Skipper, Robert and Millstein, Roberta (2004) Thinking About Evolutionary Mechanisms: Natural Selection. [Preprint]
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This paper explores whether natural selection, a putative evolutionary mechanism, and a main one at that, can be characterized on either of the two dominant conceptions of mechanism, due to Glennan and the team of Machamer, Darden, and Craver, that constitute the “new mechanistic philosophy.” The results of the analysis are that neither of the dominant conceptions of mechanism adequately captures natural selection. Nevertheless, the new mechanistic philosophy possesses the resources for an understanding of natural selection under the rubric.
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| Keywords: | mechanisms, natural selection, evolution | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation |
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| Depositing User: | Robert Skipper | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 19 Dec 2004 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2010 15:13 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 2119 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology General Issues > Causation General Issues > Explanation |
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| Date: | December 2004 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2119 |
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