Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday Feb 18th at 7:30pm in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing… “Epistemological and Practical Aspects of the Developmental Synthesis:Streamlining the Naturalistic Agenda”
7:30pm dept. of philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building, East Campus. We will read “Modularity in animal development and evolution: Elements of a conceptual framework for EvoDevo.” von-Dassow,George and Munro, Ed (1999) Journal-of-Experimental-Zoology 285: 307-325.
7:30pm dept. of philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building, East Campus. Our special guest Phil Dowe, University of Pittsburgh and University of Tasmania, will be presenting a “Chance and the Propensity Interpretation of Fitness”.
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday september 24th 7:30pm in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will read Baum and… “A Likelihood Framework for Phylogenetic Analysis of Adaptation”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday October 29th at 7:30pm in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing… “Nongenetic Selection and Nongenetic Inheritance”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday October 15th at 7:30pm in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing… Amundson Chapter
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday september 24th 7:30pm in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing two… Chapters from Orzack & Sober’s “Adaptationism and Optimality”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday April 23rd 7:30pm room 140 in the Biological Sciences Building on west campus. We will be discussing part of a manuscript by… “Calvinism: An Argument from Design”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday April 9th 7:30pm room 140 in the Biological Sciences Building on west campus. We will be discussing a recent paper by Robert… “What’s Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift?”
NOTE this meeting WILL NOT be in the philosophy lounge. We will meet March 19th (7:30) in room 140 in the Biological Sciences Building on west campus. We will be discussing Robert Brandon, Duke University… “The Difference between Drift and Selection: a Reply to Millstein”