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Author:   David L. Hull (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University) ,  Michael Ruse (Professor of Philosophy and Zoology, Professor of Philosophy and Zoology, University of Guelph)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 21.70cm
Weight:   0.896kg
ISBN:  

9780198752127

ISBN 10:   0198752121
Pages:   782
Publication Date:   19 March 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

David L. Hull and Michael Ruse: Introduction Part I: Adaptation Introduction to Part I 1: Mary Jane West-Eberhard: Adaptation: Current Usages 2: Richard Dawkins: Universal Darwinism 3: D. C. Dennett: The Leibnizian Paradigm 4: Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth S. Vrba: . Exaptation - A Missing Term in the Science of Form 5: Elliott Sober: Six Sayings About Adaptationism Part II: Development Introduction to Part II 6: Ron Amundson: Two Concepts of Constraint: Adaptationism and the Challenge from Developmental Biology 7: P. E. Griffiths and R. D. Gray: Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanation Part III: Units of Selection 8: Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher: The Return of the Gene 9: Robert N. Brandon: The Levels of Selection: A Hierarchy of Interactors 10: Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson: A Critical Review of Philosophical Work on the Units of Selection Problem Part IV: Function Introduction to Part IV 11: Ron Amundson: Function Without Purpose: The Uses of Causal Role Function in Evolutionary Biology 12: Philip Kitcher: Function and Design 13: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Functions: Consensus Without Unity Part V: Species Introduction to Part V 14: Brent D. Mishler and Robert N. Brandon: Individuality, Pluralism, and the Phylogenetic Species Concept 15: Kevin de Queiroz and Michael J. Donoghue: Phylogenetic Systematics and the Species Problem 16: Marc Ereshefsky: Eliminative Pluralism Part VI: Human Nature Introduction to Part VI 17: John Maynard Smith: Science and Myth 18: David L. Hull: On Human Nature 19: Evelyn Fox Keller: Gender and Science: Origin, History, and Politics 20: Susan Oyama: Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting Too Little 21: Edward Stein: Essentialism and Constructionism about Sexual Orientation Part VII: Altruism Introduction to Part VII 22: Alexander Rosenberg: Altruism: Theoretical Contexts 23: Elliott Sober: What Is Evolutionary Altruism? 24: David Sloan Wilson: On the Relationship Between Evolutionary and Psychological Definitions of Altruism and Selfishness Part VIII: Human Genome Project Introduction to Part VIII 25: Marga Vicedo: The Human Genome Project: Towards an Analysis of the Empirical, Ethical, and Conceptual Issues Involved 26: Philip Kitcher: Who's Afraid of the Human Genome Project? 27: Diane B. Paul: Is Human Genetics Disguised Eugenics? 28: Elisabeth A. Lloyd: Normality and Variation: The Human Genome Project and the Ideal Human Type 29: Alexander Rosenberg: The Human Genome Project: Research Tactics and Economic Strategies Part IX: Progress Introduction to Part IX 30: Robert J. Richards: The Moral Foundations of the Idea of Evolutionary Progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the Neo-Darwinians 31: Michael Ruse: Evolution and Progress 32: Daniel W. McShea: Complexity and Evolution: What Everybody Knows 33: Stephen Jay Gould: On Replacing the Idea of Progress with an Operational Notion of Directionality Part X: Creationism Introduction to Part X 34: Alvin Plantinga: When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible 35: Ernan McMullin: Evolution and Special Creation 36: Alvin Plantinga: Reply to McMullin Notes on the Contributors Further Reading Index

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David L. Hull is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His publications include Darwin and His Critics (1983), The Metaphysics of Evolution (1989), and Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science (1991). Michael Ruse is Professor of Philosophy and Zoology at the University of Guelph. He is founder and editor of the journal Biology and Philosophy and on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals. His publications include The Philosophy of Biology (1989), The Darwinian Paradigm (1989), Evolution Naturalism (1994), and Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology (1996).

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