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    Drift refers to causal influences over a population that are non-interactive, non-pervasive, and indiscriminate (NINPICs)

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    • 1.The term 'drift' picks out a specific class of causal influences in population biology
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    • 2.These causal influences share the three features of being non-interactive, non-pervasive, and indiscriminate
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    • 1.Millikan and Fodor's teleosemantic traditions show that biological concepts derive meaning from causal-historical lineages, not intrinsic property clusters.
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    • 2.If 'drift' is defined by a conjunction of negative properties (non-X, non-Y, non-Z), it picks out a heterogeneous residual category rather than a natural kind.
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    • 3.A residual category defined by the absence of selection's features cannot serve as a genuine causal explanation, only as an explanatory placeholder.
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    • 1.Matthen and Ariew (2002) argue that drift is a population-level statistical outcome, not itself a cause acting on populations.
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    • 2.If drift is a statistical description of sampling error rather than a force, then characterizing it as a class of 'causal influences' commits a category mistake.
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    • 3.The NINPIC account therefore misdescribes the ontological status of drift by reifying a mathematical abstraction into a causal agent.
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    Peter Gildenhuys (2009) argues that the term “drift” is used to refer to causal influences over a population that have three features: they are non-interactive, non-pervasive, and indiscriminate (NINPICs). Thus, he endorses drift as indiscriminate sampling; the other modifications he makes to the view seem to stem from thinking that the Causal Process Account precludes drift and selection from co-occurring and from thinking the view needs to account for location (e.g., an organism being in the w
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