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Discussion: Screening-Off and Natural Selection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Wim J. van der Steen
Wim J. van der Steen*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Biology and Faculty of Philosophy Free University, Amsterdam
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Abstract

Sober (1992) and Brandon et al. (1994) disagree about the role of screening-off in the appraisal of theories of natural selection. Some problems disregarded by them are unearthed in this discussion note.

Type
Discussion
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 115 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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Footnotes

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My colleagues Ad van Dommelen, Soemini Kasanmoentalib, and Cor van der Weele helped me improve the text. An anonymous referee provided comments that fostered a decrease in mistakes and an increase in clarity.

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