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Newsletter No.10

2004年06月23日発行

PaSTA研究会ニューズレター第十号をお届けします。今号では、前号発行以後に行われた国際シンポジウムを含めた四つの研究会についての報告と、6月26日(土)に予定されている国際ワークショップの予告をいたします。

活動報告

●THE ROAD TO THE ORIGIN, An International Symposium on Darwin

(ダーウィンに関する国際シンポジウムが以下の通り開催されました)

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内容:

How did Darwin come to his view on the origin of species, published in 1859? Two distinguished biographers of Darwin, Randal Keynes and James Moore, together with evolutionary biologist Mariko Hasegawa, will talk about the process, the circumstances, and the significance of Darwin's theorizing on man, animals, and the whole life.


●第14回PaSTA研究会

(第14回PaSTA研究会が、京都科学哲学コロキアムとの共催で、以下の通り開催されました)

講演者: Alex Rosenberg 教授(Duke University)

講演タイトル: Fitness, probability and the principles of natural selection

I argue that a fashionable interpretation of the theory of natural selection as a statistical or probabilistic claim exclusively about populations is mistaken. The interpretation, wide spread among philosophers of biology, rests on adopting an analysis of fitness as a probabilistic propensity which cannot be substantiated. Moreover, following R. A. Fischer, the interpretation draws parallels to thermodynamics, but these are really without foundation as they misunderstand differences between fitness and entropy. Finally, I show that the population interpretation fails to do justice to the fundamental distinction between drift and selection. This distinction requires a notion of fitness as a pairwise comparison between individuals taken two at a time, and so vitiates the interpretation of the theory as one about populations exclusively.


●第14回PaSTA研究会

(第14回PaSTA研究会が、京都科学哲学コロキアムとの共催で、以下の通り開催されました)

講演者: Alex Rosenberg 教授(Duke University)

講演タイトル: Fitness, probability and the principles of natural selection

I argue that a fashionable interpretation of the theory of natural selection as a statistical or probabilistic claim exclusively about populations is mistaken. The interpretation, wide spread among philosophers of biology, rests on adopting an analysis of fitness as a probabilistic propensity which cannot be substantiated. Moreover, following R. A. Fischer, the interpretation draws parallels to thermodynamics, but these are really without foundation as they misunderstand differences between fitness and entropy. Finally, I show that the population interpretation fails to do justice to the fundamental distinction between drift and selection. This distinction requires a notion of fitness as a pairwise comparison between individuals taken two at a time, and so vitiates the interpretation of the theory as one about populations exclusively.


●大学院セミナー

通常の研究会とは別に急遽、大学院セミナーが以下の通り開催されました)

発表者: Dr. Koji Tanaka (Macquarie University)

発表タイトル: Davidson and Chinese Conceptual Scheme

今後の予定

●国際ワークショップ "The Plurality of Logic - Rationality, Inconsistency, and Belief revision"

世界的な論理学者プリースト教授(メルボルン大学)をお迎えして、論理学に関する国際ワークショップを以下の通りに開催いたします。なお、当日は通訳があります。

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コメンテーター:

なお、このワークショップについては以下のURLも参照してください。発表者の論文等の関連資料もそこから入手できます。

https://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/archive/jp/projects/projects_completed/hmn/pasta/announce.html#040626


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