Elliott Sober
(2011年刊行, Prometheus Books, New York, 230 pp., ISBN:9781616142308[pbk] → 情報|版元ページ)
【目次】
Preface 9
Acknowledgments 13
1. Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? 15
1.1 What Is Darwin's Theory 15
1.2 Common Ancestry 21
1.3 Darwin's Principle 25
1.4 Exceptions to Darwin's Principle 28
1.5 Causal and Evidential Orderings 32
1.6 Using Common Ancestry to Think about Natural Selection 36
1.7 Tree Thinking 422. Darwin and Group Selection 45
2.1 Back to the 60s 46
2.2 Human Moralisty 57
2.3 The Honeybee's Barbed Stinger 62
2.4 The Risk of Anachronism 63
2.5 More on Darwin and Morality 66
2.6 Sterile Workers in the Social Insects 69
2.7 Darwin's Disagreement with Wallace about Hybrid Sterility 76
2.8 Darwin's General View of Group Selection 823. Sex Ratio Theory —— Darwin, Before, and After 87
3.1 Arbuthnot on “the exact balance that is maintained between the numbers of men and women ... that the Species may never fail, nor perish” 88
3.2 Bernoulli on 18 / 35 96
3.3 DeMoivre —— “if we blind not ourselves with metaphysical dust” 98
3.4 Darwin's Argument from Monogamy, and His Retraction 101
3.5 Düsing's Model —— Monogamy Drops Out. 106
3.6 Fisher and Parental Expenditure 109
3.7 Hamilton —— Group and Individual Selection 113
3.8 Sex Ratio as a Test Case 115
Appendix: An Example of Hamiltonian Sex Ratio Evolytion in Group with Two Foundresses 1194. Darwin and Naturalism 121
4.1 Darwin's Discussion of God 121
4.2 Refining Methodological Naturalism 128
4.3 Why Evolutionary Theory Does Not Rule Out an Intervening God 134
4.4 Should Scientific Theories Talk Only about What Exists in Nature? 139
4.5 Are All Claims about the Supernatural Untestable? 142
4.6 Is Violating Methodological Naturalism a Science-Stopper? 146
4.7 If Numbers, Why Not God? 147
4.8 Concluding Comments 1515. Postscript 153
5.1 Second Thoughts about Cladistic Parsimony and the Test of Adaptive Hypotheses 153
5.2 More on Units of Selection 162
5.3 Evolutionary Theory and the Reality of Macroprobabilities 177
Notes 189
References 211
Index 225