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Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Centro de Ciências Naturais e Humanas (CCNH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Itália
Lorenzo Baravalle in research grants and scholarships supported by FAPESP.
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The main goal of this research programme is the explanation of the reasons that lead the members of a human society to adopt certain cognitive strategies to understand and control nature. Firstly, I will consider the relationship between (genetic or environmental) material conditions and compliance with certain social values. Secondly, I will develop an (historical and anthropological) an…
Can evolutionary theory be characterised as a "theory of forces", like Newtonian mechanics? One common criticism to this claim concerns the possibility to conceive genetic drift as a causal process endowed by a specific magnitude and direction. In the realisation of this project, I aim to offer an original response to this criticism by pointing out a connection between the notion of force…
Inspired by Woodward's account of causation and explanation, Caponi has recently defended that biology - and, especially, evolutionary biology - is grounded on a "mosaic of invariants", that is, a net of causal regularities which, although not stable and universal enough to constitute genuine causal laws, may guarantee the explanatory autonomy of this discipline by supporting a certain nu…
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