Biology and the Foundations of Ethics

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This co... Lees meer

Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change

Joseph Laporte, Laporte Joseph

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• According to the received tradition, the language used to refer to natural kinds in scientific discourse remains stable even as theories about these k... Lees meer

Embryology, Epigenesis and Evolution

Jason Scott Robert

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Philosophers of science have tended to avoid the problem of "development" by focusing primarily on evolutionary biology and, more recently, on molecul... Lees meer

Aristotle's Philosophy of Biology

James G Lennox

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• In addition to being one of the world's most influential philosophers, Aristotle can also be credited with the creation of both the science of biology... Lees meer

The Science of the Struggle for Existence

Gregory J Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Gregory Cooper's study examines issues in the philosophy of ecology that have been a source of controversy since the existence of ecology as a discipl... Lees meer

Complexity and the Function of Mind in Nature

Peter Godfrey-Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This book is a further contribution to the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology. It is an ambitious attempt to explain the relationship ... Lees meer

What Functions Explain

Peter McLaughlin

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical ... Lees meer

The Concept of the Gene in Development and Evolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Advances in molecular biological research in the past forty years have made the story of the gene vastly complicated: the more we learn about genes, t... Lees meer

Darwinism's Struggle for Survival

Jean Gayon

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• In Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by examining ... Lees meer

Form and Function in Developmental Evolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This book represents an effort to understand very old questions about biological form, function, and the relationships between them. The essays collec... Lees meer

Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change

Joseph Laporte

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• According to the received tradition, the language used to refer to natural kinds in scientific discourse remains stable even as theories about these k... Lees meer

Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy

Sahotra Sarkar

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasising the conservation of biodiversity... Lees meer

Genetic Analysis

Raphael Falk

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• There is a paradox lying at the heart of the study of heredity. To understand the ways in which features are passed on down from one generation to the... Lees meer

Discovering Cell Mechanisms

William Bechtel

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Between 1940 and 1970, pioneers in the new field of cell biology discovered the operative parts of cells and their contributions to cell life. Cell bi... Lees meer

What Functions Explain

Peter McLaughlin

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This book offers an examination of functional explanation as it is used in biology and the social sciences, and focuses on the kinds of philosophical ... Lees meer

Adaptationism and Optimality

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• The theory of adaptationism argues that natural selection contains sufficient explanatory power in itself to account for all evolution. However, there... Lees meer

The Immune Self

Alfred I Tauber

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• The Immune Self is a critical study of immunology from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century to its contemporary formulation. The book offe... Lees meer

The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy

Marc Ereshefsky

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• The question of whether biologists should continue to use the Linnaean hierarchy is a hotly debated issue. Invented before the introduction of evoluti... Lees meer

The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought

Ron Amundson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• In this book Ron Amundson examines 200 years of scientific views on the evolution-development relationship from the perspective of evolutionary develo... Lees meer

Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology

Robert N Brandon

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Robert Brandon is one of the most important and influential of contemporary philosophers of biology. This collection of his recent essays covers all t... Lees meer

Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism

Sandra D Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science defends integrative pluralism as the best description for today's complexity of scientif... Lees meer

The Problem of Animal Generation in Early Modern Philosophy

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This book examines the early modern science of generation, which included the study of animal conception, heredity, and fetal development. Analyzing h... Lees meer

Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism

Sandra D Mitchell

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This collection of essays by a leading philosopher of science defends integrative pluralism as the best description for today's complexity of scientif... Lees meer

Biology and Epistemology

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• This set of original essays by some of the most distinguished names in philosophy of science explores a range of diverse issues at the intersection of... Lees meer