Philosophy of Biology An Anthology
by Rosenberg, Alex; Arp, RobertEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-04-20
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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. Addresses central questions such as 'What is life?' and 'How did it begin?', and the most current research and arguments on evolution and developmental biology Editorial notes throughout the text define, clarify, and qualify ideas, concepts and arguments Includes material on evolutionary psychology and evolutionary developmental biology not found in other standard philosophy of biology anthologies Further reading material assists novices in delving deeper into research in philosophy of biology
Author Biography
Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Biology at Duke University. He has published 11 books on the philosophy of science including The Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction (2007) with Daniel McShea. In 1993, he won the Lakatos Prize in the Philosophy of Science and in 2007 was the National Phi Beta Kappa Rommell lecturer in philosophy.
Robert Arp is Research Associate with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology at the University of Buffalo and works with the Ontology Research Group at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences in Buffalo, New York. A PhD in Philosophy from Saint Louis University, he has published in the areas of philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, and biomedical ontology.
Table of Contents
| Personal Acknowledgments | p. viii |
| Source Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| General Introduction: A Short History of Philosophy of Biology | p. 1 |
| Basic Principles and Proofs of Darwinism | p. 15 |
| Introduction | p. 17 |
| Struggle for Existence and Natural Selection | p. 19 |
| Evolution | p. 25 |
| Evolution and Chance | p. 45 |
| Introduction | p. 47 |
| Beyond the Reach of Chance | p. 49 |
| Accumulating Small Change | p. 60 |
| Chance and Natural Selection | p. 65 |
| The Principle of Drift: Biology's First Law | p. 84 |
| The Tautology Problem | p. 95 |
| Introduction | p. 97 |
| Darwin's Untimely Burial | p. 99 |
| Adaptation and Evolutionary Theory | p. 103 |
| Adaptationism | p. 121 |
| Introduction | p. 123 |
| The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme | p. 125 |
| How to Carry Out the Adaptationist Program? | p. 137 |
| Biological Function and Teleology | p. 145 |
| Introduction | p. 147 |
| The Modern Philosophical Resurrection of Teleology | p. 149 |
| Neo-Teleology | p. 164 |
| A Modern History Theory of Functions | p. 175 |
| Evolutionary Developmental Biology | p. 189 |
| Introduction | p. 191 |
| Endless Forms: The Evolution of Gene Regulation and Morphological Diversity | p. 193 |
| Functional Evo-devo | p. 198 |
| Reductionism and the Biological Sciences | p. 207 |
| Introduction | p. 209 |
| 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences | p. 213 |
| The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism | p. 235 |
| Species and Classification Problems | p. 251 |
| Introduction | p. 253 |
| Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics | p. 255 |
| Speciation: A Catalogue and Critique of Species Concepts | p. 272 |
| The Units of Selection Debate | p. 293 |
| Introduction | p. 295 |
| Artifact, Cause and Genic Selection | p. 297 |
| The Return of the Gene | p. 313 |
| The Levels of Selection Debate: Philosophical Issues | p. 327 |
| Sociobiology and Ethics | p. 335 |
| Introduction | p. 337 |
| Sociobiology: The New Synthesis | p. 339 |
| The Evolution of Cooperation | p. 347 |
| Darwinism in Contemporary Moral Philosophy and Social Theory | p. 358 |
| Evolutionary Psychology | p. 371 |
| Introduction | p. 373 |
| Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology | p. 375 |
| The Environments of Our Hominin Ancestors, Tool-usage, and Scenario Visualization | p. 387 |
| Design and Creationism | p. 403 |
| Introduction | p. 405 |
| Science and Creationism | p. 407 |
| Irreducible Complexity: Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution | p. 427 |
| The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of "Irreducible Complexity" | p. 439 |
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