1985a – “Darwin’s Invertebrate Program, 1826-36: Preconditions for Transformism,” in: D. Kohn (ed.), The Darwinian Heritage (Princeton University Press), pp. 71–120. (the main Bicentennial collection of contributions by Darwin scholars).
1985b – “The Question of Natural Purpose,” in: E. McMullin (ed.), Evolution and Creation (Notre Dame University Press), pp. 121–44.
1987 – “From Logical Universals to Historical Individuals: Buffon’s Conception of Biological Species,” in: J. Roger and J. L. Fischer (eds.), Histoire du Concept d’espèce dans les sciences de la vie (Paris, Fondation Singer-Polinac), pp. 97–136.
1992a – “Organic Molecules Revisited,” in: J. Gayon (ed.) Buffon 88: Proceedings of the International Buffon Conference (Paris: Vrin), pp. 415-437.
1992b – “Le Hypothetisme de Buffon,” in: J. Gayon (ed.) Buffon 88: Proceedings of the International Buffon Conference (Paris: Vrin), pp. 207-222.
1995a – “The Gaze of Natural History,” in: C. Fox, R. Porter, and R. Wokler (eds.), Inventing Human Science (Berkeley: U. California Press) pp. 112-151.
1995b – “L’Histoire naturelle allemande au Collège de chirurgie, histoire intellectuelle ou reconstruction sociale?” in: Nature, Histoire, Société ed. C. Blanckaert, J-L Fischer, R. Rey (Paris: Klincksieck), 179-96.
1998a – “Lamarck in History: a View from and English-Speaking Perspective” in: G. Laurent (ed.), Jean Baptiste Lamarck, 1744-1829 (Paris: CTHS Publications), pp. 31-42.
1998b – “The Transformism of Lamarck’s Transformism” in: G. Laurent (ed.) Jean Baptiste Lamarck, 1744- 1829 (Paris: CTHS Publications), pp. 666-687.
1998c – “Le Muséum de Paris vient à Londres,” in: R. Chartier and C. Blanckaert (eds.) Le Muséum au Premier Siècle de son Histoire (commemorative volume of the Archives du Museum national d’Histoire naturelle Paris.), pp. 607-634.
1999 – “From Natural Law to Evolutionary Ethics in Enlightenment French Natural History,” in: J. Maienschein and M. Ruse (eds.), Biology and the Foundations of Ethics (Cambridge: CUP), pp. 52-83.
2000a – Introduction: Eugenics and the Social Uses of Science: Non-religious Factors in the Genesis of the Holocaust,” in Michael Signer (ed.), Humanity at the Limit: The Impact of the Holocaust Experience on Jews and Christians. (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2000), pp. 175-79. (I was primary organizer for this section of the book and this session of the conference)
2000b – “Completing the Tree of Descartes,” in: P.R. Sloan (ed.), Controlling Our Destinies (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press), pp. 1-25.
2002a – “New Human Genetics and Religious Vision: Some Options for the Twenty-First Century,” in: J. Kozhamthadam (ed.) Contemporary Science and Religion in Dialogue: Challenges and Opportunities (Pune, India: ASSR Publications, 2002), pp. 114-39.
2002b – “Reflections on the Species Problem: What Marjorie Grene Can Teach Us About a Perennial Issue.” In: The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene ed. R. Auxier and L. Hahn (Chicago: Open Court), pp. 225-55.
2002c – “What the Classics of Science Can Teach Us: Claude Bernard’s Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine and Erwin Schrödinger’s What is Life? in: Uniting the Liberal Arts: Core and Context, ed. B. Cowan and S. Lee (Lanham: University Press of America), pp. 131-37.
2003 – “The Making of a Philosophical Naturalist,” in: Jonathan Hodge and G. M. Radick (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2003, pp. 17-39.
2005 – “It Might be Called Reverence,” in: V. Hösle and C. Illies (eds), Darwinism and Philosophy (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press), pp. 143–65.
2007a – “Kant and British Bioscience,” in: P. Hunemann, ed., Understanding Purpose: Kant and the Philosophy of Biology. Vol. 8, North American Kant Studies Rochester: University of Rochester Press, pp. 149–171.
2007b – “Télélogie et forme: un réexamen,” in J. Gayon and R. Burian, eds., Conceptions de la science: hier, aujourd’hui, demain: Hommage à Marjorie Grene. (Brussels: Ousia), pp. 343–67.
