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The Causal Structure of Natural Selection (Hardcover)
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The Causal Structure of Natural Selection (Hardcover)
Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
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Recent arguments concerning the nature of causation in evolutionary
theory, now often known as the debate between the 'causalist' and
'statisticalist' positions, have involved answers to a variety of
independent questions - definitions of key evolutionary concepts
like natural selection, fitness, and genetic drift; causation in
multi-level systems; or the nature of evolutionary explanations,
among others. This Element offers a way to disentangle one set of
these questions surrounding the causal structure of natural
selection. Doing so allows us to clearly reconstruct the approach
that some of these major competing interpretations of evolutionary
theory have to this causal structure, highlighting particular
features of philosophical interest within each. Further, those
features concern problems not exclusive to the philosophy of
biology. Connections between them and, in two case studies,
contemporary metaphysics and philosophy of physics demonstrate the
potential value of broader collaboration in the understanding of
evolution.
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