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Units of Selection
Javier Suárez, Elisabeth A Lloyd
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element introduces the Disambiguating Project (DP) about the units of selection. By DP, the authors mean the thesis that the expression 'units of... Savoir plus
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Inclusive Fitness and Kin Selection
Hannah Rubin
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The biological world is full of phenomena that seem to run counter to Darwin's insight that natural selection can lead to the appearance of design. Fo... Savoir plus
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The Challenge of Evolution to Religion
Johan de Smedt, Helen de Cruz
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself. First, religious wo... Savoir plus
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Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society
R Paul Thompson
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Recent interest in the evolution of the social contract is extended by providing a throughly naturalistic, evolutionary account of the biological unde... Savoir plus
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Hylomorphism
William M R Simpson
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element introduces Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which provides an account of substances in terms of their 'matter' and 'form', adapting ... Savoir plus
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Stem Cells
Melinda Bonnie Fagan
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- What is a stem cell? The answer is seemingly obvious: a cell that is also a stem, or point of origin, for something else. Upon closer examination, how... Savoir plus
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Structure and Function
Rose Novick
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The history of biology is mottled with disputes between two distinct approaches to the organic world: structuralism and functionalism. Their persisten... Savoir plus
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Units of Selection
Javier Suárez, Elisabeth A Lloyd
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element introduces the Disambiguating Project (DP) about the units of selection. By DP, the authors mean the thesis that the expression 'units of... Savoir plus
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Philosophy of Immunology
Thomas Pradeu
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Immunology is central to contemporary biology and medicine, but it also provides novel philosophical insights. Its most significant contribution to ph... Savoir plus
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Mechanisms in Molecular Biology
Tudor Baetu
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The new mechanistic philosophy is divided into two largely disconnected projects. One deals with a metaphysical inquiry into how mechanisms relate to ... Savoir plus
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Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection
Pierrick Bourrat
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Debates concerning the units and levels of selection have persisted for over fifty years. One major question in this literature is whether units and l... Savoir plus
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Evolution and Development
Alan C Love
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The intersection of development and evolution has always harbored conceptual issues, but many of these are on display in contemporary evolutionary dev... Savoir plus
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Hylomorphism
William M R Simpson
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element introduces Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which provides an account of substances in terms of their 'matter' and 'form', adapting ... Savoir plus
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Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology
Derek D Turner
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The practice of paleontology has an aesthetic as well as an epistemic dimension. Paleontology has distinctively aesthetic aims, such as cultivating se... Savoir plus
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The Metaphysics of Biology
John Dupré
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element is an introduction to the metaphysics of biology, a very general account of the nature of the living world. The first part of the Element... Savoir plus
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Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection
Pierrick Bourrat
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Debates concerning the units and levels of selection have persisted for over fifty years. One major question in this literature is whether units and l... Savoir plus
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The Causal Structure of Natural Selection
Charles H Pence
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Recent arguments concerning the nature of causation in evolutionary theory, now often known as the debate between the 'causalist' and 'statisticalist'... Savoir plus
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Biological Individuality
Alison K McConwell
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element develops a view about biological individuality's value in two ways: while biological individuality matters for its theoretical and method... Savoir plus
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Ecological Complexity
Alkistis Elliott-Graves
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Complexity has received substantial attention from scientists and philosophers alike. There are numerous, often conflicting, accounts of how complexit... Savoir plus
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Evolution and Development
Alan C Love
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The intersection of development and evolution has always harbored conceptual issues, but many of these are on display in contemporary evolutionary dev... Savoir plus
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Social Darwinism
Jeffrey O'Connell, Michael Ruse
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element is a philosophical history of Social Darwinism. It begins by discussing the meaning of the term, moving then to its origins, paying parti... Savoir plus
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The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory
Robert Brandon, Daniel W McShea
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- In this Element, we extend our earlier treatment of biology's first law. The law says that in any evolutionary system in which there is variation and ... Savoir plus
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The Causal Structure of Natural Selection
Charles H Pence
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Recent arguments concerning the nature of causation in evolutionary theory, now often known as the debate between the 'causalist' and 'statisticalist'... Savoir plus
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The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory
Jun Otsuka
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The central role of mathematical modeling in modern evolutionary theory has raised a concern as to why and how abstract formulae can say anything abou... Savoir plus
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