Philosophy of Biology

Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 189 mental resource can be, whether it be a genetic, epigenetic or ecologic ...

190 D. M. Walsh are not simply measured in changes in genotypes, but changes in developmental processes. We should measure evolu ...

Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 191 doesn’t make DST’s approach to adaptation non-sub-organismal. This is a ...

192 D. M. Walsh defining property of whole organisms, a property that is most clearly manifested in development. This brings us ...

Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 193 phenotypic plasticity is the immediate adaptive adjustment of pheno- ty ...

194 D. M. Walsh The phenotype first model needs an account how the mechanisms of develop- ment generate adaptive phenotypic nove ...

Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 195 Kirschner and Gerhart concur: Most evolutionary change in the metazoa s ...

196 D. M. Walsh adaptive evolution too. The ontogeny-first conception of evolution does not deny the existence of Dar- win’s pro ...

Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 197 of development for the process of adaptive evolution and (ii) the reuni ...

198 D. M. Walsh [Dawkins, 1986]R. Dawkins.The Extended Phenotype. Oxford: W.H. Freeman, 1986. [Dawkins, 1987]R. Dawkins.The Blin ...

Development: Three Grades of Ontogenetic Involvement 199 [Provine, 1971] W. Provine.The Origin of Theoretical populatrion Geneti ...

EVOLUTION AND NORMATIVITY Michael Bradie 1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION Human beings are complex organisms with highly developed physica ...

202 Michael Bradie questions ultimately lead to the question of the justification of norms. The norms themselves justify our beh ...

Evolution and Normativity 203 Wittgenstein whereas pragmatists and naturalists are liable to side with Dewey. For my part, I am ...

204 Michael Bradie The latter half of the 19thcentury saw a number of attempts to extend evolu- tionary insights to a wide range ...

Evolution and Normativity 205 biological imperatives, it struck many as a stretch to extend the thesis to humans. On the one han ...

206 Michael Bradie Mechanisms”) andEMT(for “Evolution of Moral Theses”). Acronyms are use- ful until they get in the way of unde ...

Evolution and Normativity 207 So much for the two dimensions of evolutionary epistemology. The moral of the story is that the sa ...

208 Michael Bradie no doubt that adults know more than the embryos that they sprang from. The mechanisms contributing to the tra ...

Evolution and Normativity 209 epistemology and traditional ethics remains the justificational questions of the tradition. Evolut ...