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Natural Kindness
natural kinds homeostatic property cluster kinds HPC stability biological kinds projectibility
2016/6/15
Philosophers have long been interested in a series of interrelated questions about natural kinds. What are they? What role do they play in science and metaphysics? How do they contribute to our episte...
Putting Process and Product Conceptions of Natural Selection and Genetic Drift to the Test
natural selection genetic drift process product outcome causation
2016/6/15
This paper argues for two claims. First, despite a persistent appearance to the contrary in the philosophy of biology literature, the question of whether natural selection and genetic drift should be ...
Natural Selection and Causal Productivity
Stuart Glennan Wesley Salmon natural selection causal production mark transmission individuality reductionism causal process causal propagation populations population level
2016/6/15
In the recent philosophical literature, two questions have arisen concerning the status of natural selection: 1) Is it a population-level phenomenon, or is it an organism-level phenomenon? 2) Is it a ...
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...
How to read “heritability” in the recipe approach to natural selection
heritability recipe approach natural selection
2016/6/12
There are two ways evolution by natural selection (ENS) is conceptualized in the literature. One provides a ‘recipe’ for ENS incorporating three ingredients: variation, differences in fitness and heri...
Broken Mechanisms:Function,Pathology,and Natural Selection
Mechanism Function Pathology Natural Selection
2016/5/30
The following describes one distinct sense of ‘mechanism’ which is prevalent in biology and biomedicine and which has important epistemic benefits. According to this sense, mechanisms are defined by t...
Foundation for a Natural Right to Health Care
Natural law Thomas Aquinas Martha Nussbaum Right to Health Care
2014/11/17
Discussions concerning whether there is a natural right to health care may occur in various forms, resulting in policy recommendations for how to implement any such right in a given society. But healt...
Defining dysfunction: natural selection, design, and drawing a line
Biology Diagnosis Distribution Function Tests Medicine Natural Selection Probability Theory Teleology Variation
2014/11/17
Accounts of the concepts of function and dysfunction have not adequately explained what factors determine the line between low-normal function and dysfunction. I call the challenge of doing so the lin...
Self-Knowledge in a Natural World
authority belief first-person naturalism self-knowledge
2014/11/10
In this dissertation, I reconcile our knowledge of our own minds with philosophical naturalism. Philosophers traditionally hold that our knowledge of our own minds is especially direct and authoritati...
Natural and Empty Desires: An Epicurean View of Musical Experience
Epicureanism natural desires empty desires
2008/11/6
Epicureans distinguish natural desires, which have their origin in the body itself, from empty desires which are imposed by society. Natural desires allow a person to enjoy pleasures free from anxiet...
Cosmos and History : The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
natural philosophy The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy social philosophy
2008/1/3
‘Cosmos’ and ‘History’ are both Greek words. ‘Cosmos’, which originally meant ‘order’, came to mean ‘the ordered structure of the universe’. ‘History’, which originally meant ‘investigation’, came to ...
The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS)
The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science CPNSS
2008/1/4
The Centre was established in 1990. It promotes research into methodological and philosophical issues, particularly those that arise when insights from both natural and social science are needed for s...