This page will continuously be updated as more readings are posted (and I catch up)

Full list of required reading sources (in the order presented in class):

B. Fitelson, "Likelihoodism, Bayesianism, and Relational Confirmation." Synthese (2007) 156: 473-489.

D. Steel, "Bayesian Confirmation Theory and the Likelihood Principle." Synthese (2007) 156: 53-77.

S. Goodman and R. Royall, “Evidence and Scientific Research.” Amer J. of Public Health (1988) 78: 1568-1574.

S. Goodman, “Toward Evidence-Based Medical Statistics I – the P-value Fallacy” Ann Intern Med. (1999) 130: 995-1004

S. Goodman, “Toward Evidence-Based Medical Statistics 2 – the Bayes Factor.” Ann. Intern. Med. (1999) 130: 1005-1013.

M. Forster and E. Sober, “How to Tell When Simpler, More Unified, or Less Ad Hoc Theories will Provide More Accurate Predictions." Br. J. Phil. Sci. (1994) 45: 1-36.

C. Darwin, The Origin of Species

Philip Kitcher, Darwin’s Achievement;” in In Mendel’s Mirror. Oxford UP, 2005, pp. 45-93

M.J.S. Hodge, “Natural Selection as a Causal, Empirical, and Probabilistic Theory.” In L. Kruger, G. Gigerenzer, and M. Morgan (eds.), The Probabilistic Revolution, vol. 2, MIT Press, 1987, pp.233-270

Harvey and Pagel, The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology

D. Penny, L. Foulds, M. Hendy, “Testing the theory of evolution by comparing phylogenetic tress constructed from five different protein sequences,” Nature (1982) 297: 197-200.

D. Penny, M. Hendy, and A. Poole, "Testing Fundamental Evolutionary Hypotheses," Journal of TheoreticalBiology (2003) 223: 377-385..

M. Steel and D. Penny, “Parsimony, Likelihood and the Role of Models in Molecular Phylogenetics,” Molecular Biology and Evolution (2000) 17: 839-850; J. Huelsenbeck, F. Ronquist, R. 

Nielsen, J. Bollback, “Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny and Its Impact on Evolutionary Biology.” Science (2001) 294: 2310-2314.

Full list of extra reading sources (in the order presented in class):

Elliott Sober, “Introduction to Bayesian Epistemology” (IBE) unpublished (available at: http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober/recent.html