
The Nature of Selection
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"Sober's is the answering philosophical voice, the voice of a first-rate philosopher and a knowledgeable student of contemporary evolutionary theory. His book merits broad attention among both communities. It should also inspire others to continue the conversation."-Philip Kitcher, Nature
"Elliott Sober has made extraordinarily important contributions to our understanding of biological problems in evolutionary biology and causality. The Nature of Selection is a major contribution to understanding epistemological problems in evolutionary theory. I predict that it will have a long lasting place in the literature."-Richard C. Lewontin
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- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I: Fitness, Selection, Adaptation
- Chapter 1: Evolutionary Theory as a Theory of Forces
- 1.1. The Prehistory of a Concept
- 1.2. History and Theory
- 1.3. Zero-Force States
- 1.4. Darwinian Fitness
- 1.5. Source Laws and Supervenience
- Chapter 2: The Tautology Problem
- 2.1. A Good Tautology Is Hard to Find
- 2.2. A Little A Priori Truth Never Hurt Anyone
- Chapter 3: Survival, Reproduction, Causation
- 3.1. Fitness Is Causally Inert
- 3.2. Selection Of and Selection For
- Chapter 4: Chance
- 4.1. The Randomness of Mutation
- 4.2. Deterministic and Stochastic Processes
- 4.3. What Laplace's Demon Would Be Missing
- Chapter 5: Explanation
- 5.1. Explanation and Prediction
- 5.2. Variational and Developmental Explanation
- 5.3. Population Thinking and Essentialism
- Chapter 6: Adaptation
- 6.1. Selection and Improvement
- 6.2. Retrospect and Prospect
- PART II: The Group Above and the Gene Below
- Chapter 7: Beginnings
- 7.1. Historical Background
- 7.2. Transitivity and Context Dependence
- 7.3. Parsimony
- 7.4. Representability
- 7.5. The Unit of Replication
- 7.6. Adaptation and Artifact
- 7.7. Group Selection without Altruism
- 7.8. The Analysis of Variance
- Chapter 8: Causality
- 8.1. Object and Property
- 8.2. Coronaries and Correlations
- 8.3. Fine-Tuning
- Chapter 9: Consequences
- 9.1. The Selfish Gene or the Artifactual Allele?
- 9.2. Group Selection in Focus
- 9.3. Altruism and Averaging
- 9.4. Species Selection
- References
- Index
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