Rubin, Hannah (2018) The Debate over Inclusive Fitness as a Debate over Methodologies. Philosophy of Science, 85 (1). pp. 1-10. ISSN 2365-4228
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This paper analyzes the recent debate surrounding inclusive fitness and argues that certain limitations ascribed to it by critics -- such as requiring weak selection or providing dynamically insufficient models -- are better thought of as limitations of the methodological framework most often used with inclusive fitness (quantitative genetics). In support of this, I show how inclusive fitness can be used with the replicator dynamics (of evolutionary game theory, a methodological framework preferred by inclusive fitness critics). I conclude that much of the debate is best understood as being about the orthogonal issue of using abstract versus idealized models.
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| Keywords: | Philosophy of Biology, Evolutionary Game Theory, Evolutionary Models, Inclusive Fitness Theory, Social Evolution | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Dr Hannah Rubin | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2019 13:37 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 May 2019 13:37 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 15962 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1086/694809 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory General Issues > Game Theory General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | January 2018 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-10 | ||||||
| Volume: | 85 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2365-4228 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15962 |
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