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Philosophy of biology /
Biology raises distinct questions of its own not only for philosophy of science, but for metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. This comprehensive new introduction to a growing field of study provides readers new to the subject with an up-to-date presentation of the key philosophical issues.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stocksfield :
Acumen,
2007.
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| Colección: | Philosophy and science.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 520 | |a Biology raises distinct questions of its own not only for philosophy of science, but for metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. This comprehensive new introduction to a growing field of study provides readers new to the subject with an up-to-date presentation of the key philosophical issues. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The argument in Darwin's Origin; 1.1 Earlier attempts; 1.2 Variation and inheritance; 1.3 The struggle for existence; 1.4 Natural selection; 2. The power of genes; 2.1 Introducing the gene; 2.2 Genes and how organisms are made; 2.3 Genes as agents; 3. Units of selection; 3.1 Genes versus individual organisms; 3.2 Individual organisms as units of selection; 3.3 Groups of organisms, and the question of altruism; 3.4 Memes; 4. Panglossianism and its discontents; 4.1 The uniqueness of natural selection | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4.2 The accusation of panglossianism4.3 So what is wrong with panglossianism?; 4.4 A storm in a teacup?; 5. The role of development; 5.1 A nineteenth-century idea: recapitulation; 5.2 New developments in developmental biology; 5.3 Evo-devo; 5.4 Developmental systems theory; 6. Nature and nurture; 6.1 Why does innateness seem to matter so much?; 6.2 But what is innateness?; 6.3 The ordinary-language concept; 6.4 Canalization; 6.5 Generative entrenchment; 6.6 A deflationary approach; 6.7 Conclusion; 7. Function: what it is for versus what it does -- 7.1 What it is for | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 7.2 What it has been selected for7.3 What it does; 7.4 Conclusion; 8. Biological categories; 8.1 Introduction: natural kinds in general; 8.2 Taxonomy; 8.3 What are the natural kinds of biology?; 9. Species and their special problems; 9.1 The interbreeding criterion; 9.2 Species as individuals; 9.3 A pluralistic approach; 10. Biology and philosophy of science; 10.1 Lawlessness in biology; 10.2 Does biology have real laws?; 10.3 Comprehensiveness, unity and simplicity; 10.4 Conclusion; 11. Evolution and epistemology; 11.1 Conjectures and refutations; 11.2 The reliability of our sources | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 11.3 The limitations of our minds12. Evolution and religion; 12.1 Does the theory of evolution support atheism?; 12.2 ""God of the gaps"" arguments; 12.3 Evolution and explaining religion; 13. Evolution and human nature; 13.1 Sociobiology and its controversies; 13.2 Evolutionary psychology's grand synthesis; 13.3 Conclusion; 14. Biology and ethics; 14.1 Fitness as a normative concept; 14.2 The naturalistic fallacy; 14.3 Ought implies can; 14.4 Altruism; 14.5 Intuitions again; Notes; Further reading; Bibliography; Index | |
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