyclopedia of Life Sciences.  I have had various external grants including being a co-PI on an NSF grant on university biological education for $450,000 and co-PI on a Templeton grant on school biological education for £650,000.  Generally, however, I don’t apply for grants.  Philosophers have few expenses, I had money attached to my professorship, and I prefer to get on with my research rather than spend time asking for more.