Abstract Debate over the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) ranges over three quite
different domains of enquiry. Protagonists are committed to substantive positions regarding …

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the
world's overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being …

In 1859 Darwin described a deceptively simple mechanism that he called" natural selection,"
a combination of variation, inheritance, and reproductive success. He argued that this …

In the life sciences, there is wide-ranging debate about biodiversity. While nearly everyone
is in favor of biodiversity and its conservation, methods for its assessment vary enormously …

Over the past decade philosophers of biology have discussed whether evolutionary theory is
a causal theory or a phenomenological study of evolution based solely on the statistical …

In recent years, the concept of evolvability has been gaining in prominence both within
evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) and the broader field of evolutionary …

In Explaining Cancer, Anya Plutynski addresses a variety of philosophical questions that
arise in the context of cancer science and medicine. She begins with the following …

I distinguish three theses associated with the new mechanistic philosophy—concerning
causation, explanation and scientific methodology. Advocates of each thesis are identified …

The interventionist account of causal explanation, in the version presented by Woodward
([2003]), has been recently claimed capable of buttressing the widely felt, though poorly …

We have argued elsewhere that natural selection is not a cause of evolution, and that a
resolution-of-forces (or vector addition) model does not provide us with a proper …