Curriculum Vitae

Robert N Brandon

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Selected Recent Invited Talks

Exporting Causal Knowledge in Biology: With and Without General Laws, Philosophy of Science Association meetings, Vancouver, CA, November 04, 2006
Diversity and Complexity: Which Came First?, University of Montreal, May, 2006
Historical, Structural and Functional Concepts: There is no Conflict, Paris, France, November 18, 2005
The Principle Drift: Biology's First Law, The Konrad Lorenz Institute, Altenberg, Austria, September 24, 2005

Publications   (search)

Books

  1. with Roger Samson, Integrating Development and Evolution, edited by Roger Samson and Robert Brandon (2007), The MIT Press.

Papers Published

  1. R.N. Brandon, 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..

Papers Accepted

  1. 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 (2006), Philosophy of Science Association.
  2. 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 (2006), Cambridge University Press.

Papers Submitted

  1. with Grant Ramsey, Toward a Pluralistic Account of Altruism: Why Reciprical Alturism is Not a Kind of Group Selection, Philosophy of Science (2006), Philosophy of Science Association.
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