Screening-off and The Levels of Selection |
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| Authors: | Ron McClamrock |
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| Institution: | (1) Departments of Philosophy and Linguistics & Cognitive Science, University at Albany, SUNY, Humanities 257, 12222 Albany NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | In  The Levels of Selection (Brandon, 1984), Robert Brandon provides a suggestive but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to use the probabilistic notion ofscreening off in providing a schema for dealing with an aspect of the  units of selection question in the philosophy of biology. I characterize that failure, and suggest a revision and expansion of Brandon's account which addresses its key shortcoming. |
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