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10 - The Conscious Universe: Genes in Complex Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2022

Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
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University of California, Santa Cruz
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This chapter synopsizes our discussions by taking methodological step back to statistics, and to the irreducible entanglement of explanatory paradigms. We will never fully resolve the philosophical themes central to Our Genes, but we can certainly reflect on them. So far, we have investigated themes related to causation and explanation; the multivalent, ambiguous role of theoretical assumptions; the importance of data and empiricism; and the power of philosophy – for example, conceptual analysis, tracking ethics and power, critique, and imagining “What if…?” – in scientific investigation.

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Our Genes
A Philosophical Perspective on Human Evolutionary Genomics
 , pp. 284 - 313
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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