[HTML][HTML] Replication and reproduction

JS Wilkins, P Bourrat - 2001 - plato.stanford.edu
1. Background The notion of replication arose as a concern in the period immediately after
the Second World War (see Figure 1), with the rise of information theory, communication …

Evolvability: filling the explanatory gap between adaptedness and the long-term mathematical conception of fitness

P Bourrat, K Deaven, C Villegas - Biology & Philosophy, 2024 - Springer
The new foundation for the propensity interpretation of fitness (PIF), developed by Pence
and Ramsey (Br J Philos Sci 64: 851–881, 2013), describes fitness as a probability …

Overdetermination, underdetermination, and epistemic granularity in the historical sciences

C Malaterre - European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2024 - Springer
The optimism vs. pessimism debate about the historical sciences is often framed in terms of
arguments about the relative importance of overdetermination vs. underdetermination of …

Understanding Evolvability

KJ Deaven - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Over the past thirty years, evolvability has garnered significant interest in evolutionary
biology and the philosophy of biology. Broadly defined, evolvability pertains to the …