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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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 Please do not cite and do…
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…