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15Roles of mitonuclear ecology and sex in conceptualizing evolutionary fitnessBiology and Philosophy 36 (3): 1-20. 2021.We look to mitonuclear ecology and the phenomenon of Mother’s Curse to argue that the sex of parents and offspring among populations of eukaryotic organisms, as well as the mitochondrial genome, ought to be taken into account in the conceptualization of evolutionary fitness. Subsequently, we show how characterizations of fitness considered by philosophers that do not take sex and the mitochondrial genome into account may suffer. Last, we reflect on the debate regarding the fundamentality of trai…Read more
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14Inductive neutrality and scientific representationSynthese 201 (5): 1-16. 2023.Prima facie, accounts of scientific representation should illuminate how models support justified surrogative reasoning while remaining neutral on the nature of inductive inference. We argue that doing both at once is harder than it first appears. Accounts like “DEKI,” which distinguish justified and unjustified surrogative inferences by appealing to a distinction between derivational and factual correctness, cannot accommodate non-formal, non-rule-based accounts of inference such as John Norton…Read more
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14John Wright's An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism (review)BJPS Review of Books. 2019.
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11The Problem of Perceptual AgreementCroatian Journal of Philosophy 23 (68): 133-138. 2023.We present the problem of perceptual agreement (of determinate color) and submit that it proves to be a serious and long overlooked obstacle for those insisting that colors are not objective features of objects, viz., nonobjectivist theories like C. L. Hardin’s (2003) eliminativism and Jonathan Cohen’s (2009) relationalism.
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11Robert W. Batterman, A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics. New York: Oxford University Press (2021) 174 pp., $74 (review)Philosophy of Science 1-6. forthcoming.
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