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- Title
Realism, Conventionalism, and Causal Decomposition in Units of Selection: Reflections on Samir Okasha's Evolution and the Levels of Selection.
- Authors
SOBER, ELLIOTT
- Abstract
I discuss two subjects in Samir Okasha's excellent book, Evolution and the Levels of Selection. In consonance with Okasha's critique of the conventionalist view of the units of selection problem, I argue that conventionalists have not attended to what realists mean by group, individual, and genic selection. In connection with Okasha's discussion of the Price equation and contextual analysis, I discuss whether the existence of these two quantitative frameworks is a challenge to realism.
- Subjects
OKASHA, Samir; EVOLUTION &; the Levels of Selection (Book); REALISM; JURISTIC persons; INDIVIDUATION (Philosophy); COLLECTIVES (Social movements); CONTEXTUAL analysis
- Publication
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research, 2011, Vol 82, Issue 1, p221
- ISSN
0031-8205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00471.x