Alan C. Love

Publications

Forthcoming

  • Butcher, J.B. and A.C. Love. forthcoming. Not bottom-up (or top-down) but middle-out: the necessity of mesoscale experimentation in developmental biology. In M. Hermida and J. Ladyman (eds), The Philosophy of Biophysics. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Donohue, C. and A.C. Love (eds). forthcoming. Perspectives on the Human Genome Project and Genomics. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Donohue, C. and A.C. Love. forthcoming. Introduction: Complexity, contingency, and controversy in genomics. In C. Donohue and A.C. Love (eds), Perspectives on the Human Genome Project and Genomics. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Guttinger, S. and A.C. Love. forthcoming. modENCODE and the elaboration of functional genomic methodology. In C. Donohue and A.C. Love (eds), Perspectives on the Human Genome Project and Genomics. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. forthcoming. Combining genetic and physical causation in developmental explanations. In B. Hanley, C.K. Waters, and J. Woodward (eds), Causal Reasoning in Biology. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and Y. Yoshida. 2026. Reflections on model species in evolutionary developmental biology. In W. Tworzydlo and S.M. Bilinski (eds), Evo-Devo: In Search of New Model Species. Cham, Switzerland: Springer-Nature, 1–24. [preprint] [published version]

2025

  • Dresow, M. and A.C. Love. 2025. The interdisciplinary entanglement of characterization and explanation. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 76:519–545. [open access]
  • Guttinger, S. and A.C. Love. 2025. The epistemic strength of proxies in scientific measurement. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 15:41. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2025. Introduction to “What Salamander Biologists Have Taught Us About Evodevo.” In R.A. Ankeny, M.R. Dietrich, and. S. Leonelli (eds.), Scaffolding: Selected Contributions of James R. Griesemer to History, Philosophy, and Biology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 321–326. [preprint] [published version]
  • Love, A.C. 2025. Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology: Greatest hits. (A review of The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory: Concepts, Inferences, and Probabilities, by E. Sober, [2024]), Philosophical Review 134:529–533. [preprint] [published version]
  • Love, A.C. and S. Sarkar. 2025. D’Arcy Thompson’s conceptual legacy. Biological Theory 20:71–76. [preprint] [published version]
  • Love, A.C. and S. Stovitz. 2025. The nature of health and disease in clinical settings. Blog of the American Philosophical Association (Bioethics). [website]
  • Love, A.C. and Y. Yoshida. 2025. Developmental biology. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (previous versions: 2020, 2015).
  • Love, A.C. and Y. Yoshida. 2025. Measuring cell movement: Concepts and quantification. Developmental Biology 525:172–184. [preprint; published version]
  • Willoughby, E.A., A.C. Love, M. McGue, T. Edwards, A. Giannelis, and J.J. Lee. 2025. The freedom to believe in free will: Evidence from an adoption study against the first law of behavioral genetics. Philosophical Psychology. [open access]
  • Yoshida, Y. and A.C. Love. 2025. Mechanisms and principles: Two approaches to scientific generalization. European Journal for Philosophy of Science 15:26. [preprint; published version]

2024

  • Livnat, A. and A.C. Love. 2024. Mutation and evolution: conceptual possibilities. BioEssays 46:e2300025. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2024. Evolution and Development: Conceptual Issues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2024. Myth 9: That Darwin’s theory was essentially complete once he came up with the idea of natural selection. In K. Kampourakis (ed), Darwin Mythology: Debunking Myths, Correcting Falsehoods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 103–114. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2024. How consciousness changes the world. (A review of Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World, by P. Godfrey-Smith, [2024]), Nature 636:32-34. [published version; SharedIt link]
  • Pavlicev, M., J. DiFrisco, A.C. Love, and G.P. Wagner. 2024. Metabolic complementation between cells drives the evolution of tissues and organs. Biology Letters 20: 20240490. [open access]
  • Tsuboi, M., J. Sztepanacz, S. De Lisle, K.L. Voje, M. Grabowski, M.J. Hopkins, A. Porto, M. Balk, M. Pontarp, D. Rossoni, L.S. Hildesheim, Q.J.-B. Horta-Lacueva, N. Hohmann, A. Holstad, M. Lürig, L. Milocco, S. Nilén, A. Passarotto, E.I. Svensson, C. Villegas, E. Winslott, L.H. Liow, G. Hunt, A.C. Love, and D. Houle. 2024. The paradox of predictability provides a bridge between micro- and macroevolution. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 37:1413–1432. [open access]

