What selection can and cannot explain: a reply to Nanay’s critique of Sober

Helgeson, Casey ORCID: 0000-0001-5333-9954 (2013) What selection can and cannot explain: a reply to Nanay’s critique of Sober. Philosophy of Science, 80 (1). pp. 155-159. ISSN 0031-8248

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Abstract

In The Nature of Selection, Elliott Sober argued that natural selection is in principle powerless to explain why any individual organism has the traits it does rather than the very same individual having different traits. In this note, I argue that in a recent and prominent critique of Sober’s position, Bence Nanay talks past that position rather than addressing it.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journa...
Additional Information:	© 2013 Philosophy of Science Association
Divisions:	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2014 14:46
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 00:29
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55526

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