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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Samir Okasha |
| ISBN: | 0199267979 9780199267972 |
| OCLC Number: | 70985413 |
| Awards: | Winner of Winner of the Lakatos Award 2009 for outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science. |
| Description: | xi, 263 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | 1. Natural Selection in the Abstract -- Introduction -- 1.1 Abstract Formulations of Darwinian Principles -- 1.2 Price's Equation -- 1.3 Interpretation of Price's Equation -- 1.4 Statistical versus Causal Decomposition -- 1.4.1 Random Drift and Causal Decomposition -- 1.5 Price's Equation and the Lewontin Conditions -- 2. Selection at Multiple Levels: Concepts and Methods -- Introduction -- 2.1 Hierarchical Organization -- 2.2 Selection at Multiple Levels: Key Concepts -- 2.2.1 Particle Characters and Collective Characters -- 2.2.2 Life Cycles -- 2.2.3 Particle Fitness and Collective Fitness -- 2.2.4 The Two Types of Multi-Level Selection -- 2.2.5 Particle Heritability and Collective Heritability -- 2.3 Price's Equation in a Hierarchical Setting. 2.3.1 The Price Approach to MLS1 -- 2.3.2 Applications -- 2.3.3 Heritability in MLS1 Revisited -- 2.3.4 The Price Approach to MLS2 -- 3. Causality and Multi-Level Selection -- Introduction -- 3.1 Causes, Correlations, and Cross-Level By-Products -- 3.2 Selection on Correlated Characters -- 3.3 Cross-Level By-Products in MLS1 -- 3.3.1 Contextual Analysis: Further Remarks -- 3.4 Contextual Analysis versus Price's Equation -- 3.5 Cross-Level By-Products in MLS2 -- 3.5.1 Particle. Collective By-Products -- 3.5.2 Collective. Particle By-Products -- 4. Philosophical Issues in the Levels-of-Selection Debate -- Introduction -- 4.1 Emergence and Additivity -- 4.1.1 The Emergent Character Requirement -- 4.1.2 Additivity and the Wimsatt/Lloyd Approach -- 4.1.3 Emergent Relations and the Damuth-Heisler Approach -- 4.2 Screening Off and the Levels of Selection -- 4.3 Realism versus Pluralism about the Levels of Selection -- 4.3.1 Pluralism and Causality -- 4.3.2 Pluralism and Hierarchical Organization -- 4.3.3 Pluralism and Multiple Representations -- 4.4 Reductionism -- 5. The Gene's-Eye View and its Discontents -- Introduction. 5.1 The Origins of Gene's-Eye Thinking -- 5.2 Genic Selection and the Gene's-Eye View: Process versus Perspective -- 5.3 Outlaws and Genetic Conflicts -- 5.4 Price's Equation versus Contextual Analysis Revisited -- 5.5 Bookkeeping and Causality -- 5.5.1 The Limits of Genic Accounting -- 5.5.2 Sober and Lewontin's Heterosis Argument -- 5.6 Context-Dependence and the Gene's-Eye View -- 5.7 Reductionism and Pluralism Revisited -- 6. The Group Selection Controversy -- Introduction -- 6.1 Origins of the Group Selection Controversy -- 6.2 Group Selection and the MLS1/MLS2 Distinction -- 6.3 Kin Selection, Reciprocal Altruism, and Evolutionary -- Game Theory -- 6.4 Maynard Smith versus Sober and Wilson on Group -- Heritability -- 6.5 The Averaging Fallacy -- 6.6 Random versus Assortative Grouping, Strong versus Weak Altruism -- 6.7 Contextual Analysis versus the Neighbour Approach -- 7. Species Selection, Clade Selection, and Macroevolution -- Introduction -- 7.1 Origins of Species Selection -- 7.2 Genuine Species Selection versus 'Causation from Below' -- 7.3 Species versus Avatars: Damuth's Challenge -- 7.4 The Concept of Clade Selection -- 8. Levels of Selection and the Major Evolutionary Transitions -- Introduction. 8.1 The Transformation of the Levels-of-Selection Question -- 8.2 Genic versus Hierarchical Approaches to the Transitions -- 8.3 MLS1 versus MLS2 in Relation to Evolutionary Transitions -- 8.4 Michod on Fitness Decoupling and the Emergence of Individuality -- 8.5 Concluding Remarks. |
| Responsibility: | Samir Okasha. |
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Okasha has written an extremely important book... required reading for anyone working on the levels of selection question * Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * ...an extremely thought-provoking and important book about a dificult and highly technical topic...This is not a book to pull a chapter out of, but instead demands a careful reading of the whole text. Those who do will be rightly rewarded. * Matt Haber MIND * Sam Okasha's wonderful new book... is a philosophical examination of the conceptual framework that multi-level selection theory deploys... It is gratifying that his book engages the details of mathematical models and at the same time connects those details with broader philosophical questions. * Elliott Sober, Bioscience * Evolution and the Levels of Selection is a major contribution toward putting this controversial area on a coherent conceptual and philosophical footing... Okasha has greatly clarified many of the central issues. I can't imagine anyone working on multilevel selection - or attempting to dismiss it - without reading this book. * David Jablonski, Science * A major conceptual contribution to evolutionary theory... Okasha's book makes the sort of contribution that will not be able to be ignored by anyone interested in this field for many years to come. * Massimo Pigliucci, Biology and Philosophy * A clearly written, unique and useful book * Elizabeth Lloyd, Trends in Ecology and Evolution * Read more...
