Vol 31 No 2 (2012): Nuevas contribuciones Iberoamericanas a la metateoría estructuralista, Monográfico
Submitted: 12-03-2013
Accepted: 12-03-2013
Despite seeming relatively simple Natural Selection Theory has brought up many discussions regarding its reconstruction. In particular, many authors have had difficulties in explicating the concept of fitness. The point of view of this paper is that more concepts are needed in order to, on the one hand, understand more adequately this issue, and on the other hand, to account for selectionist explanations, both Darwin’s and current applications, in an adequate way. Having this in mind, I will offer a reconstruction of Natural Selection Theoryusing the tools of metatheoretical structuralism.
Theory of Natural Selection, fitness, Darwin, metatheorical structuralism