Manipulation and the Causes of Evolution

By K. Reisman, Patrick Forber. Philosophia Scientiæ, 2005

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Ecological Modeling, Genetics

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• What Evolvability Really Is (2014, unknown): “Accounts of causation of this type all rely on the same basic premise: if you can systematically intervene on variable A to bring about a change in variable B, then A is a cause for B (Woodward [2003]; Reisman and Forber [2005]).”
• A New Foundation for the Propensity Interpretation of Fitness (2013, background): “In response to this charge, Sober notes, quite correctly, that ‘the fact that selection occurs one generation at a time does not mean that it is wrong to define a quantity that describes a trait’s long-term expected fate’ (Sober [2001], Charles H.”