evolution reading group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 26 October in the Benjamin library.

The reading is Tim Lewens, "Seven types of adaptationism".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

evolution reading group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 19 October in the Benjamin library.

The reading is Grant Ramsey & Anne Siebels Peterson, "Sameness in biology".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

evolution reading group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 12 October in the Benjamin library.

The reading is David Lewis, "Causal explanation".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution Reading Group

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2.30PM, Friday 15th September in the Benjamin Library, Coombs Building, ANU. The reading is - Sterelny's "From Fitness to Utility"

Contact: Rachael Brown (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution Reading Group

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2.30PM, Friday 24th August in the Benjamin Library, Coombs Building, ANU.

The reading is -

Wagner, A. (2012). The Role of Randomness in Darwinian Evolution*. Philosophy of Science, 79(1), 95–119. doi:10.1086/663239

Contact: rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Evolution Reading Group

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2 PM Friday 10th August in the Benjamin library. We will be discussing - 

Kaplan and Winther (forthcoming) "Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of "Race"", Biological Theory.

Contact: Rachael Brown (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution reading group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 3 August in the Benjamin library.

The reading is Craig Callender and Jonathan Cohen, "There is no special problem about scientific representation".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution Reading Group

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2 PM Friday 20th July, Benjamin library. The reading is - 

Honing & Ploeger (2012) 'Cognition and the Evolution of Music: pitfalls and prospects' from Topics in Cognitive Science. 

Contact: Rachael Brown (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution RG

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2 PM Friday 13th July, Benjamin library. The reading is -

Jay Odenbaugh (2006) "Message in the Bottle: The Constraints of Experimentation on Model Building" Phil. Sci. 73(5): 720-729

Contact: Rachael Brown (rachael{dot}brown{at}anu{dot}edu{dot}au)

Evolution Reading Group

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2 PM Friday 29th June, Benjamin library. The reading is - 

John Beatty's "Reconsidering the Importance of Chance Variation" from Pigliucci, M. and G. B. Muller (2010), Evolution, the extended synthesis, (MIT Press).

Contact: Rachael Brown via rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Evolution reading group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 22 June in the Benjamin library.

The reading is Robert M. MacCallum, Matthias Mauch, Austin Burt, and Armand M. Leroi, "Evolution of music by public choice".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution reading group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 15 June in the Benjamin library.

The reading is James Woodward's "Causation in biology: stability, specificity, and the choice of levels of explanation".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution Reading Group

We're postponing discussion of Prinz on moral nativism until next week.

Instead, the reading for this week is Collin Rice' "Optimality explanations: a plea for an alternative account".

Date + location haven't changed (2PM Friday 1 June, Benjamin library).

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution Reading Group

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is Friday 1st June, 2PM, in the Benjamin Library. The reading is Jesse Prinz's "Against Moral Nativism." 

Contact: Rachael Brown via rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Evolution Reading Group

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is Friday 25th May, 2PM, in the Benjamin Library. The reading is Phillip Kitcher's "Biology and Ethics" from the Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory. 

Contact: Rachael Brown via rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Evolution Reading Group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 11 May  in Coombs Seminar Room E.


The reading is Douglas Allchin's "The Evolution of Morality"

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.


Contact: Rachael Brown (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution reading group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Friday 27 April in the Benjamin library.

The reading is Peter Gildenhuys' "An explication of the causal dimension of drift".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution reading group

The next meeting of the evolution reading group will be 2 PM Monday 26 March in Seminar Rm E.

The reading is Philipp Mitteroecker & Simon Huttegger's "The concept of morphospaces in evolutionary and developmental biology: mathematics and metaphors".

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution reading group

The next meeting of the Evolution reading group will be 11 AM Friday 16 March, in Seminar Rm F.

George McGhee "Functional and developmental constraint in convergent evolution," chapter 7 from his monograph Convergent Evolution.

Electronic copy of the reading available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Foundations: Decision Theory and Game Theory

The first foundations seminar of the year will be taught by Wolfgang Schwarz on decision theory and game theory (with applications to philosophy of science, ethics, political philosophy, biology).  


When: Tuesday March 6, 1:30pm
Where: Benjamin Library

Probability reading group: Wednesday 29 Feb, 2.30pm

The probability reading group will meet again on Wednesday (29 Feb) at
2.30pm in the Benjamin library, to discuss the second half of Lewis's
"Causal Decision Theory", starting with section 6:
http://philpapers.org/rec/LEWCDT#.

Probability reading group: Wednesday 22 Feb, 2.30pm

the probability reading group emerges from hibernation next Wednesday
(22 Feb) at 2.30pm in the Benjamin library. We will discuss the first
half (sections 1-6) of David Lewis's classic paper "Causal Decision
Theory": http://philpapers.org/rec/LEWCDT#.

Our tentative plan for future sessions is to chaotically jump between
all sorts of topics, including decision theory, triviality results for
conditionals, and the semantics of probability operators (unless Paolo
wants to run "Modality and Probability" as a separate event; we'll
figure that out when he's back). Further suggestions are of course
welcome as well.