Robert N Brandon, Professor of Philosophy  

Robert N Brandon

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   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. R.N. Brandon, “Why Reciprocal Altruism is Not a Kind of Group Selection” (with Grant Ramsey) in Biology and Philosophy, (2011) Vol. 26, 3: 385-400. (2011) .
  2. R.N. Brandon, “The Concept of the Environment in Evolutionary Theory,” in The Environment: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, vol. 9 (ed. By M. O’Rouke and M. Slater) (2011), MIT Press .
  3. R.N. Brandon, “A General Case for Functional Pluralism,” in Function: Selection and Mechanisms (ed. by P. Huneman) (2011), Springer .
  4. with Roger Samson, Integrating Development and Evolution, edited by Roger Samson and Robert Brandon (2007), The MIT Press  [author's comments].
  5. 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. .

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