Genes and Codes: Lessons from the Philosophy of Mind?

Peter Godfrey‐Smith

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Do genes really code for biological traits? Of course genes have an important causal role in development and the production of the traits of organisms, but is this causal role a matter of genes coding for their effects? Some would say that there is not much left to argue about. The view that

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