Book ID: CBB000062441

What the philosophy of biology is: Essays dedicated to David Hull (1989)

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Ruse, Michael (Editor)


Kluwer Academic


Publication Date: 1989
Physical Details: ix + 337 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Ruse, Michael: David Hull through two decades. Beatty, John, Finsen, S.: Rethinking the propensity interpretation: A peek inside pandora's box. Cracraft, J.: Species as entities of biological theory. Ghiselin, Michael T.: Individuality, history and laws of nature in biology. Grene, Marjorie: Interaction and evolution. Griesemer, James R., Wimsatt, William C.: Picturing Weismannism: A case study of conceptual evolution. Heyes, C.M., Plotkin, H.C.: Replicators and interactors in cultural evolution. Hodge, M.J.S.: Darwin's theory and Darwin's argument. Kitcher, Philip: Some puzzles about species. Laudan, Larry: The rational weight of the scientific past: Forging fundamental change in a conservative discipline. Laudan, Rachel: Individuals, species and the development of mineralogy and geology. Mayr, Ernst: Attaching names to objects. Rosenberg, A.: From reductionism to instrumentalism? Sober, Elliott: Systematics and circularity. Thompson, P.: David Hull's Conception of the structure of evolutionary theory. Wiley, E.O.: Kinds, individuals and theories. Williams, M.B.: Evolvers are individuals: Extension of the species as individuals claim. Hull, David L.: A function for actual examples in philosophy of science.


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Review Ereshefsky, M. (1991) Review of "What the philosophy of biology is: Essays dedicated to David Hull". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (pp. 525-32). unapi

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