Anthony O'Hear (ed.)

Philosophy, Biology and Life

Herausgeber: O'Hear, Anthony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates that biology and its underlying philosophy are in a state of development defying standard stereotypes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780521678452
• ISBN-10: 0521678455
• Artikelnr.: 21054949

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Notes on contributors
1. Transcending the emergence/reduction distinction: the case of biology Rom Harré
2. Other histories, other biologies Gregory Radick
3. The ontogenesis of human identity Giovanni Boniolo
4. Souls, minds, bodies and planets Mary Midgley
5. Evo-devo: a new evolutionary paradigm Michael Ruse
6. Is drift a serious alternative to natural selection as an explanation of complex adaptive traits? Elliot Sober
7. Evolution and aesthetics Anthony O'Hear
8. The problems of biological design Tim Lewens
9. Are there genes? John Dupré
10. Folk psychology and the biological basis of intersubjectivity Matthew Ratcliffe
11. The loss of rational design Friedel Weinert
12. Under Darwin's cosh? Neo-Aristotelian thinking in environmental ethics Michael Wheeler
13. The cultural origins of cognitive adaptations David Papineau
Name index.