The philosophy of biology : an episodic history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grene, Marjorie, 1910-2009
Other Authors: Depew, David J., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Series:Evolution of modern philosophy.
Subjects:
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.