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Evolutionary Epistemology:Random Change in Science
evolutionary epistemology serendipity history of internal symmetries in particle physics
2016/6/14
cientific thought is generally characterized as methodical and rational. I would like to present here an opposing view which treats science as a non-systematic activity, where serendipity, tinkering a...
Lateral and vertical transfer in biology,linguistics and anthropology-An account of widely neglected ideas in the formation of evolutionary theories
unilinear transmission of cultural and biological replicators phylogenetic images of descent tree of life and the tree of languages metaphors 'antidotes' to evolution lateral and vertical transfer in biology linguistics and the history of sciences networks and reticulations Sprachbund mixed languages endosymbiosis cultural diffusion anti-evolutionism evolutionary epistemiology
2016/6/14
Models of biological and cultural evolution that developed from the 19th century onward are characterized by two main features:(1)They were mostly centered on the unilinear transmission of cultural an...
Practice-oriented controversies and borrowed epistemic credibility in current evolutionary biology:phylogeography as a case study
evolutionary biology scientific practice scientific controversy phylogeography epistemic credibility coalescent population genetic and phylogenetic modeling
2016/6/12
Although there is increasing recognition that theory and practice in science are intimately intertwined, philosophy of science perspectives on scientific controversies have been historically focused o...
Time and Fitness in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
Evolutionary transitions in individuality Okasha,Michod,MLS1 MLS2 species selection
2016/5/27
It is striking that the concept of fitness although fundamental in evolutionary theory, still remains ambiguous. I argue here that time, although usually neglected, is an important parameter in regard...
Practice-oriented controversies and borrowed epistemic support in current evolutionary biology: phylogeography as a case study
scientific practice, scientific controversy, epistemic credibility, phylogeography, statistical inference, Bayesianism, Popperianism
2011/10/9
Although there is increasing recognition that theory and practice in science are often inseparably intertwined, discussions of scientific controversies often continue to focus on theory, and not pract...
Prediction in Selectionist Evolutionary Theory
Prediction Evolutionary Theory Explanatory Unification Fitting
2009/9/8
Selectionist evolutionary theory has often been faulted for not making novel predictions that are surprising, risky, and correct. I argue that it in fact exhibits the theoretical virtue of predictive ...
The Evolution of Darwin's Evolutionary Thinking
Darwin Lyell natural selection origin of morality geology
2009/6/18
(1) Darwin inherited Lyell’s methodology and applied it to the animate beings. This led him, eventually, to the principle of natural selection. This principle enabled him to expel God from biology.(2)...
Stable Models and Causal Explanation in Evolutionary Biology
Group Selection Stable Models
2008/4/21
Models that fail to satisfy the Markov condition are unstable in the sense that changes in state variable values may cause changes in the values of background variables, and these changes in backgroun...
The "Evolutionary Synthesis" of George Udny Yule
biometric-Mendelian debate evolutionary synthesis George Udny Yule
2008/4/21
This article discusses the work of George Udny Yule in relation to the evolutionary synthesis and the biometric-Mendelian debate. It has generally been claimed that (i.) in 1902, Yule put forth the fi...
Thinking About Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection
mechanisms natural selection evolution
2008/4/21
This paper explores whether natural selection, a putative evolutionary mechanism, and a main one at that, can be characterized on either of the two dominant conceptions of mechanism, due to Glennan an...
Evolutionary Theory in the 1920s: The Nature of the 'Synthesis'
evolutionary theory Fisher Haldane
2008/4/11
This paper analyzes the development of evolutionary theory in the period from 1918 to 1932. It argues that: (i) Fisher’s work in 1918 constitutes a not fully satisfactory reduction of biometry to Mend...
Evolutionary theory in philosophical focus
Natural selection Tree of life Units of selection
2008/4/11
This chapter surveys the philosophical problems raised by the two Darwinian claims of the existence of a Tree of a life, and the explanatory power of natural selection. It explores the specificity of ...
Evolutionary Psychology: History and Current Status
ethology psychoevolution evolutionary psychology sociobiology
2008/4/11
The development of evolutionary approaches to psychology from Classical Ethology through Sociobiology to Evolutionary Psychology is outlined and the main tenets of today's Evolutionary Psychology brie...
Evolutionary and Neuroscience Approaches to the Study of Cognition
Millikan substance concepts neurosciences
2008/4/11
There is a lack of connection between the cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary approaches to the study of the mind, in philosophy as well as the sciences. For instance, although Millikan may displa...
Ethology, Sociobiology and Evolutionary Psychology
Evolutionary Psychology Sociobiology Ethology
2008/4/11
In the years leading up to the Second World War the ethologists Konrad Lorenz and Nikolaas Tinbergen, created the tradition of rigorous, Darwinian research on animal behavior that developed into moder...