caa a22 4500 605448515 CHVBK 20210128100137.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10539-014-9454-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10539-014-9454-y Austin Christopher University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK aut The dispositional genome: primus inter pares [Elektronische Daten] [Christopher Austin] According to the proponents of Developmental Systems Theory and the Causal Parity Thesis, the privileging of the genome as "first among equals” with respect to the development of phenotypic traits is more a reflection of our own heuristic prejudice than of ontology—the underlying causal structures responsible for that specified development no more single out the genome as primary than they do other broadly "environmental” factors. Parting with the methodology of the popular responses to the Thesis, this paper offers a novel criterion for ‘causal primacy', one that is grounded in the ontology of the unique causal role of dispositional properties. This paper argues that, if the genome is conceptualised as realising dispositional properties that are "directed toward” phenotypic traits, the parity of ‘causal roles' between genetic and extra-genetic factors is no longer apparent, and further, that the causal primacy of the genome is both plausible and defensible. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2014 Genetic causation nationallicence Dispositions nationallicence Causal parity nationallicence Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/2(2015-03-01), 227-246 0169-3867 30:2<227 2015 30 10539 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9454-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-014-9454-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Austin Christopher University of Nottingham, University Park, NG7 2RD, Nottingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biology & Philosophy Springer Netherlands 30/2(2015-03-01), 227-246 0169-3867 30:2<227 2015 30 10539