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Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences
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Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences
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Leading biologists and philosophers of biology discuss the basic theories and concepts of biology and their connections with ethics, economics, and psychology, providing a remarkably unified report on the "state of the art" in the philosophy of biology in this volume from the Pittsburgh-Konstanz series.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword | Ernst Mayr
- 1. Neo-Darwinism | Jean Gayon
- 2. The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis | John Beatty
- 3. From Experimental Systems to Cultures of Experimentation | Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
- 4. Exemplars, Abstractions, and Anomalies: Representations and Theory Change in Mendelian and Molecular Genetics | Lindley Darden
- 5. The Species Problem | Michael Ruse
- 6. The Coevolution of Organism and Environment | Robert N. Brandon and Janis Antonovics
- 7. Did Evolution Make Us Psychological Egoists? | Elliott Sober
- 8. Human Moral Assessment: Method, Hypotheses, Puzzles | Allan Gibbard
- 9. Economic Choice Theory and Animal Behavior | John H. Kagel
- 10. Cognitive Ethology | Robert M. Seyfarth and Dorothy L. Cheney
- Index