McMullin was influential on the thought of the eminent philosopher of biology Michael Ruse.
Past presenters have included The Honorable Carole Y. Taylor, a judge on the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal, and Dr. Michael Ruse, Guggenheim Fellow and editor of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought.
Ruse (1997) presents a detailed and carefully researched survey of the idea of progress in evolutionary biology.
Along with colleague Joseph Travis he is co-editor of Evolution: The First Four Billion Years (Harvard University Press 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3).
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Ruse was a key witness for the plaintiff in the 1981 test case (McLean v. Arkansas) of the state law permitting the teaching of "creation science" in the Arkansas school system.
Michael Ruse has criticized ontological reductionism as an improper argument against vitalism.
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Defenders of some form of moral skepticism include David Hume, J. L. Mackie (1977), Max Stirner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Joyce (2001), Michael Ruse, Joshua Greene, Richard Garner, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2006b), and the psychologist James Flynn.