- Populations, individuals, and biological race
- Emergentism in the biological framework: the case of fitness
- Biological functions and dysfunctions: a selected dispositions approach
- Making sense of ‘genetic programs’: biomolecular Post–Newell production systems
- Commitment: From Hunting to Promising
- Neutral and niche theory in community ecology: a framework for comparing model realism
- What is foraging?
- Phylogenetically distant animals sleep: why do sleep researchers care?
- Epistemic enhancement, pastism, and fossil anomalies in paleontology and ichnology
- The role of social reinforcement in norm transmission and cultural evolution
- From depressed mice to depressed patients: a less “standardized” approach to improving translation
- An operational definition of biological development
- What is the nature of stem cells? A unified dispositional framework
- Pandemic and infodemic: the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 from a cultural evolutionary perspective
- An argument for global realism about the units of selection
- The evolution of multispecies populations: a multilevel selection perspective
- Justifying nature-based solutions
- Ecosystem health and malfunctions: an organisational perspective
- Molecular-biological machines: a defense
- Humans, the Norm-Breakers
- What if worms were sentient? Insights into subjective experience from the Caenorhabditis elegans connectome
- A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes
- DNA barcoding and the changing ontological commitments of taxonomy
- Precis of A Better Ape
- A more thought-ful ape?
- Response to critics
- Moral progress for better apes
- An even better ape? Comments on a better ape
- Animal sentience and the Capabilities Approach to justice
- Caring animals and the ways we wrong them
- In praise of animals
- The case of poor postpartum mental health: a consequence of an evolutionary mismatch – not of an evolutionary trade-off
- The epistemological and conservation value of biological specimens
- Social norms and superorganisms
- On conserving or remaking the natural world
- Reliability models in cultural phylogenetics
- Great ape enculturation studies: a neglected resource in cognitive development research
- Gradualism, natural selection, and the randomness of mutation–fisher, Kimura, and Orr, connecting the dots
- The two faces of risk
- Positive Wild Animal Welfare
- Sex by design: a new account of the animal sexes
- Biolinguistics and biological systems: a complex systems analysis of language
- Correction: What are definitions of life good for? Transdisciplinary and other definitions in astrobiology
- Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs
- Demographic explanations of neanderthal extinction: a reply to Currie and Meneganzin
- Scaffolds and scaffolding: an explanatory strategy in evolutionary biology
- Understanding immunity: an alternative framework beyond defense and strength
- Affordances and organizational functions
- Reciprocal causation and biological practice
- Standard aberration: cancer biology and the modeling account of normal function
- Logical fallacies persist in invasion biology and blaming the messengers will not improve accountability in this field: a response to Frank et al.
- The minimal role of the higher categories in biology
- Cognitive science meets the mark of the cognitive: putting the horse before the cart
- Darwin and the golden rule: how to distinguish differences of degree from differences of kind using mechanisms
- Skepticism, the critical standpoint, and the origin of birds: a partial critique of Havstad and Smith (2019)
- Evolutionary anamnesis
- Introduction to niches and mechanisms in ecology and evolution
- Dosis sola facit venenum: reconceptualising biological realism
- Empirical adaptationism revisited: is it testable and is it worth testing?
- What could cognition be, if not human cognition?: Individuating cognitive abilities in the light of evolution
- Not by demography alone: Neanderthal extinction and null hypotheses in paleoanthropological explanation
- Has social constructionism about race outlived its usefulness? Perspectives from a race skeptic
- Is there a need for consensus in aging biology?
- Computational indeterminacy and explanations in cognitive science
- Putting races on the ontological map: a close look at Spencer’s ‘new biologism’ of race
- The gay gene(s)? Rethinking the concept of sexual orientation in the context of science
- The evolution of complex multicellularity in animals
- The argument from Evel (Knievel): daredevils and the free energy principle
- Beyond congruence: evidential integration and inferring the best evolutionary scenario
- Adaptive immunity or evolutionary adaptation? Transgenerational immune systems at the crossroads
- A pluralistic framework for the psychology of norms
- On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat
- Correction to: Philosophy of science in practice in ecological model building
- Assessing measures of animal welfare
- Cognitive functions are not reducible to biological ones: the case of minimal visual perception
- Teleosemantics and the free energy principle
- Free energy: a user’s guide
- The proximate-ultimate distinction and the active role of the organism in evolution
- Against the generalised theory of function
- Not functional yet a difference maker: junk DNA as a case study
- Causal-role myopia and the functional investigation of junk DNA
- A relic of design: against proper functions in biology
- Hutchinson’s ecological niche for individuals
- Higher level constructive neutral evolution
- All about levels: transposable elements as selfish DNAs and drivers of evolution
- The integrative approach to inferring homology: morphology and development combined
- Epistemology and anomaly detection in astrobiology
- Do transposable elements have functions of their very own?
