The first Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting of the fall ’09 semester will be Tuesday, September 29th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge in the West Duke building. We will be reading… Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection ch. 1 & 2
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, May 5th at 7:30 in the philosophy department lounge in the West Duke building. We will be continuing our theme of preparing for our… “Functional homology and homology of function: biological concepts and philosophical consequences”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, April 14th at 7:30 in the philosophy department lounge in the West Duke building. We will be discussing a paper draft by our own… “The structure of evolution by natural selection”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, March 31st at 7:30 in the philosophy department lounge in the West Duke building. We will be discussing a paper by Ingo Brigandt entitled,… “Typology now: homology and developmental constraints explain evolvability”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, March 17th at 7:30 in the philosophy department lounge in the West Duke building. We will be discussing probability theory and its relation to… “Necessary Chances”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, February 24th at 7:30 in room 204 of the West Duke Building (down the hall from the philosophy lounge). Cliff Cunningham will be giving… “Beyond area relationships: Extinction and recolonization in molecular marine biogeography”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, February 10th at 7:30 in the philosophy department lounge in the West Duke building. We will be reading a paper by our very own… “Group selection or group physiology? Filling in the Gaps of Multi-level Selection Theory to Explain Cultural Variation”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, January 27th at 7:30 in the philosophy department lounge in the West Duke building. We will be reading Sean Rice’s new paper “Theoretical Approaches… “Theoretical Approaches to the Evolution of Development and Genetic Architecture”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, December 2nd at 7:30 in room 204 (in the West Duke building, right down the hall from the lounge). David Houle will be giving… “Measurement and Meaning in Biology”
The next Philosophy of Biology Reading Group meeting will be Tuesday November 18th at 7:30pm in the philosophy department lounge in the West Duke building. We will be discussing David Jablonski’s new paper, “Species Selection:… “Species Selection: Theory and Data”