Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary IntroductionRoutledge, 2007年12月19日 - 256 頁 Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg – a biologist and a philosopher, respectively – join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike. Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the controversies about genocentrism and genetic determinism; and the debate about major transitions central to contemporary thinking about macroevolution; the authors lay out the broad terms in which we should assess the impact of biology on human capacities, social institutions and ethical values. |
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What is the philosophy of biology? | 1 |
1 Darwin makes a science | 12 |
2 Biological laws and theories | 32 |
Constraint drift function | 65 |
4 Reductionism about biology | 96 |
5 Complexity directionality and progress in evolution | 127 |
6 Genes groups teleosemantics and the major transitions | 157 |
7 Biology human behavior social science and moral philosophy | 187 |
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