2023

  • Brigandt, I., C. Villegas, A.C. Love, and L. Nuño de la Rosa. 2023. Evolvability as a disposition: philosophical distinctions, scientific implications. In T.F. Hansen, D. Houle, M. Pavlicev, and C. Pélabon (eds), Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 55–72. [open access]
  • Brigandt, I. and A.C. Love. 2023. Reductionism in biology. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (previous versions: 2017, 2012, 2008).
  • DiFrisco, J., A.C. Love, and G.P. Wagner. 2023. The hierarchical basis of serial homology and evolutionary novelty. Journal of Morphology 284(1):e21531. [published version] [preprint]
  • DiFrisco, J., G.P. Wagner, and A.C. Love. 2022. Reframing research on evolutionary novelty and co-option: Character identity mechanisms versus deep homology. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 145:3–12. [open access]
  • Dresow, M. and A.C. Love. 2023. Teleonomy: Revisiting a proposed conceptual replacement for teleology. Biological Theory 18:101–113. [open access]
  • Lidgard, S. and A.C. Love. 2023. Editorial: New perspectives on living fossils. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1250106. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2023. Facts, objectivity, failure, and trust: Reconceiving science(s) for engagement with theology. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 10: 78–86. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2023. Reflections on the study of biological agency and its evolution. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 11:1. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. and G.P. Wagner. 2023. Stress, harshness, and evolutionary history. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 38:903–904. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and G.P. Wagner. 2023. Telling stories about unseen ancestors. (A review of Ancestors in Evolutionary Biology: Linear Thinking about Branching Trees, by R.A. Jenner, [2022]), Current Biology 33:R841–R842. [published version] [preprint]
  • Villegas, C., A.C. Love, L. Nuño de la Rosa, I. Brigandt, and G.P. Wagner. 2023. Conceptual roles of evolvability across evolutionary biology: between diversity and unification. In T.F. Hansen, D. Houle, M. Pavlicev, and C. Pélabon (eds), Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology? Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 35–54. [open access]

2022

  • Love, A.C. 2022. Reformulating philosophical methodology or rebuilding our picture of philosophy. Analysis 82(2):322–335. (Essay review of Thinking Off Your Feet: How Empirical Psychology Vindicates Armchair Philosophy by M. Strevens [2019].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2022. Chance, evolution, and the metaphysical implications of paleontological practice. In K.J. Clark and J. Koperski (eds), Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence. Palgrave Macmillan, 119–143. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. and M. Dresow. 2022. Organizing interdisciplinary research on purpose. BioScience 72(4):312–323. [open access]
  • Love, A.C., M. Grabowski, D. Houle, L.H. Liow, A.Porto, M. Tsuboi, K.L. Voje, and G. Hunt. 2022. Evolvability in the fossil record. Paleobiology 48(2):186–209. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. and G.P. Wagner. 2022. Co-option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties. Evolution 76:394–413. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. and G.P. Wagner. 2022. Characters, evolution, and plasticity. (A review of Phenotypic Plasticity & Evolution: Causes, Consequences, Controversies, edited by D.W. Pfennig, [2021]), Evolution & Development 24:173–176. [published version] [preprint]

2021

  • Lidgard, S. and A.C. Love. 2021. The living fossil concept: reply to Turner. Biology & Philosophy 36:13. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2021. Manipulating levels of organization. In D.S. Brooks, J. DiFrisco, and W.C. Wimsatt (eds), Levels of Organization in the Biological Sciences. Cambridge: MIT Press, 135–151. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2021. Interdisciplinarity in evo-devo. In L. Nuño de la Rosa and G.B. Müller (eds), Evolutionary Developmental Biology: A Reference Guide. Springer Nature: Switzerland AG, 407–423. [published version] [preprint]

