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18The evosystem: A centerpiece for evolutionary studiesBioessays 46 (4): 2300169. 2024.In this paper, we redefine the target of evolutionary explanations by proposing the “evosystem” as an alternative to populations, lineages and species. Evosystems account for changes in the distribution of heritable variation within individual Darwinian populations (evolution by natural selection, drift, or constructive neutral evolution), but also for changes in the networks of interactions within or between Darwinian populations and changes in the abiotic environment (whether these changes are…Read more
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29Natural Kinds: The ExpendablesCanadian Journal of Philosophy 53 (2): 103-120. 2023.Theoreticians that defend a form of realism regarding natural kinds minimally entertain the belief that the world features divisions into kinds and that the natural kind concept is a useful tool for philosophy of science. The objective of this paper is to challenge these assumptions. First, we challenge realism toward natural kinds by showing that the main arguments for their existence, which rely on the epistemic success of natural kinds, are unsatisfactory. Second, we show that, whether they e…Read more
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10Compte rendu de Rencontres de Venise – Regards sur l’épistémologie à l’intention des curieux en sciences du vivant. Boudjeltia et Vanhaeberbeek (dir.), Hermann Éditeurs, Paris, 2019Lato Sensu: Revue de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences 7 (2): 7-11. 2020.
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51Review of Kevin C. Elliott: A Tapestry of Values: An Introduction to Values in Science (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 8 (2): 500-504. 2018.
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10Modeling the evolution of interconnected processes: It is the song and the singersBioessays 43 (1): 2000077. 2021.Recently, Doolittle and Inkpen formulated a thought provoking theory, asserting that evolution by natural selection was responsible for the sideways evolution of two radically different kinds of selective units (also called Domains). The former entities, termed singers, correspond to the usual objects studied by evolutionary biologists (gene, genomes, individuals, species, etc.), whereas the later, termed songs, correspond to re‐produced biological and ecosystemic functions, processes, informati…Read more
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27Evolution by means of natural selection without reproduction: revamping Lewontin’s accountSynthese 198 (11): 10429-10455. 2020.This paper analyzes recent attempts to reject reproduction with lineage formation as a necessary condition for evolution by means of natural selection :560–570, 2008; Stud Hist Philos Sci Part C Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci 42:106–114, 2011; Bourrat in Biol Philos 29:517–538, 2014; Br J Philos Sci 66:883–903, 2015; Charbonneau in Philos Sci 81:727–740, 2014; Doolittle and Inkpen in Proc Natl Acad Sci 115:4006–4014, 2018). Building on the strengths of these attempts and avoiding their pitfall…Read more
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