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The purpose of this paper is to propose an extension to Lee Smolin's hypothesis that our own universe belongs to a population of universes which have evolved by natural selection. Smolin's hypothesis ...
Coherence, Consistency, and Cohesion: Clade Selection in Okasha and Beyond.
Cohesion Consistency Coherence
2008/4/22
Samir Okasha argues that clade selection is an incoherent concept, because the relation that constitutes clades is such that it renders parent-offspring (reproduction) relations between clades impossi...
Self-Induced Selection: A New Approach to Quantum Decoherence
Decoherence Quantum Mechanics
2008/4/22
According to Zurek, decoherence is a process resulting from the interaction between a quantum system and its environment; this process singles out a preferred set of states, usually called “pointer ba...
Thinking About Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection
mechanisms natural selection evolution
2008/4/21
This paper explores whether natural selection, a putative evolutionary mechanism, and a main one at that, can be characterized on either of the two dominant conceptions of mechanism, due to Glennan an...
Natural Selection as a Population-Level Causal Process
natural selection evolution, causation
2008/4/15
Recent discussions in the philosophy of biology have brought into question some fundamental assumptions regarding evolutionary processes, natural selection in particular. Some authors argue that natur...
Multi-Level Selection and the Major Transitions in Evolution
levels of selection units of selection major transitions
2008/4/15
A number of recent biologists have used multi-level selection theory to help explain the major transitions in evolution. I argue that in doing so, they have shifted from a ‘synchronic’ to a ‘diachroni...
How Do Natural Selection and Random Drift Interact?
Random Drift Interact Natural Selection
2008/4/14
One controversy about the existence of so called evolutionary forces such as natural selection and random genetic drift concerns the sense in which such "forces" can be said to interact. In this paper...
Distinguishing Drift and Selection Empirically:“The Great Snail Debate” of the 1950s
adaptationism Arthur J. Cain conspicuous polymorphism
2008/4/11
Biologists and philosophers have been extremely pessimistic about the possibility of demonstrating random drift in nature, particularly when it comes to distinguishing random drift from natural select...
Two strong arguments have been given in favour of the claim that no selection process whatever can play a role in explaining adaptations. According to the first one, selection is a negative force; it ...
Adaptive speciation: The role of natural selection in mechanisms of geographic and non-geographic speciation
Speciation mechanisms Isolating mechanisms
2008/4/9
Recent discussion of mechanism has suggested new approaches to several issues in the philosophy of science, including theory structure, causal explanation, and reductionism. Here, I apply what I take ...
Mathematical physicist Lee Smolin has proposed a theory of Cosmological natural selection which, he argues, explains the existence of our life-supporting universe, and which, he claims, is superior to...