Announcements
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In 2022, the Ramsey Lab was awarded 307,400 euro from the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek for project “Biological trait identity: modularity, levels, and adaptation”
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In 2021, the Ramsey Lab was awarded 366,000 euro for the project Plant Agency: Inferring Mental Capacities from Plant Behavior
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Andra Meneganzin was hired as a postdoc starting September 2022 to work on the Trait Identity project.
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Bendik Aaby was hired as a postdoc starting October 2021 to work on the Plant Agency project.
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Gianmaria Dani joined the Ramsey Lab in November 2021 to work on the Plant Agency project.
Upcoming talks
- “What are the ‘levels’ in levels of selection?” Submitted conference talk (with James DiFrisco). Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Pittsburgh, PA, November 12, 2022
Hot off the press
- DiFrisco, J. and Ramsey, G. (accepted). “Adaptationism and trait individuation” Philosophy of Science.
- download-icon Eronen, M. I. and Ramsey, G. (in press) “What are the ‘levels’ in levels of selection?” The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
- Desmond, H. and Ramsey, G. (2023) “The Manifold Challenges to Understanding Human Success” in H. Desmond and G. Ramsey (eds.) Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications, Oxford University Press.
- download-icon Ramsey, G. and Aaby, B. (2022). “The proximate-ultimate distinction and the active role of the organism in evolution” Biology & Philosophy 37: 31.
- download-icon Ramsey, G. and Deem, M. (2022) “Empathy and the evolutionary emergence of guilt” Philosophy of Science89(3): 434-453.
- De Block, A. and Ramsey, G. (2022) “Tools, tests, and data: An overview of the new history and philosophy of science” in G. Ramsey and A. De Block (eds.) The Dynamics of Science: Computational Frontiers in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh Press.