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Scaffolds and scaffolding: an explanatory strategy in evolutionary biology
In recent years, the explanatory term “scaffold” has been gaining prominence in evolutionary biology. This notion has a long history in other areas,...
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A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes
Explaining the emergence of individuality in the process of evolution remains a challenge; it faces the difficulty of characterizing adequately what...
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Beyond congruence: evidential integration and inferring the best evolutionary scenario
Molecular methods have revolutionised virtually every area of biology, and metazoan phylogenetics is no exception: molecular phylogenies, molecular...
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Religious Parallels to the Simulation Hypothesis: Gnosticism, Mormonism, and Neoplatonism
According to the simulation hypothesis, our universe is almost certainly a simulation created by posthuman programmers. Although the hypothesis has...
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Two Kinds of Process or Two Kinds of Processing? Disambiguating Dual-Process Theories
Dual-Process Theories (D-PTs) claim there are two qualitatively different types of processes in the human brain-mind. Despite forming the basis for...
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The Theory of Tawhidi Interactive, Integrative, and Evolutionary Intellection (IIE) in Islamic Philosophy of Science
Islamic philosophy of science has a distinctively different approach to the intellection and its application to various fields of socio-scientific...
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Pluralism and Epistemic Goals: Why the Social Sciences Will (Probably) Not Be Synthesised by Evolutionary Theory
This article discusses Mesoudi et al.’s suggestion to synthesise the social sciences based on a theory of cultural evolution. In view of their...
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Keywords in Economics and Evolutionary Biology: Twenty Five Concepts
This section exposes twenty-five key concepts in evolutionary biology and in economics. Each concept is explicated first in evolutionary biology,...
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Dual-Process Theories, Cognitive Decoupling and the Outcome-to-Intent Shift: A Developmental Perspective on Evolutionary Ethics
A central tenet of evolutionary ethics is that as a result of evolutionary processes, humans tend to respond in certain ways to particular moral...
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The Attributes of Balance, Stability, Growth, and Security in Sustainable Development Process
This Handbook in the Islamic Philosophy of Science addresses several problems and issues of current nature in various fields where the philosophy of...
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Simulation and Experiment Revisited: Temporal Data in Astronomy and Astrophysics
The ongoing debate in philosophy of science over whether simulations are experiments has so far operated at too high a level of generality. I revisit...
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Model Transfer and Universal Patterns: Lessons from the Yule Process
Model transfer refers to the observation that particular model structures are used across multiple distinct scientific domains. This paper puts...
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What’s in a Survey? Simulation-Induced Selection Effects in Astronomy
Observational astronomy is plagued with selection effects that must be taken into account when interpreting data from astronomical surveys. Because...
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The Transhuman Unbounded Existence: AI, Nanorobots, and Computational Simulation
The transhuman has been at the threshold of untethering from social norms and aggregated attributes of heredity by questioning the philosophical and...
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Evolutionary stability of ambiguity in context signaling games
In Lewisean signaling games with common interests, perfect signaling strategies have been shown to be optimal in terms of communicative success and...
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Not by Selection Alone: Evolutionary Explanations and Their Requirements
The alleged opposition between design arguments and evolution goes back to the discussions between Darwin and Asa Gray, and this chapter analyzes...
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Scaling in the Evolution of Biodiversity
Biodiversity is a fundamental concept in biology. By biodiversity scientists usually mean taxic richness, i.e., the number of species, genera, or...
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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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How to Derive the Socio-scientific Laws from the Qur’an in Respect of Tawhid as Law
In this chapter, we have developed the substantive content of the Tawhidi epistemic worldview as the qur’anic law, contrary to the mistaken...
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Cultural Evolution and the Evolution of Cultural Information
Cultural evolution is normally framed in informational terms. However, it is not clear whether this is an adequate way to model cultural evolutionary...
