Publications

Pierrick Bourrat (2023). A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes?. Biology & Philosophy, 38(4), 33..

Pierrick Bourrat (2023). A Pricean formalization of Gaia. Philosophy of Science, 90(3), pp. 704-720..

Pierrick Bourrat, William Godsoe, Pradeep Pillai, Tarik C. Gouhier, Werner Ulrich, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Matthijs Van Veelen (2023). What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?. Oikos, 2023(8), e10024..

Matthew C. Nitschke, Andrew J. Black, Pierrick Bourrat, Paul B. Rainey (2023). The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested Darwinian populations. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 561, 111414..

Pierrick Bourrat (2023). When local causes are more explanatorily useful. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e185..

Pierrick Bourrat (2022). A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection. Biological Theory, 17(4), pp. 263-275..

Pierrick Bourrat, Guilhem Doulcier, Caroline J. Rose, Paul B. Rainey, Katrin Hammerschmidt (2022). Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor. ELife, 11, e73715..

Pierrick Bourrat, Mathieu Charbonneau (2022). Grains of description in biological and cultural transmission. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 22(3–4), pp. 185–202..

Guilhem Doulcier, Katrin Hammerschmidt, Pierrick Bourrat (2022). Division of labor and fitness decoupling in evolutionary transitions in individuality. In M. Herron, W. C. Ratcliff, & P. L. Conlin (Eds.), The Evolution of Multicellularity, CRC Press (pp. 227-248)..

Qiaoying Lu, Pierrick Bourrat (2022). On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 94, pp. 87–98..