Screening-off and The Levels of Selection

Autor: Ron McClamrock
Rok vydání: 1995
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Zdroj: Erkenntnis. 42:107-112
ISSN: 1572-8420
0165-0106
DOI: 10.1007/bf01666814
Popis: In ‘The Levels of Selection’ (Brandon, 1984), Robert Brandon provides a suggestive but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to use the probabilistic notion ofscreening off in providing a schema for dealing with an aspect of the “units of selection” question in the philosophy of biology. I characterize that failure, and suggest a revision and expansion of Brandon's account which addresses its key shortcoming.
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