Philosophy of Biology

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Handbook of the Philosophy of Science General Editors Dov M. Gabbay Paul Thagard John Woods Cover figure taken from: Darwin’s Or ...

Philosophy of Biology Edited by Mohan Matthen University of Toronto, Canada and Christopher Stephens University of British Colum ...

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GENERALPREFACE DovGabbay,PaulThagard,andJohnWoods Wheneverscienceoperatesatthecuttingedgeofwhatisknown,itinvariably runsintophil ...

vi DovGabbay,PaulThagard,andJohnWoods PhilosophyofStatistics,editedbyPrasantaS.BandyopadhyayandMalcolm Forster. Philosophy of In ...

CONTENTS GeneralPreface v DovGabbay,PaulThagard,andJohnWoods Preface xi MohanMatthenandChristopherStephens ListofContributors xv ...

viii Contents Development: ThreeGradesofOntogeneticInvolvement 179 D.M.Walsh EvolutionandNormativity 201 MichaelBradie Evolution ...

Contents ix Innateness 567 ArtificialLife 585 MarkA. Bedau Index 605 Andr ́eAriew ...

PREFACE PhilosophyofBiologyhastakenflightinthelastquarterofthetwentiethcen- tury. Inverylargepart,ofcourse,thisisbecausebiologyi ...

xii Preface Thingshavechanged.Thereisnowaclearlydefineddialecticandmanymore scholarswhocontributetoit. Nonetheless,becausethefie ...

Preface xiii recountstheemergenceofpopulationgenetics.(Herdiscussioniscomplemented bythatofSahotraSarkarinhisentryonHaldane.) Al ...

xiv Preface WeshouldliketothankJohnWoodsforencouragementandadvice,andJane Spurrforhersuperb(andveryfast)jobofediting. MohanMatth ...

CONTRIBUTORS DepartmentofPhilosophy, 438 GeneralClassroomBldg.,UniversityofMissouri- Columbia,Columbia,MO65211-4160,USA. ariewa@ ...

xvi Contributors MohanMatthen DepartmentofPhilosophy,UniversityofTorontoatMississauga, 3359 Mississauga RdN.,Mississauga,ONL5L1C ...

Contributors xvii PaulThompson InstitutefortheHistoryandPhilosophyofScienceandTechnologyandDepart- mentofEcologyandEvolutionary ...

Part I Biography ...

CHARLES DARWIN Michael Ruse Charles Robert Darwin was born in the English Midlands county of Shropshire on February 12, 1809, th ...

2 Michael Ruse England [Darwin, 1845]. By the mid-1840s, “Darwin of theBeagle” was one of the better-known figures in the countr ...

Charles Darwin 3 tried out various chemical experiments in a shed at the bottom of the garden. No surprise here. Chemistry is th ...