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

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

• 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

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 global epist... Lees meer

Revisiting the Origin of Species

Thierry Hoquet

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Revisiting the 'Origin of Species' focuses on Darwin as theorizing on the origin of variations; showing that Darwin himself was never a pan-selectioni... Lees meer

Philosophy of Population Health

Sean Valles

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Blending philosophy of science/medicine, public health ethics and history, Philosophy of Population Health offers a framework that explains, analyses ... Lees meer

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• This book provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. It discusses the i... Lees meer

Natural Kinds and Classification in Scientific Practice

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Natural kinds are an important topic in current philosophical debate. This edited collection examines kinds from a new focal point, that of the empiri... Lees meer

Revisiting the Origin of Species

Thierry Hoquet

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Revisiting the 'Origin of Species' focuses on Darwin as theorizing on the origin of variations; showing that Darwin himself was never a pan-selectioni... Lees meer

Biological Identity

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• The book investigates the question of biological identity from the perspectives of metaphysics and the philosophy of biology. 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

Romantic Biology, 1890-1945

Maurizio Esposito

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• In this book, Esposito presents a historiography of organicist and holistic thought through an examination of the work of leading biologists from Brit... 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
• Philosophy of Biology Before Biology examines biological and proto-biological writings from the mid-eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century... Lees meer

Darwinism, Democracy, and Race

John (Charles Center for Academic Excellence, College of William, David (University of Iowa, USA) 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

Jakob von Uexküll and Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• By collecting for the first time essays on the most relevant philosophers who have dealt with the biologist Jakob von Uexküll (1864-1944), the book ge... 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

Darwinism and Pragmatism

Lucas McGranahan

• Hardcover | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Focusing on the work of William James (1842-1910), this study looks at Darwinian evolution within the context of a person-oriented philosophy. McGrana... Lees meer

Darwinism and Pragmatism

Lucas McGranahan

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Focusing on the work of William James (1842-1910), this study looks at Darwinian evolution within the context of a person-oriented philosophy. McGrana... 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
• Through an analysis of several significant case studies in the early history of plant ecology, Konopka distinguishes a logic of habitats that conceive... 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

Modelling Evolution

Eugene Earnshaw-Whyte

• Paperback | Engels | History and Philosophy of Biology
• Modelling Evolution offers a new, general account of evolution by natural selection that identifies the essential features of evolutionary models that... Lees meer