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Causal, A Priori True, and Explanatory: A Reply to Lange and Rosenberg
Elgin, Mehmet; Sober, Elliott (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015)Sober [2011] argues that some causal statements are a priori true and that a priori causal truths are central to explanations in the theory of natural selection. Lange and Rosenberg [2011] criticize Sober's argument. They ... -
How Could There Be True Causal Claims Without There Being Special Causal Facts in the World?
Elgin, Mehmet (Springer, 2010)Some philosophers of physics recently expressed their skepticism about causation (Norton 2003b, 2007). However, this is not new. The view that causation does not refer to any ontological category perhaps can be attributed ... -
Mathematical Models, Explanation, Laws, and Evolutionary Biology
Elgin, Mehmet (Springer International Publishing Ag, 2010)It is commonly agreed in the literature on laws of nature that there are at least two necessary conditions for lawhood that a law must have empirical content and that it must be universal. The main reason offered for the ... -
Popper's Shifting Appraisal of Evolutionary Theory
Elgin, Mehmet; Sober, Elliott (Univ Chicago Press, 2017)Karl Popper argued in 1974 that evolutionary theory contains no testable laws and is therefore a metaphysical research program. Four years later, he said that he had changed his mind. Here we seek to understand Popper's ... -
REDUCTIONISM IN BIOLOGY: AN EXAMPLE OF BIOCHEMISTRY
Elgin, Mehmet (Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2010)In this paper, I argue that the multiple realizability argument against reductionism does not work in biochemistry and that biochemistry as a reductionist project is a progressive research program. Since the anti-reductionist ... -
Theory-laden observation and incommensurability
Elgin, Mehmet (Vydavatelstvo Slovenskej Akad Vied Veda, 2008)In this Taper, I investigate the logical relation between two claims: (1) observations are theory-laden(1) and (2) there is no empirical common ground upon which to evaluate successive scientific theories that belong to ... -
Why the (gene) counting argument fails in the massive modularity debate: The need for understanding gene concepts and genotype-phenotype relationships
Plaisance, Kathryn S.; Reydon, Thomas A. C.; Elgin, Mehmet (Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012)A number of debates in philosophy of biology and psychology, as well as in their respective sciences, hinge on particular views about the relationship between genotypes and phenotypes. One such view is that the genotype-phenotype ...
