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Philosophy 375
What Can (and What Can't) Evolution
Explain?
Introduction to Philosophy of Biology
Bence Nanay
Fall
2007
Announcements and paper topics
Announcements
11/16/07:
The paper topics for the final paper are here.
11/15/07:
11/08/07:
11/04/07:
New handouts, this time on function, intentionality and the teleological theory
of mental content. We’ll rush through these topics next time, so do take a
look. They are on the Lecture Notes & Handouts
page
11/01/07:
10/26/07:
I posted a handout on the evolution explanation of emotions. See the Lecture Notes & Handouts page.
10/25/07:
10/18/07:
10/15/07:
Some extra readings that you may find useful for the midterm paper:
For the first question about origin
essentialism, you may want to check out Sober’s 1980 paper.
For the second question about
altruism, you may want to check out Wilson’s 1992
paper.
Good
luck
10/11/07:
The paper topics for the midterm paper are here.
10/06/07:
The midterm paper will be due on the 18th of October. The paper
topics will be announced a week before.
10/05/07:
09/25/07:
I posted a handout on the units of selection debate. See the Lecture Notes & Handouts page.
09/20/07:
04/13/07:
The (more or less) final syllabus is above.
You may want to take a look at my guidelines for writing a philosophy paper, which is posted on the Lecture Notes and Handouts website.