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      Two dimensions of the biological function debate 

      Chen, Bohang (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)
      This article adopts a minimal definition of biological usage to demonstrate that the debate over biological function encompasses two distinct dimensions: descriptive and prescriptive. In the descriptive dimension, biological ...
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      An epistemic argument for evolutionary dispositions 

      Villegas, Cristina; Morales Carbonell, Felipe (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)
      El uso de las disposiciones ha sido puesto en entredicho en numerosas ocasiones en la literatura filosófica, especialmente respecto a cómo pueden ser justificadas las atribuciones disposicionales. Aun así, las disposiciones ...
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      Wright’s path analysis: causal inference in the early twentieth century 

      Dong, Zili (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)
      Despite being a milestone in the history of statistical causal inference, Sewall Wright’s 1918 invention of path analysis did not receive much immediate attention from the statistical and scientific community. Through a ...
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      Testimony and inferential justification 

      Rudy Hiller, Fernando (Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2024)
      Reductionists about testimony think that testimony is never a basic source of justifica-tion. By contrast, anti-reductionists claim that, at least in some paradigmatic cases, testimony is a basic and independent source of ...