Takacs, Peter (Author)
Ruse, Michael (Author)
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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Brandon A. Conley;
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Mayr and Tinbergen: disentangling and integrating
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Sandy C. Boucher;
(2021)
Biological Teleology, Reductionism, and Verbal Disputes
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Aaron Wells;
(2020)
Kant, Linnaeus, and the economy of nature
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Riccardo Mona;
(2023)
Oltre il meccanicismo. La causalità della teoria dell'evoluzione
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Woolcock, Peter G.;
(2000)
Objectivity and Illusion in Evolutionary Ethics: Comments on Waller
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William J. Talbott;
(2014)
How Could a “Blind” Evolutionary Process Have Made Human Moral Beliefs Sensitive to Strongly Universal, Objective Moral Standards?
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Marco Tamborini;
(2022)
The Architecture of Evolution: The Science of Form in Twentieth-Century Evolutionary Biology
(/isis/citation/CBB357484390/)
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Brigandt, Ingo;
(2013)
Explanation in Biology: Reduction, Pluralism, and Explanatory Aims
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Sara Green;
Robert Batterman;
(2017)
Biology meets physics: Reductionism and multi-scale modeling of morphogenesis
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Schummer, Joachim;
(2003)
Chemical versus Biological Explanations: Interdisciplinarity and Reductionism in 19th Century Life Sciences
(/isis/citation/CBB000600079/)
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Potthast, Thomas;
(1999)
Die Evolution und der Naturschutz: Zum Verhältnis von Evolutionsbiologie, Ökologie und Naturethik
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Ratcliffe, Matthew;
(2000)
The Function of Function
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Lewens, Tim;
(2000)
Function Talk and the Artefact Model
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Short, T. L.;
(2002)
Darwin's Concept of Final Cause: Neither New nor Trivial
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Moss, Lenny;
Nicholson, Daniel J.;
(2012)
On Nature and Normativity: Normativity, Teleology, and Mechanism in Biological Explanation
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Philippe Huneman;
(2019)
Revisiting Darwinian teleology: A case for inclusive fitness as design explanation
(/isis/citation/CBB392966411/)
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Zammito, John H.;
(2012)
The Lenoir Thesis Revisited: Blumenbach and Kant
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Michelini, Francesca;
(2012)
Hegel's Notion of Natural Purpose
(/isis/citation/CBB001221596/)
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Ruse, Michael;
(2000)
Teleology: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow?
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Gambarotto, Andrea;
(2014)
Vital Forces and Organization: Philosophy of Nature and Biology in Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer
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