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Philosophers have used the probabilistic relation of ’screening-off‘ to explicate concepts in the theories of causation and explanation. Brandon has used screening-off relations in an attempt to reconstruct an argument of Mayr and Gould that natural selection acts at the level of the organism. I argue that Brandon‘s reconstruction is unsuccessful.
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Hitchcock, C.R. Discussion: Screening-off and Visibility to Selection. Biology & Philosophy 12, 521–529 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006524528746
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