Giulia Palazzolo
Giulia Palazzolo
Is syntax an evolutionary novelty in the human lineage? This question, along with the question of how human syntax evolved, is highly debated in the field of language evolution. In this paper, I reconstruct two prominent frameworks for stud...
Celso Neto
Celso Neto
This paper reconceptualizes social constructionism about race (hereafter SCR). While SCR is considered a hegemonic view in philosophy and academia more broadly, Hochman (2022) argues that this hegemony is illusory. He identifies different v...
Saira Khan
Saira Khan
One of the distinctive features of some norms is thought to be their externalised character. To say that a norm is externalised is to say that it is experienced as imposed on us from the outside and exacting a demand on all, regardless of t...
Evolvability: filling the explanatory gap between adaptedness and the long-term mathematical conception of fitness [0.03%]
可演化性：填补适应度的适者性与长期数学概念之间的解释缺口
Pierrick Bourrat,Katie Deaven,Cristina Villegas
Pierrick Bourrat
The new foundation for the propensity interpretation of fitness (PIF), developed by Pence and Ramsey (Br J Philos Sci 64:851-881, 2013), describes fitness as a probability distribution that encompasses all possible daughter populations to w...
Emiliano Sfara,Charbel N El-Hani
Emiliano Sfara
A recent idea of "ecosystem health" was introduced in the 1970s and 1980s to draws attention to the fact that ecosystems can become ill because of a reduction of properties such as primary productivity, functions and diversity of interactio...
A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes [0.03%]
个体性的粗粒化解释：个体如何作为一种更低层次的进化过程的总结而出现
Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat
Explaining the emergence of individuality in the process of evolution remains a challenge; it faces the difficulty of characterizing adequately what 'emergence' amounts to. Here, I present a pragmatic account of individuality in which I tak...
Judith Benz-Schwarzburg,Birte Wrage
Judith Benz-Schwarzburg
Many nonhuman animals have the emotional capacities to form caring relationships that matter to them, and for their immediate welfare. Drawing from care ethics, we argue that these relationships also matter as objectively valuable states of...
Heather Browning,Walter Veit
Heather Browning
With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state dominated by suffering. This assumption is now taken on board by many and frames much of the curren...
Understanding immunity: an alternative framework beyond defense and strength [0.03%]
理解免疫力：防御和力量之外的另一种框架
Martin Zach,Gregor P Greslehner
Martin Zach
In this paper we address the issue of how to think about immunity. Many immunological writings suggest a straightforward option: the view that the immune system is primarily a system of defense, which naturally invites the talk of strong im...
Logical fallacies persist in invasion biology and blaming the messengers will not improve accountability in this field: a response to Frank et al [0.03%]
逻辑谬误在入侵生物学中持续存在，指责信使不会提高该领域的问责制：对Frank等人文章的回应
Radu Cornel Guiaşu,Christopher W Tindale
Radu Cornel Guiaşu
We analyze the "Logical fallacies and reasonable debates in invasion biology: a response to Guiaşu and Tindale" article by Frank et al., and also discuss this work in the context of recent intense debates in invasion biology, and reactions...