How Not to Argue for the Indeterminism of Evolution: a Look at Two Recent Attempts to Settle the Issue
Year: 2002
Type: preprint
Abstract: I examine recent debates in the philosophy of biology over the determinism or indeterminism of the evolutionary process, focusing on two papers in particular: Glymour 2001 and Stamos 2001. I argue that neither of these papers succeeds in making the case for the indeterminism of the evolutionary process, and suggest that what is needed is a detailed analysis of the causal processes at every level from the quantum mechanical to the evolutionary.
Author: Roberta L. Millstein
Institution: California State University, East Bay
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1539269088