Paleobiology and philosophy

Currie, Adrian

doi:10.1007/s10539-019-9682-2

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“…This section provides a case study in paleobiology illustrating the conditions needed for the problem of unequal evidence to arise in practice. For our purposes, paleobiology is a field that studies evolutionary changes on large time scales using fossil and other data sources (Currie 2019). The field has been an emerging focus for philosophers studying underdetermination in practice, with a number of recent studies examining data models (Bokulich 2018), fossil specimen preparation (Wylie 2019), and testing hypotheses about evolutionary events (Cleland 2001;Turner 2011).…”

Section: Unequal Evidence In Paleobiology: a Motivating Examplementioning

confidence: 99%

Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection

Sterner¹,

Lidgard²

2024

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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Section: Unequal Evidence In Paleobiology: a Motivating Examplementioning

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Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection

Sterner¹,

Lidgard²

2024

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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“…Thus, it is taken from a so-called neontological discipline. In biological and philosophical literature, "neontologists" are biologists who deal with living organisms (e.g., Currie 2019, Depew and Simpson 2006, Sepkoski 2012, Gould 1980. Conversely, paleontologists work and investigate extinct and fossilized plants and animals.…”

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The Material Turn in the Study of Form: From Bio-Inspired Robots to Robotics-Inspired Morphology

Tamborini

2021

Perspectives on Science

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This paper investigates the mechanisms of knowledge production of twenty-first century robotics-inspired morphology. How robotics influences investigations into the structure, development, and change of organic forms? Which definition of form is presupposed by this new approach to the study of form? I answer these questions by investigating how robots are used to understand and generate new questions about the locomotion of extinct animals in the first case study and in high-performance fishes in the second case study. After having illustrated the landscape of twentieth-century morphology, I will reflect on the definition of form adopted in twenty-first century robotics-inspired morphology as well as on the differences between this approach to the study of form and the so-called nature-inspired disciplines, such as bionics or biomimetics. In the conclusion, I suggest that we are now in a material turn in morphology, characterized by the coexistence of the robotic, the virtual, and the real, which enables an understanding of how the structures and dynamics of shapes change over time.

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Paleobiology and philosophy

Cited by 2 publications

References 36 publications

Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection

Objectivity and Underdetermination in Statistical Model Selection

The Material Turn in the Study of Form: From Bio-Inspired Robots to Robotics-Inspired Morphology

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