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My main research interest is hierarchy theory, especially the causal relationship between higher-level wholes and their components (Spencer, Simon, Campbell, Salthe, Wimsatt). In biology, for example, we might want to know how large-scale processes within a multicellular organism act to control the smaller-scale processes within its component cells. Or, in the area of my current research, how do the emotions in mammals (and perhaps other animals) act to initiate and control conscious thought and behavior? It seems clear from the philosophical work of Hume (A Treatise of Human Nature) that the preferencing or valuing that motivates or drives conscious thought and behavior, and in particular conscious decision-making, must arise from the emotions. This is true because the only alternative, reason (in the sense of pure rationality), is value-neutral, and utterly incapable of motivating anything.
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PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCEpp.1-15, (2023)
Biological Journal of the Linnean Societyno. 4 (2023): 415-432
PALEOBIOLOGYno. 4 (2022): 711-728
Evolutionary Developmental Biologypp.169-179, (2021)
Jong Gwan Lee,Daniel W. McShea
Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biologyno. 20220112 (2020)
MISSING TWO-THIRDS OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (2020)
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