Nature, Design, and Science

Del Ratzsch

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Explores the question of whether or not concepts and principles involving supernatural intelligent design can occupy any legitimate place within scien... Lees meer

Beyond the Land Ethic

J Baird Callicott

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• A leading theorist addresses a wide spectrum of topics central to the field of environmental philosophy. CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Title A sequ... Lees meer

How to Build a Theory in Cognitive Science

Valerie Gray Hardcastle

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Articulates a method for integrating the individual disciplines that compose the cognitive sciences so that unified interdisciplinary theories are pos... Lees meer

Issues in Evolutionary Ethics

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This book explores historical and current discussions of the relevance of evolutionary theory to ethics. The historical section conveys the intellectu... Lees meer

Philosophy of Biology Today

Michael Ruse

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This short and highly accessible volume opens up the subject of the philosophy of biology to professionals and to students in both disciplines. The te... Lees meer

Evolution's First Philosopher

Jerome A Popp

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Examines John Dewey's ideas in the context of evolutionary theory. John Dewey was the first philosopher to recognize that Darwin's thesis about natura... Lees meer

Lu Xun and Evolution

James Reeve Pusey

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Lu Xun (1881-1936), China's greatest modern writer, remains important today both as an official icon and a patron saint of dissent. This book deals wi... Lees meer

Selection Theory and Social Constr

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Top scholars examine the work of Donald T. Campbell, one of the first to emphasize the social structure of science. In his long career, Donald T. Camp... Lees meer

Marxism and Human Sociobiology

Boshu Zhang

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Zhang Boshu is a Chinese Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing, China. He is the author of Economic Behavior and Man and is ... Lees meer

Evolutionary Ethics

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This volume analyzes the biological and philosophical disagreements in evolutionary ethics and points out difficulties with the interpretations. The b... Lees meer

Darwin and the Nature of Species

David N Stamos

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Examines Darwin's concept of species in a philosophical context. Since the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, the concept of "species" in b... Lees meer

Leaving Us to Wonder

Linda Wiener, Ramsey Eric Ramsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Explores the larger social, political, and philosophical contexts in which the current vitriolic science vs. anti-science debates occur. This exciting... Lees meer

Metaphysics and the Origin of Species

Michael T Ghiselin

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This sweeping discussion of the philosophy of evolutionary biology is based on the revolutionary idea that species are not kinds of organisms but whol... Lees meer

In Defense of the Land Ethic

J Baird Callicott

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• In Defense of the Land Ethic: Essays in Environmental Philosophy brings into a single volume J. Baird Callicott's decade-long effort to articulate, de... Lees meer

Function, Selection, and Design

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• A complete sourcebook for philosophical discussion of the nature of function in biology. This authoritative book, written by the leading experts in th... Lees meer

Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Here, Western environmental philosophers and some of our most distinguished representatives of Asian and comparative philosophy critically consider wh... Lees meer

The Evolution of Death

Stanley Shostak

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Argues that death is not unchanging, but rather has evolved over time. In The Evolution of Death, the follow-up to Becoming Immortal: Combining Clonin... Lees meer

Biotechnology

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Considers the ethics and challenges of biotechnology. An essential introduction to a controversial yet crucial field of research, Biotechnology survey... Lees meer

Sociobiology, Sex, and Science

Harmon R Holcomb III

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This book examines sociobiology's validity and significance, using the sociobiological theory of the evolution of mating and parenting as an example. ... Lees meer

A Practical Philosophy for the Life Sciences

Wim J Van Der Steen

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This book integrates philosophy of biology and philosophy of medicine with the purpose of making philosophy practical for students and scientists. It ... Lees meer

The Natural Selection of Autonomy

Bruce N Waller

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Challenges the deep traditional assumption that autonomy, morality, and moral responsibility are uniquely human characteristics. The Natural Selection... Lees meer

Darwinian Natural Right

Larry Arnhart

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Shows how Darwinian biology supports an Aristotelian view of ethics as rooted in human nature. This book shows how Darwinian biology supports an Arist... Lees meer

The Politics of Heredity

Diane B Paul

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Explores the political forces underlying shifts in thinking about the respective influence of heredity and environment in shaping human behavior, and ... Lees meer

Reinventing the Wheel

Peter D Hershock

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Suggests that certain Buddhist notions may act as an antidote to the adverse effects of high-tech media. By uniquely using Buddhist teachings, Reinven... Lees meer