Philosophy of Biology

Index 617

systematics, 404

Takahata, N., 105
Tarski, A., 488, 549, 493
Tatum, E., 251
tautology problem, 112–113
taxonomy, 404
teleosemantics, 535, 549, 550, 553
telomeres, 263
Templeton, A. R., 463, 473–475
Tennyson, A., 29
theoretical terms, 489
theory, 485, 486, 489, 503, 505
Received View, 493
scientific, 486, 487, 488, 491–496,499,
500, 502, 503, 519
semantic approach to, 350
syntactic approach to, 350, 486–
488, 493
theory of forces, 123
theory of natural selection, 41
Thomas, R., 173
Thompson, P., 490, 495, 503
Tierra, 591–592
Tierra del Fuegians, 7, 20
topological, 495, 505
topology, 500
Toulmin, S., 23
traits,
acquired, 189
group, 154
type/token distinction, 351
transcription factors, 293
transdetermination, 287
Tree of Life, 14, 15
true cause, 11, 16

ultimate/proximate causes, 591
uniformitarian, 3, 4
unit-characters, 249
unitarianism, 6
units of selection. See entries under
‘selection’.

Universal Grammar, 558

utilitarianism, 24

Varela, F. J., 376

variance, 40, 42, 183, 321–322, 324,

325, 329, 338–339, 341

and environmental uniformity, 170

generation of, 166

non-additive, 45

and selection, 166

structured, 175

variation, 13, 65, 310–313

vehicles, 143, 184

Venter, J. C., 589

verae causae, 11, 13

vesicles, 589

vestige, 440, 441, 504

virus, 596

von Baer’s laws, 444

von Baer, K. E., 433, 434, 445

von Bertalanffy, L., 541

von Dassow, G., 191, 194

Vorzimmer, P. J., 15, 30

Vrba, E., 117

Vries, H. de, 252, 310, 315

Waddington, C. H., 73–81, 186, 189,

193, 221, 489, 529, 576

Wagner, G., 173, 186, 191

Wallace, A. R., 10, 12, 21, 22, 25, 29,

112

Walsh, D. M., 186

Watson, J. D., 250, 349

Wedgwood, E., 1, 3, 6, 9

Wedgwood, J., 1, 14

Weinberg, W., 509

Weiner, N., 585

Weisheipl, J. A., 485

Weissman, A., 182, 188, 259

Weissmanism, 181, 188

Weldon, W. F. R., 313, 315

well-formed formula, 488, 489

Wendler, D., 577