Our next reading group is meeting will be next Tuesday, April 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the McShea Lab, 223 BioSci. We will be reading Maureen O’Malley and Russell Powell’s paper, “Major Problems in Evolutionary…
Our next reading group is meeting Tuesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the McShea Lab, 223 BioSci. We will be reading Pierrick Bourrat’s “Levels of Selection are Artefacts of Different Fitness Temporal Measures,” attached.…
Our next reading group is meeting Tuesday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the McShea Lab, 223 BioSci. We will be reading Jessica Bolker’s “Model species in evo-devo: a philosophical perspective.” Many thanks to Dan…
Hi all, I know the weather seems to be against us, but it looks like the worst of it will pass by tomorrow. So let’s still try to meet then. Our next set of papers…
Hello everybody, Duke Grad and Notre Dame assistant professor Grant Ramsey is in Durham this semester. We are taking advantage of his presence with two distinct events. First, he’s going to be giving a talk…
Happy new year, all, Let’s start the semester on the right foot by meeting next Tuesday. Let’s read Ellen Clarke’s “Multiple Realizability of Biological Individuals” from a recent issue of the Journal of Philosophy. What…
Hello all, Our final meeting for the semester will be next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the West Duke Building on East Campus. We will be continuing the discussion of…
Hi all, Our next reading group meeting will be next week at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor West Duke Building lounge. We will be discussing Charles Pence and and Grant Ramsey’s “A New Foundation…
Hello all, Hope you enjoyed your Fall break days off. To get back in the swing of things, we’re scheduling our next reading group for next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge…
Our next philosophy of biology reading group will be next Tuesday, October 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the philosophy department. We will be reading “Regarding Biology as a Universal Science”…