Selection does not dominate drift
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”…
Against ‘Selection For’
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.’”
“Shared Intentionality”
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…
On the “On the ‘Transmission sense of information'”
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…
“Capturing the superorganism: a formal theory of group adaptation”
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…
Group adaptation, formal darwinism and contextual analysis
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…
The Formal Darwinism Project: A Mid-Term Report
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…
“Universal Evolution: How Persistent Entities Evolve” (Restricted Use)
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…
“Collective Action in the Fraternal Transitions”
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…
“Idealized, inaccurate but successful: a pragmatic approach to evaluating models in theoretical ecology”
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…