The Formal Darwinism Project: A Mid-Term Report
The next philosophy of biology reading group will be Tuesday February 19. We meet at 7:35 p.m. in the the West Duke building on East campus. Our next reading group paper will be Alan Grafen’s…
“Universal Evolution: How Persistent Entities Evolve” (Restricted Use)
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, December 4 at 7:35 p.m. in the 2nd floor lounge of the West Duke building on East Campus. Our paper is co-written by Aryn Conrad and Carlos Mariscal and…
“Collective Action in the Fraternal Transitions”
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, November 20 at 7:35 p.m. in the 2nd floor lounge of the West Duke building on East Campus. In any case, our next reading will be by Jonathan…
“Idealized, inaccurate but successful: a pragmatic approach to evaluating models in theoretical ecology”
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, October 23 at 7:35 p.m. in the 2nd floor lounge of the West Duke building on East Campus. Last week we had a pretty good discussion that eventually became…
“The Structure of Idealization in Biological Theories: The Case of the Wright-Fisher Model”
The next philosophy of biology reading group will be meeting tonight at 7:35 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the West Duke building on East campus. Our next reading group paper will be “The…
Cooperation, Culture and Conflict
Our next reading will be a brand new paper by the editor of the Biology & Philosophy journal, Kim Sterelny. The paper, “Cooperation, Culture and Conflict,” gets into some key issues. The next philosophy of…
Religion as an Evolutionary Byproduct
Our first meeting of the semester is next week, September 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the West Duke Building on East Campus. We will be reading Russ Powell and Steve…
Convergent evolution and the limits of natural selection
As a result of our discussion last week, we’re going to continue reading on the subject. Russ Powell, a recent graduate student here, has a new paper on the matter: “Convergent evolution and the limits…
Convergence and Parallelism in Evolution: A Neo-Gouldian Account
Our next reading group will be meeting Tuesday: April 3, at 7:30 in the West Duke Building lounge of Duke’s East Campus. We will be discussing Trevor Pearce’s “Convergence and Parallelism in Evolution: A Neo-Gouldian…
Evolution and Constraints on Variation: Variant Specifications and Range of Assessment
Our next reading group will be meeting tomorrow: March 20, at 7:30 in the West Duke Building lounge of Duke’s East Campus. We will be discussing Trevor Pearce’s “Evolution and Constraints on Variation: Variant Specifications…