In January, David Sloan Wilson published a fascinating article in the online magazine This View of Life. It is called, "On the Concept of Paradigms and a New Paradigm for Evolving Cooperative Systems" and it outlined a new way of looking at the world while also providing important tools from two scientific fields to really help with this view. The essay served as a short target article that has so far attracted over a dozen commentaries, and a couple of weeks ago my own commentary was added to this collection. I’m very excited about it as I argue for some basic tools from evolutionary philosophy to be added to David’s scientific tools, and I plan to use this to update / create a Wikipedia entry for evolutionary philosophy. (I still can’t believe it’s not on there already!) I highly encourage you to read David’s original article. Then check out the list of commentaries on the side of his article to see which ones might interest you. After that, you can read my article as well. As always, your feedback would be greatly appreciated to help this philosophy keep evolving. Thanks!
“Adding a Philosophical Toolkit to the New Paradigm for Evolving Cooperative Systems” by Ed Gibney, published June 16, 2026 in This View of Life.
