April 22nd, 2008- Our last Philosophy of Biology Reading Group meeting of the semester will take place on Tuesday, April 22nd, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be discussing Carl Simpson's manuscript "The evolution of reproduction during evolutionary transitions in individuality." Please email me (LZF@duke.edu) for a link to the manuscript if you plan on attending.
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| March 25th, 2008- The next Philosophy of Biology Reading Group meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 25th, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading a recent article from The Quarterly Review of Biology by D.S. Wilson and E.O. Wilson, found here: "Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology" |
March 4th, 2008- The next Philosophy of Biology Reading Group meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 4th, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading three papers:
1. Morowitz and Smith's "Energy flow and the organization of life"
2. John Whitfield's "Survival of the Likeliest?" (only 4 pages)
3. J. Doyne Farmer's "Cool is not enough" (only 2 pages) |
| February 19th, 2008- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will take place on Tuesday, February 19th, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Leigh Van Valen's "Why Misunderstand the Evolutionary Half of Biology?" available here: "Why Misunderstand the Evolutionary Half of Biology?" |
| January 29th, 2008- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will take place on Tuesday, January 29th, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Leigh Van Valen's "Three Paradigms of Evolution" available here: "Three Paradigms of Evolution" |
November 27th, 2007- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will take place on Tuesday, November 27th, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading 3 chapters from Dan McShea and Robert Brandon's forthcoming book. They are available here: "Chapter 1" "Chapter 2" "Chapter 5" |
November 6th, 2007- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will take place on Tuesday, November 6th, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading L. R. Franklin's, "Bacteria, Sex, and Systematics."
Thanks to Chris we have a more complete version of the paper (that includes sections which were cut out for publication) available here: "Bacteria, Sex, and Systematics" COMPLETE |
October 23rd, 2007- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will take place on Tuesday, October 23rd, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Mohan Matthen's paper, "Defining Vision: What Homology Thinking Contributes." |
October 9th, 2007- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will take place on Tuesday, October 9th, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading
two of Louise Roth's papers on Homology:
V.L. Roth, Character replication, in The Character Concept in Evolutionary
Biology, pp. 81-107, edited by GP Wagner (2001), Academic Press.
and
V.L. Roth, Homology and hierarchies: problems solved and unresolved, Journal of
Evolutionary Biology, vol. 4 (1991), pp. 167-194. |
September 18th, 2007- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will take place on Tuesday, September 18th, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Alex Rosenberg's and Karen Neander's "Are Homologies (S-E or CR) Function-Free?" The paper is available here. |
Mar 6th 2007- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology Reading Group will take place on Tuesday, March 6, at 7:30 in the Duke Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Peter Godfrey-Smith's "Conditions for Evolution by Natural Selection." The paper is available here. |
Feb 20th 2007- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Tuesday, February 20th in the Duke philosophy department lounge at 7:30pm. Carl Simpson, Leonore Fleming, and Dan McShea will present their new paper "Live together, die alone: Levels of selection in the transition to coloniality and sociality." |
| Jan 23rd 2007- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be this coming Tuesday, January 23rd at 7:30 (Room TBA). Philosophy graduate student Grant Ramsey will be giving a talk entitled "Biological Altruism Reconsidered." |
| Nov 28th 2006- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be this coming Tuesday, November 28th. We will be reading Kingsolver et al. (2001) "The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations." American Naturalist 157(3):245-261. |
| Nov 14th 2006- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be this coming Tuesday, November 14th. We will be reading Bamshad & Wooding (2003) "Signatures of Selection in the Human Genome." Nature Reviews Genetics 4(2): 99-111. |
| Oct 17th 2006- The next meeting of the semester for the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Tuesday Oct. 17 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge We will discuss John Beatty's "Replaying Life's Tape". |
| Oct 4th 2006- Prof. Matthew Slater (University of Idaho) will be giving a paper to the philosophy of biology reading group on Wednesday, October 4th at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. The title of his talk is "Why the Long Face? Biological Natural Kinds without (Many) Tears." |
