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.COMING TO TERMS WITHCHANCE IN EVOLUTION
Louisiana State University, 2/3/2014
Charles H. Pence
Program in History and Philosophy of ScienceDepartment of Philosophy
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color by Mads Madsden
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.NATURALSELECTION
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.FITNESS
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..Orange organisms
leave more offspringthan teal organisms.
A circle: the tautology problem
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..Orange organisms
leave more offspringthan teal organisms.
A circle: the tautology problem
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Orange organisms willprobably (are disposed to)leave more offspring than
teal organisms.
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.GENETICDRIFT
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.THEGOALS
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.Distinguish four notions of
chance in evolution
Show that conflation of allfour leads to problems — then
fix the problems
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.FOURCONCEPTSOF CHANCE
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..‘chance’-like concepts
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process concepts
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outcome concepts
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randomness
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subjective
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objective
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unpredictability
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collapsible
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non-collapsible
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..‘chance’-like concepts.
process concepts
.
outcome concepts
.
randomness
.
subjective
.
objective
.
unpredictability
.
collapsible
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non-collapsible
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..‘chance’-like concepts.
process concepts
.
outcome concepts
.
randomness
.
subjective
.
objective
.
unpredictability
.
collapsible
.
non-collapsible
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..‘chance’-like concepts.
process concepts
.
outcome concepts
.
randomness
.
subjective
.
objective
.
unpredictability
.
collapsible
.
non-collapsible
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..‘chance’-like concepts.
process concepts
.
outcome concepts
.
randomness
.
subjective
.
objective
.
unpredictability
.
collapsible
.
non-collapsible
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..‘chance’-like concepts.
process concepts
.
outcome concepts
.
randomness
.
subjective
.
objective
.
unpredictability
.
collapsible
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non-collapsible
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Pr( heads ∣ coin flipped ) = 0.5
Pr( heads ∣ Ω) = 0 or 1½ COLLAPSIBLE
Pr( heads ∣ Ω) = x½ NON-COLLAPSIBLE
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Pr( heads ∣ coin flipped ) = 0.5
Pr( heads ∣ Ω) = 0 or 1
½ COLLAPSIBLE
Pr( heads ∣ Ω) = x
½ NON-COLLAPSIBLE
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Pr( heads ∣ coin flipped ) = 0.5
Pr( heads ∣ Ω) = 0 or 1½ COLLAPSIBLE
Pr( heads ∣ Ω) = x½ NON-COLLAPSIBLE
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from Diaconis (1998)
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.randomness
unpredictabilitycollapsible objective chance
non-collapsible objective chance
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.SOLVINGPROBLEMS
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.BC: Natural selection ischancy because genetic
drift is chancy.
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“drift clearly is a stochastic or probabilisticor indeterministic phenomenon” (BC, 324)
“the inferences we can make” about drift(BC, 322); what drift “can predict” or“cannot predict” (BC, 323)
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“drift clearly is a stochastic or probabilisticor indeterministic phenomenon” (BC, 324)
“the inferences we can make” about drift(BC, 322); what drift “can predict” or“cannot predict” (BC, 323)
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“drift clearly is a stochastic or probabilisticor indeterministic phenomenon” (BC, 324)
“the inferences we can make” about drift(BC, 322); what drift “can predict” or“cannot predict” (BC, 323)
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“if one is a realist...then one shouldconclude that [evolutionary theory] isfundamentally indeterministic” (BC, 336)
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(P1) Drift is unpredictable.
(P2) Drift is an autonomous statistical law.
(C1) Drift is chancy (a fortiori from P1 and P2).
(P3) Natural selection and drift are “inextricablyconnected” (BC, 324).
(C2) Natural selection is objectively chancy (from C1and P3).
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.Why fixthis?
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(P1*) Drift exhibits collapsible objective chance.
(P2) Drift is an autonomous statistical law.
(C1*) Drift is chancy (a fortiori from P1 and P2).
(P3) Natural selection and drift are “inextricablyconnected” (BC, 324).
(C2) Natural selection is objectively chancy (from C1*and P3).
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Why think this is right?
• The “hidden variables” argument
• Brandon’s other work on drift
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Why think this is right?
• The “hidden variables” argument
• Brandon’s other work on drift
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“Are the probabilities employed in the theory[subjective] or not?” (GHR, 146)
GOOD: unpredictability
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“Ungrounded probabilistic propensities arenot mechanisms; they are admissions thatthere is no mechanism operating....” “[P]ureprobabilistic propensities are viewed as anuncomfortable but unavoidable conclusionin quantum mechanics.” (GHR, 154)
BAD: non-collapsible objective chance
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.THETAKE-HOME
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.BC conflate unpredictability,
non-collapsible, and collapsibleobjective chance
GHR conflate unpredictability andnon-collapsible objective chance
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.Most importantly: we canfix BC’s argument, if weresolve this conflation
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Pearson, Biometrika 5:1 (1906)
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If we want to make a statement about the stature ofEnglishmen, we must find a way of describing our
whole experience … so that we can easily rememberand communicate to others how many men of anygiven height we find among a thousand Englishmen.
We must give up the attempt to replace ourexperiences by a simple average value and try to
describe the whole series of results our observationhas yielded.
Weldon 1906, p. 94