Philosophy of Biology

  • Philosophy of Biology
    By Brian Garvey

    A special edition of the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, part C, 31(1) (2000) was devoted to papers on ... Some important papers on the topic are to be found in Hull and Ruse's The Philosophy of Biology (1998), ...

  • Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction
    By Alex Rosenberg, Daniel W. McShea

    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 ...

  • Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction
    By Alex Rosenberg, Daniel W. McShea

    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 ...

  • Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction
    By Daniel W. McShea, Alexander Rosenberg

    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 ...

  • Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology
    By Alex Rosenberg, Robert Arp

    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.

  • Philosophy of Biology
    By Brian Garvey

    This major new series in the philosophy of science aims to provide a new generation of textbooks for the subject.

  • Philosophy of Biology
    By Peter Godfrey-Smith

    This is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible introduction to the philosophy of biology written by a leading authority on the subject.

  • Philosophy Of Biology
    By Elliott Sober

    Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of the ”special”...

  • Philosophy of Biology

    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.

  • Philosophy of Biology
    By Samir Okasha

    ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.

  • Philosophy of Biology
    By Michael Ruse

    Biologists study life in its various physical forms, while philosophers of biology seek answers to questions about the nature, purpose, and impact of this research. What permits us to distinguish...

  • Philosophy Of Biology
    By Elliott Sober

    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 ...

  • Philosophy Of Biology
    By Elliott Sober

    Above all, the reader will gain from this book a firm grasp of the structure of evolutionary theory, the evidence for it, and the scope of its explanatory significance.

  • Philosophy Of Biology
    By Elliott Sober

    Perhaps because of its implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what may be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of the “special”...