2020

  • DiFrisco, J., A.C. Love, and G.P. Wagner. 2020. Character-identity mechanisms: A conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology. Biology & Philosophy 35:44. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2020. Positional information and the measurement of specificity. Philosophy of Science 87:1061–1072. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2020. Foreword. In A.S. Meincke and J. Dupre (eds), Biological Identity Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology. New York: Routledge, xv–xvi. [published version]
  • Love, A.C. 2020. Situating evolutionary developmental biology in evolutionary theory. In S.M. Scheiner and D.P Mindell (eds), The Theory of Evolution: Principles, Concepts, and Assumptions. University of Chicago Press, 144–169. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2020. Developmental biology. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (previous version: 2015).
  • Love, A.C. and S.D. Stovitz. 2020. The pandemic and conceptual issues in medicine and health. The Los Angeles Times (Op-Ed).

2019

  • Brigandt, I., L.A. Katz, V. Nanjundiah, S.F. Gilbert, P.R. Grant, B.R. Grant, A.C. Love, S.A. Newman, and M.J. West‐Eberhard. 2019. John Tyler Bonner: Remembering a scientific pioneer. Journal of Experimental Evolution (Mol Dev Evol) 332:365–370. [published version - free access]
  • Guttinger, S. and A.C. Love. 2019. Characterizing scientific failure: putting the replication crisis in context. EMBO reports 20:e48765. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2019. Evolution evolving? Reflections on big questions. Journal of Experimental Evolution (Mol Dev Evol) 332:315–320. [published version - free access] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and W.C. Wimsatt. 2019. Explaining cultural evolution: an interdisciplinary endeavor. In A.C. Love and W.C. Wimsatt (eds), Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [published version - open access]
  • Love, A.C. and W.C. Wimsatt (eds). 2019. Beyond the Meme: Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. [published version - open access]
  • Love, A.C. and Y. Yoshida. 2019. Reflections on model organisms in evolutionary developmental biology. In W. Tworzydlo and S.M. Bilinski (eds), Evo-Devo: Non-model Species in Cell and Developmental Biology. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 3–20. [published version] [preprint]
  • Wagner, G.P., E.M. Erkenbrack, and A.C. Love. 2019. Stress-induced evolutionary innovation: a mechanism for the origin of cell types. Bioessays 41 (4): 1800188. [published version] [preprint]
  • Willoughby, E.A., A.C. Love, M. McGue, W.G. Iacono, J. Quigley, and J.J. Lee. 2019. Free will, determinism, and intuitive judgments about the heritability of behavior. Behavior Genetics 49:136–153. [published version] [preprint]

2018

  • Dresow, M. and A.C. Love. 2018. Scientific kinds in practice: no artificial ingredients. (A review of Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice, edited by C. Kendig, [2016]), HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8(1):217–222. [published version] [preprint]
  • Lidgard, S. and A.C. Love. 2018. Rethinking living fossils. Bioscience 68(10):760–770. [published version - open access] [Extinct blog entry summarizing the paper]
  • Love, A.C. 2018. Individuation, individuality, and experimental practice in developmental biology. In O. Bueno, R.-L. Chen, and M.B. Fagan (eds), Individuation, Process and Scientific Practices. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 165–191. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2018. Philosophy in the trenches: Reflections on The Eugenic Mind Project. Philosophy, Theory, & Practice in Biology 10:14. [open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2018. New perspectives on reductionism in biology. Philosophy of Science 85:523–529. (Essay review of Reductive Explanation in the Biological Sciences by M.I. Kaiser [2015].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2018. Developmental mechanisms. In S. Glennan and P. Illari (eds), The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy. New York: Routledge, pp. 332–347. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and R.R. Strathmann. 2018. Marine invertebrate larvae: model life histories for development, ecology, and evolution. In T.J. Carrier, A.M. Reitzel, and A. Heyland (eds), Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Invertebrate Larvae. Oxford University Press, pp. 306–321. [published version] [preprint]
  • Redish, A.D., E. Kummerfeld, R.L. Morris, and A.C. Love. 2018. Reproducibility failures are essential to scientific inquiry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 115: 5042–5046. [published version] [preprint]
  • Sarkar, S., A.C. Love, and W.C. Wimsatt. 2018. Reductionism in biology. In D. Pritchard (ed) Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press. [published version] [preprint]

