Discussion: Screening-off and visibility to selection [Book Review]

Biology and Philosophy 12 (4):521-529 (1997)
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Philosophers have used the probabilistic relation of ’screening-off‘ to explicate concepts in the theories of causation and explanation. Brandon has used screening-off relations in an attempt to reconstruct an argument of Mayr and Gould that natural selection acts at the level of the organism. I argue that Brandon‘s reconstruction is unsuccessful.

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