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The philosophy of biology is one of the most exciting new areas in the field of philosophy and one that is attracting much attention from working scientists. This Companion, edited by two of the founders of the field, includes newly commissioned essays by senior scholars and up-and-coming younger scholars who collectively examine the main areas of the subject - the nature of evolutionary theory, classification, teleology and function, ecology, and the problematic relationship between biology and religion, among other topics. Up-to-date and comprehensive in its coverage, this unique volume will be of interest not only to professional philosophers but also to students in the humanities and researchers in the life sciences and related areas of inquiry.
| ISBN | 0521616719 | | Pages | 552 | | ISBN13 | 9780521616713
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Cambridge University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 728 | | Imprint | Cambridge University Press | | Published in | Cambridge | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Cambridge Companions to Philosophy | | Publication date | 01 Oct 2007 | | Height (mm) | 228 | | Library of Congress | 2006025898 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | DEWEY | 570.1 | | Spine width (mm) | 31 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| 1 | | Adaptation by Tim Lewens | | 1 | | 2 | | Population Genetics by Roberta L. Millstein and Robert A. Skipper, Jr. | | 22 | | 3 | | Units and Levels of Selection by Elisabeth A. Lloyd | | 44 | | 4 | | What's Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift? by Robert N. Brandon and Grant Ramsey | | 66 | | 5 | | Gene by Paul E. Griffiths and Karola Stotz | | 85 | | 6 | | Information in Biology by Peter Godfrey-Smith | | 103 | | 7 | | Reductionism (and Antireductionism) in Biology by Alexander Rosenberg | | 120 | | 8 | | Mechanisms and Models by Lindley Darden | | 139 | | 9 | | Teleology by Andre Ariew | | 160 | | 10 | | Macroevolution, Minimalism, and the Radiation of the Animals by Kim Sterelny | | 182 | | 11 | | Philosophy and Phylogenetics: Historical and Current Connections by Maureen Kearney | | 211 | | 12 | | Human Evolution: The Three Grand Challenges of Human Biology by Francisco J. Ayala | | 233 | | 13 | | Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology by David J. Buller | | 255 | | 14 | | Neurobiology by Valerie Gray Hardcastle | | 275 | | 15 | | Biological Explanations of Human Sexuality: The Genetic Basis of Sexual Orientation by Christopher Horvath | | 291 | | 16 | | Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology by Zachary Ernst | | 304 | | 17 | | What Is an 'Embryo' and How Do We Know? by Jane Maienschein | | 324 | | 18 | | Evolutionary Developmental Biology by Manfred D. Laubichler | | 342 | | 19 | | Molecular and Systems Biology and Bioethics by Jason Scott Robert | | 361 | | 20 | | Ecology by Gregory M. Mikkelson | | 372 | | 21 | | From Ecological Diversity to Biodiversity by Sahotra Sarkar | | 388 | | | More... | | |
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