Pierrick Bourrat (Sydney Macquarie University)

Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection

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Produktbeschreibung

This Element introduces this literature and proposes a novel contribution. It defends a realist stance and offers a way of delineating genuine levels of selection by invoking the notion of a functional unit.

Produktdetails

• Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9781108794589
• ISBN-10: 1108794580
• Artikelnr.: 62353375

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The Problem of Conventionalism
3. Existing Approaches and their Limitations
4. Functional Units as Units of Selection
5. Levels of Selection and Collective-level Multiplication
6. Conclusion
Bibliography.