(2024) Volumen 39. Número 1
Recent Submissions
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Two dimensions of the biological function debate
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)This article adopts a minimal definition of biological usage to demonstrate that the debate over biological function encompasses two distinct dimensions: descriptive and prescriptive. In the descriptive dimension, biological ... -
An epistemic argument for evolutionary dispositions
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)El uso de las disposiciones ha sido puesto en entredicho en numerosas ocasiones en la literatura filosófica, especialmente respecto a cómo pueden ser justificadas las atribuciones disposicionales. Aun así, las disposiciones ... -
Wright’s path analysis: causal inference in the early twentieth century
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)Despite being a milestone in the history of statistical causal inference, Sewall Wright’s 1918 invention of path analysis did not receive much immediate attention from the statistical and scientific community. Through a ... -
Testimony and inferential justification
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)Reductionists about testimony think that testimony is never a basic source of justifica-tion. By contrast, anti-reductionists claim that, at least in some paradigmatic cases, testimony is a basic and independent source of ...