Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Moving past the levels of selection debates

Samir Okasha, Evolution and the levels of selection, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

  • Published:
Biology & Philosophy Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. This formulation is due to my colleague Fred Adler.

  2. As I say here this discussion goes by very quickly in Okasha’s book and also Okasha focuses on Sterelny and Kitcher but not on Waters (See e.g. Waters 1991), who goes to some lengths to defend the alleles as environment view. A related criticism to mine is made by Lloyd (2005) and Lloyd et al. (forthcoming).

References

  • Brandon R (1990) Adaptation and environment. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

    Google Scholar 

  • Frank SA (1997) The Price equation, Fisher’s fundamental theorem, kin selection and causal analysis. Evolution 51:1712–1729

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Godfrey-Smith P (1996) Complexity and the function of mind in nature. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Google Scholar 

  • Kaplan JM (2007) Review of Samir Okasha evolution and the levels of selection. Notre Dame Philos Rev 27(4):23

    Google Scholar 

  • Lewontin R (1974) The genetic basis of evolutionary change. Columbia University Press, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Lloyd EA (2005) Why the gene will not return. Philos Sci 72:287–310

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lloyd EA, Feldman MW et al (forthcoming). The generational cycle of state spaces and adequate genetical representation. Philos Sci

  • Lynch M, Walsh B (1998) Genetics and analysis of quantitative traits. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA

    Google Scholar 

  • Okasha S (2006) Evolution and the levels of selection. Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Rice S (2004) Evolutionary theory: mathematical and conceptual foundations. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA

    Google Scholar 

  • Sterelny K, Griffiths P (1999) Sex and death. Oxford University Press, Chicago

    Google Scholar 

  • Sterelny K, Kitcher P (1988) The return of the gene. J Philos 85:339–360

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Waters CK (1991) Tempered realism about the force of selection. Philos Sci 58:553–573

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Philosophy Department, University of Utah, 215 Central Campus Dr #413, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA

    Stephen M. Downes

Authors
  1. Stephen M. Downes
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Stephen M. Downes.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Downes, S.M. Moving past the levels of selection debates. Biol Philos 24, 703–709 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-008-9130-1

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-008-9130-1

Search

Navigation