Keyword: niche construction

From October 10–12, at the University of Toronto, a workshop marked 40 years since the publication of The Dialectical Biologist (1985) by Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin. The book, a collection of their earlier papers, aimed to present a coherent vision of how Marxian dialectics can inform biological theory. It stands alongside other critical works, […]

Description from the event page: Hybrid Event – To obtain the Zoom information, click on the “Register” button above or use the link at the bottom of the page Forty years have passed since Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin published The Dialectical Biologist in 1985. At the time the publication was generally met with puzzlement […]

No field showcases the virtues of philosophy of biology more effectively than evolutionary science (although I recently learned from Gregory Rupik, 2024, that this observation is not necessarily a virtue). As a graduate student and would-be evolutionist in London in the late 1980s, I was introduced to the pioneering writings of David Hull on evolutionary […]

Published open-access in Frontiers in Psychology Abstract: This aim of this paper is two-fold: it critically analyses and rejects accounts blending active inference as theory of mind and enactivism; and it advances an enactivist-dynamic understanding of social cognition that is compatible with active inference. While some social cognition theories seemingly take an enactive perspective on […]