2017

  • Liu, K.E., A.C. Love, and M. Travisano. 2017. How cancer spreads: reconceptualizing a disease. In G. Boniolo and M.J. Nathan (eds), Philosophy of Molecular Medicine: Foundational Issues in Research and Practice. Routledge. pp. 100–121. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C., T.A. Stewart, G.P. Wagner, and S.A. Newman. 2017. Perspectives on integrating genetic and physical explanations of evolution and development. Integrative and Comparative Biology 57(6): 1258–1268. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2017. Evo-devo and the structure(s) of evolutionary theory: a different kind of challenge. In P. Huneman and D. Walsh (eds), Challenging the Modern Synthesis. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 159–187. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and I. Brigandt. 2017. Philosophical dimensions of individuality. In S. Lidgard and L.K. Nyhart (eds), Biological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives. University of Chicago Press, pp. 318–348. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2017. Building integrated explanatory models of complex biological phenomena: From Mill’s methods to a causal mosaic. In M. Massimi and J.-W. Romeijn (eds), EPSA Philosophy of Science: Düsseldorf 2015. The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings, Vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 221–232. [published version - open access]
  • Love, A.C. 2017. Stasis and change: the evolution of a philosopher. (A review of The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher, edited by M. Couch and J. Pfeifer, [2016]), Metascience 26:223–227. [published version] [preprint]

2016

  • Hüttemann, A. and A.C. Love. 2016. Reduction. In P. Humphries (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 460–484. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2016. Explaining the origins of multicellularity: between evolutionary dynamics and developmental mechanisms. In: K.J. Niklas and S.A. Newman (eds.), Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 279–295. [preprint] formatted pdf available upon request
  • Love, A.C. and D. Urban. 2016. Developmental evolution of novel structures – animals. In R. Kliman (ed.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Volume 3. Oxford: Academic Press, pp. 136–145. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2016. Sailing the uncharted waters of techno-possibility. (A review of Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity by O. Häggström, [2016]), Choice 54(2):628. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2016. High stakes classification and reordering natural phenomena. (A review of Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order by S. Gibson, [2015]), HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6:337–340. [published version] [preprint]

2015

  • Love, A.C. and M.J. Nathan. 2015. The idealization of causation in mechanistic explanation. Philosophy of Science 82:761–774. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2015. Collaborative explanation, explanatory roles, and scientific explaining in practice. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 52:88–94. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. (ed.) 2015. Conceptual Change in Biology: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development. Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science (Volume 307). Berlin: Springer. [online/e-book]
  • Love, A.C. 2015. Conceptual change and evolutionary developmental biology. In A.C. Love (ed), Conceptual Change in Biology: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives on Evolution and Development. Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science. Berlin: Springer, pp. 1–54. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2015. Evolutionary developmental biology: philosophical issues. In T. Heams, P. Huneman, L. Lecointre, and M. Silberstein (eds), Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences. Berlin: Springer, pp. 265–283. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2015. ChINs, swarms, and variational modalities: concepts in the service of an evolutionary research program. Biology & Philosophy 30:873–888. (Essay review of Homology, Genes, and Evolutionary Innovation by G.P. Wagner [2014].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2015. What-if history of science. Metascience 24:5–24 (Review symposium of Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin by P. Bowler [2013].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2015. Methodological pluralism about causation in the sciences. (A review of Causality: Philosophical Theory Meets Scientific Practice by P. Illari and F. Russo, [2014]), Choice 53(11):1247. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2015. Scientism under scrutiny. (A review of Scientism: The New Orthodoxy edited by R.N. Williams and D.N. Robinson, [2015]), Choice 53(10):747. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2015. Developing a rhetorical account of explanation. (A Review of The Nature of Scientific Thinking: on Interpretation, Explanation and Understanding by J. Faye, [2014]), Choice 52(8):4168. [preprint]
  • Moczek, A.P., K.E. Sears, A. Stollewerk, P.J. Wittkopp, P. Diggle, I. Dworkin, C. Ledon-Rettig, D.Q. Mattus, D.Q., S. Roth, E. Abouheif, F.D. Brown, C-H. Chiu, C.S. Cohen, A.W. De Tomaso, S.F. Gilbert, B.K. Hall, A.C. Love, D.C. Lyons, T. Sanger, J. Smith, C. Specht, M. Vallejo-Marin, and C.G. Extavour. 2015. The significance and scope of evolutionary developmental biology: a vision for the 21st century. Evolution & Development 17:198–219. [published version] formatted pdf available upon request

