Brian McLoone

Auburn University — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

6h-index100citations17works0.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation(12), Philosophy and History of Science(11), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics(8), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(2), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference(2)

Publications17 total

The epistemic status of derivational robustness
European Journal for Philosophy of Science·2025Open Access
R.A. Fisher, indeterminism, and the fundamental theorem of natural selection
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A·2024· 1 cited
How to Think about Indirect Confirmation
Erkenntnis·2023
Counterpossibles in science: an experimental study
Synthese·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
Natural Selection's Explanatory Scope
Philosophy Compass·2022· 1 cited
Calculus and counterpossibles in science
Synthese·2020· 11 cited
Population and organismal perspectives on trait origins
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences·2020· 6 cited
Thumper the Infinitesimal Rabbit: A Fictionalist Perspective on Some “Unimaginable” Model Systems in Biology
Philosophy of Science·2019· 9 cited
Modeling in Biology: looking backward and looking forward
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)·2019· 1 citedOpen Access
Why a convincing argument for causalism cannot entirely eschew population-level properties: discussion of Otsuka
Biology & Philosophy·2018· 3 cited
Stochasticity, Selection, and the Evolution of Cooperation in a Two‐Level Moran Model of the Snowdrift Game
Complexity·2018· 15 citedOpen Access
Evolvix BEST Names for semantic reproducibility across code2brain interfaces
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·2016· 1 citedOpen Access
Some Criticism of the Contextual Approach, and a Few Proposals
Biological Theory·2015· 13 cited
The ontogeny and evolution of human collaboration
Biology & Philosophy·2014· 3 cited
Selection explanations of token traits
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences·2013· 5 cited
Puzzles for ZFEL, McShea and Brandon’s zero force evolutionary law
Biology & Philosophy·2012· 18 cited
Collaboration and human social evolution: review of Michael Tomasello’s why we cooperate (MIT Press, 2009)
Biology & Philosophy·2010· 2 cited

Frequent Co-authors

Elliott Sober(2), Rory Smead(2), Laurence Loewe(2), Steven Hecht Orzack(2), Martin Barrett(1), Hayley Clatterbuck(1), Michael G. Goldsby(1), Casey Helgeson(1), Trevor Pearce(1), Reuben Stern(1), Naftali Weinberger(1), Wai-Tong Louis Fan(1), Adam Pham(1), Cassandra Grützner(1), Michael T. Stuart(1), Katherine S. Scheuer(1), Seth A. Keel(1), Vaibhav Vyas(1), Ben Liblit(1), Bret M. Hanlon(1)