Book ID: CBB001032775

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology (2010)

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Ayala, Francisco José (Editor)
Arp, Robert (Editor)


Wiley-Blackwell


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: xii + 426 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Shanahan, Timothy (2010) Review of "Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology". Science and Education (p. 1029). unapi

Review Ioannidis, Stavros (2011) Review of "Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 351). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Ayala, Francisco J. (2010) There Is No Place for Intelligent Design in the Philosophy of Biology: Intelligent Design Is Not Science. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Ayala, Francisco J. (2010) What the Biological Sciences Can and Cannot Contribute to Ethics. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Downes, Stephen M. (2010) The Basic Components of the Human Mind Were Not Solidified during the Pleistocene Epoch. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Minelli, Alessandro (2010) Evolutionary Developmental Biology Does Not Offer a Significant Challenge to the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Laubichler, Manfred D. (2010) Evolutionary Developmental Biology Offers a Significant Challenge to the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Dietrich, Michael R. (2010) Microevolution and Macroevolution Are Governed by the Same Processes. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Sapienza, Carmen (2010) Selection Does Operate Primarily on Genes: In Defense of the Gene as the Unit of Selection. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Mishler, Brent D. (2010) Species Are Not Uniquely Real Biological Entities. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Cummins, Robert; Roth, Martin (2010) Traits Have Not Evolved to Function the Way They Do Because of a Past Advantage. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Dupré, John (2010) It Is Not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Keller, Evelyn Fox (2010) It Is Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Ratzsch, Del (2010) There Is a Place for Intelligent Design in the Philosophy of Biology: Intelligent Design in (Philosophy of) Biology: Some Legitimate Roles. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Ruse, Michael (2010) The Biological Sciences Can Act as a Ground for Ethics. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Wimsatt, William C. (2010) Memetics Does Not Provide a Useful Way of Understanding Cultural Evolution: A Developmental Perspective. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Blackmore, Susan (2010) Memetics Does Provide a Useful Way of Understanding Cultural Evolution. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Starratt, Valerie G.; Shackelford, Todd K. (2010) The Basic Components of the Human Mind Were Solidified during the Pleistocene Epoch. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Erwin, Douglas H. (2010) Microevolution and Macroevolution Are Not Governed by the Same Processes. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Burian, Richard M. (2010) Selection Does Not Operate Primarily on Genes. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Claridge, Michael F. (2010) Species Are Real Biological Entities. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

Chapter Perlman, Mark (2010) Traits Have Evolved to Function the Way They Do Because of a Past Advantage. In: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Robert, Jason Scott
Reydon, Thomas A. C.
Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso
Ricardo Noguera-Solano
Conix, Stijn
Rosaura Ruiz-Gutiérrez
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Biology and Philosophy
Zygon
Science and Education
Philosophy of Science
Perspectives on Science
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
University of Calgary (Canada)
McMaster University (Canada)
Springer
Armando
University of Pittsburgh
Concepts
Biology
Philosophy of biology
Evolution
Developmental biology
Species concept (biology)
Genes
People
Gould, Stephen Jay
Darwin, Charles Robert
Levins, Richard
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Antoine Pierre de Monet de
Mill, John Stuart
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
21st century
18th century
Places
United States
Italy
France
Great Britain
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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