Alex Rosenberg, Daniel W. McShea

Philosophy of Biology (eBook, ePUB)

A Contemporary Introduction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg - a biologist and a philosopher, respectively - join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike.

Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the controversies about genocentrism and genetic determinism; and the debate about major transitions central to contemporary thinking about macroevolution; the authors lay out the broad terms in which we should assess the impact of biology on human capacities, social institutions and ethical values.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134375370
• Artikelnr.: 38247491

Autorenporträt

Alex Rosenberg is R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Philosophy of Science: a Contemporary Introduction (2nd edition, 2005) and co-editor with Yuri Balashov of Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (2002).

Daniel W. McShea is Associate Professor of Biology at Duke University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Darwin Makes a Science 2. Biological Laws and Theories 3. Further Problems of Darwinism: Adaptation
Drift
Function 4. Reductionism About Biology 5. Complexity
Directionality
and Progress in Evolution 6. Genes
Groups
and Major Transitions 7. Biology
Human Behaviour
Social Science and Moral Philosophy