Add to ORKGA number of recent works in philosophy of biology have -- in perhaps unexpected ways, I will argue -- raised an interesting question about fitness. Namely, what is fitness actually for in the philosophy of biology
At the heart of evolutionary theory is the concept of 'fitness', which is, standardly, an organism's...
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Fitness plays many roles throughout evolutionary theory, from a measure of populations in the wild t...
I’ll argue that the conventional distinction between predictive and vernacular or causal fitness lie...
Fitness is a central theoretical concept in evolutionary theory. Despite its importance, much debate...
Definition: The fitness (W), in biology, defines the reproductived success of an individual or a cer...
This thesis identifies and explores the meanings of different concepts of fitness currently used in ...
I argue that both careful conceptual analysis and recent results from mathematical biology cast doub...
There are three related criteria that a concept of fitness should be able to meet: it should render ...
The causal status of fitness and natural selection is increasingly called into doubt in the philosop...
Fitness maximization is a key tenet of natural selection theory. However, the dominant approach to e...
A major debate in the philosophy of biology centers on the question of how we should understand the ...
In general, the concept of a mechanism in biology has three distinct meanings [...
I argue that the propensity interpretation of fitness, properly understood, not only solves the expl...
At the heart of evolutionary theory is the concept of 'fitness', which is, standardly, an organism's...
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of British Society for the Philoso...
International audienceIndividual-as-maximizing agent analogies result in a simple understanding of t...
Fitness plays many roles throughout evolutionary theory, from a measure of populations in the wild t...
I’ll argue that the conventional distinction between predictive and vernacular or causal fitness lie...
Fitness is a central theoretical concept in evolutionary theory. Despite its importance, much debate...
Definition: The fitness (W), in biology, defines the reproductived success of an individual or a cer...
This thesis identifies and explores the meanings of different concepts of fitness currently used in ...
I argue that both careful conceptual analysis and recent results from mathematical biology cast doub...
There are three related criteria that a concept of fitness should be able to meet: it should render ...
The causal status of fitness and natural selection is increasingly called into doubt in the philosop...
Fitness maximization is a key tenet of natural selection theory. However, the dominant approach to e...
A major debate in the philosophy of biology centers on the question of how we should understand the ...
In general, the concept of a mechanism in biology has three distinct meanings [...
I argue that the propensity interpretation of fitness, properly understood, not only solves the expl...
At the heart of evolutionary theory is the concept of 'fitness', which is, standardly, an organism's...
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of British Society for the Philoso...
International audienceIndividual-as-maximizing agent analogies result in a simple understanding of t...