Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer & DECRA Fellow at Macquarie University. I specialise in philosophy of biology. Together with Paul Griffiths, I head the Theory and Method in Biosciences group, a joint research group between the University of Sydney and Macquarie University.
From 2017 to 2020 I was a Macquarie University Research Fellow. I completed a PhD in philosophy of biology at the University of Sydney under the supervision of Paul Griffiths in 2015.
My work focuses on core concepts of evolutionary theory such as fitness and heritability, as well as evolutionary transitions in individuality.
My other interests include, the interplay between biological and cultural evolution and the evolution of religious beliefs
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Interests
- Evolutionary theory
- Natural selection
- Levels of selection
- Individuality
Education
PhD in Philosophy, 2015
The University of Sydney
MA in Philosophy, 2009
Univeristy Paris 7
Msc in Evolutionary Biology & Ecology, 2008
Université of Montpellier
Bsc in Biology, 2006
University Blaise Pacal (Clermont-Ferrand)
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(2022).
Division of Labor and Fitness Decoupling in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality.
The evolution of multicellularity.
(2022).
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality: a formal analysis.
Synthese.
(2022).
Fidelity and the Grain Problem in Cultural Evolution.
Synthese.
(2022).
The Idea of Mismatch in Evolutionary Medicine.
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(2022).
Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality by Endogenization of Scaffolded Properties.
- British Journal for the Philosophy of Science *
(2022).
The arithmetic mean of what? A Cautionary Tale about the Use of the Geometric Mean as a Measure of Fitness.
Biology and Philosophy.
(2022).
Grains of Description in Biological and Cultural Transmission.
Journal of Cognition and Culture.
(2022).
Unifying Heritability in Evolutionary Theory.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
(2021).
hrefhttp://www.thebsps.org/reviewofbooks/bourrat-on-jablonka-and-lamb/Review textitInheritance Systems and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis by Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb.
BJPS Review of Books.
(2021).
Fitness: static or dynamic?.
European Journal for Philosophy of Science.
(2021).
Function, persistence, and selection: Generalizing the selected-effect account of function adequately.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.
(2021).
Taming Fitness: Organism-Environment Interdependencies Preclude Long-Term Fitness Forecasting.
(2021).
Measuring Causal Invariance Formally.
Entropy.
(2020).
Causation and SNP Heritability.
(2019).
Adaptations: Product of Evolution.
Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.
(2019).
Evolution is about Populations, but its Causes are about Individuals.
Biological Theory.
(2019).
Genetic Relatedness.
Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science.
(2018).
Multispecies Individuals.
(2018).
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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
(2017).
hrefhttps://ndpr.nd.edu/news/biological-individuality-integrating-scientific-philosophical-and-historical-perspectives/Review of textitBiological Individuality: Integrating Scientific, Philosophical, and Historical Perspectives, by Scott Lidgard and Lynn K. Nyhart (eds.).
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
(2017).
Review of textitEvolution by Natural Selection: Confidence, Evidence and the Gap, by Michaelis Michael.
Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
(2016).
Generalizing Contextual Analysis.
(2016).
Sélection Naturelle.
Encyclopédie Philosophique.
(2016).
Supernatural Beliefs and the Evolution of Cooperation.
Oxford Handbook of the Evolutionary Perspectives on Religion.
(2015).
Origins and evolution of religion from a Darwinian point of view: synthesis of different theories.
Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences.
(2015).
Distinguishing Natural Selection from Other Evolutionary Processes in the Evolution of Altruism.
(2013).
Small things, big consequences: Microbiological perspectives on biology.
The Philosophy of Biology.
(2011).
L’évolution de la religion d’un point de vue darwinien : synthèse des différentes théories.
Les Mondes Darwiniens.
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