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- Bachelors Philosophy, Politics, and Economics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samir Okasha , is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at University of Bristol. He is a winner of Lakatos Award for his book Evolution and the Levels of Selection. He was appointed a Fellow of the British Academy in 2018.
Samir Okasha's Published Works
Published Works
- Evolution and the Levels of Selection (2007) (701)
- Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality (2011) (402)
- Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction (2002) (245)
- Darwinian Metaphysics: Species And The Question Of Essentialism (2002) (245)
- Philosophical Theories of Probability (2002) (234)
- Multilevel Selection and the Major Transitions in Evolution (2005) (138)
- Van Fraassen's critique of inference to the best explanation (2000) (127)
- Kin Selection and Its Critics (2015) (103)
- Altruism, Group Selection and Correlated Interaction (2005) (87)
- The Relation between Kin and Multilevel Selection: An Approach Using Causal Graphs (2016) (78)
- Theory Choice and Social Choice: Kuhn versus Arrow (2011) (77)
- Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection—A Philosophical Analysis (2008) (74)
- MULTILEVEL SELECTION AND THE PARTITIONING OF COVARIANCE: A COMPARISON OF THREE APPROACHES (2004) (72)
- The Units and Levels of Selection (2008) (71)
- Why Won't the Group Selection Controversy Go Away? (2001) (69)
- Levels of selection (2010) (67)
- Emergence, hierarchy and top-down causation in evolutionary biology (2012) (67)
- Agents and Goals in Evolution (2018) (59)
- Altruism researchers must cooperate (2010) (58)
- A Companion to the Philosophy of Science (2000) (54)
- ON THE INTERPRETATION OF DECISION THEORY (2015) (53)
- The Underdetermination of Theory by Data (2000) (48)
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 'Biological Altruism' (2003) (45)
- Multi-Level Selection, Covariance and Contextual Analysis (2004) (42)
- Wright on the Transmission of Support: a Bayesian Analysis (2004) (41)
- Laudan and Leplin on Empirical Equivalence (1997) (39)
- Group adaptation, formal darwinism and contextual analysis (2012) (38)
- On Niche Construction and Extended Evolutionary Theory (2005) (37)
- Genetic Relatedness and the Evolution of Altruism (2002) (37)
- Rational Choice, Risk Aversion, and Evolution (2007) (35)
- Maynard Smith on the levels of selection question (2006) (34)
- What did Hume Really Show about Induction (2001) (34)
- The origins of human cooperation (2013) (34)
- Underdetermination, Holism and the Theory/Data Distinction (2002) (33)
- The underdetermination of theory by data and the “strong programme” in the sociology of knowledge (2000) (30)
- Individuals, groups, fitness and utility: multi-level selection meets social choice theory (2009) (28)
- From Groups to Individuals (2013) (27)
- The Levels of Selection Debate: Philosophical Issues (2006) (25)
- The causal meaning of Hamilton’s rule (2016) (25)
- Hamilton's rule, inclusive fitness maximization, and the goal of individual behaviour in symmetric two‐player games (2016) (24)
- Inclusive fitness maximization: An axiomatic approach. (2014) (22)
- Does the Concept of “Clade Selection” Make Sense?* (2003) (22)
- X *—DOES HUME'S ARGUMENT AGAINST INDUCTION REST ON A QUANTIFIER‐SHIFT FALLACY? (2005) (22)
- Optimal Choice in the Face of Risk: Decision Theory Meets Evolution (2011) (21)
- Reply to Sober and Waters (2011) (20)
- The Evolution of Bayesian Updating (2013) (17)
- Oxford Handbook of Causation (2009) (16)
- Holism About Meaning And About Evidence: In Defence Of W. V. Quine (2000) (16)
- The strategy of endogenization in evolutionary biology (2018) (14)
- 3 Species and Organisms: What Are the Problems? (2013) (14)
- The “averaging fallacy” and the levels of selection (2004) (13)
- The concept of group heritability (2003) (13)
- On Arrow’s Theorem and Scientific Rationality: Reply to Morreau and Stegenga (2015) (13)
- Experiment, observation and the confirmation of laws (2011) (13)
- Evolution and Rationality: Decisions, Co-Operation and Strategic Behaviour (2012) (12)
- Adaptation, fitness and the selection-optimality links (2014) (12)
- The Price equation and the causal analysis of evolutionary change (2020) (11)
- Biological Ontology and Hierarchical Organization: A Defense of Rank Freedom (2011) (11)
