Publications

Pierrick Bourrat (2024). Independence and the Levels of Selection. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 16(3).

Guilhem Doulcier, Peter Takacs, Katrin Hammerschmidt, Pierrick Bourrat (2024). Stability of Ecologically Scaffolded Traits during Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality. Nature Communications, 15(1), 6566.

Pierrick Bourrat, Katie Deaven, Cristina Villegas (2024). Evolvability: Filling the Explanatory Gap between Adaptedness and the Long-Term Mathematical Conception of Fitness. Biology & Philosophy, 39(4), 15.

Andrew J. Roberts, Pierrick Bourrat (2024). Are Biology Experts and Novices Function Pluralists?. Review of Philosophy and Psychology.

Peter Takacs, Pierrick Bourrat (2024). Context matters: a response to Autzen and Okasha’s reply to Takacs and Bourrat. Biological Theory, 19(3), pp. 170-176.

Pierrick Bourrat (2024). Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 14(1), 9.

Pierrick Bourrat, Peter Takacs, Guilhem Doulcier, Matthew C. Nitschke, Andrew J. Black, Katrin Hammerschmidt, Paul B. Rainey (2024). Individuality Through Ecology: Rethinking the Evolution of Complex Life From an Externalist Perspective. Ecology and Evolution, 14(12), e70661.

Pierrick Bourrat (2023). Moving past conventionalism about multilevel selection. Erkenntnis.

Guilhem Doulcier, Peter Takacs, Pierrick Bourrat (2023). Evolutionary transitions in individuality and life cycle closure. Philosophy of Science, 91(5), pp. 1425-1434.

Peter Takacs, Guilhem Doulcier, Pierrick Bourrat (2023). From fitness-centered to trait-centered explanations: what evolutionary transitions in individuality teach us about fitness. Philosophy of Science, 91(5), pp. 1393-1403.