Elliott Sober - Concepedia

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Elliott Sober

Also Known As

E Sober, E. SOBER, E. Sober, ELLIOTT SOBER, Elliott R. Sober, Elliott Sober, Mohan Ruse, Sober, Elliott, Sober, Elliott 1948-, Sober, Elliott R.

443

Publications

18.3K

Citations

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207

Concepts

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University of Wisconsin–Madison

About

Elliott Sober is an author at University of Wisconsin–Madison specializing in evolutionary biology, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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Elliott Sober

128

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12.6K

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	Year	Citations
The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus. Robert N. Brandon, Elliott Sober The Philosophical Review BiologyEvolutionFitnessNatural SciencesEvolutionary Biology	1986	1.1K
Reintroducing group selection to the human behavioral sciences David Sloan Wilson, Elliott Sober Behavioral and Brain Sciences Human Behavioral SciencesBehavioral SciencesGroup DynamicGroup PhenomenonSocial Behavior	1994	948
Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism Elliott Sober Philosophy of Science Experimental EvolutionPopulation PressureNatural SelectionPopulation ThinkingBiological Evolution	1980	655
How to Tell When Simpler, More Unified, or Less<i>Ad Hoc</i>Theories will Provide More Accurate Predictions Elliott Sober The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science Artificial IntelligenceEngineeringPrior ProbabilitiesAd HocnessBayesian Inference	1994	652
Reviving the superorganism David Sloan Wilson, Elliott Sober Journal of Theoretical Biology Organizing (Management)Organizational StructureManagementSocial ChangeGlobal Strategy	1989	598
Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference. P. Holgate, Elliott Sober Biometrics Human EvolutionEvolutionary BiologyPaleoanthropologyHuman Origin	1991	565
Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology. William L. Fink, Elliott Sober Systematic Zoology BiologyExperimental EvolutionEvolutionary ProcessEvolutionNatural Sciences	1984	435
The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism Elliott Sober Philosophy of Science EngineeringAutomated ReasoningSingular OccurrenceComputational Model TheoryFormal Methods	1999	321
Optimality Models and the Test of Adaptationism Steven Hecht Orzack, Elliott Sober The American Naturalist Mathematical EconomicsEconomicsFitnessOptimality ModelsEvolutionary Biology	1994	320
Prediction Versus Accommodation and the Risk of Overfitting Christopher Hitchcock, Elliott Sober The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science EngineeringMachine LearningPositivismFormal EpistemologyCausal Inference	2004	302

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