Gregory M. Mikkelson

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In progress

Mikkelson, G. M.  Ecology and democracy:  In town and at work.  Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

Mikkelson, G. M.  G = PAE:  Turning humanity from a parasite into a mutualist.  Sustainability.

Mikkelson, G. M.  The organism and the ecosystem vs. the corporation.  Philosophy and Theory in Biology.

Mikkelson, G. M. and C. Scott.  Values in ecology.  In:  Scott, C., P. G. Brown, and J. Labrecque, editors.  Dialoguing Knowledges:  Finding Our Way to Respect and Relationship.  University of British Columbia.  Vancouver, BC.

Mikkelson, G. M., C. A. Chapman, L. Entwistle, S. Adcock, and C. Poutiainen.  Individualism vs. holism in non-speciesist ethics and law.  Funded by a seed grant from the Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science.

Published

2011.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Diversity and the good.  In:  Brown, B., K. de Laplante, K. Peacock, D. M. Gabbay, P. Thagard, and J. Woods, editors.  Handbook of the Philosophy of Science.  Volume 11:  Ecology.  Elsevier.  Toronto, ON.  Pp. 399-415.

2011.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Equality:  Economic and ecologicalCanadian Dimension 45(2):35-38.

2011.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Unsimple truthsPhilosophy of Science 78:524-527.

2011.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Weighing speciesEnvironmental Ethics 33:185-196.

2011.  Mikkelson, G. M., B. J. McGill, B. Beaulieu, and P. L. Beukema.  Multiple links between species diversity and temporal stability in bird communities across North AmericaEvolutionary Ecology Research 13:361-372.

2009.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Diversity-stability hypothesis.  In:  Callicott, J. B., R. Frodeman, V. Davion, B. G. Norton, C. Palmer, and P. B. Thompson, editors.  Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy.  MacMillan.  Farmington Hills, MI.  Volume 1, pp. 255-256.

2009.  Mikkelson, G. M.  The view from Mwakingali A.  Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 16:851.

2008.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Part-whole relationships and the unity of ecology.

2007.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Ecological economics.  In:  Ruse, M., editor.  Philosophy of Biology.  Prometheus Books.  Amherst, NY.  Pp. 385-392.

2007.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Ecology.  In:  Hull, D. L. and M. Ruse, editors.  Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology.  Cambridge University Press.  New York, NY.  Pp. 372-387.

2007.  Mikkelson, G. M., A. Gonzalez, and G. D. Peterson.  Economic inequality predicts biodiversity lossPublic Library of Science (PLoS) ONE 2.e444.

2006.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Realism vs. instrumentalism in a new statistical frameworkPhilosophy of Science 73:440-447.

2005.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Niche-based vs. neutral models of ecological communitiesBiology and Philosophy 20:557-566.

2004.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Biological diversity, ecological stability, and downward causation.  In:  Oksanen, M. and J. Pietarinen, editors.  Philosophy and Biodiversity.  Cambridge University Press.  New York, NY.  Pp. 119-129.

2004.  Mikkelson, G. M.  The science of the struggle for existenceNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2004.07.03.

2004.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Telling.  Jones Av 10(1):3.

2003.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Ecological kinds and ecological lawsPhilosophy of Science 70:1390-1400.

2003.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Hermit yearnings.  The Crumb 78(8):4.

2002.  Leibold, M. A. and G. M. Mikkelson.  Coherence, species turnover, and boundary clumping:  Elements of meta-community structure.  Oikos 97:237-250.

2001.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Complexity and verisimilitude:  Realism for ecologyBiology and Philosophy 16:533-546.

2001.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Untangling ecology?  Biology and Philosophy 16:273-279.

1998.  Wright, D. H., B. D. Patterson, G. M. Mikkelson, A. Cutler, and W. Atmar.  A comparative analysis of nested subset patterns of species composition.  Oecologia 113:1-20.

1997.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Methods and metaphors in community ecology:  The problem of defining stabilityPerspectives on Science 5:481-498.

1997.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Other Things Being Equal:  Counterfactuals, Natural Laws, and Scientific Models; with Case Studies from Ecology.  University of Chicago.  Chicago, IL.

1996.  Mikkelson, G. M.  The large, the small, the real, and the natural.  Biology and Philosophy 11:127-132.

1996.  Mikkelson, G. M.  Stretched lines, averted leaps, and excluded competition:  A theory of scientific counterfactuals.  Philosophy of Science 63:S194-S201.

