The Epiphenomenalism of Natural Selection and Its Reflections on the Limitations of Causal Determination
Epiphenomenalism of natural selection,as a form of causal skepticism,attempts to eliminate the ontological status of natural selection and thereby denies the associated teleological reality.Giving that,the Weismann model,abstracted from classical experimental cases in Weismann's study of biological heredity,applies the supervenience paradigm from philosophy of mind to the causal investigation and interpretation of the epigenetic traits of in-dividual organisms in this model.Thus,from this perspective,the naturalized foundation of teleology in the epiphenomenalism of natural selection lies in the etiological functional explanations.However,as a synchronic causal process,it fails to fully elucidate the organism's adaptive process in terms of how individual organisms adapt.Teleological causation has its corresponding diachronic causal processes,and,similarly,the epiphenomenalism of natural se-lection should have its limitations in causal determination.
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