Philosophy & biology
By: edited by Mohan Matthen & Bernard Linsky.
Contributors: Matthen, Mohan.; Linsky, Bernard.
Series: Canadian journal of philosophy.; 14
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
Subjects: Biology -- Philosophy -- Congresses.; Biologie -- Philosophie -- Congrès.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Philosophy and biology
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Papers from a conference held in Edmonton, May 8-10, 1987.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Mohan Matthen and Bernard Linsky; value: Evolutionary ethics: Healthy prospect or last infirmity? / Michael Ruse; value: What is evolutionary altruism? / Elliott Sober; value: Hierarchical approaches to genome evolution / W. Ford Doolittle; value: Galen explains the elephant / R.J. Hankinson; value: Networks and teleology / Edwin Levy; value: Is the theory of natural selection a statistical theory? / Alexander Rosenberg; value: Supervenience and reduction in biological hierarchies / John Collier; value: Conceptual and logical aspects of the 'new' evolutionary epistemoloty / Paul Thompson; value: Technology: the driving engine of current biological advances / Thomas G. Wegmann.