Duke Professor Alex Rosenberg focuses on the philosophy of biology, in particular the relationship between molecular, functional and evolutionary biology. He takes issue with Jerry Fodor’s attack on natural selection. [10/2011] [Show ID: 22749]

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0:00 Introduction
1:58 An example worth recalling
3:30 Jerry's Fated Repulsion from Darwin
7:22 This objection to teleosemantics makes repudiation of Darwinism inevitable
9:45 Jerry's beef with phylogenetic Darwinism: the disjunction problem
13:44 How selection-against works
16:52 Selection-for and selection against are not contradictories, they are contraries
18:47 Jerry's second mistake: evolutionary biology needs laws
27:30 An Exhaustive Survey of Evolutionary Laws
29:50 No evolutionary laws? How does the theory of natural selection work?
30:48 All Adaptations are the result of blind variation and selection-against. Why?
34:35 Getting the counterfactuals right
36:45 What about the principle of natural selection?
38:20 Summary So Far