The Cambridge companion to the philosophy of biology
By: edited by David Hull and Michael Ruse.
Contributors: Hull, David L.; Ruse, Michael.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9780521851282; 9780521616713
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy
Other titles: Philosophy of biology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-496) and index.
Table of contents: title: Adaptation / Tim Lewens; title: Population genetics / Roberta L. Millstein, Robert A. Skipper Jr.; title: Units and levels of selection / Elisabeth A. Lloyd; title: What's wrong with the emergentist statistical interpretation of natural selection and random drift / Robert N. Brandon, Grant Ramsey; title: Gene / Paul E. Griffiths, Karola Stotz; title: Information in biology / Peter Godfrey-Smith; title: Reductionism (and antireductionism) in biology / Alexander Rosenberg; title: Mechanisms and models / Lindley Darden; title: Teleology / André Ariew; title: Macroevolution, minimalism, and the radiation of the animals / Kim Sterelny; title: Philosophy and phylogenetics: historical and current connections / Maureen Kearney; title: Human evolution: the three grand challenges of human biology / Francisco J. Ayala; title: Varieties of evolutionary psychology / David J. Buller; title: Neurobiology / Valerie Gray Hardcastle; title: Biological explanations of human sexuality: the genetic basis of sexual orientation / Christopher Horvath; title: Game theory in evolutionary biology / Zachary Ernst; title: What is an 'embryo' and how do we know? / Jane Maienschein; title: Evolutionary developmental biology / Manfred D. Laubichler; title: Molecular and systems biology and bioethics / Jason Scott Robert; title: Ecology / Gregory M. Mikkelson; title: From ecological diversity to biodiversity / Sahotra Sarkar; title: Biology and religion / Robert T. Pennock; title: The moral grammar of narratives in history of biology: the case of Haeckel and Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards.