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Sex, Gender, Ethics and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind
150 years of Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Sex, Gender, Ethics and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind examines the impact of Darwin’s Descent of Man on contemporary biology and the humanities.Its publication in 1871 was a founding event in anthropology. Its content was primarily concerned with the development of sexual life, social life and …
Riddle of Organismal Agency
New Historical and Philosophical Reflections
Av Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, …
Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy
Life, Environments, Anthropology
Av Francesca Michelini, Kristian Köchy
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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Dismissed by some as the last of the anti-Darwinians, his fame as a rigorous biologist even tainted by an alleged link to National Socialist ideology, it is undeniable that Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944) was eagerly read by many philosophers across the spectrum of philosophical schools, from Scheler …
Evolutionary Moral Realism
Av Michael Stingl, John Collier
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent.Across a wide range of species that are social and …
Darwinism and Pragmatism
William James on Evolution and Self-Transformation
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection challenges our very sense of belonging in the world. Unlike prior evolutionary theories, Darwinism construes species as mutable historical products of a blind process that serves no inherent purpose. It also represents a distinctly modern kind of …
Darwinism, Democracy, and Race
American Anthropology and Evolutionary Biology in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary biology in twentieth-century America. In its fully articulated form, this argument simultaneously discredited scientific racism and defended free human …
Biological Foundations of Action
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the difference between active and passive movement could be explained by the presence or absence of an intention in the mind of the agent. This assumption has led to the neglect of many interesting active behaviors that do not depend on intentions, …
Organisms and Personal Identity
Individuation and the Work of David Wiggins
Av A.M. Ferner
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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Over his philosophical career, David Wiggins has produced a body of work that, though varied and wide-ranging, stands as a coherent and carefully integrated whole. In this book Ferner examines Wiggins’ conceptualist-realism, his sortal theory ‘D’ and his human being theory in order to assess how …
Philosophy of Population Health
Philosophy for a New Public Health Era
Av Sean Valles
Häftad, 2019
740 kr
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Population health has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of twentieth-century public health and medicine into a theoretical framework with a corresponding field of research—population health science. Its approach is to promote the public’s health through improving everyday …
Modelling Evolution
A New Dynamic Account
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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Evolution by natural selection explains the tree of life and the complex adaptations found throughout nature. The power and versatility of evolutionary explanations have proved tempting to scientists outside of biology, but adapting evolutionary concepts to new domains has been challenging. Even …
Revisiting the Origin of Species
The Other Darwins
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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Contemporary interest in Darwin rises from a general ideal of what Darwin’s books ought to contain: a theory of transformation of species by natural selection. However, a reader opening Darwin’s masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, today may be struck by the fact that this "selectionist" view …
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science
Av David Ludwig, Inkeri Koskinen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy …
Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology
Living Machines?
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. The chapters collected in this volume discuss the idea that living systems can be understood through the lens …
Biological Identity
Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology
Av Anne Sophie Meincke, John Dupré
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing metaphysical puzzles, such as the problems of personal identity and material constitution, being increasingly addressed by appeal to a biological understanding of …
Philosophy of Biology Before Biology
Av Cécilia Bognon-Küss, Charles T. Wolfe
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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The use of the term "biology" to refer to a unified science of life emerged around 1800 (most prominently by scientists such as Lamarck and Treviranus, although scholarship has indicated its usage at least 30-40 years earlier). The interplay between philosophy and natural science has also …
Ecological Investigations
A Phenomenology of Habitats
Av Adam Konopka
Häftad, 2021
689 kr
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These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associations. How are plants geographically distributed into characteristic groups? What are the basic conditions that organize groups of interspecific plant …
Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology
Living Machines?
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. The chapters collected in this volume discuss the idea that living systems can be understood through the lens …
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science
Av David Ludwig, Inkeri Koskinen m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy …
Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy
Life, Environments, Anthropology
Av Francesca Michelini, Kristian Köchy
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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Dismissed by some as the last of the anti-Darwinians, his fame as a rigorous biologist even tainted by an alleged link to National Socialist ideology, it is undeniable that Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944) was eagerly read by many philosophers across the spectrum of philosophical schools, from Scheler …
Evolutionary Moral Realism
Av Michael Stingl, John Collier
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring features in the cooperative environments of species of organisms that are social and intelligent.Across a wide range of species that are social and …
Remapping Race in a Global Context
Av Ludovica Lorusso, Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, biomedicine, and struggles for social justice around the world. In this book, biologists, anthropologists, historians, and philosophers inspect critical …
Sex, Gender, Ethics and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind
150 years of Darwin’s ‘Descent of Man’
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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Sex, Gender, Ethics and the Darwinian Evolution of Mankind examines the impact of Darwin’s Descent of Man on contemporary biology and the humanities.Its publication in 1871 was a founding event in anthropology. Its content was primarily concerned with the development of sexual life, social life and …
Riddle of Organismal Agency
New Historical and Philosophical Reflections
Av Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, …
Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder
Romanticizing Evolution
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder recruits a Romantic philosophy of biology into contemporary debates to both integrate the theoretical implications of ecology, evolution, and development, and to contextualize the successes of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis’s gene’s-eye-view …
Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder
Romanticizing Evolution
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder recruits a Romantic philosophy of biology into contemporary debates to both integrate the theoretical implications of ecology, evolution, and development, and to contextualize the successes of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis’s gene’s-eye-view …
Beyond Lamarckism
Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution, 1890-1970
Inbunden, 2024
2504 kr
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Over the past 20 years, the role of phenotypic plasticity in Darwinian evolution has become a hotly debated topic among biologists and philosophers of science. For instance, in the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, a new form of evolutionary theory that aims to include processes not taken into …
Beyond Lamarckism
Plasticity in Darwinian Evolution, 1890-1970
Häftad, 2025
704 kr
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Over the past 20 years, the role of phenotypic plasticity in Darwinian evolution has become a hotly debated topic among biologists and philosophers of science. For instance, in the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, a new form of evolutionary theory that aims to include processes not taken into …
Philosophy of Population Health
Philosophy for a New Public Health Era
Av Sean Valles
Inbunden, 2018
2578 kr
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Population health has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of twentieth-century public health and medicine into a theoretical framework with a corresponding field of research—population health science. Its approach is to promote the public’s health through improving everyday …
Modelling Evolution
A New Dynamic Account
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Evolution by natural selection explains the tree of life and the complex adaptations found throughout nature. The power and versatility of evolutionary explanations have proved tempting to scientists outside of biology, but adapting evolutionary concepts to new domains has been challenging. Even …
Ecological Investigations
A Phenomenology of Habitats
Av Adam Konopka
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associations. How are plants geographically distributed into characteristic groups? What are the basic conditions that organize groups of interspecific plant …
