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
Riccardo Mona
Conley, Brandon A.
William J. Talbott
Boucher, Sandy C.
Wells, Aaron
Tamborini, Marco
Concepts
Biology
Philosophy of biology
Teleology
Evolution
Reductionism
Causality
Time Periods
20th century
18th century
Enlightenment
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
Germany
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