Modeling Environments
Interactive Causation and Adaptations to Environmental Conditions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10708139 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruce Glymour (Kansas State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 448-471 |
| Publication date | 2011-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/660303 |
| OpenAlex | W2173134267 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 30 |
I argue that a phenotypic trait can be an adaptation to a particular environmental condition, as against others, only if the environmental condition and the phenotype interactively cause fitness. Models of interactive environmental causes of fitness generally require that environments be individuated by explicit representation rather than by measures of environmental quality, although the latter understanding of ‘environment’ is more prominent in the philosophy of biology. Hence, talk of adaptations to some but not other environmental conditions relies on conceptions of ‘environment’ importantly different from that commonly presupposed in philosophy of biology
Adaptation (eye) · Biology · Causation · Cognitive science · Environmental philosophy · Environmental quality · Epistemology · Philosophy of science · Quality (philosophy) · Representation (politics) · Trait · Computer Science · Ecology · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
Environmental Homogeneity, Selective Paths, and the Individuation of Selection Processes
Explanatory goals and explanatory means in multilevel selection theory
Two kinds of drift
Model change and reliability in scientific inference
How the Concept of Population Resolves Concepts of Environment
Some Adaptations Were Not Positive Causal Factors for Reproductive Success
Causal Foundations of Evolutionary Genetics
Causation, Prediction, and Search
Evolution in Changing Environments
Causation, Prediction, and Search
Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings
Concluding Remarks
Predicting species distribution
Adaptation and Environment
The Nature of Selection
Wayward Modeling
The influence of bipedalism on the energy and water budgets of early hominids
The evolution of human bipedality
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |