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622From Toys to Games: Overcoming the View of Natural Selection as a FilterKairos 17 (1): 1-24. 2016.
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284Drift and evolutionary forces: scrutinizing the Newtonian analogyTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (3): 397-410. 2016.This article analyzes the view of evolutionary theory as a theory of forces. The analogy with Newtonian mechanics has been challenged due to the alleged mismatch between drift and the other evolutionary forces. Since genetic drift has no direction several authors tried to protect its status as a force: denying its lack of directionality, extending the notion of force and looking for a force in physics which also lacks of direction. I analyse these approaches, and although this strategy finally s…Read more
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87One equation to rule them all: a philosophical analysis of the Price equationBiology and Philosophy 32 (1): 97-125. 2017.This paper provides a philosophical analysis of the Price equation and its role in evolutionary theory. Traditional models in population genetics postulate simplifying assumptions in order to make the models mathematically tractable. On the contrary, the Price equation implies a very specific way of theorizing, starting with assumptions that we think are true and then deriving from them the mathematical rules of the system. I argue that the Price equation is a generalization-sketch, whose main p…Read more
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42La segunda agenda darwiniana. Contribución preliminar a una historia del programa adaptacionista by Gustavo Caponi (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 29 (1): 169-171. 2014.
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33The Principle of Stasis: Why drift is not a Zero-Cause LawStudies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 57 71-79. 2016.This paper analyses the structure of evolutionary theory as a quasi-Newtonian theory and the need to establish a Zero-Cause Law. Several authors have postulated that the special character of drift is because it is the default behaviour or Zero-Cause Law of evolutionary systems, where change and not stasis is the normal state of them. For these authors, drift would be a Zero-Cause Law, the default behaviour and therefore a constituent assumption impossible to change without changing the system. I…Read more
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25The mirror of physics: on how the Price equation can unify evolutionary biologySynthese 199 (5-6): 12439-12462. 2021.Due to its high degree of complexity and its historical nature, evolutionary biology has been traditionally portrayed as a messy science. According to the supporters of such a view, evolutionary biology would be unable to formulate laws and robust theories, instead just delivering coherent narratives and local models. In this article, our aim is to challenge this view by showing how the Price equation can work as the core of a general theoretical framework for evolutionary phenomena. To support …Read more
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22Evolutionary causes as mechanisms: a critical analysisHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 41 (2): 13. 2019.In this paper, we address the question whether a mechanistic approach can account for evolutionary causes. The last decade has seen a major attempt to account for natural selection as a mechanism. Nevertheless, we stress the relevance of broadening the debate by including the other evolutionary causes inside the mechanistic approach, in order to be a legitimate conceptual framework on the same footing as other approaches to evolutionary theory. We analyse the current debate on natural selection …Read more
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19Leyes sin causa y causas sin ley en la explicación biológica (review)Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 31 (2): 270-272. 2016.
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16In this article we will do a survey of the life and works of Josep Lluís Blasco, who was professor of the Theory of Knowledge at the University of Valencia. We will see his relationship with the Marxism and politics during the Transition, the impact of logical positivism and Wittgenstein's work versus metaphysics in completing his thesis, the impressions from Quine's work and the challenges of his naturalism, etc. All in all, we will present Josep Lluís Blasco's change of viewpoint from analytic…Read more
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10Towards a Pricean foundation for cultural evolutionary theoryTheoria 37 (2): 209-231. 2022.The Price equation is currently considered one of the fundamental equations —or even the fundamental equation— of evolution. In this article, we explore the role of this equation within cultural evolutionary theory. More specifically, we use it to account for the explanatory power and the theoretical structure of a certain generalised version of dual-inheritance theory. First, we argue that, in spite of not having a definite empirical content, the Price equation offers a suitable formalisation o…Read more
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8The Principle of Stasis: Why drift is not a Zero-Cause LawStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 57 71-79. 2016.
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5Caponi. 2011. La segunda agenda darwiniana. Contribución preliminar a una historia del programa adaptacionistaTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 29 (1): 169-171. 2014.
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Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |
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Philosophy of Mathematics |
Philosophy of Physical Science |