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A response to Professor Morowitz
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 369-374 - 1987
Woodger, Positivism, and the Evolutionary Synthesis
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 535-551 - 2000
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......
Between beanbag genetics and natural selection
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 5 - Trang 313-325 - 1990
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......
Metastasis as supra-cellular selection? A reply to Lean and Plutynski
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 32 - Trang 281-287 - 2016
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 adaptat......
Sahotra Sarkar, Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 24 - Trang 541-550 - 2007
A relic of design: against proper functions in biology
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 37 - Trang 1-28 - 2022
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......
Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 36 - Trang 1-24 - 2021
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......
Individuality, pluralism, and the phylogenetic species concept
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 2 - Trang 397-414 - 1987
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......
Michael Ruse and His Fifteen Years of Booknotes – For Better or for Worse
Springer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2001
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