- On Hamilton’s Rule and Inclusive Fitness Theory with Nonadditive Payoffs (2016) (10)
- Causation in Biology (2009) (10)
- Epistemic justification and deductive closure (1999) (10)
- On a flawed argument against the KK principle (2013) (9)
- Fifty years of the Price equation (2020) (9)
- Review. Genetics and Reductionism. S Sarkar (2000) (8)
- Scepticism and its Sources (2003) (8)
- Fodor on Cognition, Modularity, and Adaptationism (2003) (8)
- The Levels of Selection Debate (2005) (8)
- Levels of Selection and the Major Evolutionary Transitions (2006) (7)
- Emergent group traits, reproduction, and levels of selection (2014) (7)
- Modeling in biology and economics (2011) (7)
- The why, what and how of predicting evolution across biology: from disease to biotechnology to biodiversity (2021) (6)
- Probabilistic Induction and Hume's Problem: Reply to Lange (2003) (6)
- EPSA: Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009 (2012) (6)
- “Which processes are selection processes?” (2001) (6)
- What Does Goodman's ‘Grue’ Problem Really Show? (2007) (6)
- Darwin’s views on group and kin selection: comments on Elliott Sober’s Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? (2015) (5)
- Cultural Inheritance and Fisher’s “Fundamental Theorem” of Natural Selection (2007) (5)
- Verificationism, Realism And Scepticism (2001) (5)
- Cancer and the Levels of Selection (2021) (5)
- Bayesianism and the Traditional Problem of Induction (2005) (5)
- SOCIAL JUSTICE, GENOMIC JUSTICE AND THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE: HARSANYI MEETS MENDEL (2012) (5)
- Philosophy of Biology: A Very Short Introduction (2019) (5)
- Towards a Darwinian theory of decision making Games and the biological roots of behavior (4)
- Evolution and Rationality: Frontmatter (2012) (4)
- Evolution and Rationality (2012) (4)
- Does diversity always grow? (2010) (4)
- Multi-level Selection, Price's Equation and Causality (2003) (3)
- The Major Transitions in Evolution—A Philosophy-of-Science Perspective (2022) (3)
- Human Nature Review 'The Levels of Selection Debate: Recent Development' (2003) (3)
- The formal Darwinism project: editors’ introduction (2014) (3)
- Review of Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes by William Harms (2005) (3)
- Evolution, dynamics and rationality (2012) (2)
- Cooperation, conflict, sex and bargaining (2010) (2)
- The Group Selection Controversy (2006) (2)
- An evolutionary perspective on the unification of the behavioral sciences (2012) (2)
- Replies to my critics (2010) (2)
- Reply to Dennett, Gardner and Rubin (2019) (2)
- Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Science (2006) (2)
- Could religion be a group-level adaptation of Homo sapiens?: Darwin’s cathedral: evolution, religion and the nature of societyDavid Sloan Wilson; University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. v+268, Price $25 hardback, ISBN 0-226-90134-3. (2003) (2)
- Towards evolutionary predictions: Current promises and challenges (2022) (2)
- 3. Explanation in science (2016) (1)
- Causality Assessment in an Evolving Pharmacovigilance Landscape – Conference Report — Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) (2012) (1)
- Genetic Relatedness & the Evolution of Altruism (2002) (1)
- 1. What is science (2016) (1)
- A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology (2008) (1)
- Species Selection, Clade Selection, and Macroevolution (2006) (1)
- Precis of 'Evolution and the Levels of Selection' (2011) (1)
- Biology and the Theory of Rationality (2017) (1)
- EPSA Philosophical Issues in the Sciences (2010) (1)
- The Explanation of Scientific Belief: Reply to W.E. Jones (2000) (1)
- Philosophical Issues in the Levels‐of‐Selection Debate (2006) (1)
- (2012). Emergence, hierarchy and top-down causation in evolutionary biology. Interface Focus , 2 (1), 49-54. (2011) (1)
- On geometric mean fitness: a reply to Takacs and Bourrat (2022) (1)
- Causality Assessment in an Evolving Pharmacovigilance Landscape – Conference Report — Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) (2012) (1)
- How to be a Selective Quinean (2005) (0)
- 3. Function and adaptation (2019) (0)
- Title: Group Adaptation, Formal Darwinism and Contextual Analysis (2017) (0)
- 7. Human behaviour, mind, and culture (2019) (0)
- Goal Attributions in Biology: Objective Fact, Anthropomorphic Bias, or Valuable Heuristic? (2022) (0)
- Wynne-Edwards and the history of group selection (2012) (0)
