Celso Neto
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celso Neto |
| FAMILY NAME | Celso Neto |
| SIGNATURE | CELSO |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4666-3857 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Navigating Values in Scientific Recommendations
Values play important roles in science, yet their influence on ethical and scientific recommendations is overlooked. This paper examines how interactions between values complicate the uptake of recommendations. We discuss two challenges: (i) value trade-offs, where one value is pursued at the cost of another, and (ii) value synergies, where values reinforce each other. We argue that overlooking trade-offs leads to unrealistic recommendations, whi…
The risk of biological race
Biological race realism (hereafter BRR) is the view that humans form biologically distinct groups. In recent years, Quayshawn Spencer has offered one of the most elaborate versions of that view, but his theory faces several problems (Spencer in Philos Stud 159:181-204, 2012; Spencer in J Philos 111:1-23, 2014; Spencer in 52:46-55, 2015; Spencer in Glasgow, Haslanger, Jeffers, Spencer (eds) What is race? Four philosophical views, Oxford University…
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations
The concept of scaffold is widespread in science and increasingly common in evolutionary biology. While this concept figures in causal explanations, it is not clear what scaffolds are and what role they play in those explanations. Here we present evolutionary scaffolding explanation as a distinct type of explanatory strategy, distinguishing it from other types of evolutionary explanation. By doing so, we clarify the meaning of “scaffold” as a cau…
A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy
Many contemporary biologists and philosophers of biology admit that selection occurs at any level of the biological hierarchy at which entities showing heritable variation in fitness are found, while insisting that fitness at any level entails differential reproduction, not differential persistence. Those who allow that persistence can be selected doubt that selection on nonreproducing entities can be reiterated, to produce “complex adaptations.”…
From idealizations to social practices in science: The case of phylogenetic trees
What Is a Lineage
This article defends lineage pluralism; the view that biological lineages are not a single, unified type of entity. I analyze aspects of evolutionary theory, phylogenetics, and developmental biology to show that these areas appeal to distinct notions of lineage. I formulate three arguments for lineage pluralism. These arguments undercut the main motivations for lineage monism; the view that biological lineages are a single, unified type of entity…
What Is a Lineage
This article defends lineage pluralism; the view that biological lineages are not a single, unified type of entity. I analyze aspects of evolutionary theory, phylogenetics, and developmental biology to show that these areas appeal to distinct notions of lineage. I formulate three arguments for lineage pluralism. These arguments undercut the main motivations for lineage monism; the view that biological lineages are a single, unified type of entity…
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations
The concept of scaffold is widespread in science and increasingly common in evolutionary biology. While this concept figures in causal explanations, it is not clear what scaffolds are and what role they play in those explanations. Here we present evolutionary scaffolding explanation as a distinct type of explanatory strategy, distinguishing it from other types of evolutionary explanation. By doing so, we clarify the meaning of “scaffold” as a cau…
A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy
Many contemporary biologists and philosophers of biology admit that selection occurs at any level of the biological hierarchy at which entities showing heritable variation in fitness are found, while insisting that fitness at any level entails differential reproduction, not differential persistence. Those who allow that persistence can be selected doubt that selection on nonreproducing entities can be reiterated, to produce “complex adaptations.”…
From idealizations to social practices in science: The case of phylogenetic trees
What Is a Lineage
This article defends lineage pluralism; the view that biological lineages are not a single, unified type of entity. I analyze aspects of evolutionary theory, phylogenetics, and developmental biology to show that these areas appeal to distinct notions of lineage. I formulate three arguments for lineage pluralism. These arguments undercut the main motivations for lineage monism; the view that biological lineages are a single, unified type of entity…
From idealizations to social practices in science: The case of phylogenetic trees
Scaffold: A Causal Concept for Evolutionary Explanations
The concept of scaffold is widespread in science and increasingly common in evolutionary biology. While this concept figures in causal explanations, it is not clear what scaffolds are and what role they play in those explanations. Here we present evolutionary scaffolding explanation as a distinct type of explanatory strategy, distinguishing it from other types of evolutionary explanation. By doing so, we clarify the meaning of “scaffold” as a cau…
A Chemostat Model for Evolution by Persistence: Clade Selection and Its Explanatory Autonomy
Many contemporary biologists and philosophers of biology admit that selection occurs at any level of the biological hierarchy at which entities showing heritable variation in fitness are found, while insisting that fitness at any level entails differential reproduction, not differential persistence. Those who allow that persistence can be selected doubt that selection on nonreproducing entities can be reiterated, to produce “complex adaptations.”…
The risk of biological race
Biological race realism (hereafter BRR) is the view that humans form biologically distinct groups. In recent years, Quayshawn Spencer has offered one of the most elaborate versions of that view, but his theory faces several problems (Spencer in Philos Stud 159:181-204, 2012; Spencer in J Philos 111:1-23, 2014; Spencer in 52:46-55, 2015; Spencer in Glasgow, Haslanger, Jeffers, Spencer (eds) What is race? Four philosophical views, Oxford University…
Navigating Values in Scientific Recommendations
Values play important roles in science, yet their influence on ethical and scientific recommendations is overlooked. This paper examines how interactions between values complicate the uptake of recommendations. We discuss two challenges: (i) value trade-offs, where one value is pursued at the cost of another, and (ii) value synergies, where values reinforce each other. We argue that overlooking trade-offs leads to unrealistic recommendations, whi…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (5 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Evolutionary biology (3 works) · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (2 works) · Evolution and Science Education (2 works) · Gene (2 works)