Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Philosophy of Biology Reading Group

Meetings will take place on Fridays at 2–3pm in the Lodge Seminar Room and are open to all. Organised by Jonathan Birch.

Easter Term 2012

We will be reading Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards? by Elliott Sober (Prometheus, 2011). Meetings involve a short presentation by a member of the group followed by a general discussion.

27 AprilChapter 1, 'Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?'
4 MayChapter 2, 'Darwin and Group Selection'
11 MayChapter 3, 'Sex Ratio Theory – Darwin, Before, and After'
18 MayChapter 4, 'Darwin and Naturalism'
25 MayTalk by Elliott Sober