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Philosophy of Biology An Anthology

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ISBN-10: 1405183160

ISBN-13: 9781405183161

Edition: 2010

Authors: Alex Rosenberg, Robert Arp

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List price: $70.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.60" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Biology at Duke University. He has published 11 books on the philosophy of science including The Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction (2007) with Daniel McShea. In 1993, he won the Lakatos Prize in the Philosophy of Science and in 2007 was the National Phi Beta Kappa Rommell lecturer in philosophy.Robert Arp is Research Associate with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology at the University of Buffalo and works with the Ontology Research Group at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences in Buffalo, New York. A PhD…    

Robert Arp has authored numerous articles and book chapters in ontology (in the information science sense), philosophy of mind, philosophy of biology, modern philosophy, and popular culture. He is the author of Scenario Visualization: An Evolutionary Account of Creative Problem Solving (MIT Press, 2008). He is also coauthor of Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology (MIT Press, in preparation) and Reasoning Well: An Introduction to Critical Thinking and is coeditor of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology and Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology.

Personal Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments
General Introduction: A Short History of Philosophy of Biology
Basic Principles and Proofs of Darwinism
Introduction
Struggle for Existence and Natural Selection
Evolution
Evolution and Chance
Introduction
Beyond the Reach of Chance
Accumulating Small Change
Chance and Natural Selection
The Principle of Drift: Biology's First Law
The Tautology Problem
Introduction
Darwin's Untimely Burial
Adaptation and Evolutionary Theory
Adaptationism
Introduction
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme
How to Carry Out the Adaptationist Program?
Biological Function and Teleology
Introduction
The Modern Philosophical Resurrection of Teleology
Neo-Teleology
A Modern History Theory of Functions
Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Introduction
Endless Forms: The Evolution of Gene Regulation and Morphological Diversity
Functional Evo-devo
Reductionism and the Biological Sciences
Introduction
1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences
The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism
Species and Classification Problems
Introduction
Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics
Speciation: A Catalogue and Critique of Species Concepts
The Units of Selection Debate
Introduction
Artifact, Cause and Genic Selection
The Return of the Gene
The Levels of Selection Debate: Philosophical Issues
Sociobiology and Ethics
Introduction
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
The Evolution of Cooperation
Darwinism in Contemporary Moral Philosophy and Social Theory
Evolutionary Psychology
Introduction
Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology
The Environments of Our Hominin Ancestors, Tool-usage, and Scenario Visualization
Design and Creationism
Introduction
Science and Creationism
Irreducible Complexity: Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution
The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of "Irreducible Complexity"