Jason A. Tipton

Jason A. Tipton
St. John's College · Philosophy

Ph.D.

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August 2002 - present
January 1996 - July 2002
Tulane University
Education
August 1995 - December 2002
Tulane University
Field of study
  • Philosophy
August 1995 - June 1998
Tulane University
Field of study
  • Philosophy
July 1995 - December 2001
Tulane University
Field of study
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Publications (19)
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We examined channel and point bar changes over time in the Pearl River, a meandering, Coastal Plain stream in Mississippi and Louisiana. We interpreted extreme changes in bar area as evidence of channel instability and related this to the diversity and abundance of darters in the river. Darters were less diverse and abundant in more disturbed reach...
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In this paper, I speculate on imitation’s role in language development and, more significantly, on its connection to sexual selection. My analysis is grounded in an interpretation of Darwin’s Descent of Man. In addition to observing imitation’s role in language development according to the argument of the Descent, I explore the ability of human bei...
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This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. It takes its bearings from the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical argument. This analysis raises the question of how easy it is to clearly disentangle what some might describe as the "merely" biological from the phil...
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Aristotle was a remarkable observer of the living world. He made detailed observations on the anatomy and life history characteristics of many organisms as part of a larger study into the differentiae (diaphora) of groups of animals. This reexamination of Aristotle's observations of two small fishes is a study into the work or the way of being of p...
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One of the explicit objectives of Darwin's Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex was to explain cultural differences seen in human beings. Such an explanation, Darwin believed, was to rest upon an understanding of sexual selection. I examine the role that the beautiful plays within the mechanism of sexual selection as it works to differe...
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I aim to demonstrate the movement of the argument of the Aristotelian Problem XXX.1 as it illuminates the phenomena of melancholy, which it is argued is more rightly understood as manic depression, and black bile. The discussion will aid contemporary researchers in psychiatry as well as those in ancient philosophy and medicine. An appeal to both Em...
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Within PA IV, two principles, which have been present in various ways in the entire unfolding of the argument, become more fully illuminated: the division of labor principle and the principle of multiple functions. These two principles appear to be connected with the two standards at work throughout the investigation, the good and the necessary. Th...
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As Aristotle lays the grounds for his inquiry into the parts and lives of animals, he turns to a discussion of dichotomous division. As we shall see, the relationship between the examination of parts of a whole and the attempt to determine kinds either through dichotomous division or some other way proves difficult, but also provides an opportunity...
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In the scholarly works within the history and philosophy of biology, one does not often find data, illustrations or photographs of organisms. One can, say, certainly read the zoological works of Aristotle without reference to the parts or animate objects discussed in those writings. In the same way, one can read the Poetics without having read a pa...
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As is often the case in the opening books of Aristotelian treatises, PA I is difficult to interpret because of the way in which all of the elements of the whole argument are anticipated. After some general thoughts on the division of knowledge into different kinds, Aristotle touches upon many of the most seemingly intractable problems to be explore...
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It should not be surprising that Aristotle concerned himself with questions of the mechanics of material and functional explanations. PA II beautifully illustrates this two-parted investigation. Aristotle’s PA II falls into two parts, marked by the announcement of a “new beginning” in II.10. The best way to understand the move from the first to the...
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As might be expected, the discussion of the parts attempts to get at some knowledge of cause (646a8–13). In this effort, it appears as if the movement of the argument keeps getting pushed towards function. There are distinctions to be made within function: we can distinguish common functions of parts, functions that cut across kinds, but we also re...
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A brief but detailed observation which Aristotle made regarding the foraging behavior of the red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) is examined closely in order to better understand the substance of the discussion. Aristotle's description of the heterospecific red mullet/sea bream foraging behavior is evaluated in light of contemporary observations and lif...
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A brief but detailed observation which Aristotle made regarding the foraging behavior of the red mullet (Mullus surmuletus) is examined closely in order to better understand the substance of the discussion. Aristotle's description of the heterospecific red mullet/sea bream foraging behavior is evaluated in light of contemporary observations and lif...
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The Pearl River has experienced numerous human-caused disturbances since the 1950s, including completion of a navigation channel, reservoir construction, and channel modi-fications on the main stem of the river. These types of disturbances are known to negatively impact the biotic and abiotic components of riverine ecosystems. Since the 1960s, seve...
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In this paper, I explore the way in which Aristotle seems to appeal to certain principles of economics—most notably, the division and combination of labor—in describing and attempting to explain certain biological phenomena. I use examples recently employed in the bioeconomics literature and discuss how Aristotle uses similar examples in similar wa...
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Aristotle was a remarkable observer of the living world. He made detailed observations on the anatomy and life history characteristics of many organisms as part of a larger study into the differentiae (diaphora) of groups of animals.This reex- amination of Aristotle's observations of two small fishes is a study into the work or the way of being of...

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