2008a – “Philosophical Approaches to Nature,” collaborative chapter by John Zammito, Philip Ivanhoe, Helen Longino, and Phillip Sloan, pp. 63–136 in: Altering Nature: Volume I: Concepts of ‘Nature’ and ‘the Natural’ in Biotechnology Debates, ed. B. A. Lustig, B. A. Brody, and G. P. McKenny, Philosophy and Medicine, Vol. 97 (Springer).
2008b – “Originating Species: Darwin on the Species Question,” pp. 67-86 in: The Cambridge Companion to the Origin of Species, ed. M. Ruse and R. Richards. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009 (appeared December 2008).
2012 – “Biophysics in Berlin: The Delbrück Club,” pp. 61-98 in P.R. Sloan and Brandon Fogel (eds.) Creating a Physical Biology: the Three-Man Paper and the Origins of Molecular Biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
2018 – “Locating the Human in the Biological World: A Way Into the Species Problem,” Pp. 219-241, in: Philosophie, Histoire, et Biologie: Mélanges Offerts à Jean Gayon. Paris: Editions Matériologique.
2019a – “Metaphysics and Vital Materialism: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Origins of French Vitalism.” Pp, 48-65 In C. Wolfe and C. Bognon (eds). The Philosophy of Biology Before Biology (London: Routledge)
2019b – “Life Science and Naturphilosophie: Rethinking the Relationship.” (Essay Review). Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (in Press).
2023 – “Phenomenology and the Species Problem: The Need for Dialogue Between Traditions,” Pp. 201-225 in Pierre-Olivier Méthot (ed.). Philosophy, History and Biology: Essay in Honour of Jean Gayon. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Refereed Research Articles
1965 – Eppley, R.W. and P.R. Sloan, “Carbon Balance Experiments with Marine Phytoplankton,” Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 22, 1083–97.
1966a – Eppley, R.W. and P.R. Sloan, “Growth Rates of Marine Phytoplankton: Correlation with Light Absorption by Cell Chlorophyll a,” Physiologia plantarum 19, 47–59.
1966b – Sloan, P.R. and J.D.H. Strickland, “Heterotrophy of Four Marine Phytoplankters at Low Substrate Concentration: Journal of Phycology 2, 29–32.
1968 – Pickwell, G.V., R.L. Capen, and P.R. Sloan, “Characterization of Nonmigratory Deep Scattering Layers off Southern California and Guadalupe Island, Mexico,” 5th U.S. Navy Symposium on Military Oceanography Proceedings 1, 138–159.
1972 – “John Locke, John Ray, and the Problem of the Natural System,” Journal of the History of Biology 5, 1–53.
1973 – “The Idea of Racial Degeneracy in Buffon’s Histoire naturelle,” Proceedings of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies 3, 293-321.
1976 – “The Buffon-Linnaeus Controversy,” Isis 67, 356–75.
1977 – “Descartes, the Sceptics, and the Rejection of Vitalism in Seventeenth Century Physiology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 8, 1–28.
1978 – “The Impact of Buffon’s Taxonomic Philosophy in German Biology,” in: E. G. Forbes (ed.), Human Implications of Scientific Advance (Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the History of Science), (Edinburgh), 531–38.
1979 – “Buffon, German Biology, and the Historical Interpretation of Biological Species,” British Journal for the History of Science 12, 109–153.
1986 – “Darwin, Vital Matter and the Transformism of Species,” Journal of the History of Biology 19, 369–445.
2000 – “Mach’s Phenomenalism and the British Reception of Mendelism,” Comptes Rendus de l’académie des sciences: Sciences de la vie 243( 2000), 1069-1079.
2001a – “The Sense of Sublimity: Darwin on Nature and Divinity,” Osiris 16, 251-69.
2001b – “A Plea for Caution: A Response to Frederick Burkhardt,” Documentary Editing 23, 82-84.
2002 – “Performing the Categories: Eighteenth-Century Generation Theory and the Biological Roots of Kant’s A-Priori,” Journal of the History of Philosophy 40, 229-53.
2003 – “Whewell’s Philosophy of Discovery and The Archetype of the Vertebrate Skeleton: The Role of German Philosophy of Science in Richard Owen’s Biology,” Annals of Science 60, 39- 61.
