Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines

Agathe du Crest is Research Assistant in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) in the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.Martina Valković is Research Assistant in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) in the Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz University Hannover, and a visiting researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen.​André Ariew is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.Hugh Desmond is Postdoctoral Researcher in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) in the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Antwerp.Philippe Huneman is Principal Investigator in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) and Research Director in the Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris.Thomas A. C. Reydon is Principal Investigator in the ANR-DFG project The Explanatory Scope of Generalized Darwinism: Towards Criteria for Evolutionary Explanations Outside Biology (GenDar) and Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology in the Institute of Philosophy and the Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences (CELLS), Leibniz University Hannover. He is also Visiting Fellow in the Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science Group (SEPOS) and the Center for Interdisciplinarity (C4I) at Michigan State University.

• 1. Generalizing Darwinism as a Topic for Multidisciplinary Debate.- Part I: How Can Disciplines Benefit from, or Contribute to, Evolutionary Frameworks?. 2. Is a Non-Evolutionary Psychology Possible?.- 3. Evolutionary Economics and the Theory of Cultural Evolution.- 4. Repetition Without Replication: Notes Towards a Theory of Cultural Adaptation.- 5. The Epistemological and Ideological Stakes of Literary Darwinism.- 6. Evolutionary Aspects of Language Change.- 7. A Community Science Model for Inter-Disciplinary Evolution Education and School Improvement.- 8. Teaching for the Interdisciplinary Understanding of Evolutionary Concepts.- Part II: Generalizations of Evolutionary Theory: Common Principles or Explanatory Structures?. 9. From Games to Graphs. Evolving Networks in Cultural Evolution.- 10. Metaphysics of Evolution: Ontology and Justification of Generalized Evolution Theory.- 11. Human Social Evolution via Four Coevolutionary Levels.- Part III: Why Should We Be Skeptical of Generalizations of Darwinism?. 12. Is Natural Selection Physical?.- 13. The Risks of Evolutionary Explanation.- 14. Evolution and Ecology of Organizations and Markets.- 15. Pluralism and Epistemic Goals: Why the Social Sciences Will (Probably) not be Synthesised by Evolutionary Theory.- 16. Equations at an Exhibition: on the Cultural Price Equation.- 17. Unlike Agents: The Role of Correlation in Economics and Biology.- Part IV: How Can Evolutionary Approaches or the Target Field be Amended?. 18. From the Modern Synthesis to the Inclusive Evolutionary Synthesis: An Einsteinian Revolution in Evolution.- 19. Darwinian/Hennigian Systematics and Evo-Devo: the Missed Rendez-vous.- 20. The Generalized Selective Environment.- 21. Adding Agency to Tinbergen’s Four Questions.- 22. Cultural Evolution Research Needs to Include Human Behavioural Ecology.