This paper argues that a central explanatory role for the concept of Umwelt in theoretical
biology is to be found in developmental biology, in particular in the effort to understand …

This paper evaluates recent work purporting to show that the “agency” of organisms is an
important phenomenon for evolutionary biology to study. Biological agency is understood as …

In this paper, I will conduct three interrelated analyses. First, I will develop an analysis of
various concepts in the history of biology that used to refer to individual-level phenomena …

In the context of evolutionary theory, Explanatory Externalism, one of the pillars of the
Modern Evolutionary Synthesis, states that the only adaptive force in evolution is natural …

e use of evolutionary explanations to account for proximate phenomena has been labeled
by various authors as an explanatory error, the so-called phylogeny fallacy. In this paper …

A common explanatory error concerns con lating epistemological roles between two
domains. Here I deal with a special case: when explanations of development replace …

The foundations of biology have been a topic of debate for the past few decades. The
traditional perspective of the Modern Synthesis, which portrays organisms as passive …

The use of evolutionary explanations to explain phenomena at the individual level has been
described by various authors as an explanatory error, the so-called Phylogeny Fallacy. In …