| Sept 26th 2006- The next meeting of the semester for the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Tuesday Sept. 26 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge We will discuss Losos, J. et al (1998) "Contingency and Determinism in Replicated Adaptive Radiations of Island Lizards" Science 279(5359): 2115-2118, and Travisano, M. et al (1995) "Experimental Tests of the Roles of Adaptation, Chances, and History in Evolution" Science 267(5194): 87-90. |
| SEPT 12th 2006- The first meeting of the semester for the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Tuesday Sept. 12 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge We will be reading Marshall Abrams' "What determines biological fitness? The problem of the reference environment". |
| MAY 2nd 2006- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be May 2 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading D. McShea and R. Brandon's "Diversity and Complexity: the zero-force expectation for evolution". |
| APRIL 18th 2006- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be April 18 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Griffiths, P.E. and Andrea Scarantino (In Press). Emotions in the Wild: The situated perspective on emotion. in P. Robbins and M. Aydede (eds.) /Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition/, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xxx-xxx. |
| APRIL 4th 2006- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be April 4 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Natalie Gold and Robert Sugden's Theories of Team Agency. Also available is Bacharach's Evolution of Group Action. |
| MARCH 21st 2006- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Mar 21 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Joan Roughgarden et al. (2006) "Reproductive Social Behavior: Cooperative Games to Replace Sexual Selection". |
| MARCH 7th 2006- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Mar 7 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Russell Powell's "IS CONVERGENCE MORE THAN AN ANALOGY? APPEALING TO THE FREQUENCY OF HOMOPLASY AS EVIDENCE FOR A NON-CONTINGENTLY CONSTRAINED ADAPTATIONAL DESIGN SPACE". |
| FEBRUARY 20 2006- Kim Sterelny (ANU) will be giving a talk to the philosophy of biology reading group on Monday, Feb 20. The talk will take place at 7:30PM in the Philosophy Department, West Duke Building seminar room 202. The topic for his talk is culture and maladaptation. |
| JANUARY 31st 2006- The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Jan31 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading R. Campbell and J. S. Robert (2005) "The Structure of Evolution by Natural Selection". Biology and Philosophy 20: 673-696. |
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NOVEMBER 29th 2005 - The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Nov 29 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. Grant Ramsey (Duke) will present a paper entitled "The Fundamental Constraint on the Evolution of Culture". |
| OCTOBER 18th 2005 - The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Oct 18 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. Marcel Weber (University of Basel, Switzerland) will present a paper entitled "Genes, Causation, and Intentionality". |
| SEPTEMBER 27th 2005 - The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Sept 27 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will discuss a new (forthcoming) paper by Brandon and Nijhout entitled "The Empirical Non-Equivalence of Genic and Genotypic Models of Selection: A (Decisive) Refutation of Genic Selectionism and Pluralistic Genic Selectionism". |
| SEPTEMBER 13th 2005 - The first meeting of the semester of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Sept 13 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge (For those of you who are new, the lounge is in the Phil. Dept., West Duke Building, East Campus, second floor). We will discuss a new paper by Robert Brandon entitled "THE PRINCIPLE OF DRIFT: BIOLOGY’S FIRST LAW". |
| APRIL 12th 2005- Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology reading group is Tuesday April 12 7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge. We will be reading W.C. WImsatt & J.R. Griesemer "Re-producing entrenchments to scaffold culture: how to re-develop cultural evolution" (working draft). |
| MARCH
22nd 2005- Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology
reading group is Tuesday March 22 7:30 pm in the Philosophy
lounge. We will be reading S. Okasha "Multi-level
Selection, Covariance and Contextual Analysis", British
Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55, 481-504,
2004. The paper is available
here |
| MARCH
1st 2005- Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology
reading group is Tuesday March 1st 7:30 pm in the Philosophy
lounge. We will be reading P. Godfrey-Smith's paper entitled
"Environmental Complexity and the Evolution of Cognition".
In R. Sternberg and J. Kaufman (eds.) The Evolution
of Intelligence. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002, pp.
233-249. The paper is available
online |
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FEBRUARY
15th 2005- Our next meeting of the Philosophy of
biology reading group is Tuesday February 15 7:30 pm
in the Philosophy lounge. We will be reading J. Soltis,
R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson, "Can Group-functional behaviors
evolve by cultural group selection? An empirical test".Current Anthropology, 63: 473–494,1995.
