Article ID: CBB001252311

The Current Status of the Philosophy of Biology (2013)

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Takacs, Peter (Author)
Ruse, Michael (Author)


Science and Education
Volume: 22, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 5-48


Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: First article in special issue “Philosophical Considerations in the Teaching of Biology, Part I - Philosophy of Biology and Biological Explanation”
Language: English

The philosophy of biology today is one of the most exciting areas of philosophy. It looks critically across the life sciences, teasing out conceptual issues and difficulties bringing to bear the tools of philosophical analysis to achieve clarification and understanding. This essay surveys work in all of the major directions of research: evolutionary theory and the units/levels of selection; evolutionary developmental biology; reductionism; ecology; the species problem; teleology; evolutionary epistemology; evolutionary ethics; and progress. There is a comprehensive bibliography.

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Authors & Contributors
Batterman, Robert W.
Brigandt, Ingo
Green, Sara
Huneman, Philippe
Lewens, Tim
Michelini, Francesca
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Biology and Philosophy
Foundations of Science
Science and Education
Publishers
Campus
University of Pittsburgh Press
IF Press
Concepts
Biology
Philosophy of biology
Teleology
Evolution
Reductionism
Causality
People
Kant, Immanuel
Aristotle
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich
Darwin, Charles Robert
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Kielmeyer, Carl Friedrich
Time Periods
18th century
20th century
19th century
21st century
Enlightenment
Places
Germany
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