The Evolution of Agency and Other Essays

A leading philosopher of biology presents a collection of essays on biological evolution.

List of contents

Part I. Overview: 1. Evolution and agency: a user's guide; Part II. Replication and Interaction: 2. Return of the gene (with Philip Kitcher); 3. The gxtended replicator (with Kelly Smith and Mike Dickison); 4. The return of the group; Part III. Evolution and Macroevolution: 5. Punctuated equilibrium and macroevolution; 6. Explanatory pluralism in evolutionary biology; 7. Darwin's tangled bank; Part IV. The Descent of the Mind: 8. Where does thinking come from? A commentary on Peter Godfrey Smith's Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature; 9. Basic minds; 10. Intentional agency and the metarepresentation hypothesis; 11. Situated agency and the descent of desire; 12. The evolution of agency.

Product details

• Authors: Kim Sterelny, Kim (Victoria University of Wellington) Sterelny
• Assisted by: Michael Ruse (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521645379
• ISBN: 978-0-521-64537-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosoph
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering