Evolutionary thinking across disciplines : problems and perspectives in generalized Darwinism / Agather du Crest [and 5 others], editors.
Crest, Agathe du, editor.; Valković, Martina, editor.; Ariew, André, editor.; Desmond, Hugh, editor.; Huneman, Philippe, editor.; Reydon, Thomas A. C., editor.
2023
QH366.2 .E8728 2023
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Evolutionary thinking across disciplines : problems and perspectives in generalized Darwinism / Agather du Crest [and 5 others], editors.
ISBN
9783031333583 (electronic bk.)
3031333586 (electronic bk.)
9783031333576
3031333578
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3
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Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023.
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English
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1 online resource.
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10.1007/978-3-031-33358-3 doi
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QH366.2 .E8728 2023
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576.8
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This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences. By bringing together chapters by evolutionary biologists, systematic biologists, philosophers of biology, philosophers of social science, complex systems modelers, psychologists, anthropologists, economists, linguists, historians, and educators, the volume examines evolutionary thinking within and outside the life sciences from a multidisciplinary perspective. While the chapters written by biologists and philosophers of science address theoretical aspects of the guiding questions and aims of the volume, the chapters written by researchers from the other areas approach them from the perspective of applying evolutionary thinking to non-biological phenomena. Taken together, the chapters in this volume do not only show how evolutionary thinking can be fruitfully applied in various areas of investigation, but also highlight numerous open problems, unanswered questions, and issues on which more clarity is needed. As such, the volume can serve as a starting point for future research on the application of evolutionary thinking across disciplines.
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Crest, Agathe du, editor.
Valković, Martina, editor.
Ariew, André, editor.
Desmond, Hugh, editor.
Huneman, Philippe, editor.
Reydon, Thomas A. C., editor.
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Synthese library ; v. 478.
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Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines
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1. Generalizing Darwinism as a Topic for Multidisciplinary Debate
Part I: How Can Disciplines Benefit from, or Contribute to, Evolutionary Frameworks?. 2. Is a Non-Evolutionary Psychology Possible?
3. Evolutionary Economics and the Theory of Cultural Evolution
4. Repetition Without Replication: Notes Towards a Theory of Cultural Adaptation
5. The Epistemological and Ideological Stakes of Literary Darwinism
6. Evolutionary Aspects of Language Change
7. A Community Science Model for Inter-Disciplinary Evolution Education and School Improvement
8. Teaching for the Interdisciplinary Understanding of Evolutionary Concepts
Part II: Generalizations of Evolutionary Theory: Common Principles or Explanatory Structures?. 9. From Games to Graphs. Evolving Networks in Cultural Evolution
10. Metaphysics of Evolution: Ontology and Justification of Generalized Evolution Theory
11. Human Social Evolution via Four Coevolutionary Levels
Part III: Why Should We Be Skeptical of Generalizations of Darwinism?. 12. Is Natural Selection Physical?
13. The Risks of Evolutionary Explanation
14. Evolution and Ecology of Organizations and Markets
15. Pluralism and Epistemic Goals: Why the Social Sciences Will (Probably) not be Synthesised by Evolutionary Theory
16. Equations at an Exhibition: on the Cultural Price Equation
17. Unlike Agents: The Role of Correlation in Economics and Biology
Part IV: How Can Evolutionary Approaches or the Target Field be Amended?. 18. From the Modern Synthesis to the Inclusive Evolutionary Synthesis: An Einsteinian Revolution in Evolution
19. Darwinian/Hennigian Systematics and Evo-Devo: the Missed Rendez-vous
20. The Generalized Selective Environment
21. Adding Agency to Tinbergens Four Questions
22. Cultural Evolution Research Needs to Include Human Behavioural Ecology.

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