Chance

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Topics for Tutorials

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Remember: your group should get together in advance of each tutorial, choose two topics, with one person as presenter for each topic, and one to respond.  The contributions should also be available in some written or electronic form.  Reading suggestions for the topics below can be found by using the Web pages on chance. 

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• is chance an objective feature of the real world ? 

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• What is Lamarckianism ?  What, if anything, is wrong with it ?

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Can the phenotype affect the genotype ?  If not, why not ? 

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• Are probabilistic statements useful because they enable us to give descriptions of phenomena which are too complicated for us to describe by using deterministic laws ? 

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• Any other topic about chance which you choose, provided that you get prior approval from your tutor.

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