Takacs, Peter (Author)
Ruse, Michael (Author)
Science and Education
Volume: 22, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 5-48
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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