Organisms and Personal Identity

A.M. (Universite Bordeaux Montaigne, France) Ferner

• Hardcover | History and Philosophy of Biology
• David Wiggins’s contribution to metaphysics, logic and ethics has been widely recognized, but the connections between his work and recent issues in th... Lees meer

Remapping Race in a Global Context

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, biome... Lees meer

Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• In bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology... Lees meer

Remapping Race in a Global Context

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Investigating the reality and significance of racial categories, Remapping Race in a Global Context examines the role of race in human genomics, biome... Lees meer

Revisiting the Origin of Species

Thierry Hoquet

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Contemporary interest in Darwin rises from a general ideal of what Darwin's books ought to contain: a theory of transformation of species by natural s... Lees meer

Philosophy of Population Health

Sean Valles

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Population health has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of twentieth-century public health and medicine into a theoretical f... Lees meer

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metap... Lees meer

Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kinds b... Lees meer

Biological Identity

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Analytic metaphysics has recently discovered biology as a means of grounding metaphysical theories. This has resulted in long-standing metaphysical pu... Lees meer

Revisiting the Origin of Species

Thierry Hoquet

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Contemporary interest in Darwin rises from a general ideal of what Darwin's books ought to contain: a theory of transformation of species by natural s... Lees meer

Ecological Investigations

Adam Konopka

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associatio... Lees meer

Philosophy of Population Health

Sean Valles

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Population health has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of twentieth-century public health and medicine into a theoretical f... Lees meer

The Biological Foundations of Action

Derek M Jones

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• This book makes an important contribution to current philosophical debate on the nature and origins of agency. Lees meer

Philosophy of Biology Before Biology

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• The use of the term "biology" to refer to a unified science of life emerged around 1800 (most prominently by scientists such as Lamarck and Treviranus... Lees meer

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race

John Jackson, David Depew

• Hardcover | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Darwinism, Democracy, and Race examines the development and defence of an argument that arose at the boundary between anthropology and evolutionary bi... Lees meer

The Biological Foundations of Action

Derek M Jones

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Philosophers have traditionally assumed that the difference between active and passive movement could be explained by the presence or absence of an in... Lees meer

Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Dismissed by some as the last of the anti-Darwinians, his fame as a rigorous biologist even tainted by an alleged link to National Socialist ideology,... Lees meer

Darwinism and Pragmatism

Lucas McGranahan

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection challenges our very sense of belonging in the world. Unlike prior evolutionary theories, Darwinism constr... Lees meer

Darwinism and Pragmatism

Lucas McGranahan

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection challenges our very sense of belonging in the world. Unlike prior evolutionary theories, Darwinism constr... Lees meer

Evolutionary Moral Realism

Michael Stingl, John Collier

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Against standard approaches to evolution and ethics, this book develops the idea that moral values may find their origin in regularly recurring featur... Lees meer

Ecological Investigations

Adam Konopka

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• These investigations identify and clarify some basic assumptions and methodological principles involved in ecological explanations of plant associatio... Lees meer

Modelling Evolution

Eugene Earnshaw-Whyte

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Evolution by natural selection explains the tree of life and the complex adaptations found throughout nature. The power and versatility of evolutionar... Lees meer

Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• This edited volume of 13 new essays aims to turn past discussions of natural kinds on their head. Instead of presenting a metaphysical view of kinds b... Lees meer

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metap... Lees meer