Our next meeting will be Wednesday, February 8 in West Duke Room 204. Stephen Friesen and Marc Bogonovich from Indiana University will be presenting a grant proposal to the Templeton foundation being developed with the… Bogonovich and Friesen on the ZFEL
Our next reading group will be meeting next Tuesday: November 15, at 7:30 in the West Duke Building lounge of Duke’s East Campus. We will be discussing Paul Griffith’s “Genetic Information: A Metaphor in Search… “Genetic Information: A Metaphor in Search of a Theory”
Our next reading group will be meeting one week from today: November 1, at 7:30 in 201 West Duke Bldg. on Duke’s East Campus. We will be discussing Troy Day’s “Computability, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, and… “Computability, Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, and an inherent limit on the predictability of evolution”
Our next meeting of the philosophy of biology reading group will be this Tuesday, October 18. As always, we will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the West Duke Building on… “Transcriptomic analysis of avian digits reveals conserved and derived digit identities in birds”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be next Tuesday, September 27th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge located in the second floor of the West Duke building. The reading will… “Why the Causal View of Fitness Survives”
We’re going to be starting up the reading group again for this school year. The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be in one week. That is next Tuesday, September 13th at 7:30… “Competition Theory and Channeling Explanation”
Next Tuesday, April 12, 2011 we will be reading a paper by Bence Nanay published in a recent Journal of Philosophy: “A Modal Theory of Function.” As always, we will meet at 7:35 p.m. in… “A Modal Theory of Function”
Next Tuesday, March 29, 2011 we will be reading a paper by Chris Haufe[protected]: “Necessary Chances.”[/protected] Some of you may remember we read a much earlier draft of this paper almost exactly two years ago.… “Necessary Chances” Redux
Next Tuesday, March 15, 2011 we will be reading two papers. The first is by Elliott Sober called “A Priori causal models of Natural Selection.” Our second paper will be a response to it by… “Can there be a priori causal models of natural selection?”
Next Tuesday, February 15, 2011 we will be reading a new paper by Lawrence Sklar: “I’d Love to Be a Naturalist—if Only I Knew What Naturalism Was.” As always, we will meet at 7:35 p.m.… “I’d Love to Be a Naturalist—if Only I Knew What Naturalism Was”