Woodger, Positivism, and the Evolutionary SynthesisSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 535-551 - 2000
Joe Cain
In Unifying Biology, Smocovitis offers a series of claimsregarding the
relationship between key actors in the synthesisperiod of evolutionary studies
and “positivism,” especially claimsentailing Joseph Henry Woodger and the Unity
of Science Movement.This commentary examines Woodger's possible relevance to key
synthesis actors and challenges Smocovitis' arguments for theexplanatory
relevance of log... hiện toàn bộ
Between beanbag genetics and natural selectionSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 313-325 - 1990
Raphael Falk
The encounter between the Darwinian theory of evolution and Mendelism could be
resolved only when reductionist tools could be applied to the analysis of
complex systems. The instrumental reductionist interpretation of the hereditary
basis of continuously varying traits provided mathematical tools which
eventually allowed the construction of the ‘Modern Synthesis’ of the theory of
evolution. When g... hiện toàn bộ
Metastasis as supra-cellular selection? A reply to Lean and PlutynskiSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 32 - Trang 281-287 - 2016
Pierre-Luc Germain, Lucie Laplane
In response to Germain (Biol Philos 27:785–810, 2012. doi:
10.1007/s10539-012-9334-2 ) argument that evolution by natural selection has a
limited explanatory power in cancer, Lean and Plutynski (Biol Philos 31:39–57,
2016. doi: 10.1007/s10539-015-9511-1 ) have recently argued that many
adaptations in cancer only make sense at the tumor level, and that cancer
progression mirrors the major evolution... hiện toàn bộ
A relic of design: against proper functions in biologySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 37 - Trang 1-28 - 2022
Emanuele Ratti, Pierre-Luc Germain
The notion of biological function is fraught with difficulties—intrinsically and
irremediably so, we argue. The physiological practice of functional ascription
originates from a time when organisms were thought to be designed and remained
largely unchanged since. In a secularized worldview, this creates a paradox
which accounts of functions as selected effect attempt to resolve. This attempt,
we a... hiện toàn bộ
Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 36 - Trang 1-24 - 2021
Anjali Bhat, Thomas Parr, Maxwell Ramstead, Karl Friston
There is a steadily growing literature on the role of the immune system in
psychiatric disorders. So far, these advances have largely taken the form of
correlations between specific aspects of inflammation (e.g. blood plasma levels
of inflammatory markers, genetic mutations in immune pathways, viral or
bacterial infection) with the development of neuropsychiatric conditions such as
autism, bipolar... hiện toàn bộ
AnnouncementSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 6 - Trang 123-123 - 1991
Individuality, pluralism, and the phylogenetic species conceptSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 397-414 - 1987
Brent D. Mishler, Robert N. Brandon
The concept of individuality as applied to species, an important advance in the
philosophy of evolutionary biology, is nevertheless in need of refinement. Four
important subparts of this concept must be recognized: spatial boundaries,
temporal boundaries, integration, and cohesion. Not all species necessarily meet
all of these. Two very different types of “pluralism” have been advocated with
respe... hiện toàn bộ