Research seminars on:
Millstein, R. L. (2006). Natural selection as a population-level causal process. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57(4), 627–653.
Brandon, R. N. (1990). “Adaptation and natural selection.” Chapter 1 of Adaptation and environment. Princeton University Press.
Walsh, D. M., Ariew, A. and Matthen, M., (2017). Four pillars of statisticalism. Philosophy, Theory and Practice in Biology, 9:1
Otsuka, J. (2016). A critical review of the statisticalist debate. Biology & Philosophy, 31(4), 459–482.
Orr, H. A. (2009). Fitness and its role in evolutionary genetics. Nature Reviews. Genetics, 10, 531–539.
Woodward, J. (2003). “Actual causation.” Chapter 2.7 of Making things happen, Oxford University Press.
Beatty, J. (1984). Chance and Natural Selection. Philosophy of Science, 51(2), 183–211.
Sober, E. (2020). Fitness and the twins. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 12(1), 1–13.
De Vreese, L. (2010). Disentangling causal pluralism. In: Vanderbeeken. R. and D’Hooghie B. (eds.): Proceedings of the 5th Metaphysics of Science Workshop, Ghent, Belgium, 2 – 3 June 2005: Worldviews, science and us: studies of analytical metaphysics: a selection of topics from a methodological perspective, World Scientific Publishing. 207-223.
Bouchard, F. and Rosenberg, A. (2004). "Fitness, Probability and the Principles of Natural Selection." The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 55, 693-712.
Otsuka, J. (2019). The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge University Press
Bourrat P (2019) Evolution is about populations, but its causes are about individuals. Biological Theory, 14, 254–266.
2022
Conference given by Ciprian Jeler: "Distinguishing between selectable and circumstantial traits." EENPS 2022 - The 2022 Conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science, University of Tartu, Estonia, August 17-19, 2022 (Online presentation)
Conference given by Ciprian Jeler: "How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?." PSA 2022 - The 28th Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh, USA, November 10-13, 2002.
2 articles submitted to international peer-reviewed journals indexed in Web of Science
2023
Conference given by Ciprian Jeler: "Natural selection and environmental homogeneity." ISHPSSB 2023 – The 2023 Meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology, University of Toronto, Canada, July 9-15, 2023.
Conference given by Mihai Cernea: "Pluralism about Causation in Natural Selection." ECAP 11 – The 11th European Congress of Analitic Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria, August 21-25, 2023.
Conference given by Ciprian Jeler: "On two kinds of genetic drift." EPSA 2023 – The 9th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Belgrade, Serbia, September 20-23, 2023.
Talk given by Ciprian Jeler: "Another problem with the notion of fitness (and a tentative solution)." CLPS Seminar (Seminar of the Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science), KU Leuven, Belgium, November 17, 2023.
4 articles submitted to international peer-reviewed journals indexed in Web of Science
2024
Article published: Ciprian Jeler: "How should we distinguish between selectable and circumstantial traits?" History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (IF: 1.6), 46:6, 2024, doi: 10.1007/s40656-023-00604-4 .
Article published: Ciprian Jeler: "Environments, populations, and natural selection." Prolegomena: Journal of Philosophy, 23(1):19-41, 2024, doi: 10.26362/20240102
Article published by Ciprian Jeler: "Two kinds of drift?" Synthese (IF: 1.3), 204(3):99, 2024, doi: 10.1007/s11229-024-04737-2
Article published by Ciprian Jeler: "Trait-centered vs. fitness-centered definitions of natural selection." Biology & Philosophy (IF: 1.7), 39(5):27, 2024, doi: 10.1007/s10539-024-09965-x
Article published by Mihail-Valentin Cernea: "Causalism versus propensionism in the philosophy of biology. A case of philosophical underdetermination?", Filozofia, 79(10):1083-1096, 2024, doi: 10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.10.2.
1 article submitted to an international peer-reviewed journal indexed in Web of Science
2025
Article published by Ciprian Jeler: "Environmental homogeneity, selective paths, and the individuation of selection processes." Erkenntnis (IF: 0.9), 2024, doi: 10.1007/s10670-025-00989-7