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Making Sense of Heritability
Häftad, 2011
618 kr
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In this book, Neven Sesardic defends the view that it is both possible and useful to measure the separate contributions of heredity and environment to the explanation of human psychological differences. He critically examines the view - very widely accepted by scientists, social scientists and …
Searching for Sustainability
Interdisciplinary Essays in the Philosophy of Conservation Biology
Häftad, 2002
699 kr
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This book examines from a multidisciplinary viewpoint the question of what we mean - what we should mean - by setting sustainability as a goal for environmental management. The author, trained as a philosopher of science and language, explores ways to break down the disciplinary barriers to …
Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution
Taking Development Seriously
Häftad, 2006
634 kr
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Historically, philosophers of biology have tended to sidestep the problem of development by focusing primarily on evolutionary biology and, more recently, on molecular biology and genetics. Quite often too, development has been misunderstood as simply, or even primarily, a matter of gene activation …
Biological Individuality
The Identity and Persistence of Living Entities
Av Jack Wilson
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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What makes a biological entity an individual? Jack Wilson shows that past philosophers have failed to explicate the conditions an entity must satisfy to be a living individual. He explores the reason for this failure and explains why we should limit ourselves to examples involving real organisms …
The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy
A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy
Häftad, 2007
413 kr
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The question of whether biologists should continue to use the Linnaean hierarchy has been a hotly debated issue. Invented before the introduction of evolutionary theory, Linnaeus's system of classifying organisms is based on outdated theoretical assumptions, and is thought to be unable to provide …
What Functions Explain
Functional Explanation and Self-Reproducing Systems
Häftad, 2007
797 kr
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This 2001 book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical presuppositions that such explanations carry with them. It tackles such questions as: why are some things explained functionally while others …
Philosophy and Biodiversity
Av Markku Oksanen, Juhani Pietarinen
Häftad, 2007
895 kr
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This important collection focuses on the nature and importance of biodiversity. The concept is clarified and its intrinsic and instrumental value are discussed. Even though the term biodiversity was invented in the 1980s to promote the cause of species conservation, discussions on biological …
Information and Meaning in Evolutionary Processes
Häftad, 2007
700 kr
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This book is intended to help transform epistemology - the traditional study of knowledge - into a rigorous discipline by removing conceptual roadblocks and developing formal tools required for a fully naturalized epistemology. The evolutionary approach which Harms favours begins with the common …
Darwinism's Struggle for Survival
Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection
Av Jean Gayon
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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In Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by examining the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century (Darwin, Wallace, Galton) and the major difficulties which …
The Science of the Struggle for Existence
On the Foundations of Ecology
Häftad, 2007
634 kr
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This book is a sustained examination of issues in the philosophy of ecology that have been a source of controversy since the emergence of ecology as an explicit scientific discipline. The controversies revolve around the idea of a balance of nature, the possibility of general ecological knowledge …
The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution
Historical and Epistemological Perspectives
Av Peter J. Beurton, Raphael Falk m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
700 kr
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Advances in molecular biological research in the latter half of the twentieth century have made the story of the gene vastly complicated: the more we learn about genes, the less sure we are of what a gene really is. Knowledge about the structure and functioning of genes abounds, but the gene has …
The Biology and Psychology of Moral Agency
Av William Andrew Rottschaefer
Häftad, 2008
667 kr
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This important book brings findings and theories in biology and psychology to bear on the fundamental question in ethics of what it means to behave morally. It explains how we acquire and put to work our capacities to act morally and how these capacities are reliable means to achieving true moral …
Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change
Häftad, 2009
557 kr
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According to the received tradition, the language used to to refer to natural kinds in scientific discourse remains stable even as theories about these kinds are refined. In this illuminating book, Joseph LaPorte argues that scientists do not discover that sentences about natural kinds, like …
Reasoning in Biological Discoveries
Essays on Mechanisms, Interfield Relations, and Anomaly Resolution
Häftad, 2009
797 kr
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Reasoning in Biological Discoveries brings together a series of essays, which focus on one of the most heavily debated topics of scientific discovery. Collected together and richly illustrated, Darden's essays represent a groundbreaking foray into one of the major problems facing scientists and …
Evolutionary Ethics and Contemporary Biology
Av Giovanni Boniolo, Gabriele De Anna
Häftad, 2009
557 kr