- Proper functions: etiology without typehood
- Caring animals and care ethics
- Two kinds of historical explanation in Evolutionary Biology
- Does the study of facilitation require a revision of the Hutchinsonian niche concept?
- Emotionshaping: a situated perspective on emotionreading
- Everything in moderation or moderating everything? Nutrient balancing in the context of evolution and cancer metabolism
- The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness
- The ‘niche’ in niche-based theorizing: much ado about nothing
- Correction to: Causes with material continuity
- Tools of the trade: the bio-cultural evolution of the human propensity to trade
- The value of and in novel ecosystem(s)
- Science and values in the biodiversity-ecosystem function debate
- Remembering emotions
- Is co-management a double-edged sword in the protected areas of Sundarbans mangrove?
- From philosophy to anaesthesiology and back: an interdisciplinary reflection on the neural correlates of state consciousness
- When can cultural selection explain adaptation?
- Likeness-making and the evolution of cognition
- The coordination dilemma for epidemiological modelers
- Mechanism, autonomy and biological explanation
- A continuum of intentionality: linking the biogenic and anthropogenic approaches to cognition
- How to do things with nonwords: pragmatics, biosemantics, and origins of language in animal communication
- The learning-consciousness connection
- Unknotting reciprocal causation between organism and environment
- Niche construction and teleology: organisms as agents and contributors in ecology, development, and evolution
- Retiring the “Cinderella view”: the spinal cord as an intrabodily cognitive extension
- Learning and the biology of consciousness: a commentary on Birch, Ginsburg, and Jablonka
- Unlimited associative learning and the origins of consciousness: the missing point of view
- What basic emotions really are: modularity, motivation, and behavioral variability
- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics and the free energy principle in biology
- Bargaining and descriptive content: prospects for a teleosemantic ethics
- Bacterial communication
- Better models of the evolution of cooperation through situated cognition
- Uniqueness in the life sciences: how did the elephant get its trunk?
- Carving the mind at its homologous joints
- (Cat)egory mistake: the invalidity of animal shelter behavior assessments
- Development and microbiology
- Unifying statistically autonomous and mathematical explanations
- The selectionist rationale for evolutionary progress
- Defining the niche for niche construction: evolutionary and ecological niches
- The math is not the territory: navigating the free energy principle
- The struggle for life and adaptation by natural selection
- Immunoceptive inference: why are psychiatric disorders and immune responses intertwined?
- Natural information, factivity and nomicity
- Is free-energy minimisation the mark of the cognitive?
- Cooperation, correlation and the evolutionary dominance of tag-based strategies
- Unlimited associative learning and consciousness: further support and some caveats about a link to stress
- Assessing unlimited associative learning as a transition marker
- On plants and principles
- Attention explains the transition to unlimited associative learning better than consciousness
- Unlimited plasticity of embodied, cognitive subjects: a new playground for the UAL framework
- Perceptual awareness or phenomenal consciousness?A dilemma
- The extra ingredient
- Broadening the problem agenda of biological individuality: individual differences, uniqueness and temporality
- The living fossil concept: reply to Turner
- Out of our skull, in our skin: the Microbiota-Gut-Brain axis and the Extended Cognition Thesis
- The evolution of episodic-like memory: the importance of biological and ecological constraints
- The free energy principle: it’s not about what it takes, it’s about what took you there
- Towards ending the animal cognition war: a three-dimensional model of causal cognition
- A universal ethology challenge to the free energy principle: species of inference and good regulators
- Function and representational content through Tinbergen’s levels of analysis
- Limiting the explanatory scope of extended active inference: the implications of a causal pattern analysis of selective niche construction, developmental niche construction, and organism-niche coordination dynamics
- Evolutionary biology meets consciousness: essay review of Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka’s The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul
- Toolmaking and the evolution of normative cognition
- Is cancer a matter of luck?
- What is an animal personality?
