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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American philosopher and novelist</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the American philosopher. For the Russian-American mathematician, see <a href="/wiki/Alexander_L._Rosenberg" title="Alexander L. Rosenberg">Alexander L. Rosenberg</a>. For the Russian architect, see <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Rosenberg" title="Aleksandr Rosenberg">Aleksandr Rosenberg</a>. For the Transnistrian politician, see <a href="/wiki/Aleksandr_Rozenberg" title="Aleksandr Rozenberg">Aleksandr Rozenberg</a>. For people with a similar name, see <a href="/wiki/Alex_Rosenberg_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Alex Rosenberg (disambiguation)">Alex Rosenberg (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Alexander Rosenberg</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Alex_Rosenberg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Alex_Rosenberg.jpg/220px-Alex_Rosenberg.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Alex_Rosenberg.jpg/330px-Alex_Rosenberg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Alex_Rosenberg.jpg/440px-Alex_Rosenberg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1200" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1946-08-31</span>) </span>31 August 1946<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 78)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">Austria</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data">City College of New York The Johns Hopkins University</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Philosopher and Novelist</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employer(s)</th><td class="infobox-data org">Duke University <p>University of California, Riverside </p><p>Syracuse University </p> Dalhousie University</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="white-space:nowrap;">Notable work</span></th><td class="infobox-data">The Atheist's Guide to Reality <p>The Girl from Krakow </p> Economics--Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data">Guggenheim Fellowship, 1982 <p>American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1983 Lakatos Award, 1993 Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lecturer, 2006 </p> National Humanities Center Fellowship, 2006</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alexander Rosenberg</b> (who generally publishes as "Alex") is an American philosopher and novelist. He is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a>, well known for contributions to <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_biology" title="Philosophy of biology">philosophy of biology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy of economics">philosophy of economics</a>. </p><p>Rosenberg describes himself as a "naturalist".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Atheist's_Guide_to_Reality_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Atheist's_Guide_to_Reality-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_career">Education and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rosenberg graduated from <a href="/wiki/Stuyvesant_High_School" title="Stuyvesant High School">Stuyvesant High School</a> (along with <a href="/wiki/Richard_Axel" title="Richard Axel">Richard Axel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Bueno_de_Mesquita" title="Bruce Bueno de Mesquita">Bruce Bueno de Mesquita</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ron_Silver" title="Ron Silver">Ron Silver</a> and <a href="/wiki/Allan_Lichtman" title="Allan Lichtman">Allan Lichtman</a>) in 1963 and from the <a href="/wiki/City_College_of_New_York" title="City College of New York">City College of New York</a> in 1967. He received his Ph.D. from the <a href="/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_University" title="Johns Hopkins University">Johns Hopkins University</a> in 1971. His thesis advisor was <a href="/wiki/Peter_Achinstein" title="Peter Achinstein">Peter Achinstein</a>. He has taught philosophy at <a href="/wiki/Dalhousie_University" title="Dalhousie University">Dalhousie University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Riverside" title="University of California, Riverside">University of California, Riverside</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a> and, since 2000, at <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a>. He has been a visiting professor at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz" title="University of California, Santa Cruz">University of California, Santa Cruz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford University">Oxford University</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Australian_National_University" title="Australian National University">Australian National University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bristol_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol University">Bristol University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Independent_sources" title="Wikipedia:Independent sources"><span title="This claim needs a reference to a independent, third-party source. (August 2021)">third-party source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>He was a <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_fellow" class="mw-redirect" title="Guggenheim fellow">Guggenheim fellow</a> in 1981, an <a href="/wiki/American_Council_of_Learned_Societies" title="American Council of Learned Societies">American Council of Learned Societies</a> fellow in 1983, won the <a href="/wiki/Lakatos_Award" title="Lakatos Award">Lakatos Award</a> in 1993 and was the National <a href="/wiki/Phi_Beta_Kappa" title="Phi Beta Kappa">Phi Beta Kappa</a> Romanell Lecturer in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2006-2007 he was a fellow of the <a href="/wiki/National_Humanities_Center" title="National Humanities Center">National Humanities Center</a>. </p><p>His graduate students have included <a href="/wiki/Samir_Okasha" title="Samir Okasha">Samir Okasha</a>, Grant Ramsey, Frederic Bouchard, Rachel Powell, <a href="/wiki/Nita_A._Farahany" title="Nita A. Farahany">Nita A. Farahany</a> and Marion Hourdequin. He has worked closely with <a href="/wiki/Lee_McIntyre" title="Lee McIntyre">Lee McIntyre</a>. </p><p>Rosenberg is