2014

  • Love, A.C. 2014. The erotetic organization of developmental biology. In A. Minelli and T. Pradeu (eds), Towards a Theory of Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 33–55. [preprint] formatted pdf available upon request
  • Love, A.C. 2014. A kaleidoscopic view of scientific naturalism. (A Review of Victorian Scientific Naturalism: Community, Identity, Continuity edited by G. Dawson and B. Lightman, [2014]), Choice 52(3):1395. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2014. Philosophy of biology exemplified. (A Review of Philosophy of Biology by Peter Godfrey-Smith, [2013]), Choice 51(12):6737. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2014. Caution on the plurality of causation. (A Review of The Why of Things: Causality in Science, Medicine, and Life by P.V. Rabins, [2013]), Choice 51(9):4988. [preprint]
  • O’Malley, M.A., I. Brigandt, A.C. Love, J.W. Crawford, J.A. Gilbert, R. Knight, S.D. Mitchell, and F. Rohwer. 2014. Multilevel research strategies and biological systems. Philosophy of Science 81:811–828. [published version] [preprint]

2013

  • Love, A.C. 2013. Theory is as theory does: scientific practice and theory structure in biology. Biological Theory 7:325–337. [published version] [Spring SharedIT link] [preprint] [erratum]
  • Love, A.C. 2013. Interdisciplinary lessons for the teaching of biology from the practice of Evo-devo. Science & Education 22:255–278. [published version] [Springer SharedIT Link] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2013. Teaching evolutionary developmental biology: concepts, problems, and controversy. In K. Kampourakis (ed), The Philosophy of Biology: A Companion for Educators. Berlin: Springer, pp. 323–341. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2013. Experiments, intuitions and images of philosophy and science. Analysis 73:785–797. (Essay review of Experimental Philosophy: An Introduction by J. Alexander [2012] and Philosophy Without Intuitions by H. Cappelen [2012].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2013. Cooperation analyzed interdisciplinarily. (A Review of Evolution, Games, and God: The Principle of Cooperation edited by M. Nowak and S. Coakley, [2013]), Choice 51(3):1470. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2013. From Arabidopsis and Antirrhinum to Arabia and Antioch. (A Review of Cells to Civilizations: The Principles of Change That Shape Life by Enrico Coen, [2012]), Evolution & Development 15:158-159. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and G.L. Lugar 2013. Dimensions of integration in interdisciplinary explanations of the origin of evolutionary novelty. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 44:537–550. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and M. Travisano 2013. Microbes modeling ontogeny. Biology & Philosophy 28:161–188. [published version] [Springer SharedIT Link] [preprint]

