Hello all, Our final meeting for the semester will be next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the West Duke Building on East Campus. We will be continuing the discussion of… “Evolutionary and Newtonian Forces”
Hi all, Our next reading group meeting will be next week at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor West Duke Building lounge. We will be discussing Charles Pence and and Grant Ramsey’s “A New Foundation… “A New Foundation for the Propensity Interpretation of Fitness”
Hello all, Hope you enjoyed your Fall break days off. To get back in the swing of things, we’re scheduling our next reading group for next Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge… “Organisms, Traits, and Population Subdivisions: Two Arguments against the Causal Conception of Fitness?”
Our next philosophy of biology reading group will be next Tuesday, October 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the philosophy department. We will be reading “Regarding Biology as a Universal Science”… Regarding Biology as a Universal Science
Hi all, Our next reading group meeting will be tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the West Duke Building lounge. We will be discussing Clatterbuck, Sober, & Lewontin’s “Selection does not dominate drift, and vice versa”… Selection does not dominate drift
Our first meeting is tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the West Duke Building on East Campus. The reading will be Nanay & Rosenberg “Against ‘Selection For.’”
The graduate student super speaker this year will be Michael Tomasello, who will be speaking at Duke on Monday, April 22 at 3 p.m. His talk will be “Origins of Human Cooperation,” which promises to… “Shared Intentionality”
Our next philosophy of biology meeting will be Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy lounge, room 201 West Duke building on East Campus. We’re preparing for our conference this June by reading… On the “On the ‘Transmission sense of information’”
The next philosophy of biology reading group will be tomorrow, March 19. We meet at 7:30 p.m. in the the West Duke building on East campus. We are continuing our discussion of Formal Darwinism next… “Capturing the superorganism: a formal theory of group adaptation”
We’re continuing our discussion on whether a rigorous, formalized account of Darwinism is possible. Our reading for this week is Samir Okasha & C. Paternotte’s “Group adaptation, formal darwinism and contextual analysis.” They discuss and… Group adaptation, formal darwinism and contextual analysis