Samir Okasha

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Samir Okasha is affiliated with the following schools: University of Bristol, University of Oxford

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#4226

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Samir Okasha's Degrees

Bachelors Philosophy, Politics, and Economics University of Oxford

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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.

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Samir Okasha's Published Works

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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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