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Can fitness differences be a cause of evolution?
causal drift evolution fitness holism organism population selection statistical
2016/6/15
The causal status of fitness and natural selection is increasingly called into doubt in the philosophical literature. For example, Elliott Sober argues that the fitness of individual organisms is holi...
Eco-phenotypic physiologies:a new kind of modeling for unifying evolution,ecology and cultural transmission
evolutionary theory economics cultural transmission mathematical modeling philosophy of biology niche construction phenotypic plasticity ecology
2016/6/15
Mathematical modeling can ground communication and reciprocal enrichment among fields of knowledge whose domains are very different. We propose a new mathematical model applicable in biology, specifie...
The Early History of Chance in Evolution
chance Charles Darwin evolution Francis Galton inheritance Karl Pearson natural selection statistics W.F.R. Weldon
2016/6/15
Work throughout the history and philosophy of biology frequently employs 'chance', 'unpredictability', 'probability', and many similar terms. One common way of understanding how these concepts were in...
On the possibility of nonlinear quantum evolution and superluminal communication
nonlinear quantum evolution wavefunction collapse consciousness superluminal communication special relativity
2016/6/13
A possible mechanism of nonlinear quantum evolution is introduced and its implications for quantum communication are investigated. First, it is demonstrated that an appropriate combination of wavefunc...
On the Debate Concerning the Proper Characterisation of Quantum Dynamical Evolution
open quantum systems quantum dynamics dynamical maps assignment maps not completely positive maps
2016/6/12
There has been a long-standing and sometimes passionate debate between physicists over whether a dynamical framework for quantum systems should incorporate not completely positive (NCP) maps in additi...
From Survivors to Replicators:Evolution by Natural Selection Revisited
Evolution by natural selection Replicator individual-based models Natural selection Diachronic
2016/6/12
For evolution by natural selection to occur it is classically admitted that the three ingredients ofcvariation, difference in fitness and heredity are necessary and sufficient. In this paper, I show u...
Ambivalence and Conflict:Catholic Church and Evolution
Catholic Church evolution naturalism new atheism
2016/5/31
Somewhat traumatized by the Galileo Affair the Church until recently showed low profile in the (unavoidable) conflicts with science, evolutionary theory included. The talk presents a categorization of...
The Evolution of Bayesian Updating
evolution Bayesian conditionalization updating expected utility rationality
2016/5/30
An evolutionary basis for Bayesian rationality is suggested, by consid-ering how natural selection would operate on an organism's `policy' for choosing an action depending on an environmental signal. ...
A talk broadcast on BBC Radio Three in association with the course, 'Science and Belief: Darwin to Einstein', 1980, regarding the connection between Marxism and evolution.
One can perceive a progression in the development of the figure of David from the rather unsavory character one encounters in the Samuel narratives, through the religious, righteous king of Chronicles...
The Evolution of Darwin's Evolutionary Thinking
Darwin Lyell natural selection origin of morality geology
2009/6/18
(1) Darwin inherited Lyell’s methodology and applied it to the animate beings. This led him, eventually, to the principle of natural selection. This principle enabled him to expel God from biology.(2)...
How Not to Argue for the Indeterminism of Evolution: A Look at Two Recent Attempts to Settle the Issue
determinism indeterminism Stamos Glymour evolution
2008/4/22
I examine recent debates in the philosophy of biology over the determinism or indeterminism of the evolutionary process, focusing on two papers in particular: Glymour 2001 and Stamos 2001. I argue tha...
Prospects for a dual inheritance model of emotional evolution
emotion evolution dual inheritance evolutionary psychology
2008/4/22
Dual inheritance (DI) models of cultural evolution have been criticized for likening cultural transmission to genetic (lateral) transmission. I argue that although these objections might pertain to th...
The Developmental Systems Perspective: Organism-environment systems as units of development and evolution
evolution Perspective
2008/4/21
Developmental systems theory is an attempt to sum up the ideas of a research tradition in developmental psychobiology that goes back at least to Daniel Lehrman’s work in the 1950s. It yields a represe...
Observations on Hyperplanes: I State Reduction and Unitary Evolution
state reduction unitary evolution hyperplane dependence
2008/4/15
This is the first of two papers responding (somewhat belatedly) to ‘recent’ commentary on various aspects of hyperplane dependence (HD) by several authors. In this paper I focus on the issues of the r...