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    Brian Skyrms and Elliott Sober argue that population-leve... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Under replicator dynamics, strictly dominated strategies can persist in a population.

    Brian Skyrms and Elliott Sober argue that population-level claims about replicator dynamics must specify initial conditions as part of the explanatory content, not treat them as incidental.

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    Brian Skyrms(the philosopher being cited)
    A contemporary American philosopher who studies how social cooperation and game theory can explain human behavior and evolution.
    Elliott Sober(as the originator of the model-to-target inference framework)
    A philosopher of science who studies how scientists figure out which explanations best match reality; he's particularly known for work on evolution and reasoning.
    Explanatory content(measuring the usefulness of a scientific explanation)
    How much a theory actually tells you about why something happens, rather than just describing it or dodging questions.
    Population-level claims(the type of argument being discussed)
    Statements about what happens to a whole group or species over time, rather than just individual organisms.

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    initial conditions(Stipulated by convention to ground the causal framework)
    Starting states of affairs that are stipulated to be caused, serving as the base case in a causal account of true propositions
    replicator dynamics(Evolutionary game theory)
    A dynamic process governing strategy frequencies in a population that cannot introduce strategies absent from the initial population state.

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