2012

  • Brigandt, I. and A.C. Love 2012. Conceptualizing evolutionary novelty: moving beyond definitional debates. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 318B:417–427. [published version] [preprint]
  • Doyle, T.J. and Love, A.C. 2012. Leibniz through the lens of life science. (A Review of Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life by Justin E.H. Smith, [2011]), Journal of the History of Biology 45:367–371. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2012. Hierarchy, causation and explanation: ubiquity, locality, and pluralism. Interface Focus 2:115–125. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2012. Formal and material theories in philosophy of science: a methodological interpretation. In H. de Regt, S. Okasha, and S. Hartmann (eds), EPSA Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009. The European Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings, Vol. 1. Berlin: Springer, pp. 175–185. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2012. Ignorance and science: from strange juxtaposition to essential connection. (A Review of Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein, [2012]), Science in Focus.
  • Love, A.C. 2012. The allure of perennial questions in biology: temporary excitement or substantive advance? (A Review of Form and Function in Developmental Evolution edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein, [2009]), Metascience 21:167–170. [published version] [preprint]

2011

  • Hüttemann, A. and A.C. Love 2011. Aspects of reductive explanation in biological science: intrinsicality, fundamentality, and temporality. British Journal for Philosophy of Science 62:519–549. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2011. Darwin’s functional reasoning and homology. In M. Wheeler (ed), 150 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Impact on Contemporary Thought & Culture. San Diego: SDSU Press, pp. 49–67. [preprint] formatted pdf available upon request
  • Love, A.C. 2011. Philosophical lessons from scientific biography. Philosophy of Science 78:696–701. (Essay Review of The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought by Robert J. Richards [2009].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2011. Introducing philosophy to paleontology (and vice versa). (A Review of Paleontology: A Philosophical Introduction by Derek Turner, [2011]), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  • Love, A.C. 2011. Walking in Darwin’s Galápagos shoes. (A Review of Darwin in Galápagos: Footsteps to a New World by K. Thalia Grant and Gregory B. Estes, [2009]), Metascience 20:117–119. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and A. Hüttemann 2011. Comparing part-whole explanations in biology and physics. In D. Dieks, W.J. Gonzalez, S. Hartmann, T. Uebel, and M. Weber (eds), Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation. Berlin: Springer, pp. 183–202. [published version] [preprint]

2010

  • Brigandt, I. and A.C. Love 2010. Evolutionary novelty and the Evo-devo synthesis: field notes. Evolutionary Biology 37:93–99. [published version] [Springer SharedIT Link] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2010. Darwin’s ‘imaginary illustrations’: creatively teaching evolutionary concepts and the nature of science. The American Biology Teacher 72:82–89. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2010. Idealization in evolutionary developmental investigation: a tension between phenotypic plasticity and normal stages. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365:679–690. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2010. Rethinking the structure of evolutionary theory for an extended synthesis. In M. Pigliucci and G. Müller (eds) Evolution—The Extended Synthesis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 403–441. [preprint] formatted pdf available upon request

2009

  • Love, A.C. 2009. Marine invertebrates, model organisms, and the modern synthesis: epistemic values, evo-devo, and exclusion. Theory in Biosciences 128:19–42. [published version] [Springer SharedIT Link] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2009. Typology reconfigured: from the metaphysics of essentialism to the epistemology of representation. Acta Biotheoretica 57:51–75. [published version] [preprint]

2008

  • Love, A.C. 2008. Explaining evolutionary innovation and novelty: criteria of adequacy and multidisciplinary prerequisites. Philosophy of Science 75:874–886. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2008. From philosophy to science (to natural philosophy): evolutionary developmental perspectives. The Quarterly Review of Biology 83:65–76. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2008. Explaining the ontogeny of form: philosophical issues. In S. Sarkar and A. Plutynski (eds.) A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, pp. 223–247. [preprint] formatted pdf available upon request
  • Love, A.C. 2008. Scientific realism: just out of reach? (A Review of Exceeding our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives by P. Kyle Stanford [2006]), Review of Metaphysics 62:155–157. [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2008. Revisiting evolutionary foundations (A Review of Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology by Massimo Pigliucci and Jonathan Kaplan [2006]), Mind 117:201–205. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C., I. Brigandt, K. Stotz, D. Schweitzer, and A. Rosenberg 2008. More worry and less love? Metascience 17:1–26. (Review symposium of Alexander Rosenberg’s Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology [2006].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C., A.E. Lee, M.E. Andrews, and R.A. Raff 2008. Co-option and dissociation in larval origins and evolution: the sea urchin larval gut. Evolution & Development 10:74–88. [published version] [preprint]