2006 – “Kant on the History of Nature: The Ambiguous Heritage of the Critical Philosophy for Natural History” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 37: 627– 48.
2012a – “How Was Teleology Eliminated in Early Molecular Biology?,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43: 140-51. Published online July 2011.
2012b – “Being Human and Christian in a Darwinian World,” Logos 15: 147-74.
2014 – “Molecularizing Chicago, 1945-1965: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the University of Chicago Biophysics Program.” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 44: 364-412.
Articles in Reference Works
1981 – “Classification,” “Natural Order,” “Natural System,” “Chain of Being,” and “Subordination of Characters,” Dictionary of the History of Science, edited by Roy Porter and W. F. Bynum (London: Macmillan).
1990 – “Natural History,” in Companion to the History of Modern Science, ed. R. C. Olby, G. N. Cantor, J. R. R. Christie, M. J. S. Hodge, (London: Routledge), 295–313.
1993 – “Nature,” “Natural History,” and “Buffon” for Dictionary of Eighteenth Century Science ed. R. Porter (London)
1996 – “Richard Owen,” for Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Earth Sciences (New York: Simon and Schuster) vol. 2, pp. 772–74.
2003 – “Buffon” Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, ed. A. C. Kors (Oxford: OUP, 2003) (2000 words).
2004a – “Alla Scoperta del ‘Sistema della Natura’ Enciclopedia Italiana: Storia della Scienza (10,000 words).
“Le Specie, Il Tempo, La Storia,” Enciclopedia Italiana: Storia della Scienza (10,000 words).
2004b – “Joseph Henry Green,” Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography“William Clift,” Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography
2006 – “Natural History,” The Cambridge History of Eighteenth Century Philosophy, ed. Knud Haakensson (Cambridge: Cambridge U Press), vol. 2, pp. 903–938
2007 – “Supplement” to Article “Buffon,” New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (3,100 words)
1990 – “Deconstructing Evolution,” Essay Review of The Politics of Evolution, by Adrian Desmond History of Science 28, 419–28.
1991 – “Darwin: The Theory Years,” Essay Review of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 2–3, Biology and Philosophy 6, 107–114.
1994a – “The Long Delay,” Essay Review of Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vols. 4, 5, 6, Biology and Philosophy 9, 8 pp.
1994b – “Buffon Studies Today,” Essay Review of J. Roger, Buffon, and J. Gayon (ed.) Buffon 88, History of Science 32, 469–77.
1995 – Essay Review of Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist by Nicolaas Rupke (New Haven: Yale UP, 1994 in Metascience 7, 62–67.
1997a – Essay Review of N. Jardine, J. Secord and E. Spary, The Cultures of Natural History in: History of Science
1997b – Essay Review of Richard Owen: Victorian Naturalist by Nicolaas Rupke (New Haven: Yale UP, 1994 ) in: Nineteenth–Century Contexts
2006 – “Transforming the Cuvier–Geoffroy Debate,” Essay Review of Hervé Guyader, Geoffroy St. Hilaire: Visionary Naturalist (Chicago: U Chicago Press, 2004) in: Metascience 15: 127–31.
2007a – “Essay Review, J. Smith (ed.), Animal Generation and Early Modern Philosophy (Cambridge: CUP, 2006) for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (on–line http://ndpr.nd.edu/).
2007b – “Two New Volumes of Darwin’s Work: Essay Review,” Journal of the History of Biology 40: 363–67. 2008 “Essay Review of P. Ramellini, Organisms and Life” (Rome: STOQ Press, 2006), National CatholicBioethics Quarterly 8 (2008): 593–99.
2008 – “Essay Review: The Species Problem and History.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44: 237-41.
2013 – “Essay Review: The Essence of Race: Kant and Late Enlightenment Reflections.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 47: 191-95.
2016 – “Essay Review: Stephen Gaukroger. The Natural and the Human: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841. Oxford University Press, 2016, Notre Dame Online Philosophical Reviews. https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-natural-and-the-human-science-and-the-shaping-of-modernity-1739-1841/
2019 – “Essay Review: Life Science and Naturphilosophie: Review of John Zammito, The Gestation of German Biology,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 52:DOI 10.1016/j.shpsa.2019.01.005.
2021 – “Essay Review: Early Modern Biomechanism and Its Contemporary Relevance: Review of Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Mechanism: A Visual, Lexical, and Conceptual History.” Early Science and Medicine 26, 97-104.
