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Immanent Evolution
Questions of evolution are raised in both literary and biological theory. Biological transformism as a theory emerged at the turn of the nineteenth...
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Evolutionary Economics and the Theory of Cultural Evolution
“Evolutionary economics” is a heterogeneous field of economic research that still lacks a coherent theoretical foundation. Some contributions dealing...
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Language Evolution: Theories and Evidence
Evolution is a hard problem, and language evolution even more so. There is no easy algorithmic answer to the problem of how language evolved and...
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Conceptual Engineering and Philosophy of Technology: Amelioration or Adaptation?
Conceptual Engineering (CE) is thought to be generally aimed at ameliorating deficient concepts. In this paper, we challenge this assumption: we...
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Repetition Without Replication: Notes Towards a Theory of Cultural Adaptation
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for the study of cultural adaptation. A subfield within the larger field of cultural evolution, cultural...
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Function, Adaptation, and Design in Biology
The main misunderstanding of the etiological conception of the concept of function is to confuse this notion with the concept of adaptation. The...
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Metaphysics of Evolution: Ontology and Justification of Generalized Evolution Theory
Section 10.1 introduces generalized evolution (GE) theory. Here, the three core principles of the theory of evolution − reproduction, variation and...
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A Bergsonian Perspective on Causality and Evolution
Bergsonian philosophy is not generally regarded as a true philosophy of biology. Bergson’s rejection of Darwinism, his silence on incipient genetics,...
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Evolution and Ecology of Organizations and Markets
I examine the prospect of locating the evolution of economic organizations and markets within Generalized Darwinism. I use the most mature account...
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Evolution and Evolutionary Medicine in Disease
Evolution has a very strict definition and is very central to evolutionary biology itself when the canonized evolutionary understandings of...
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Function and Adaptation: A Conceptual Demarcation, Instigated by Borderline Cases for Etiological Theory
Insofar as in etiological theory, “the function of X is Z” means that X has been selected for Z, while evolutionary biology often defines adaptation...
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Health and environment from adaptation to adaptivity: a situated relational account
The definitions and conceptualizations of health, and the management of healthcare have been challenged by the current global scenarios (e.g., new...
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Humboldt, Darwin, and theory of evolution
Numerous authors have examined the influence of other thinkers on Darwin’s formulation of some of the key concepts of the theory of evolution....
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The role of social reinforcement in norm transmission and cultural evolution
Work on cultural evolution, especially that of Boyd, Richerson, and Henrich, has said little about the role of reinforcement in cultural learning....
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Causing and Composing Evolution: Lessons from Evo-Devo Mechanisms
Evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) is often vindicated by theoreticians of the field as a mechanistic science that brings a mechanistic...
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A Tragic Fairy Tale of Evolution: Zupančič, Zapffe, and Other Monsters
The dark side of the tale of evolution is that it is not aimed at the conservation and multiplication of life. It enfolds through destructions and...
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Biology, Evolution and Life
Popper’s engagement with biology harked back to Logik (1935) and his participation in a meeting of the progressive Theoretical Biology...
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‘Pragmatics First’: Animal Communication and the Evolution of Language
Research on the evolution of language is often framed in terms of sharp discontinuities in syntax and semantics between animal communication systems...
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Human Social Evolution via Four Coevolutionary Paths
Social evolutionary theories have been roundly discredited since their original racist and sexist formulations during the nineteenth century. Given...
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Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution
Extinct megafaunal mammals in the Americas are often linked to seed-dispersal mutualisms with large-fruiting tree species, but large-fruiting species...