The paper is available
online |
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JANUARY
25th 2005-
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology reading
group is Tuesday January 25th 2005 7:30 pm in the Philosophy
lounge. We will be reading R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson,
Solving the Puzzle of Human Cooperation, In Evolution
and Culture, S. Levinson ed. MIT Press, Cambridge
MA, in press. available
online |
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OCTOBER
5th 2004-
Our next meeting of the Philosophy of biology reading
group is Tuesday October 5th 2004 7:30 pm in the Philosophy
lounge 201 West Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS. We will
be reading Kevin N. Laland (2004): Extending the Extended
Phenotype, Biology & Philosophy 19(3):315-325.
available
online |
| MARCH
16th 2004- Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of biology reading group is Tuesday March 16th 2004 7:30
pm in the Philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building, EAST
CAMPUS. We will be reading Colin Allen's paper (2002)"Real
Traits, Real Functions?" In Ariew, A., Cummins, R. &
Perlman, M. (eds.) Functions:New Readings in the Philosophy
of Psychology and Biology. New York: Oxford University
Press. available
online |
FEBRUARY
10th 2004- Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of biology reading group is Tuesday February 10th 2004
7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS. We will be reading Preston, S. D. and de
Waal, F. B. (2002). Empathy: Its ultimate and
proximate bases. Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
25(1), 1-72.
available
online |
| NOVEMBER
18th 2003- Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of biology reading group is Tuesday November 18th 2003
7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS. We will be reading the sixth Chapter 'Adaptive
Evolution' of West-Eberhardt's latest book "Developmental
Plasticity and Evolution". |
| NOVEMBER
4th 2003- Our next meeting of the Philosophy of
biology reading group is Tuesday November 4th 2003 7:30
pm in the Philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building, EAST
CAMPUS. We will be reading the third Chapter 'Plasticity'
of West-Eberhardt's latest book "Developmental Plasticity
and Evolution". |
| OCTOBER
21st 2003- Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of biology reading group is Tuesday October 21st 2003
7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS. We will be reading the second Chapter 'Material
for a Synthesis' of West-Eberhardt's latest book "Developmental
Plasticity and Evolution". |
| OCTOBER
7th 2003- Our next meeting of the Philosophy of
biology reading group is Tuesday October 7th 2003 7:30
pm in the Philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building, EAST
CAMPUS. We will be reading Nicholas S Thompson "SHIFTING
THE NATURAL SELECTION METAPHOR TO THE GROUP LEVEL" Behavior
and Philosophy, 28, 83-101 (2000) PDF available from his
website. |
| SEPTEMBER
23rd 2003- Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of biology reading group is Tuesday Sept 23rd 2003 7:30
pm in the Philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building, EAST
CAMPUS. We will be reading Dan McShea's "A Universal Generative
Tendency toward Increased Organismal Complexity". |
| SEPTEMBER
9th 2003- This semester's first meeting of the
Philosophy of biology reading group is Tuesday Sept 9th
2003 7:30 pm in the Philosophy lounge 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS. We will be reading Samir Okasha's "Genetic
Relatedness and the Evolution of Altruism" Philosophy
of Science, March 2002, Volume 69, Issue 1 138-149. Available online at Philosophy of Science |
| APRIL
8th 2003- Our next meeting of the Philosophy of
Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday APRIL 8th 7:30pm
in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing Tim Lewens "Seven
Types of Adaptationism" . |
| MARCH
25th 2003- Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday MARCH 25th 7:30pm
in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing Sara Via's "Adaptive
Phenotypic Plasticity: Target or By-Product of Selection
in a Variable Environment?" American Naturalist, Volume
142, Issue 2 (Aug 1993) 352-365. |
| MARCH
4th 2003- Our next meeting of the Philosophy of
Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday MARCH 4th 7:30pm
in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing James MacLaurin's
"The Ressurection of Innateness", Monist Jan 2002. |
| FEBRUARY
18th 2003 -Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology
Reading Group will be Tuesday Feb 18th at 7:30pm in the
lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing Werner Callebaut and Gerd B.
Muller's paper "Epistemological and
Practical Aspects of the Developmental Synthesis:Streamlining
the Naturalistic Agenda". |
FEBRUARY
4th 2003 7:30pm dept. of philosophy lounge 201
West Duke Building, East Campus. We will read "Modularity
in animal development and evolution: Elements of a conceptual
framework for EvoDevo." von-Dassow,George and Munro, Ed (1999) Journal-of-Experimental-Zoology 285: 307-325.
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| DECEMBER
6th 2002 7:30pm dept. of philosophy lounge 201
West Duke Building, East Campus. Our special guest Phil
Dowe, University of Pittsburgh and University of Tasmania,
will be presenting a "Chance and the Propensity Interpretation
of Fitness". |
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NOVEMBER
19th 2002 -Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday september 24th
7:30pm in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West
Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will read
Baum and Donoghue on "A Likelihood Framework for Phylogenetic
Analysis of Adaptation". |
| OCTOBER
29th 2002 -Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology
Reading Group will be Tuesday October 29th at 7:30pm in
the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke Building,
EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing "Nongenetic Selection
and Nongenetic Inheritance", MATTEO MAMELI. |
| OCTOBER
15th 2002 -Our next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology
Reading Group will be Tuesday October 15th at 7:30pm
in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West Duke
Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing chapter
10 (Amundson) in Orzack's and Sober's 'Adaptationism and
Optimality'. |
| SEPTEMBER
24th 2002 -Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday september 24th
7:30pm in the lounge of the Philosophy Dept. 201 West
Duke Building, EAST CAMPUS . We will be discussing
two chapters in Orzack's and Sober's 'Adaptationism and
Optimality'; first, their introduction and chapter 9 (written
by Abrams). |
| APRIL
23rd 2002 -Our next meeting of the Philosophy
of Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday April 23rd 7:30pm
room 140 in the Biological Sciences Building on west campus.
We will be discussing part of a manuscript by David S.
Sloan, Binghamton University "Calvinism: An Argument from Design". |
| APRIL
9th 2002 -Our next meeting of the Philosophy of
Biology Reading Group will be Tuesday April 9th 7:30pm
room 140 in the Biological Sciences Building on west campus.
We will be discussing a recent paper by Robert Brandon,
Duke University "What's Wrong with the Emergentist
Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random
Drift?" |
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MARCH
19th 2002- - NOTE this meeting
WILL NOT be in the philosophy lounge. We will meet
March 19th (7:30) in room 140 in the Biological Sciences
Building on west campus. We will be discussing Robert Brandon,
Duke University "The Difference between Drift and Selection: a Reply to Millstein".
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| FEB.
26th 2002- Mohan Matthen, Department of Philosophy,
University of British Columbia; André Ariew, Department
of Philosophy, University of Rhode Island: "Two Ways
of Thinking about Fitness and Natural Selection"
in Journal of Philosophy Feb 2002. |
| FEB.
12th 2002- Denis M. Walsh, Department of Philosophy,
University of Edinburgh; Tim Lewens, Department of History
and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge; André Ariew, Department of Philosophy,
University of Rhode Island: "The Trials of Life: Natural
Selection and Random Drift". OTHER PAPERS THAT WILL
BE DISCUSSED CAN BE FOUND UNDER THE JAN 29th ENTRY. |
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Jan.
29th 2002- (and Feb12th) Alex Rosenberg, Duke, Chapter 4 from "Instrumental Biology,
or The Disunity of Science"; Brandon and Carson,
Duke "The Indeterministic Character of Evolutionary
Theory: "No Hidden Variable Proof" But No Room for Determinism
Either" in Philosophy of Science September
1996 315-337; Graves, Horan and Rosenberg "Is Indeterminsim
the Source of the Statistical Character of Evolutionary
Theory?" Philosophy of Science March 1999
140-157.
ADDED JAN
30th Roger Sansom, Department of Philosophy, University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: "In Defense of Realism
for Indeterministic Evolutionary Theory." |
| Nov.
20th 2001- Gerhard Schlosser, Brain Research Institute,
University of Bremen "Functional and Generative Constraints
on Life Cycle Evolution: an Attempt on the Architecture
of Constraints" |
| Nov.
6th 2001-
3 articles from Biology and Philosophy concerning Kettlewell's
experiments: David Rudge, Joel Hagen and Robert Brandon.
pp. 1-54 of Biology and Philosophy, Vol 14, No. 1, January
1999. |
| Oct.
2nd 2001- Paul E. Griffiths, Department of History
and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh "Evo-Devo
Meets the Mind: Towards a developmental evolutionary psychology"
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| Sept
18th 2001-
Roger Sansom, Department of Philosophy, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill: "A Legacy of Adaptive
Development" |
