?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Okasha's+Unintended+Argument+for+Toolbox+Theorizing&rft.creator=Waters%2C+C.+Kenneth&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Theory&rft.subject=Structure+of+Theories&rft.subject=Models+and+Idealization&rft.description=Okasha+claims+at+the+outset+of+his+book+%22Evolution+and+the+Levels+of+Selection%22+(2006)+that+the+Price+equation+lays+bare+the+fundamentals+underlying+all+selection+phenomena.+However%2C+the+thoroughness+of+his+subsequent+analysis+of+multi-level+selection+theories+leads+him+to+abandon+his+fundamentalist+commitments.+At+critical+points+he+invokes+cost+benefit+analyses+that+sometimes+favors+the+Price+approach+and+sometimes+the+contextual+approach%2C+sometimes+favors+MLS1+and+sometimes+MLS2.+And+although+he+doesn%E2%80%99t+acknowledge+it%2C+even+the+Price+approach+breaks+down+into+a+family+of+alternative+equations+that+parse+the+causes+in+different+ways%2C+none+of+which+is+uniquely+correct+and+none+of+which+achieves+the+ultimate+isolation+of+effects+due+to+what+Okasha+believes+are+the+fundamental+causes.+I+argue+that+his+book+provides+good+reason+to+re-conceive+our+understanding+of+evolutionary+theorizing+in+terms+of+a+toolbox+view+(developed+here)+and+to+stop+subjecting+the+analyses+of+evolutionary+concepts+to+a+universalist+standard.&rft.date=2010-04&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F5373%2F1%2FWaters_OkashaToolboxTheorizing_preprint.pdf&rft.identifier=Waters%2C+C.+Kenneth+(2010)+Okasha's+Unintended+Argument+for+Toolbox+Theorizing.+[Preprint]&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fphilsci-archive.pitt.edu%2F5373%2