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How can the discoveries made in the biological sciences play a role in a discussion on the foundation of ethics? This book responds to this question by examining how evolutionism can explain and justify the existence of ethical normativity and the emergence of particular moral systems. Written by a …
Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy
An Introduction
Häftad, 2010
557 kr
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This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasising the conservation of biodiversity. Sahota Sarkar criticises attempts to attribute intrinsic value to nature and defends an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation based …
Philosophy of Experimental Biology
Av Marcel Weber
Häftad, 2010
667 kr
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Philosophy of Experimental Biology explores some central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in experimental biology, including genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, and microbiology. It seeks to make sense of the explanatory strategies, …
Genetic Analysis
A History of Genetic Thinking
Av Raphael Falk
Häftad, 2011
621 kr
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There is a paradox lying at the heart of the study of heredity. To understand the ways in which features are passed down from one generation to the next, we have to dig deeper and deeper into the ultimate nature of things - from organisms, to genes, to molecules. And yet as we do this, increasingly …
Form and Function in Developmental Evolution
Av Manfred D. Laubichler, Jane Maienschein
Häftad, 2010
569 kr
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This book represents an effort to understand very old questions about biological form, function, and the relationships between them. The essays collected here reflect the diversity of approaches in evolutionary developmental biology (Evo Devo), including not only studies by prominent scientists …
The Species Problem
A Philosophical Analysis
Inbunden, 2010
1628 kr
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There is long-standing disagreement among systematists about how to divide biodiversity into species. Over twenty different species concepts are used to group organisms, according to criteria as diverse as morphological or molecular similarity, interbreeding and genealogical relationships. This, …
Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature
Inbunden, 1996
1302 kr
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This book explains the relationship between intelligence and environmental complexity, and in so doing links philosophy of mind to more general issues about the relations between organisms and environments, and to the general pattern of 'externalist' explanations. The author provides a biological …
The Immune Self
Theory or Metaphor?
Av Alfred I. Tauber, Michael Ruse
Inbunden, 1994
1514 kr
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This is one of the first books in a new series that will publish the very best work in the philosophy of biology. The series will be non-sectarian in character, will extend across the broadest range of topics, and will be genuinely interdisciplinary. The Immune Self is a critical study of …
From a Biological Point of View
Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy
Av Elliott Sober, Michael Ruse
Häftad, 1994
650 kr
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Elliott Sober is one of the leading philosophers of science and is a former winner of the Lakatos Prize, the major award in the field. This new collection of essays will appeal to a readership that extends well beyond the frontiers of the philosophy of science. Sober shows how ideas in evolutionary …
Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology
Av Robert N. Brandon, Michael Ruse
Inbunden, 1996
1579 kr
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Robert Brandon is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers of biology. This collection of his recent essays covers all the traditional topics in the philosophy of evolutionary biology and as such could serve as an introduction to the field. There are essays on the …
Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology
Häftad, 1995
650 kr
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Robert Brandon is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers of biology. This collection of his recent essays covers all the traditional topics in the philosophy of evolutionary biology and as such could serve as an introduction to the field. There are essays on the …
Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism
Häftad, 2003
667 kr
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This fine collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science presents a defence of integrative pluralism as the best description for the complexity of scientific inquiry today. The tendency of some scientists to unify science by reducing all theories to a few fundamental laws of the most …
The Evolution of Reason
Logic as a Branch of Biology
Av William S. Cooper, Michael Ruse
Häftad, 2003
525 kr
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The formal systems of logic have ordinarily been regarded as independent of biology, but recent developments in evolutionary theory suggest that biology and logic may be intimately interrelated. In this book, William Cooper outlines a theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an …
The Epistemology of Development, Evolution, and Genetics
Häftad, 2004
569 kr
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Collected for the first time in a single volume are essays which examine the developments in three fundamental biological disciplines - embryology, evolutionary biology, and genetics. These disciplines were in conflict for much of the twentieth century and the essays in this collection examine key …
Biology and the Foundations of Ethics
Av Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse
Inbunden, 1999
1351 kr
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There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology, in particular evolutionary biology, and foundational questions in ethics. The book asks …
Biology and the Foundations of Ethics
Av Jane Maienschein, Michael Ruse
Häftad, 1999
601 kr
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There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection of essays focuses on the connection between biology, in particular evolutionary biology, and foundational questions in ethics. The book asks …
