Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday september 24th 7:30pm in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing two… Chapters from Orzack & Sober’s “Adaptationism and Optimality”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday April 23rd 7:30pm room 140 in the Biological Sciences Building on west campus. We will be discussing part of a manuscript by… “Calvinism: An Argument from Design”
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday April 9th 7:30pm room 140 in the Biological Sciences Building on west campus. We will be discussing a recent paper by Robert… “What’s Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift?”
NOTE this meeting WILL NOT be in the philosophy lounge. We will meet March 19th (7:30) in room 140 in the Biological Sciences Building on west campus. We will be discussing Robert Brandon, Duke University… “The Difference between Drift and Selection: a Reply to Millstein”
Mohan Matthen, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia; André Ariew, Department of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island: “Two Ways of Thinking about Fitness and Natural Selection” in Journal of Philosophy Feb 2002.
Denis M. Walsh, Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh; Tim Lewens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge; André Ariew, Department of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island: “The Trials of Life: Natural… “The Trials of Life: Natural Selection and Random Drift”
Alex Rosenberg, Duke, Chapter 4 from “Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science”; Brandon and Carson, Duke “The Indeterministic Character of Evolutionary Theory: “No Hidden Variable Proof” But No Room for Determinism Either” in Philosophy… Indeterminism and Biology
Gerhard Schlosser, Brain Research Institute, University of Bremen “Functional and Generative Constraints on Life Cycle Evolution: an Attempt on the Architecture of Constraints”
3 articles from Biology and Philosophy concerning Kettlewell’s experiments: David Rudge, Joel Hagen and Robert Brandon. pp. 1-54 of Biology and Philosophy, Vol 14, No. 1, January 1999.
Paul E. Griffiths, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh