Methodological problems in evolutionary biology V. The import of supervenience

Acta Biotheoretica 35 (3):185-191 (1986)
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Rosenberg has rightly argued that fitness is supervenient. But he has wrongly assumed that this makes “The fittest survive” nontautologous. Supervenience makes strict reduction impossible. It sheds light on disputes concerning the testability of evolutionary theory

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