1998, ISBN: 0198752121

[EAN: 9780198752127], [SC: 5.5], [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. Paperback. ix, 772 pp. illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents : Adaptation: cur… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780198752127], [SC: 5.5], [PU: Oxford University Press], Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 1998. Paperback. ix, 772 pp. illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents : Adaptation: current usages / Mary Jane West-Eberhard -- Universal Darwinism / Richard Dawkins -- The Leibnizian paradigm / Daniel C. Dennett -- Exaptation -- a missing term in the science of forum / Stephen Jay Gould and Elizabeth S. Vrba -- Six sayings about adaptationism / Elliott Sober -- Two concepts of constraint: adaptationism and the challenge from developmental biology / Ron Amundson -- Developmental systems and evolutionary explanation / P.E. Griffiths and R.D. Gray -- The return of the gene / Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher -- The levels of selection: a hierarchy of interactors / Robert N. Brandon -- A critical review of philosophical work on the units of selection problem / Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson -- Function without purpose: the uses of causal role function in evolutionary biology / Ron Amundson and George V. Lauder -- Function and design / Philip Kitcher -- Functions: consensus without unity / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Individuality, pluralism, and the phylogenetic species concept / Brent D. Mishler and Robert N. Brandon -- Phylogenetic systematics and the species problem / Devin de Queiroz and Michael J. Donoghue -- Eliminative pluralism / Marc Ereshefsky -- Science and myth / John Maynard Smith -- On human nature / David L. Hull -- Gender and science: origin, history, and politics / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Essentialism, women, and war: protesting too much, protesting too little / Susan Oyama -- Essentialism and constructionism about sexual orientation / Edward Stein. -- Altruism: theoretical contexts / Alexander Rosenberg -- What is evolutionary altruism? / Elliott Sober -- On the relationship between evolutionary and psychological definitions of altruism and selfishness / David Sloan Wilson -- The human genome project: towards an analysis of the empirical, ethical, and conceptual issues involved / Marga Vicedo -- Who's afraid of the human genome project? / Philip Kitcher -- In human genetics disguised eugenics? / Diane B. Paul -- Normality and variation: the human genome project and the ideal human type / Elisabeth A. Lloyd -- The human genome project: research tactics and economic strategies / Alexander Rosenberg -- The moral foundations of the idea of evolutionary progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the Neo-Darwinians / Robert J. Richards -- Evolution and progress / Michael Ruse -- Complexity and evolution: what everybody knows / Daniel W. McShea -- On replacing the idea of progress with an operational notion of directionality / Stephen Jay Gould -- When faith and reason clash: evolution and the bible / Alvin Plantinga -- Evolution and special creation / Ernan McMullin -- Reply to McMullin / Alvin Plantinga. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780198752127. Keywords : PHILOSOPHY,, Books<

1998, ISBN: 9780198752127

Series Editor: Ruse, Michael, Oxford University Press, U.S.A. Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 784 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-08-27T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: halfton… Mehr…

Series Editor: Ruse, Michael, Oxford University Press, U.S.A. Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 784 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-08-27T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: halftones, line figures, 1.98 kg, Verkaufsrang: 7818, Ethik, Philosophie, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Verschiedenes, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Allgemein, Biologie, Biowissenschaften, Format: Illustriert, Hull, David L. Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1998<