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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology offers a comprehensive 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. Addressing the field's central issues, sections draw on works relating to Darwinism and its influence on the biological sciences, evolution and chance, the unit of selection debate, adaptationism, evolutionary psychology, and the burgeoning science of evolutionary developmental biology, to name just a few. Editors' introductions and further reading material throughout the text - combined with the readings themselves - provide novices with a solid basis on which to pursue further research in philosophy of biology.Comprehensive in scope, Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology offers readers an accessible gateway into a field of study that holds the most crucial insights and implications into our understanding of the nature and methodology of the biological sciences. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Personal AcknowledgmentsSource AcknowledgmentsGeneral Introduction: A Short History of Philosophy of Biology: Alex Rosenberg and Robert ArpPart I: Basic Principles and Proofs of DarwinismPart II: Evolution and ChancePart III: The Tautology ProblemPart IV: AdaptationismPart V: Biological Function and TeleologyPart VI: Evolutionary Developmental BiologyPart VII: Reductionism and the Biological SciencesPart VIII: Species and Classification ProblemsPart IX: The Units of Selection DebatePart X: Sociobiology and EthicsPart XI: Evolutionary PsychologyPart XII: Design and Creationism...
