Philosophy of BiologyElsevier, 5 февр. 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 638 Philosophy of Biology is a rapidly expanding field. It is concerned with explanatory concepts in evolution, genetics, and ecology. This collection of 25 essays by leading researchers provides an overview of the state of the field. These essays are wholly new; none of them could have been written even ten years ago. They demonstrate how philosophical analysis has been able to contribute to sometimes contested areas of scientific theory making. -Written by internationally acknowledged leaders in the field- Entries make original contributions as well as summarizing state of the art discoveries in the field- Easy to read and understand |
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE General Editors. DOV M. GABBAY, PAUL THAGARD, AND JOHN WOODS PHILOSOPHY of BIOLOGY Edited by Mohan Matthen and Christopher Stephens Handbook of the Philosophy of Science General Editors Dov M. Handbook of Front ...
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE General Editors. DOV M. GABBAY, PAUL THAGARD, AND JOHN WOODS PHILOSOPHY of BIOLOGY Edited by Mohan Matthen and Christopher Stephens Handbook of the Philosophy of Science General Editors Dov M. Handbook of Front ...
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... science can approximate to the truth. Within particular sciences, special concerns arise about what exists and how ... philosophy of science is an essential part of the scientific investigation of the world. In recent decades, philosophy ...
... science can approximate to the truth. Within particular sciences, special concerns arise about what exists and how ... philosophy of science is an essential part of the scientific investigation of the world. In recent decades, philosophy ...
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... philosopher of biology.” Philosophical discussions of biological issues were only just beginning to go beyond the rather mechanical business of localizing debates emanating from general philosophy of science. The pioneers were in place ...
... philosopher of biology.” Philosophical discussions of biological issues were only just beginning to go beyond the rather mechanical business of localizing debates emanating from general philosophy of science. The pioneers were in place ...
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... philosophers and philosophically minded scientists to probe, monitor, police, and regulate these studies. On the other hand, the illumination is reciprocal: the applications of biology tend to confirm or disconfirm the ambitions and ...
... philosophers and philosophically minded scientists to probe, monitor, police, and regulate these studies. On the other hand, the illumination is reciprocal: the applications of biology tend to confirm or disconfirm the ambitions and ...
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... Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1866 Main Mall E370, Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1. cstephen@interchange.ubc.ca Kim Sterelny School of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and International Relations, Victoria University of ...
... Philosophy, University of British Columbia, 1866 Main Mall E370, Vancouver BC Canada V6T 1Z1. cstephen@interchange.ubc.ca Kim Sterelny School of History, Philosophy, Political Science, and International Relations, Victoria University of ...
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Стр. 485 - It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.
Стр. 221 - I have already urged, the practice of that which is ethically best — what we call goodness or virtue — involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is opposed to that which leads to success in the cosmic struggle for existence.
Стр. 24 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.
Стр. 111 - If such do occur, can we doubt (remembering that many more individuals are born than can possibly survive) that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind...
Стр. 27 - As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Cambrian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
Стр. 24 - I FULLY subscribe to the judgment of those writers * who maintain that of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important...
Стр. 18 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and i..
Стр. 18 - Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one...