A short and accessible introduction to philosophy of science for students and researchers across the life sciences.
This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject.
This collection of 25 essays by leading researchers provides an overview of the state of the field. These essays are wholly new; none of them could have been written even ten years ago.
This book brings together for the first time philosophers of biology to write about some of the most central concepts and issues in their field from the perspective of biology education.
For now, the point is that there is a certain symmetry between the evolution hypothesis and the trickster hypothesis. ... reason to doubt the truth of the theory of evolution. defect in Ev. Take The predictive any of the equivalence of ...
This insightful volume produces a fresh but also systematic perspective both on the history of biology as a science and on the early versions of, in the 1960s in a post-positivist context, the philosophy of biology.
The final section of the book explores several examples of the influence of science on society, and of society on science.Each of 46 chapters of History and Philosophy of Biology has been or could be the topic of a major tome.
The text is organized to provide readers at all levels with a thorough grounding in the general history, philosophy, and science behind debates that remain at the heart of the philosophy of biology.
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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 ...
Studies in the Philosophy of Biology: Reduction and Related Problems