- Review of From Darwin to Derrida by David Haig (2020) (0)
- Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis: A cooperative species. Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-691-15125-0 (2013) (0)
- 2. Scientific inference (2016) (0)
- A Selective Bibliography of the Philosophy of Science (1988) (0)
- EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND CONTROVERSIES (2007) (0)
- 6. Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology (2016) (0)
- John Maynard Smith; A Retrospective and Assessment (2005) (0)
- the European Science The Complex Nexus of Evolutionary Fitness (2021) (0)
- Adaptation, fitness and the selection-optimality links (2014) (0)
- Evolution and Directionality: Lessons from Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem (2010) (0)
- A Philosopher Looks at the Units of Selection (2008) (0)
- On the Use of Rational Choice Theory in (2014) (0)
- III.2. Units and Levels of Selection (2013) (0)
- Social Evolution, Hamilton’s Rule, and Inclusive Fitness (2018) (0)
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SYMPOSIUM ON RATIONAL CHOICE AND PHILOSOPHY (2016) (0)
- Review of In Mendel's Mirror by Philip Kitcher (2003) (0)
- Review of From Darwin to Derrida by David Haig (2020) (0)
- The strategy of endogenization in evolutionary biology (2018) (0)
- Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, (2009) (0)
- The Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (2006) (0)
- 5. Species and classification (2019) (0)
- 'Holism about Meaning & Evidence' (2000) (0)
- Verificationism, Realism & Scepticism (2001) (0)
- Samir Okasha, Philosophy of Biology. A Very Short Intro duction , Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, (2020) (0)
- Can Adaptiveness and Rationality Part Ways? (2018) (0)
- 10. Simulated Experiments: Methodology for a Virtual World Simulated Experiments: Methodology for a Virtual World (pp. 105-125) (2003) (0)
- Bayes, Levi, and the taxicabs (2000) (0)
- The formal Darwinism project: editors’ introduction (2014) (0)
- Risk, Rational Choice, and Evolution (2018) (0)
- 7. Science and its critics (2016) (0)
- Probabilistic Induction & Hume's Problem (2003) (0)
- Fodor on Cognition, Adaptationism & Modularity (2003) (0)
- CONTRIBUTORS (2012) (0)
- The Gene's‐Eye View and its Discontents (2006) (0)
- Final Thoughts (2018) (0)
- 4. Realism and anti-realism (2016) (0)
- 1. Why philosophy of biology? (2019) (0)
- The Major Transitions in Evolution Reconsidered (2011) (0)
- The origins of human cooperation (2013) (0)
- 4. Levels of selection (2019) (0)
- Causality and Multi‐Level Selection (2006) (0)
- Re-reading: Frank Jackson, \'Grue\', Journal of Philosophy 5 (1975) (2007) (0)
- Evolutionary Theory: Five Questions (2009) (0)
- The Evolution–Rationality Connection (2018) (0)
- Wynne-Edwards and the history of group selection (2011) (0)
- Function in the Light of Frequency-Dependent Selection (2022) (0)
- Is there a Bayesian justification of hypothetico‐deductive inference? (2020) (0)
- Could religion be a group-level adaptation of Homo sapiens? Essay review (2003) (0)
- Population Genetics (revised) (2012) (0)
- Selection at Multiple Levels: Concepts and Methods (2006) (0)
- Agential Thinking and its Rationale (2018) (0)
- Darwin’s views on group and kin selection: comments on Elliott Sober’s Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? (2014) (0)
- Advisory Board and Contents (2020) (0)
- Natural Selection in the Abstract (2006) (0)
- The Princeton Guide to Evolution (2013) (0)
- Evolution and Rationality: Introduction (2012) (0)
- Methodological Individualism in Evolutionary Biology and in Social Science (2017) (0)
- Advisory Board and Contents (2020) (0)
- 2. Evolution and natural selection (2019) (0)
- Wright’s Adaptive Landscape, Fisher’s Fundamental Theorem (2018) (0)
- John Maynard Smith, Editor's Introduction (2005) (0)
- Evolution of Altruism (2021) (0)
- 5. Scientific change and scientific revolutions (2016) (0)
- Introduction (2018) (0)
- Grafen’s Formal Darwinism, Adaptive Dynamics (2018) (0)
- Inductive Rules, Background Knowledge, and Skepticism (2007) (0)
- Edwards on Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection (2018) (0)
- Review: God, the Devil and Darwin (2006) (0)
- Philosophy of Science in Britain (2006) (0)
- Genes and Groups as Agents (2018) (0)
- Agential thinking (2021) (0)
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