Philosophy of biology
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Alex Rosenberg and Robert Arp.
Contributors: Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-; Arp, Robert.
Series: Blackwell philosophy anthologies
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 449
ISBN-13: 9781405183178; 9781405183161
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy; Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic principles and proofs of Darwinism; title: Struggle for existence and natural selection / Charles Darwin; title: Evolution / Eugenie G. Scott; title: Evolution and chance; title: Beyond the reach of chance / Michael Denton; title: Accumulating small change / Richard Dawkins; title: Chance and natural selection / John Beatty; title: The principle of drift : biology's first law / Robert Brandon; title: The tautology problem; title: This view of life : Darwin's untimely burial / Stephen Jay Gould; title: Adaptation and evolutionary theory / Robert N. Brandon; title: Adaptationism; title: The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm : a critique of the adaptationist programme / SteDhen Jay Gould and Richard G. Lewontin; title: How to carry out the adaptationist program? / Ernst Mayr; title: Biological function and teleology; title: The modern philosophical resurrection of teleology / Mark Perlman; title: Neo-teleology / Robert Cummins; title: A modern history theory of functions / Peter Godfrey-Smith; title: Evolutionary developmental biology; title: Endless forms : the evolution of gene regulation and morphological diversity / Sean B. Carroll; title: Functional evo-devo / Casper Breuker, Vincent Debat, and Christian Peter Klingenberg; title: Reductionism and the biological sciences; title: 1953 and all that : a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher; title: The multiple realizability argument against reductionism / Elliot Sober; title: Species and classification problems; title: Species, taxonomy, and systematics / Marc Ereshefsky; title: Speciation : a catalogue and critique of species concepts / Jerry A. Coyne and H. Allen Orr; title: The units of selection debate; title: Artifact, cause, and genic selection / Elliott Sober and Richard G. Lewontin; title: The return of the gene / Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher; title: The levels of selection debate : philosophical issues / Samir Okasha; title: Sociobiology and ethics; title: Sociobiology: the new synthesis / Edward O. Wilson; title: The evolution of cooperation / Robert Axelrod and William D. Hamilton; title: Darwinism in contemporary moral philosophy and social theory / Alexander Rosenberg; title: Evolutionary psychology; title: Conceptual foundations of evolutionary psychology / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides; title: The environments of our hominin ancestors, tool-usage, and scenario visualization / Robert Arp; title: Design and creationism; title: Science and creationism / Donald Prothero; title: Irreducible complexity : obstacle to darwinian evolution / Michael Behe; title: The flagellum unspun : the collapse of irreducible complexity / Kenneth R. Miller.