married to <a href="/wiki/Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a> professor <a href="/wiki/Martha_Ellen_Reeves" title="Martha Ellen Reeves">Martha Ellen Reeves</a>. </p><p>Rosenberg is an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>, and a <a href="/wiki/Metaphysical_naturalism" title="Metaphysical naturalism">metaphysical naturalist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Philosophical_work">Philosophical work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Philosophical work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rosenberg's early work focused on the <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_social_science" title="Philosophy of social science">philosophy of social science</a> and especially the <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy of economics">philosophy of economics</a>. His doctoral dissertation, published as <i>Microeconomic Laws</i> in 1976, was the first treatment of the nature of economics by a contemporary philosopher of science. Over the period of the next decade he became increasingly skeptical about <a href="/wiki/Neoclassical_economics" title="Neoclassical economics">neoclassical economics</a> as an empirical theory. </p><p>He later shifted to work on issues in the <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_science" title="Philosophy of science">philosophy of science</a> that are raised by biology. He became especially interested in the relationship between molecular biology and other parts of biology. Rosenberg introduced the concept of <a href="/wiki/Supervenience" title="Supervenience">supervenience</a> to the treatment of intertheoretical relations in biology, soon after <a href="/wiki/Donald_Davidson_(philosopher)" title="Donald Davidson (philosopher)">Donald Davidson</a> began to exploit <a href="/wiki/R._M._Hare" title="R. M. Hare">Richard Hare</a>'s notion in the philosophy of psychology. Rosenberg is among the few biologists and fewer philosophers of science who reject the consensus view that combines <a href="/wiki/Physicalism" title="Physicalism">physicalism</a> with <a href="/wiki/Antireductionism" title="Antireductionism">antireductionism</a> (see his 2010 on-line debate with <a href="/wiki/John_Dupr%C3%A9" title="John Dupré">John Dupré</a> at Philosophy TV). </p><p>Rosenberg also coauthored an influential book on <a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a> with <a href="/wiki/Tom_Beauchamp" title="Tom Beauchamp">Tom Beauchamp</a>, <i>Hume and the Problem of Causation</i>, arguing that Hume was not a skeptic about induction but an opponent of rationalist theories of inductive inference. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Atheist's_Guide_to_Reality"><span id="The_Atheist.27s_Guide_to_Reality"></span><i>The Atheist's Guide to Reality</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Atheist's Guide to Reality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alex Rosenberg has the opinion that existence of the self is "an illusion."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Atheist's_Guide_to_Reality_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Atheist's_Guide_to_Reality-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011 Rosenberg published a defense of what he called "<a href="/wiki/Scientism" title="Scientism">Scientism</a>"—the claim that "the persistent questions" people ask about the nature of reality, the purpose of things, the foundations of value and morality, the way the mind works, the basis of personal identity, and the course of human history, could all be answered by the resources of science. This book was attacked on the front cover of <a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a> by <a href="/wiki/Leon_Wieseltier" title="Leon Wieseltier">Leon Wieseltier</a> as "The worst book of the year".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Wieseltier" title="Wieseltier">Leon Wiseltier</a>'s claim, in turn, was critiqued as exaggeration by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Kitcher" title="Philip Kitcher">Philip Kitcher</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 1, 2013, Rosenberg debated <a href="/wiki/Christian_apologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Christian apologist">Christian apologist</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Lane_Craig" title="William Lane Craig">William Lane Craig</a> on the question 'Is Faith in God Reasonable?' during which some of the arguments of the book were discussed.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rosenberg has contributed articles to <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> Op/Ed series <a href="/wiki/The_Stone_(blog)" title="The Stone (blog)">The Stone</a>, on naturalism, science and the humanities, and meta-ethics, and the mind's powers to understand itself by introspection that arise from the views he advanced in <i>The Atheist's Guide to Reality.</i><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="How_History_Gets_Things_Wrong:_The_Neuroscience_of_our_Addiction_to_Stories"><i>How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2018 Rosenberg published <i>How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories</i>. This work develops the <a href="/wiki/Eliminative_materialism" title="Eliminative materialism">eliminative materialism</a> of <i>The Atheist’s Guide to Reality</i>, applying it to the role ‘the theory of mind’ plays in history and other forms of story telling. Rosenberg argues that the work of <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a> winners, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Kandel" title="Eric Kandel">Eric Kandel</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_O%27Keefe_(neuroscientist)" title="John O'Keefe (neuroscientist)">John O'Keefe</a> and <a href="/wiki/May-Britt_Moser" title="May-Britt Moser">May-Britt Moser</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Edvard_Moser" title="Edvard Moser">Edvard Moser</a> reveals that the ‘‘theory of mind‘‘ employed in everyday life and narrative history has no basis in the organization of the brain. Evidence from evolutionary anthropology, child psychology, medical diagnosis and neural imaging reveals it is an innate or almost innate tool that arose in <a href="/wiki/Hominini" title="Hominini">Hominini</a> evolution to foster collaboration among small numbers of individuals in immediate contact over the near future, but whose predictive weakness beyond this domain reveals its explanatory emptiness.