Screening-off and The Levels of Selection

Ron McClamrock

doi:10.1007/BF01666814

Screening-off and The Levels of Selection

Ron McClamrock

Philosophy

University at Albany

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In 'The Levels of Selection' (Brandon, 1984), Robert Brandon provides a suggestive but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to use the probabilistic notion of screening off in providing a schema for dealing with an aspect of the "units of selection" question in the philosophy of biology. I characterize that failure, and suggest a revision and expansion of Brandon's account which addresses its key shortcoming.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	107-112
Number of pages	6
Journal	Erkenntnis
Volume	42
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01666814
State	Published - Jan 1995

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