June 1, 2012
Philosophy professor to present paper at conference today
Bruce Glymour, interim department head of philosophy, will present at the POBAM – Philosophy of Biology at Madison – conference today in Madison, Wis.
Glymour's presentation is "Some perplexities arising from temporal variation in fitness." The paper discusses difficulties in integrating ecological and population genetic models when fitness is governed by a nonstationary stochastic process.
The conference began Thursday and ends Saturday.