Kurzbeschreibung Rapid biological advances and new standards of philosophical rigor are casting age-old questions about the nature and methodology of the biological sciences in a dramatic new light. By combining excerpts from key historical writings with editors' introductions and further reading material, Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology offers a comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date collection of the field's most significant works. The text is organized to provide readers at all levels with a thorough grounding in the general history, philosophy, and science behind debates that remain at the heart of the philosophy of biology.
Aus dem Inhalt Personal Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments
General Introduction: A Short History of Philosophy of Biology: Alex Rosenberg and Robert Arp
Part I: Basic Principles and Proofs of Darwinism
Part II: Evolution and Chance
Part III: The Tautology Problem
Part IV: Adaptationism
Part V: Biological Function and Teleology
Part VI: Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Part VII: Reductionism and the Biological Sciences
