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

Evolutionary Epistemology and Its Implications for Humankind

Franz M Wuketits

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This books aims to outline the scientific (biological) foundations of evolutionary epistemology, and to discuss its implications for humankind. Wuketi... 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. 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

History and Evolution

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• The studies of evolutionary biology and of human history face the same kinds of problems and deal with the same processes. Both disciplines deal with ... 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
• Michael Ruse is Professor of History and Philosophy at the University of Guelph in Canada. He is the founding editor of the journal Biology and Philos... Lees meer

Lu Xun and Evolution

James Reeve Pusey

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• James Reeve Pusey is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Bucknell University. His previous work includes China and Charles Darwin and Wu Han: At... Lees meer

The Natural Selection of Autonomy

Bruce N Waller

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• The Natural Selection of Autonomy challenges the deep traditional assumption that autonomy, morality, and moral responsibility are uniquely human char... Lees meer

Selection Theory and Social Constr

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• In his long career, Donald T. Campbell made important contributions to social psychology, anthropology, sociology, education, science studies, and epi... Lees meer

Darwin and the Nature of Species

David N Stamos

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Since the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species, the concept of "species" in biology has been widely debated, with its precise definition far f... Lees meer

Evolutionary Ethics

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Matthew H. Nitecki is Curator and Doris V. Nitecki is Associate in the Department of Geology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago. They are... 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

Leaving Us to Wonder

Linda Wiener, Ramsey Eric Ramsey

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This exciting collaboration between a biologist and a philosopher explores the meaning of the scientific worldview and how it plays out in our everyda... Lees meer

Lu Xun and Evolution

James Reeve Pusey

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This book studies one of the most important figures in modern Chinese intellectual history, China's greatest modern writer, Lu Xun (1881-1936). His tr... 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

Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• This book provides the fullest philosophical examination of theories of evolutionary epistemology now available. Here for the first time are found maj... Lees meer

Function, Selection, and Design

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• David J. Buller is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University. 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

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
• Wim J. van der Steen is Professor of Philosophy of Biology at the Free University in Amsterdam. Lees meer

The Animal Rights/Environmental Ethics Debate

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Eugene C. Hargrove is Editor of Environmental Ethics and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies at the University of North Texas, ... Lees meer

Scientific Discovery

Aharon Kantorovich

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy and Biology
• Kantorovich analyzes the notion of discovery. He views the process as inference and questions whether there is logic or method to discovery. He provid... Lees meer