The philosophy of biology : an episodic history /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Evolution of modern philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Aristotle and after
- Descartes, Harvey and the emergence of modern mechanism
- The eighteenth century: Buffon
- The eighteenth century II: Kant the development of German biology
- Before Darwin I: A continental controversy
- Before Darwin II: British controversies about geology and natural theology
- Darwin
- Evolution and heredity from Darwin to the rise of genetics
- The modern evolutionary synthesis and its discontents
- Some themes in recent philosophy of biology: The species problem, reducibility, function and Teleology
- Biology and human nature
- The philosophy of biology and the philosophy of science.