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Author: Francisco José Ayala
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780333148600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the conference on Problems of reduction in biology held at the Study and Conference Center of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio, Italy, from 9 to 16 September 1972.
Author: Francisco Ayala
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1974-01-01
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780520026490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kostas Kampourakis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1108491839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA short and accessible introduction to philosophy of science for students and researchers across the life sciences.
Author: Richard Creath
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780521597012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 2000, explores a range of diverse issues in the intersection of biology and epistemology.
Author: James G. Lennox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521659765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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 and the philosophy of biology. He was the first thinker to treat the investigations of the living world as a distinct inquiry with its own special concepts and principles. This book focuses on a seminal event in the history of biology - Aristotle's delineation of a special branch of theoretical knowledge devoted to the systematic investigation of animals. Aristotle approached the creation of zoology with the tools of subtle and systematic philosophies of nature and of science that were then carefully tailored to the investigation of animals. The papers collected in this 2001 volume, written by a pre-eminent figure in the field of Aristotle's philosophy and biology, examine Aristotle's approach to biological inquiry and explanation, his concepts of matter, form and kind, and his teleology.
Author: P.E. Griffiths
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1992-05-31
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780792317098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains papers presented by New Zealand and American philosophers of biology during a recent visit to New Zealand by Elliott Sober. Some of the papers reveal a unique local perspective on current debates. Robin Craw's highly original contribution to the `evolutionary' philosophy of science initiated by David Hull, applies to intellectual evolution the strongly biogeographic approach to the evolution of life that is a recognised New Zealand speciality. Other papers reflect past intellectual exchange between the two countries. Susan Oyama and Russell Gray's papers on the `developmental systems' approach to evolution, for example, are the outcome of several years of fruitful exchange. The remaining papers in the volume cover a wide range of topics. In addition to Sober's own discussion of post-sociobiological treatments of cultural evolution the volume includes Kim Sterelny's evaluation of `macroevolution', Paul Griffiths' analysis of adaptation and vestigiality, John Morss on the notion of ontogeny and Timothy Shanahan on the concept of drift.
Author: Ernst Mayr
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9780674896666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of twenty-eight essays, five previously unpublished, grouped into nine categories: Philosophy, Natural Selection, Adaptation, Darwin, Diversity, Species, Speciation, Macroevolution, and Historical Perspective. The book, Ernst Mayr notes in the Foreword, is an attempt "to strengthen the bridge between biology and philosophy, and point to the new direction in which a new philosophy of biology will move."
Author: Marcel Weber
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-08-30
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1139453912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophy of Experimental Biology explores some central philosophical issues concerning scientific research in experimental biology, including genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology, developmental biology, neurobiology, and microbiology. It seeks to make sense of the explanatory strategies, concepts, ways of reasoning, approaches to discovery and problem solving, tools, models and experimental systems deployed by scientific life science researchers and also integrates developments in historical scholarship, in particular the New Experimentalism. It concludes that historical explanations of scientific change that are based on local laboratory practice need to be supplemented with an account of the epistemic norms and standards that are operative in science. This book should be of interest to philosophers and historians of science as well as to scientists.
Author: Marjorie Grene
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1975-12-31
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9789027705969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe philosophy of biology should move to the center of the philosophy of science - a place it has not been accorded since the time of Mach. Physics was the paradigm of science, and its shadow falls across con temporary philosophy of biology as well, in a variety of contexts: reduction, organization and system, biochemical mechanism, and the models of law and explanation which derive from the Duhem-Popper Hempel tradition. This volume, we think, offers ample evidence of how good contempo rary work in the philosophical understanding of biology has become. Marjorie Grene and Everett Mendelsohn aptly combine a deep philo sophical appreciation of conceptual issues in biology with an historical understanding of the radical changes in the science of biology since the 19th century. In this book, they present essays which probe such historical and methodological questions as reducibility, levels of organization, function and teleology, and the range of issues emerging from evolution ary theory and the species problem. In conjunction with Professor Grene's collection of essays on the philosophy of biology, The Under standing of Nature (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. XXIII) and the occasional essays on these topics which we have published in other volumes (listed below), this volume contributes to bringing biology to the center of philosophical attention. Everett Mendelsohn, 'Explanation in Nineteenth Century Biology' (Boston Studies, Vol. II, 1965). David Hawkins, 'Taxonomy and Information', (Boston Studies, Vol. III, 1967).
Author: Michael Ruse
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks Online
Published: 2008-07-10
Total Pages: 658
ISBN-13: 0195182057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis handbook covers the history of philosophy of biology then moves on to evolutionary theory. It continues with discussions of molecular biology and ecology, and covers biology and ethics as well as biology and religion.
