Hi all, Our next reading group meeting will be tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the West Duke Building lounge. We will be discussing Clatterbuck, Sober, & Lewontin’s “Selection does not dominate drift, and vice versa”… Selection does not dominate drift
Our first meeting is tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the West Duke Building on East Campus. The reading will be Nanay & Rosenberg “Against ‘Selection For.’”
The graduate student super speaker this year will be Michael Tomasello, who will be speaking at Duke on Monday, April 22 at 3 p.m. His talk will be “Origins of Human Cooperation,” which promises to… “Shared Intentionality”
Our next philosophy of biology meeting will be Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy lounge, room 201 West Duke building on East Campus. We’re preparing for our conference this June by reading… On the “On the ‘Transmission sense of information’”
The next philosophy of biology reading group will be tomorrow, March 19. We meet at 7:30 p.m. in the the West Duke building on East campus. We are continuing our discussion of Formal Darwinism next… “Capturing the superorganism: a formal theory of group adaptation”
We’re continuing our discussion on whether a rigorous, formalized account of Darwinism is possible. Our reading for this week is Samir Okasha & C. Paternotte’s “Group adaptation, formal darwinism and contextual analysis.” They discuss and… Group adaptation, formal darwinism and contextual analysis
The next philosophy of biology reading group will be Tuesday February 19. We meet at 7:35 p.m. in the the West Duke building on East campus. Our next reading group paper will be Alan Grafen’s… The Formal Darwinism Project: A Mid-Term Report
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, December 4 at 7:35 p.m. in the 2nd floor lounge of the West Duke building on East Campus. Our paper is co-written by Aryn Conrad and Carlos Mariscal and… “Universal Evolution: How Persistent Entities Evolve” (Restricted Use)
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, November 20 at 7:35 p.m. in the 2nd floor lounge of the West Duke building on East Campus. In any case, our next reading will be by Jonathan… “Collective Action in the Fraternal Transitions”
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, October 23 at 7:35 p.m. in the 2nd floor lounge of the West Duke building on East Campus. Last week we had a pretty good discussion that eventually became… “Idealized, inaccurate but successful: a pragmatic approach to evaluating models in theoretical ecology”