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This article addresses the contributions of the literature on the new mechanistic philosophy of science for the scientific practice of model building in ecology. This is reflected in a one-to-one ... Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE) , Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Campus Ondina, Salvador, Bahia 40170-115 , Brazil 6 History, Philosophy and Biology Teaching Lab
Markowitz mean-variance philosophy, we develop a new portfolio optimization framework which can produce sparse portfolios. The sparsity of the portfolio at each and across periods is characterized by the
scientific foundations of Nussbaum’s position. On the ethical side, we explore the tension between a robust defence of animal rights and political liberalism, which requires tolerance of a range of reasonable ... Science, London School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK Martha Nussbaum's Justice for Animals calls upon humanity to secure for all sentient beings the central capabilities they need to
differences with respect to organismic features, these two kinds of systems cannot share a typical organismic property such as health. In recent years, an organisational approach in philosophy of biology and ... specifically refer to an approach in the philosophy of biology that has given rise to a number of theoretical developments from the late 1990s onwards (e.g., Schlosser 1998; Collier 2000; Bickhard 2000, 2004
In this paper, we bring together the concepts of affordance from ecological psychology and function from the organizational approach to philosophy of biology into a single integrative framework. This
Political districting (PD) is a wide studied topic in the literature since the 60s. It typically requires a multi-criteria approach, and mathematical programs are frequently suggested to model the ... motivated the production of a variety of Political Districting (PD) models and methods which follow different, exact and heuristic, optimization approaches. A general picture of the state-of-the-art on this
In recent years, immune systems have sparked considerable interest within the philosophy of science. One issue that has received increased attention is whether other phyla besides vertebrates display ... perspective on immune systems for immunology and its philosophy. Philosophy of immunology; Adaptive immune systems; Epigenetics; Small RNA inheritance; Immune memory Introduction The philosophy of immunology
(hereafter Other Minds) from a methodological perspective. I show that these both instantiate what I call ‘synthetic philosophy.’ They are both Darwinian philosophers of science who draw on each other’s work ... , anthropology, economics, political science, history, philosophy, and literary theory to explain how and why cultural features (good and bad) work the way they do…Pre-Darwinian natural history at its best was
of our new indices are institutions, democratic principles, political stability, trust, high public spending in health, female participation in the workplace, and economic equality. Within the ... countries with high efficiency scores are generally those that possess quality institutions, democratic principles, political stability and rule of law, and protection of property rights. This goes against
I offer four ways of distinguishing paleobiology from neontology, and from this develop a sketch of the philosophy of paleobiology. I then situate and describe the papers in the special issue
bargaining solution is defended by Thompson (1994) and is arguably consistent with the contractarian ethical philosophy developed by Gauthier (1983) . Mathematically, the objective is to find the largest ... traditional optimization modeling relies on concepts from economics, engineering, and management, fairness modeling brings ethics and philosophy into the picture. This new collaboration may also be mutually
and conceptually. I will conclude with a discussion on some potential implications for more general philosophy of biology and philosophy of science, especially surrounding evidential integration, models ... , United Kingdom 1 Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge , Cambridge , United Kingdom Reconstructing ancestral species is a challenging endeavour: fossils are often scarce
. Inspired by the philosophy of sharing economy, many of the available transport resources on the road, such as minibuses and private vehicles, can offer opportunities for improvement if they can be
is in line with the spatio-temporal analysis results that show that pirates except for the Arabian sea prefer to hit close to the coastline of countries that face political instability, lack of ... companies dealing with the production and distribution of oil, leading to several social and political impacts, since oil and all energy, either primary or secondary, sources (e.g. natural gas, renewables
sentience as the central capacity relevant for moral status, leading to a focus on harm-based wrongs in animal ethics. But the political turn in animal ethics has recently shifted the focus on animals’ agency ... , including their socio-cognitive and emotional capacities, pointing to the just inclusion and political participation we owe other animals (e.g. Donaldson and Kymlicka 2011; Meijer 2019; Benz-Schwarzburg 2020
Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University , Bielefeld , Germany 2 Institute of the Philosophy of the Natural Sciences, Jagiellonian University , Krakow , Poland This paper presents an account of the ... than another allows suggesting interventions at the genetic, molecular and population levels. Biological dispositions; Stem cells; Stemness; Philosophy in science; Inductive metaphysics Introduction
Für Philosophie/Transkulturalität, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , Universitätsstraße 1, 40225 Düsseldorf , Germany 1 Department of Philosophy, Leibniz Universität , Im Moore 21, 30167 ... international closings of boarders—and the sanitary, economic, political and cultural consequences cannot be foreseen, especially for poorer countries and regions. COVID-19 is highly contagious and spreads much
Article First Online: 13 February 2019 473 Downloads We are most grateful to Eugene Koonin for having accepted to write for Biology & Philosophy a target paper on such a major topic in current ... publications in philosophy of science journals [e.g., (Koonin and Starokadomskyy 2016)] or in collaboration with philosophers (O’Malley and Koonin 2011). Furthermore, and most crucially for the present issue of
the characteristics of social learning within networks of friends and strangers. Kim and Ellison (2022) showed that social media encourage social learning of political engagement due to their unique ... affordances such as visibility (i.e., once-invisible political activities by others are now visible on social media feeds). Chung et al. (2021) showed that adolescent peer effect in social media environments