Biological theoryPub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00391-w
Ricard V. Solé
{"title":"Revisiting Leigh Van Valen’s “A New Evolutionary Law” (1973)","authors":"Ricard V. Solé","doi":"10.1007/s13752-021-00391-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00391-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85312796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2022-01-06DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00394-7
Gaëlle Pontarotti, Antoine C. Dussault, F. Merlin
{"title":"Conceptualizing the Environment in Natural Sciences: Guest Editorial","authors":"Gaëlle Pontarotti, Antoine C. Dussault, F. Merlin","doi":"10.1007/s13752-021-00394-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00394-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82570781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1007/s13752-022-00410-4
Stephen T Asma
{"title":"Imagination: A New Foundation for the Science of Mind.","authors":"Stephen T Asma","doi":"10.1007/s13752-022-00410-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-022-00410-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>After a long hiatus, psychology and philosophy are returning to formal study of imagination. While excellent work is being done in the current environment, this article argues for a stronger thesis than usually adopted. Imagination is not just a peripheral feature of cognition or a domain for aesthetic research. It is instead the core operating system or cognitive capacity for humans and has epistemic and therapeutic functions that ground all our sense-making activities. A sketch of imagination as embodied cognition is offered, followed by suggestions of how to organize imagination studies into a more rigorous science-humanities research area.</p>","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9425790/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10470280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2021-11-25DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00388-5
Stuart A. Newman, P. Godfrey‐Smith, D. Hartl, P. Kitcher, D. Paul, J. Beatty, S. Sarkar, E. Sober, W. Wimsatt
{"title":"Remembering Richard Lewontin (1929–2021)","authors":"Stuart A. Newman, P. Godfrey‐Smith, D. Hartl, P. Kitcher, D. Paul, J. Beatty, S. Sarkar, E. Sober, W. Wimsatt","doi":"10.1007/s13752-021-00388-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00388-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83122136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2021-11-22DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00392-9
S. Downes, E. Turkheimer
{"title":"An Early History of the Heritability Coefficient Applied to Humans (1918–1960)","authors":"S. Downes, E. Turkheimer","doi":"10.1007/s13752-021-00392-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00392-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88124010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2021-11-11DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00390-x
P. Huneman
{"title":"What Is It Like To Be an Environment? A Semantic and Epistemological Inquiry","authors":"P. Huneman","doi":"10.1007/s13752-021-00390-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00390-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73423820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2021-10-28DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00389-4
S. Sarkar
{"title":"Who was J. B. S. Haldane?","authors":"S. Sarkar","doi":"10.1007/s13752-021-00389-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00389-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80353206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Biological theoryPub Date : 2021-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s13752-021-00385-8
James Lyons-Weiler
{"title":"Who are We, and Who (or What) Do We Want to Become? An Evolutionary Perspective on Biotransformative Technologies","authors":"James Lyons-Weiler","doi":"10.1007/s13752-021-00385-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-021-00385-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":72374,"journal":{"name":"Biological theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83136804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}