Samir Okasha's Philosophy

Lato Sensu: Revue de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences 8 (3):1-8 (2021)
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This essay offers some reflections on Samir Okasha’s new monograph Agents and Goals in Evolution, his style of doing philosophy, and the broader philosophy of nature project of trying to make sense of agency and rationality as natural phenomena.

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Walter Veit
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