2007

  • Love, A.C. 2007. Functional homology and homology of function: biological concepts and philosophical consequences. Biology & Philosophy 22:691–708. [published version] [Springer SharedIT Link] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2007. Morphological and paleontological perspectives for a history of evo-devo. In M. Laubichler and J. Maienschein (eds.) From Embryology to Evo-Devo: A History of Developmental Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 267–307. [preprint] formatted pdf available upon request
  • Love, A.C. 2007. Revolutionary evo-devo? (A Review of Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo-devo by Sean Carroll, [2005]), Journal of the History of Biology 40:594-597. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2007. The hedgehog, the fox, and reductionism in biology. (A Review of Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology by Alexander Rosenberg, [2006]), Evolution 61:2736–2738. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2007. Putting the pieces together. (A Review of Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation edited by Brian Hall, [2007]), Science 317:1502–1503. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C., M.E. Andrews, R.A. Raff 2007. Gene expression patterns in a novel animal appendage: the sea urchin pluteus arm. Evolution & Development 9:51–68. [published version] [preprint]

2006

  • Love, A.C. 2006. Evolutionary morphology and evo-devo: hierarchy and novelty. Theory in Biosciences 124:317–333. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2006. Reflections on the middle stages of evo-devo's ontogeny. Biological Theory 1:94–97. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2006. Taking development seriously: who, what, where, why, when, how? Biology & Philosophy 21:575–589. (Essay Review of Embryology, Epigenesis, and Evolution: Taking Development Seriously, by Jason S. Robert, [2004].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2006. Looking beyond gene concepts. (A Review of What Genes Can't Do by Lenny Moss, [2004]), Philosophy of Science 73:247–250. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2006. Evolvability, plausibility, and possibility. (A Review of The Plausibility of Life: Resolving Darwin's Dilemma by Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart, [2005]), BioScience 56:772–774. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2006. History, scientific methodology, and the ‘squishy’ sciences. (A Review of Science Rules: A Historical Introduction to Scientific Methods edited by Peter Achinstein, [2004]), Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 49:452–456. [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. and R.A. Raff 2006. Larval ectoderm, organizational homology, and the origins of evolutionary novelty. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 306B:18–34. [published version] [preprint]

2005

  • Love, A.C. 2005. The return of the embryo. Biology & Philosophy 20:567–584. (Essay Review of Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology, edited by Brian Hall and Wendy Olson, [2003].) [published version] [preprint]
  • Love, A.C. 2005. Thinking historically about embryos and evolution. (A Review of The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought: Roots of Evo-Devo by Ron Amundson, [2005]), Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.

2004

  • Ingram, E.L., E. Lehman, A.C. Love, and K.M. Polacek 2004. Fostering inquiry in nonlaboratory settings. Journal of College Science Teaching 34(1):39–43. [journal pdf] formatted pdf available upon request
  • Raff, R.A. and A.C. Love 2004. Kowalevsky, comparative evolutionary embryology, and the intellectual lineage of evo-devo. Journal of Experimental Zoology (Mol Dev Evol) 302B:19–34. [published version] [preprint]

2003

Translated and reprinted: Love, A.C. 2013 [2003]. Morfologia evoluzionistica, innovazione e sintesi della biologia evoluzionistica e dello sviluppo. In A. Pinotti and S. Tedesco (eds.). Estetica e science della vita: Morfologia, biologia teoretica, evo-devo. Milan: Raffaello Cortina Editore, 289–323.

  • Love, A.C., & Raff, R. A. 2003. Knowing your ancestors: Themes in the history of evo-devo. Evolution and Development 5(4):327-330. [published version]
  • Love, A. C. (2003). Evolvability, dispositions, and intrinsicality. Philosophy of Science 70(5):1015-1027. [published version]

2002