Pierrick Bourrat

About Pierrick Bourrat

Pierrick Bourrat, With an exceptional h-index of 18 and a recent h-index of 17 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Macquarie University, specializes in the field of philosophy of biology, natural selection, levels of selection, religion, cultural evolution.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Are Biology Experts and Novices Function Pluralists?

Why there are so many definitions of fitness in models

Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality

Context Matters: A Response to Autzen and Okasha’s Reply to Takacs and Bourrat

Individuality through ecology: Rethinking the evolution of complex life from an externalist perspective

A Pricean formalization of Gaia

Moving Past Conventionalism About Multilevel Selection

Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure

Pierrick Bourrat Information

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Citations(all)

1320

Citations(since 2020)

886

Cited By

719

hIndex(all)

18

hIndex(since 2020)

17

i10Index(all)

32

i10Index(since 2020)

29

Email

University Profile Page

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Pierrick Bourrat Skills & Research Interests

philosophy of biology

natural selection

levels of selection

religion

cultural evolution

Top articles of Pierrick Bourrat

Are Biology Experts and Novices Function Pluralists?

Review of Philosophy and Psychology

2024/4/19

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Why there are so many definitions of fitness in models

2024/4/11

Guilhem Doulcier
Guilhem Doulcier

H-Index: 6

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Adding causality to the information-theoretic perspective on individuality

European Journal for Philosophy of Science

2024/3

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Context Matters: A Response to Autzen and Okasha’s Reply to Takacs and Bourrat

2024/2/26

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Individuality through ecology: Rethinking the evolution of complex life from an externalist perspective

2024

A Pricean formalization of Gaia

Philosophy of Science

2023

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Moving Past Conventionalism About Multilevel Selection

Erkenntnis

2023/12/6

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality and Life Cycle Closure

Philosophy of Science

2023/12/1

Guilhem Doulcier
Guilhem Doulcier

H-Index: 6

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

From Fitness-Centered to Trait-Centered Explanations: What Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality Teach Us About Fitness

Philosophy of Science

2023/12/1

Guilhem Doulcier
Guilhem Doulcier

H-Index: 6

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

When local causes are more explanatorily useful

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

2023/9/11

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Multilevel selection 1, multilevel selection 2, and the Price equation: a reappraisal

Synthese

2023/8/24

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

A coarse-graining account of individuality: how the emergence of individuals represents a summary of lower-level evolutionary processes

Biology & Philosophy

2023/8

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

What is the price of using the Price equation in ecology?

Oikos

2023/8

The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested Darwinian populations

Journal of Theoretical Biology

2023/3/21

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Stability of Ecologically Scaffolded Traits During Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality

bioRxiv

2023

Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch

2023/1/1

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection

Biological Theory

2022/12

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor

Elife

2022/8/17

On the causal interpretation of heritability from a structural causal modeling perspective

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

2022/8/1

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

Grains of Description in Biological and Cultural Transmission

Journal of Cognition and Culture

2022/7/25

Pierrick Bourrat
Pierrick Bourrat

H-Index: 14

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