Publications

2024

Villegas, C., (2024), ‘Variational Propensities: Development and Ultimate Causes’, Synthese 203, 143. [Open Access]

Ramsey, G. and Villegas, C., (2024), ‘Developmental Channeling and Evolutionary Dappling’, Philosophy of Science, 0, 1-18. [Open Access]

Villegas, C. and Morales Carbonell, F., (2024) ‘An epistemic argument for evolutionary dispositions’, Theoria. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 39(1), 89-108. [Open Access]

2023

Villegas, C. and Triviño, V., (2023), ‘Typology and organismal dispositions in evo-devo: a metaphysical approach’, ArtefaCToS. Journal of Science and Technology Studies, vol. 12(1), 79-103. [Open Access] 

2022

Nuño de la Rosa, L. and Villegas, C. (2022): ‘Chances and Propensities in Evo-Devo’, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 73(2), 509-533. [DOI] [PDF]

Bourrat, P., Deaven, K., & Villegas, C., (under review) ‘Evolvability: filling the gap between adaptedness and mathematical fitness’. Submitted to Biology & Philosophy.

Forthcoming:

Villanueva, A. & Villegas, C. (forthcoming), ‘Procesos de transmisión musical: el son jarocho y el enfoque evo-devo de reproducción cultural’, in M. Cruz Zuleta, M. Coca Izaguirre and J. A. Chamorro Escalante (eds.), El son mexicano en perspectiva: miradas multidisciplinares del arte y la cultura en torno al son mexicano. DIAC.

2024

Villegas, C. (2024), ‘Causing and composing evolution: lessons from evo-devo mechanisms’. In: J. Cordovil, G. Santos and D. Vecchi (eds.), New Mechanism: Explanation, Emergence and Reduction, 61-83. Springer. [Open Access].

2023

Villegas, C.​, Love, A. C., Nuño de la Rosa, L., ​Brigandt, I., & Wagner, G. P. (2023) ‘The Conceptual Roles of Evolvability across Evolutionary Biology: Between Diversity and Unification’. In: Hansen, T., Houle, D., Pavlicev, M., and Pélabon, C. (eds.) ​Evolvability​. A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?, 35-54. The MIT Press. [DOI] [PDF]

Brigandt, I., Villegas, C.​, Love, A. & Nuño de la Rosa, L.​ (2023) ‘Evolvability as a Disposition: Philosophical Distinctions, Scientific Implications’. In: Hansen, T., Houle, D., Pavlicev, M., and Pélabon, C. (eds.) ​Evolvability​. A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?, 55-72. The MIT Press. [DOI] [PDF]

Tsuboi, M., J. Sztepanacz, S. de Lisle, K. Voje, M. Grabowski, M. Hopkins, A. Porto, M. Balk, M. Pontarp, D. Rossoni, L. Hildesheim, Q. Horta-Lacueva, N. Hohmann, A. Holstad, M. Luerig, L. Milocco, S. Nilen, A. Passarotto, E. Svensson, C. Villegas, E. Winslott, L. H. Liow, G. Hunt, A. Love & D. Houle. (under review). 'The Paradox of Predictability'. Submitted to The Journal of Evolutionary Biology.

Pélabon, C., Agudelo, G., Araya Ajoy, Y., Cheng, C., Galis, F., Haaland, T., Hallgrimsson, B., Holstad, A., Houle, D., Milocco, L., Orzack, S., Porto, A., Reid, J.M., Sztepanacz, J., Uller, T., Villegas, C., Voje, K.L., Walling, C., Wright, J., & Hansen, T.F. 'Evolvability: What's Next?' To be submitted to BioEssays. 

Villegas, C. (2023): Book review: KAMPOURAKIS, K. and MCCAIN, K. (2020). Uncertainty. How it Makes Science Advance. New York: Oxford University Press. Daimon Revista Internacional de Filosofía, (89), 225–228. [Open Access].

Villegas, C. (2021): Modeling Evolutionary Propensities. In A. Cuevas, O. Torres, V. Aranda & A. Moldovan (eds.), Proceedings of the X Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Salamanca, 16-19 November 2021  (pp. 417-420). [Open Access].

Villegas, C. (2020): Chronique. Evolution Evolving (Cambridge, 1-4 April 2019). Revista de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, n.º 64, 9. [Open Access].

Villegas, C. and Nuño de la Rosa, L. (2019): Special Issue Editors Introduction: ‘Philosophy of Biology’, Quaderns de Filosofia, Vol. 6, N. 1, p. 11-14. [Open Access].

Villegas, C. and Nuño de la Rosa, L. (2018): Chances and propensities in evo-devo. In C. Saborido, S. Oms & J. González de Prado (eds.), Proceedings of the IX Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Madrid, 13-16 November 2018  (pp. 514-516). [Open Access].

Jiménez Buedo, M. and Villegas, C. (2018): Lullius Lectures: Prof. Nancy Cartwright (interview). Boletín de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, n.º 63, 32-33. [Open Access].

Suárez, M. and Villegas, C. (2018): ‘Causalidad en la ciencia’. Spanish Society of Analytic Philosophy Encyclopedia. [Open Access].

Triviño, V. and Villegas, C. (2018): Chronique. SIMPOSIO: Filosofía de la Biología. IX Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (SLMFCE). (Madrid, 13-16 de noviembre de 2018). Boletín de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, n.º 63, 30-31. [Open Access].

Villegas, C. (2018): Chronique. IX Congreso de la Sociedad de Lógica, Metodología y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España (SLMFCE) (Madrid, 13-16 de noviembre de 2018). Boletín de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, n.º 63, 28-29. [Open Access].

Villegas, C. (2017): Chronique. International Conference On the nature of variation: random, biased and directional (Lisbon, 3-4 october 2017). Boletín de la Sociedad de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia en España, n.º 62, 47-49. [Open Access].