Robert N Brandon, Professor of Philosophy
Office Location: 209 West Duke Building
Office Phone: (919) 660-3067
Email Address: rbrandon@duke.edu
Specialties:
Philosophy of Biology
Logic
Areas of Interest:
Philosophy of Science,
Philosophy of Biology,
Logic
Recent Publications (search)
- with Roger Samson, Integrating Development and Evolution, edited by Roger Samson and Robert Brandon (2007), The MIT Press [author's comments].
- The Principle of Drift: Biology's First Law, The Journal of Philosophy, vol. CII no. 7 (July, 2006), pp. 319-335, The Journal of Philosophy, Inc. .
- with H. Frederick Nijhout, The Empirical Non-equivalence of Genic and Genotypic Models of Selection: a (Decisive) Refutation of Genic Selectionism and Pluralistic Genic Selectionism, Philosophy of Science (Accepted, 2006), Philosophy of Science Association [abs].
- with Grant Ramsey, What's Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift, in The Cambridge Companion to Philosophy of Biology, edited by Michael Ruse and David Hull (Accepted, 2006), Cambridge University Press [abs].
- with Grant Ramsey, Toward a Pluralistic Account of Altruism: Why Reciprical Alturism is Not a Kind of Group Selection, Philosophy of Science (Submitted, 2006), Philosophy of Science Association [abs].
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