- When imprecision is a good thing, or how imprecise concepts facilitate integration in biology
- The evolutionary community concept is fully armed and operational: a reply to Sagoff
- Unlimited Associative Learning and the origins of consciousness: a primer and some predictions
- The zone of latent solutions and its relevance to understanding ape cultures
- Understanding scientific types: holotypes, stratotypes, and measurement prototypes
- Narrative niche construction: memory ecologies and distributed narrative identities
- What makes neurophysiology meaningful? Semantic content ascriptions in insect navigation research
- Has classical gene position been practically reduced?
- Cyclic and multilevel causation in evolutionary processes
- Zoocentrism in the weeds? Cultivating plant models for cognitive yield
- Defining aging
- Dynamical causes
- Are moral norms rooted in instincts? The sibling incest taboo as a case study
- Character identity mechanisms: a conceptual model for comparative-mechanistic biology
- Causal inference in biomedical research
- Eco-evo-devo and iterated learning: towards an integrated approach in the light of niche construction
- Race and medicine in light of the new mechanistic philosophy of science
- Technology led to more abstract causal reasoning
- Does proper function come in degrees?
- Anthropogenic climate change as a monumental niche construction process: background and philosophical aspects
- Sources of evolutionary contingency: chance variation and genetic drift
- The explanatory breadth of pushmi-pullyu representations
- Beyond quantitative and qualitative traits: three telling cases in the life sciences
- Internal perspectivalism: the solution to generality problems about proper function and natural norms
- From allostatic agents to counterfactual cognisers: active inference, biological regulation, and the origins of cognition
- The use and limitations of null-model-based hypothesis testing
- The evolutionary role of affordances: ecological psychology, niche construction, and natural selection
- Microbiome causality: further reflections (a response to our commentators)
- What is a target system?
- Ernst Haeckel’s ‘Kant Problem’: metaphysics, science, and art
- Problems with using stability, specificity, and proportionality as criteria for evaluating strength of scientific causal explanations: commentary on Lynch et al. (2019)
- Representation-supporting model elements
- Elusive vehicles of genetic representation
- Microbial activities are dependent on background conditions
- Dynamic homology and circularity in cladistic analysis
- Microbiomes: proportional causes in context
- Does the extended evolutionary synthesis entail extended explanatory power?
- Investigating populations in generalized Darwinism
- The end of science? On human cognitive limitations and how to overcome them
- Precis of defending biodiversity
- Response to Millstein
- Commentary on Jonathan A. Newman, Gary Varner, and Stefan Linquist: Defending Biodiversity: Environmental Science and Ethics , chapter 11: should biodiversity be conserved for its aesthetic value?
- Defending a Leopoldian basis for biodiversity: a response to Newman, Varner, and Linquist
- Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the environmentalist agenda
- Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and the environmentalist agenda: a reply to Odenbaugh
- Towards an account of the placebo effect: a critical evaluation alongside current evidence
- Teleosemantics and tetrachromacy
- Two (and a half) arguments for conserving biodiversity on aesthetic grounds
- Pathogen versus microbiome causation in the holobiont
- The place of animals in Kantian ethics
- Correction to: Evolution of multicellularity: cheating done right
- Revisiting three decades of Biology and Philosophy : a computational topic-modeling perspective
- Mayr and Tinbergen: disentangling and integrating
- Ecology helps bound causal explanations in microbiology
- Horizontal persistence and the complexity hypothesis
- A dual decomposition strategy of both microbial and phenotypic components for a better understanding of causal claims
- Mental machines
- How causal are microbiomes? A comparison with the Helicobacter pylori explanation of ulcers
- Why expect causation at all? A pessimistic parallel with neuroscience
- Commentary on Kate E. Lynch, Emily C. Parke, and Maureen A. O’Malley: ‘How Causal are Microbiomes? A Comparison with the Helicobacter pylori Explanation of Ulcers’
- The problem of mooted models for analyses of microbiome causality
- Trojan Horses and Black Queens: ‘causal core’ explanations in microbiome research
- Can communities cause?
- Commentary on ‘How causal are microbiomes?’
- Integrative pluralism for biological function
- Beyond networks: mechanism and process in evo-devo
- Measuring evolutionary independence: A pragmatic approach to species classification
- On mycorrhizal individuality
- Regression explanation and statistical autonomy
- Further clarification on permissive and instructive causes
- Graphical causal models of social adaptation and Hamilton’s rule
- Logical fallacies and reasonable debates in invasion biology: a response to Guiaşu and Tindale
- The evolution of languages of thought
- Gould’s laws: a second perspective
- Are emotional states based in the brain? A critique of affective brainocentrism from a physiological perspective
- Psychoneural reduction: a perspective from neural circuits
- Are homologies really natural kinds?
