Why the Causal View of Fitness Survives.

We critically examine Denis Walsh's latest attack on the causalist view of fitness. Relying on Judea Pearl's Sure-Thing Principle and geneticist John Gillespie's model for fitness, Walsh has argued that the causal interpretation of fitness results in a reductio. We show that his conclusion only foll...

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Publicado en:Philosophy of Science Vol. 78; no. 2; pp. 209 - 225
Autores principales: Otsuka, Jun, Turner, Trin, Allen, Colin, Lloyd, Elisabeth A.
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press Apr2011
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