Darwin's Principle: The Use of Contrastive Reasoning in the Confirmation of Evolution (2014)
I address Elliott Sober's reconstruction of the confirmation of evolution and offer a seemingly minor but important correction. I then survey evolutionary thought in Darwin as well as both before and after Darwin to demonstrate my modified reconstruction. Finally, I explain how this correction reflects the richness of evolutionary thought.
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