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D-Index
58
Citations
12492
World Ranking
2561
National Ranking
300

Overview

Alastair J. Wilson is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research spans mainly the fields of Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to History and Philosophy of Science, Education, and Philosophy. Their interdisciplinary approach incorporates elements of Experimental and Cognitive Psychology as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their primary topics of work include Philosophy and History of Science, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, and Philosophy and Theoretical Science. They have also contributed to studies on Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Diverse Music Education Insights, and Cultural Industries and Urban Development.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Wilson cover a range of subjects. Notable publications include:

  • Counterpossible Reasoning in Physics, 2021, Philosophy of Science
  • Widening the gap? The challenges for equitable music education in Scotland, 2020, Support for Learning
  • Theoretical Relicts: Progress, Reduction, and Autonomy, 2023, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • How chance explains, 2021, Noûs
  • Beyond the Pandemic - Poverty and School Education in Scotland, 2023, Scottish Educational Review

Wilson frequently publishes in several academic venues, including the Scottish Educational Review, Philosophy of Science, Support for Learning, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Noûs. Among these, the Scottish Educational Review and Philosophy of Science represent their most common outlets.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Wilson's work. Frequent co-authors include Katie Hunter, Lio Moscardini, Stephen J. McKinney, Archie Graham, and Stuart Hall, highlighting a network of scholarly interaction across related fields.

Wilson has also contributed to academic literature through book publications. One such work is Modal Naturalism, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • An ecologist's guide to the animal model

    Alastair J. Wilson;Denis Réale;Michelle N. Clements;Michael M. Morrissey

  • The evolutionary ecology of individual phenotypic plasticity in wild populations.

    Daniel Nussey;Alastair Wilson;J. E. Brommer

  • What is individual quality? An evolutionary perspective.

    Alastair J. Wilson;Daniel H. Nussey

  • The misuse of BLUP in ecology and evolution.

    Jarrod D. Hadfield;Alastair J. Wilson;Dany Garant;Ben C. Sheldon

  • Sex-specific genetic variance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism: a systematic review of cross-sex genetic correlations.

    Jocelyn Poissant;Alastair J. Wilson;David W. Coltman

  • New Answers for Old Questions: The Evolutionary Quantitative Genetics of Wild Animal Populations

    Loeske E. B. Kruuk;Jon Slate;Alastair J. Wilson

  • Environmental coupling of selection and heritability limits evolution.

    Alastair Wilson;Josephine Pemberton;Jill Pilkington;D. W. Coltman

  • Measuring individual differences in reaction norms in field and experimental studies: a power analysis of random regression models

    Julien G. A. Martin;Julien G. A. Martin;Daniel H. Nussey;Alastair J. Wilson;Denis Réale

  • Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology.

    Thomas M Houslay;Alastair J Wilson

  • Fitness consequences of immune responses: strengthening the empirical framework for ecoimmunology

    Andrea Linn Graham;Andrea Linn Graham;David M. Shuker;Laura C. Pollitt;Stuart K.J.R. Auld

  • The danger of applying the breeder's equation in observational studies of natural populations

    M.B. Morrissey;Loeske Kruuk;Alastair J. Wilson

  • Why h2 does not always equal VA/VP?

    A. J. Wilson

  • Maternal genetic effects set the potential for evolution in a free-living vertebrate population.

    Alastair Wilson;D W Coltman;Josephine Pemberton;A D J Overall

  • Contrasting patterns of phenotypic plasticity in reproductive traits in two great tit (Parus major) populations.

    Arild Husby;Arild Husby;Dan H. Nussey;Marcel E. Visser;Alastair J. Wilson

  • Indirect genetic effects and the evolution of aggression in a vertebrate system.

    Alastair J Wilson;Uriel Gelin;Marie-Claude Perron;Denis Réale

  • Are Q(ST)-F(ST) comparisons for natural populations meaningful?

    B. Pujol;A. J. Wilson;R. I. C. Ross;J. R. Pannell

  • Ontogenetic patterns in heritable variation for body size: using random regression models in a wild ungulate population.

    Alastair J. Wilson;Loeske E. B. Kruuk;David W. Coltman

  • Ontogeny of additive and maternal genetic effects: lessons from domestic mammals.

    Alastair J. Wilson;Denis Réale

  • Population genetic structure of Arctic Charr, Salvelinus alpinus from northwest Europe on large and small spatial scales

    A. J. Wilson;D. Gíslason;S. Skúlason;S. S. Snorrason

  • Exploring plasticity in the wild: laying date–temperature reaction norms in the common gull Larus canus

    Jon E Brommer;Kalev Rattiste;Alastair J Wilson

Frequent Co-Authors

Sheila Riddell
Sheila Riddell University of Edinburgh
Loeske E. B. Kruuk
Loeske E. B. Kruuk University of Edinburgh
Josephine M. Pemberton
Josephine M. Pemberton University of Edinburgh
E. Klempt
E. Klempt University of Bonn
Jill G. Pilkington
Jill G. Pilkington University of Edinburgh
Jens Hartmann
Jens Hartmann Universität Hamburg
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse
Niels Jeroen Dingemanse Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Tim H. Clutton-Brock
Tim H. Clutton-Brock University of Cambridge
Moira M. Ferguson
Moira M. Ferguson University of Guelph
Daniel H. Nussey
Daniel H. Nussey University of Edinburgh

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