Add to ORKGJournal ArticleThe recent literature in Philosophy; of biology has drawn attention to the different sorts of explanations proffered in the biological sciences--we have molecular, biomedical, and evolutionary explanations. Do these explanations all have a common structure or relation that they seek to capture? This paper will answer in the negative. I defend a pluralistic and pragmatic approach to explanation. Using examples from classical population genetics, I argue that formal demonstrations, and even strictly "mathematical truths," may serve as explanatory in different historical contexts
Starting from the early decades of the twentieth century, evolutionary biology began to acquire math...
I defend a radical interpretation of biological populations—what I call population pluralism—which h...
Dobzhansky (1964) stated that “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” and...
The recent literature in philosophy of biology has drawn attention to the different sorts of explana...
Population geneticists investigate the conditions for the possibility of evolution. They use mathema...
Population genetics attempts to measure the influence of the causes of evolution, viz., mutation, mi...
This article presents a challenge that those philosophers who deny the causal interpretation of expl...
Darwin’s theory of natural selection was not widely accepted in the biological community until its s...
Explanations in genetics have intriguing aspects to both biologists and philosophers, and there is n...
Evolutionary biology is a field currently animated by much discussion concerning its conceptual foun...
Current accounts of the relationship between classical genetics and molecular biology favor the ‘exp...
Abstract High-level debates in evolutionary biology often treat the Modern Synthesis as a framework ...
A recent debate over the causal foundations of evolutionary theory pits those who believe that natur...
Journal ArticleIn 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building ...
A strong case has been made for the role and value of mechanistic reasoning in process-oriented scie...
Starting from the early decades of the twentieth century, evolutionary biology began to acquire math...
I defend a radical interpretation of biological populations—what I call population pluralism—which h...
Dobzhansky (1964) stated that “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” and...
The recent literature in philosophy of biology has drawn attention to the different sorts of explana...
Population geneticists investigate the conditions for the possibility of evolution. They use mathema...
Population genetics attempts to measure the influence of the causes of evolution, viz., mutation, mi...
This article presents a challenge that those philosophers who deny the causal interpretation of expl...
Darwin’s theory of natural selection was not widely accepted in the biological community until its s...
Explanations in genetics have intriguing aspects to both biologists and philosophers, and there is n...
Evolutionary biology is a field currently animated by much discussion concerning its conceptual foun...
Current accounts of the relationship between classical genetics and molecular biology favor the ‘exp...
Abstract High-level debates in evolutionary biology often treat the Modern Synthesis as a framework ...
A recent debate over the causal foundations of evolutionary theory pits those who believe that natur...
Journal ArticleIn 1966, Richard Levins argued that there are different strategies in model building ...
A strong case has been made for the role and value of mechanistic reasoning in process-oriented scie...
Starting from the early decades of the twentieth century, evolutionary biology began to acquire math...
I defend a radical interpretation of biological populations—what I call population pluralism—which h...
Dobzhansky (1964) stated that “Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution,” and...