1995.  Mikkelson, G. M. and M. A. Leibold.  A history of the ecosystem concept in ecology.  Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 38:297-299.

1993.  Mikkelson, G. M.  How do food webs fall apart?  A study of changes in trophic structure during relaxation on habitat fragmentsOikos 67:539-547.

Presented

2012:  G=PAE – Turning humanity from a parasite into a mutualist, International conference on De-Growth in the Americas, HEC Montréal

2011:  Ecology and democracy – In town and at work, Vermont-McGill Joint Cross-Border Sustainability Conference, McGill University

2011:  Why does species evenness cause under-yielding?  Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science symposium

2010:  Local democracy unbound – A hopeful narrative, Rural Heritage Institute, Sterling College

2010:  Multi-level causation and the value of equality, Institute d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

2010:  The organism and the ecosystem vs. the corporation, Institute d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques

2009:  A model of intrinsic value, McGill Symposium on Environmental Research

2009:  Ecological applications of a more general theory of diversity, Department of Biology, McGill University

2009:  Economic equality, biological diversity, and the McGill polity; Science Talks about Research for Staff; McGill University

2009:  How special are humans?  Doing justice to all 10 million species on Earth, McGill Osler Society

2008:  How to tease apart the effects of facilitation vs. niche differentiation in diversity-productivity experiments, Ecological Society of America

2008:  Making and breaking connections, on behalf of nature and humanity; Women's Networking Group; McGill University

2008:  Realism, economics, and ecology; Dubrovnik Philosophy of Science Conference

2007:  Economic growth is just plain stupid, Citizens in Action, Concordia University

2007:  Liberty, equality, ecology; Neotropical Environment Program; McGill University

2007:  The political ecology of Montréal, Fourth Citizens' Summit on the Future of Montréal, Université du Montréal à Québec

2006:  Socially irresponsible investment by McGill, Debating Union, McGill University

2006:  Toward a general theory of diversity and equality; Department of Philosophy, University of Queensland

2006:  Value, reality, and the more-than-human world; Philosophy of Science Association

2005:  Links between intra- and inter-specific justice, McGill Symposium on Environmental Research

2005:  Mechanistic approaches to ecology – A new holism?  Ecological Society of America

2005:  Mechanistic research in open systems, Department of Biology, Université du Montréal à Québec

2005:  Scale, distribution, and willingness to pay for species and habitat protection; Department of Biology, McGill University

2004:  Undead dogmas of empiricism, Neotropical Environment Program, McGill University

2003:  A critique of reductionist "environmental" science, McGill Symposium on Environmental Research

2003:  A critique of reductionist science, McGill School of Environment

2003:  Biological diversity, ecological stability, and downward causation; Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario

2003:  Downward causation and mechanistic explanation; International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology

2002:  Comparative philosophy of ecology, Philosophy of Science Association

2002:  Covering laws, contingency, and classification; Department of Philosophy; Trent University

2001:  History vs. environment; International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology

2001:  Philosophy of ecology – History and current status, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas

2001:  Predictive success and levels of organization, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas

2000:  Letting nature speak, Department of Philosophy, Montana State University

1999:  Biodiversity and expert opinion, International Seminar on Philosophy and Biodiversity

1999:  Situating ecology, Center for the Study of Science and Technology, Rice University

1998:  Backtracking counterfactuals and controlled experiments, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science

1997:  Equilibrium, stability, and the assembly principle; International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology

1996:  Counterfactuals and ceteris paribus assumptions in island biogeography, Philosophy of Science Association

1996:  Diversity-stability studies – Problems with definitions, assumptions, and experimental design; Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph

1996:  Taming the weasel, Workshop in the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Chicago

1995:  Counterfactuals and ceteris paribus assumptions in food-web theory; International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology

1994:  Confirmation, refutation, and statistical hypothesis tests; MEPHISTOS

1993:  Food webs, secondary extinctions, and the relative importance of competition vs. predation; Land Institute

1993:  The next agricultural revolution?  Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago (with W. C. Wimsatt and J. C. Schank)

1991:  Nested subsets and the design of nature reserves (with B. D. Patterson), Society for Conservation Biology