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Evolution, explanation, ethics and aesthetics : towards a philosophy of biology /
Evolution, Mind and Method: Towards a Philosophy of Biology focuses on the dominant biological topic of evolution. It deals with the prevailing philosophical themes of how to explain the adaptation of organisms, the interplay of chance and necessity, and the recurrent topics of emergence, reductioni...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, United Kingdom :
Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Evolution, Explanation, Ethics, and Aesthetics; Evolution, Explanation, Ethics, and Aesthetics; Copyright; Contents; Preface; I
- Evolution; 1
- The Darwinian Revolution ; INTRODUCTION; GREEK ANTIQUITY; CHRISTIANITY AND EUROPE UNTIL DARWIN; CHARLES DARWIN; COPERNICUS AND DARWIN; DARWIN'S THEORY; DARWIN AND WALLACE; THE DARWINIAN AFTERMATH; DARWIN AND MENDEL; THE SYNTHETIC THEORY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; EARTH SCIENCES, BIOGEOGRAPHY, AND ECOLOGY; THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES; 2
- Evolution Is a "Fact" ; INTRODUCTION; THE UNIVERSE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; THE "FACT" OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION.
- THE FOSSIL RECORDARCHAEOPTERYX AND TIKTAALIK; EXTINCTION; ANATOMICAL SIMILARITIES; EMBRYONIC SIMILARITIES AND VESTIGES; BIOGEOGRAPHY; HAWAII'S BIOLOGICAL CAULDRON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; 3. Life's Origin; Introduction; The Unity of Life; Early Life; What Is Life?; Life in the Laboratory?; Heredity; Origins; 4
- LUCA and the Tree of Life ; INTRODUCTION; TAXONOMY; HOMOLOGY AND ANALOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; CLADOGENESIS AND ANAGENESIS: EVOLUTIONARY TREES; Distance Methods; Maximum Parsimony Methods; Maximum Likelihood Methods; EVALUATION OF EVOLUTIONARY TREES; THE MOLECULAR CLOCK.
- THE NEUTRALITY THEORY OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION5
- Three Grand Challenges of Human Biology ; INTRODUCTION; LIFE TO HUMAN; HUMAN ORIGINS; THE HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCE; BEYOND THE HUMAN GENOME; ONTOGENETIC DECODING; THE BRAIN-MIND PUZZLE; THE APE-TO-HUMAN TRANSFORMATION; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION VERSUS CULTURAL EVOLUTION; II
- Explanation; 6
- Design Without Designer ; INTRODUCTION; THE ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN; EMERGENCE OF MODERN SCIENCE; DARWIN'S DISCOVERY; NATURAL SELECTION AS A "DESIGN" PROCESS; MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGES; DESIGN AND CHANCE; EVIDENCE OF EVOLUTION; DEFECTS, DEFICIENCIES, AND DYSFUNCTIONS.
- POWERS AND LIMITS OF SCIENCE7
- Adaptation and Novelty: Teleological Explanations in Evolutionary Biology ; INTRODUCTION; TELEOLOGY; TELEOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS: A DEFINITION; TELEOLOGICAL FEATURES AND BEHAVIORS IN ORGANISMS; PROXIMATE VERSUS ULTIMATE TELEOLOGY; NATURAL VERSUS ARTIFICIAL TELEOLOGY; DETERMINATE VERSUS INDETERMINATE TELEOLOGY; OBJECTIONS AND RESPONSES; TELEOLOGY AND CAUSALITY; TELEOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS ARE TESTABLE HYPOTHESES; UTILITY AS TOUCHSTONE CRITERION; TELEOLOGY VERSUS TELEONOMY: CICERO'S TRANSLATION OF ARISTOTLE'S AITION; ERNST MAYR (1998) ON TELEOLOGY.
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- Evolution and Progress INTRODUCTION; EARLY IDEAS; EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS; CHANGE, EVOLUTION, DIRECTION; THE CONCEPT OF PROGRESS; EVOLUTIONARY PROGRESS; THE EXPANSION OF LIFE; STANDARDS OF PROGRESS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS; 9
- The Scientific Method ; INTRODUCTION; BEYOND INDUCTIVISM; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; INDUCTION IN SCIENCE; THE HYPOTHETICO-DEDUCTIVE METHOD; THE CRITERION OF DEMARCATION; VERIFIABILITY AND FALSIFIABILITY; EMPIRICAL CONTENT OR "TRUTHFULNESS"; CONTINGENCY AND CERTAINTY; "FACT" AND "THEORY" IN SCIENTIFIC USE; ERROR AND FRAUD IN SCIENCE.