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Critical_discussions_of_Rosenberg’s_work"><span id="Critical_discussions_of_Rosenberg.E2.80.99s_work"></span>Critical discussions of Rosenberg’s work</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Critical discussions of Rosenberg’s work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>While attracting some interest for its arguments about the philosophy of mind, Rosenberg's critique of narrative history in <i>How History Gets Things Wrong</i> has attracted criticism in academic reviews. Reviewers including Alexandre Leskanich in <i><a href="/wiki/The_English_Historical_Review" title="The English Historical Review">The English Historical Review</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Jacob Ivey in <i><a href="/wiki/Philosophia_(journal)" title="Philosophia (journal)">Philosophia</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Ivey_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ivey-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Michael Douma in <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_Value_Inquiry" title="Journal of Value Inquiry">Journal of Value Inquiry</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> faulted the book for failing to engage with literature in the <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_history" title="Philosophy of history">philosophy of history</a> and <a href="/wiki/Narratology" title="Narratology">narratology</a> and for oversimplified treatment of historical examples. Ivey also argued that Rosenberg's call for a Darwinian approach to historical explanation failed to acknowledge the limitations of past attempts to apply this approach and the complicated relationship in practice between Darwinian and humanistic methods in history.<sup id="cite_ref-Ivey_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ivey-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rosenberg's treatment of fitness as a supervenient property, which is an undefined concept in the theory of natural selection, is criticized by Brandon and Beatty.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His original development of how the <a href="/wiki/Supervenience" title="Supervenience">supervenience</a> of Mendelian concepts blocks traditional derivational reduction was examined critically by <a href="/wiki/C._Kenneth_Waters" title="C. Kenneth Waters">C. Kenneth Waters</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His later account of reduction in developmental biology was criticized by <a href="/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Wagner" class="mw-redirect" title="Günter Wagner">Günter Wagner</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Elliott_Sober" title="Elliott Sober">Elliott Sober</a>'s "Multiple realization arguments against reductionism"<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reflects a shift towards Rosenberg's critique of anti-reductionist arguments of <a href="/wiki/Hilary_Putnam" title="Hilary Putnam">Putnam</a>'s and <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Fodor" title="Jerry Fodor">Fodor</a>'s. </p><p>Sober has also challenged Rosenberg's view that the principle of natural selection is the only biological law.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The explanatory role of the principle of natural selection and the nature of evolutionary probabilities defended by Rosenberg were subject to counter arguments by Brandon<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later by Denis Walsh.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rosenberg's account of the nature of <a href="/wiki/Genetic_drift" title="Genetic drift">genetic drift</a> and the role of probability in the theory of natural selection draws on significant parallels between the principle of natural selection and the second law of thermodynamics. </p><p>In the philosophy of social science, Rosenberg's more skeptical views about <a href="/wiki/Microeconomics" title="Microeconomics">microeconomics</a> were challenged first by Wade Hands,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later by Daniel Hausman in several books and articles.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial crisis of 2007–2008">financial crisis of 2007–08</a> resulted in renewed attention to Rosenberg's skeptical views about <a href="/wiki/Microeconomics" title="Microeconomics">microeconomics</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Biologist <a href="/wiki/Richard_Lewontin" title="Richard Lewontin">Richard Lewontin</a> and historian Joseph Fracchia express skepticism about Rosenberg's claim that functional explanations in social science require Darwinian underlying mechanisms.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_work">Literary work</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Literary work"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Girl_From_Krakow"><i>The Girl From Krakow</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Girl From Krakow"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rosenberg's 2015 novel, <i>The Girl From <a href="/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w" title="Kraków">Krakow</a></i>, Lake Union Publishing, is a narrative about a young woman named Rita Feuerstahl from 1935 to 1947, mainly focusing on her struggles to survive in Nazi-occupied Poland and later in Germany, under a false identity. A secondary plot involves her lover's experiences in France and Spain during its Civil War in the 1930s and then in Moscow during the war. Rosenberg has acknowledged that the novel is based on the wartime experiences of people he knew. He has also admitted the incongruity of writing a narrative, given his attack on the form in <i>The Atheist’s Guide to Reality</i>. He has said that <i>The Girl from Krakow</i> began as an attempt to put some of the difficult arguments of <i>The Atheist’s Guide to Reality</i> into a form easier to grasp".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Girl From Krakow</i> has been translated into Italian, Hungarian, Polish, Hebrew and Croatian. