The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be next Tuesday, September 27th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge located in the second floor of the West Duke building. The reading will… “Why the Causal View of Fitness Survives”
We’re going to be starting up the reading group again for this school year. The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be in one week. That is next Tuesday, September 13th at 7:30… “Competition Theory and Channeling Explanation”
Next Tuesday, April 12, 2011 we will be reading a paper by Bence Nanay published in a recent Journal of Philosophy: “A Modal Theory of Function.” As always, we will meet at 7:35 p.m. in… “A Modal Theory of Function”
Next Tuesday, March 29, 2011 we will be reading a paper by Chris Haufe[protected]: “Necessary Chances.”[/protected] Some of you may remember we read a much earlier draft of this paper almost exactly two years ago.… “Necessary Chances” Redux
Next Tuesday, March 15, 2011 we will be reading two papers. The first is by Elliott Sober called “A Priori causal models of Natural Selection.” Our second paper will be a response to it by… “Can there be a priori causal models of natural selection?”
Next Tuesday, February 15, 2011 we will be reading a new paper by Lawrence Sklar: “I’d Love to Be a Naturalist—if Only I Knew What Naturalism Was.” As always, we will meet at 7:35 p.m.… “I’d Love to Be a Naturalist—if Only I Knew What Naturalism Was”
Next Tuesday, February 1, 2011 we will be reading a new paper by Elliott Sober and Mike Steel: “Entropy increase and information loss in Markov models of evolution.” As always, we will meet at 7:35… “Entropy increase and information loss in Markov models of evolution”
This Tuesday, November 30, 2010 we will be reading a 2006 paper by Bruce Glymour: “Wayward Modeling: Population Genetics and Natural Selection.” As always, we will meet at 7:35 p.m. in the second floor lounge… “Wayward Modeling: Population Genetics and Natural Selection”
This week’s paper was written in order for it to be a draft of “Upper-Directed Systems: A New Approach to Teleology in Biology” by our very own Dan McShea. Please do not cite and do… “Upper-Directed Systems: A New Approach to Teleology in Biology”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, October 19th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge located in the second floor of the West Duke building. The reading will be… “Type-Selection versus Token-Selection”