- The evolution of cooperation in finite populations with synergistic payoffs
- Evolutionary rates and adaptive radiations
- Does suffering dominate enjoyment in the animal kingdom? An update to welfare biology
- Two of a kind: Are norms of honor a species of morality?
- Review of Efficient cognition: the evolution of representational decision making , (Armin W. Schulz, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2018)
- Review of Anya Plutynski’s Explaining cancer: finding order in disorder (Oxford, 2018)
- Measurement in biology is methodized by theory
- Teleosemantics, selection and novel contents
- Evolution of multicellularity: cheating done right
- The Social Amplification View of facial expression
- Race and reference
- In defense of living fossils
- Overcoming the underdetermination of specimens
- Contingency’s causality and structural diversity
- Let me tell you ‘bout the birds and the bee-mimicking flies and Bambiraptor
- Ancient genetics to ancient genomics: celebrity and credibility in data-driven practice
- Crossed tracks: Mesolimulus , Archaeopteryx , and the nature of fossils
- Mass extinctions as major transitions
- Evidential reasoning in historical sciences: applying Toulmin schemes to the case of Archezoa
- Paleobiology and philosophy
- The evolutionary contingency thesis and evolutionary idiosyncrasies
- Locating uncertainty in stochastic evolutionary models: divergence time estimation
- Overcoming disagreement: a roadmap for placebo studies
- Isolability as the unifying feature of modularity
- Synthetic philosophy
- Lamarckian or not, CRISPR-Cas is an elaborate engine of directed evolution
- Philosophy of CRISPR-Cas: Introduction to Eugene Koonin’s target paper and commentaries
- When is it co-evolution? A reply to Steen and co-authors
- Striving for clarity about the “Lamarckian” nature of CRISPR-Cas systems
- Mutationism, not Lamarckism, captures the novelty of CRISPR–Cas
- A use/disuse paradigm for CRISPR-Cas systems
- Lamarckian realities: the CRISPR-Cas system and beyond
- CRISPR-Cas changing biology?
- CRISPR: a new principle of genome engineering linked to conceptual shifts in evolutionary biology
- Systemic functional adaptedness and domain-general cognition: broadening the scope of evolutionary psychology
- How to use fitness landscape models for the analysis of collective decision-making: a case of theory-transfer and its limitations
- CRISPR-Cas immunity: beyond nonself and defence
- The many meanings of “cost” and “benefit:” biological altruism, biological agency, and the identification of social behaviours
- Is psychopathy a harmful dysfunction?
- Does God roll dice? Neutrality and determinism in evolutionary ecology
- Review of Other Minds: the octopus, the sea and the deep origins of consciousness
- On Calcott’s permissive and instructive cause distinction
- Relating traditional and academic ecological knowledge: mechanistic and holistic epistemologies across cultures
- Moral talk and indirect reciprocity: direct observation enables the evolution of ‘moral signals’
- Evolutionary arguments against moral realism: Why the empirical details matter (and which ones do)
- Cultural transmission and biological markets
- Individual essentialism in biology
- Rethinking the role of theory in exploratory experimentation
- The doctrine of specific etiology
- Mechanisms, resources, and background conditions
- Structural and organisational conditions for being a machine
- Logical fallacies and invasion biology
- De-extinction and the conception of species
- Universal common ancestry, LUCA, and the Tree of Life: three distinct hypotheses about the evolution of life
- Evolutionary models and the normative significance of stability
- Not null enough: pseudo-null hypotheses in community ecology and comparative psychology
- Lamarckism and epigenetic inheritance: a clarification
- Correction to: Holobionts and the ecology of organisms: Multi-species communities or integrated individuals?
- Replicate after reading: on the extraction and evocation of cultural information
- Synthetic versus analytic approaches to protein and DNA structure determination
- The domain relativity of evolutionary contingency
- Molecular pathways and the contextual explanation of molecular functions
- What’s wrong with the modern evolutionary synthesis? A critical reply to Welch (2017)
- Ape imagination? A sentimentalist critique of Frans de Waal’s gradualist theory of human morality
- Gender as a historical kind: a tale of two genders?
- Big dragons on small islands: generality and particularity in science
- Reply to Rosenberg
- Kuhnian revolutions in neuroscience: the role of tool development
- Cancer stem cells modulate patterns and processes of evolution in cancers
- Recent trends in evolutionary ethics: greenbeards!