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Autumn_in_Oxford"><i>Autumn in Oxford</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Autumn in Oxford"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2016 Rosenberg's second novel, <i>Autumn in Oxford</i>, appeared, also published by Lake Union Publishing. An afterword identifies the large number of real persons—academics, civil rights advocates, military officers, politicians and intelligence agents from the 1940s and '50s who figure in the narrative. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Intrigues_of_Jennie_Lee"><i>The Intrigues of Jennie Lee</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: The Intrigues of Jennie Lee"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>in 2020 Rosenberg's third novel was published by Top Hat Books. An afterword identities the large number of public figures from Great Britain in the '30s who figure in the novel, including <a href="/wiki/Jennie_Lee,_Baroness_Lee_of_Asheridge" title="Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge">Jennie Lee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan" title="Aneurin Bevan">Aneurin Bevan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowes-Lyon" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon">Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon</a>--the subsequent centenarian Queen Mother, <a href="/wiki/Lady_Astor" class="mw-redirect" title="Lady Astor">Lady Astor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ellen_Wilkinson" title="Ellen Wilkinson">Ellen Wilkinson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">Ramsay MacDonald</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oswald_Mosley" title="Oswald Mosley">Oswald Mosley</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_the_Shadows_of_Enigma"><i>In the Shadows of Enigma</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: In the Shadows of Enigma"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Rosenberg's fourth historical novel, a sequel to “The Girl from Krakow”, was published in 2021, also by Top Hat Books. This novel offers an explanation of why the Western Allies—the US, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia—kept the breaking of the German <a href="/wiki/Enigma_machine" title="Enigma machine">Enigma</a> code secret for 30 years after the end of the <a href="/wiki/Second_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Second World War">Second World War</a>. Four characters from his earlier novel figure in the sequel, Rita Feuerstahl, her partner Gil Romero, her son Stefan and a former <a href="/wiki/Gestapo" title="Gestapo">Gestapo</a> detective still working for the <a href="/wiki/German_Federal_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="German Federal Republic">German Federal Republic</a>, Otto Schulke. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Microeconomic Laws: A Philosophical Analysis</i> (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1976)</li> <li><i>Sociobiology and the Preemption of Social Science</i> (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980; Basil Blackwell, 1981)</li> <li><i>Hume and the Problem of Causation</i> (Oxford University Press, 1981) (with T.L. Beauchamp)</li> <li><i>The Structure of Biological Science</i> (Cambridge University Press, 1985)</li> <li><i>Philosophy of Social Science</i> (Clarendon Press, Oxford and Westview Press, 1988, fifth Edition, 2015), translation in Greek</li> <li><i>Economics: Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns?</i> (University of Chicago Press, 1992)</li> <li><i>Instrumental Biology, or the Disunity of Science</i> (University of Chicago Press, 1994)</li> <li><i>Darwinism in Philosophy, Social Science and Policy</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2000)</li> <li><i>Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Approach</i> (Routledge, 2000, third edition 2011), translations in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Turkish.</li> <li><i>Darwinian Reductionism or How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology</i> (University of Chicago Press, 2006)</li> <li><i>The Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction</i> (Routledge, 2007) (with Daniel McShea)</li> <li><i>Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology</i> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) (with <a href="/wiki/Robert_Arp" title="Robert Arp">Robert Arp</a>)</li> <li><i>The Atheist's Guide to Reality</i> (W. 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Norton & Company, 2011)</li> <li><i>The Girl From Krakow</i> (Lake Union, 2015), translations in Polish, Italian, Hebrew, Hungarian, and Croatian</li> <li><i>Autumn in Oxford</i> (Lake Union, 2016)</li> <li><i>The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Social Science</i> (Routledge, 2017) (with Lee McIntyre)</li> <li><i>How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories</i> (MIT Press, 2018)</li> <li><i>The Intrigues of Jennie Lee</i> (Top Hat Books, 2020)</li> <li><i>Reduction and Mechanism</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2020)</li> <li><i>In the Shadow of Enigma</i> (Top Hat Books, 2021)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Rosenberg&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_philosophy" title="American philosophy">American philosophy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_philosophers" title="List of American philosophers">List of American philosophers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_City_College_of_New_York_people" title="List of City College of New York people">List of City College of New York people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Stuyvesant_High_School_people" title="List of Stuyvesant High School people">List of Stuyvesant High School people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antireductionism" title="Antireductionism">Antireductionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_and_economics" title="Philosophy and economics">Philosophy and economics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_Biology" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy of Biology">Philosophy of Biology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reductionism" title="Reductionism">Reductionism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakatos_Award" title="Lakatos Award">Lakatos 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