Kim Sterelny on Culture and Maladaptation
Kim Sterelny (ANU) will be giving a talk to the philosophy of biology reading group on Monday, Feb 20. The talk will take place at 7:30PM in the Philosophy Department, West Duke Building seminar room…
“The Structure of Evolution by Natural Selection”
The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Jan31 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading R. Campbell and J. S. Robert (2005) “The Structure of Evolution…
“The Fundamental Constraint on the Evolution of Culture”
The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Nov 29 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. Grant Ramsey (Duke) will present a paper entitled “The Fundamental Constraint on the Evolution…
“Genes, Causation, and Intentionality”
The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Oct 18 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. Marcel Weber (University of Basel, Switzerland) will present a paper entitled “Genes, Causation, and…
“The Empirical Non-Equivalence of Genic and Genotypic Models of Selection: A (Decisive) Refutation of Genic Selectionism and Pluralistic Genic Selectionism”
The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Sept 27 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will discuss a new (forthcoming) paper by Brandon and Nijhout entitled “The Empirical…
“THE PRINCIPLE OF DRIFT: BIOLOGY’S FIRST LAW”
The first meeting of the semester of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Sept 13 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge (For those of you who are new, the lounge is in…
“Re-producing entrenchments to scaffold culture: how to re-develop cultural evolution”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology reading group is Tuesday April 12 7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge. We will be reading W.C. WImsatt & J.R. Griesemer “Re-producing entrenchments to scaffold culture: how…
“Environmental Complexity and the Evolution of Cognition”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology reading group is Tuesday March 1st 7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge. We will be reading P. Godfrey-Smith’s paper entitled “Environmental Complexity and the Evolution of Cognition”.…
“Can Group-functional behaviors evolve by cultural group selection? An empirical test”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology reading group is Tuesday February 15 7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge. We will be reading J. Soltis, R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson, “Can Group-functional behaviors…
“Solving the Puzzle of Human Cooperation”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology reading group is Tuesday January 25th 2005 7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge. We will be reading R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson, Solving the Puzzle of…