- Biodiversity is a chimera, and chimeras aren’t real
- Amorphic kinds: Cluster’s last stand?
- Can we make sense of subjective experience in metabolically situated cognitive processes?
- Making microbes matter: essay review of Maureen A. O’Malley’s Philosophy of Microbiology
- Why a convincing argument for causalism cannot entirely eschew population-level properties: discussion of Otsuka
- A Cladist is a systematist who seeks a natural classification: some comments on Quinn (2017)
- Self domestication and the evolution of language
- Fifty shades of cladism
- Cultural evolution and the social sciences: a case of unification?
- Meet the new mammoth, same as the old? Resurrecting the Mammuthus primigenius
- The fine structure of ‘homology’
- A pragmatic approach to the possibility of de-extinction
- The generality of Constructive Neutral Evolution
- The case for multiple realization in biology
- Biology and Philosophy’s transition to continuous publication
- The evolution of linguistic rules
- Did language evolve in multilingual settings?
- The manipulability of what? The history of G-protein coupled receptors
- Where did language come from? Connecting sign, song, and speech in hominin evolution
- How language couldn’t have evolved: a critical examination of Berwick and Chomsky’s theory of language evolution
- Mating dances and the evolution of language: What’s the next step?
- Complexity and technological evolution: What everybody knows?
- The octopus and the unity of consciousness
- The coupling of taxonomy and function in microbiomes
- What are definitions of life good for? Transdisciplinary and other definitions in astrobiology
- Indeterminism in the brain
- Social cognition, Stag Hunts, and the evolution of language
- From code to speaker meaning
- Animal morality: What is the debate about?
- Collective narratives, false memories, and the origins of autobiographical memory
- Information, influence, and the causal-explanatory role of content in understanding receiver responses
- Conceptualizing communities as natural entities: a philosophical argument with basic and applied implications
- Why one model is never enough: a defense of explanatory holism
- Curiously the same: swapping tools between linguistics and evolutionary biology
- Biodiversity Realism: Preserving the tree of life
- In defence of biodiversity
- Hardwiring: innateness in the age of the brain
- Moving beyond dichotomies: Liao, S. Matthew (ed.), Moral Brains: The Neuroscience of Morality, Oxford University Press, 2016
- Error management, reliability and cognitive evolution
- On mechanistic reasoning in unexpected places: the case of population genetics
- Mental evolution: a review of Daniel Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back
- Forces, friction and fractionation: Denis Walsh’s Organisms, agency, and evolution
- Individuating population lineages: a new genealogical criterion
- By genes alone: a model selectionist argument for genetical explanations of cooperation in non-human organisms
- Was regression to the mean really the solution to Darwin’s problem with heredity?
- Using the hierarchy of biological ontologies to identify mechanisms in flat networks
- Extending epigenesis: from phenotypic plasticity to the bio-cultural feedback
- Multi-level selection and the issue of environmental homogeneity
- When is a cladist not a cladist?
- Innateness as genetic adaptation: Lorenz redivivus (and revised)
- Genetic drift as a directional factor: biasing effects and a priori predictions
- Causal specificity and the instructive–permissive distinction
- Culture, neurobiology, and human behavior: new perspectives in anthropology
- Humans and Harems? Review of Out of Eden: The surprising consequences of polygamy by David Barash
- An enactive account of placebo effects
- The evolution of syntactic structure
- Complexity revisited
- What are cultural attractors?
- Environmental complexity, adaptability and bacterial cognition: Godfrey-Smith’s hypothesis under the microscope
- Thirty years of Biology & Philosophy: philosophy of which biology?
- The swashbuckling anthropologist: Henrich on The Secret of Our Success
- On the neural enrichment of economic models: recasting the challenge
- Making do without selection—review essay of “Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges” by Tim Lewens
- Gouldian arguments and the sources of contingency
- Is self-deception an effective non-cooperative strategy?
- Metastasis as supra-cellular selection? A reply to Lean and Plutynski
- Prediction in evolutionary systems
- What’s wrong with evolutionary biology?
- Editorial
- The animal sensorimotor organization: a challenge for the environmental complexity thesis
- Environmental complexity, life history, and encephalisation in human evolution
- Cost, expenditure and vulnerability
- Structural representations: causally relevant and different from detectors
- Neural information and the problem of objectivity
- Inheritance by recruitment