The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of

The philosophy of biology is one of the most exciting new areas in the field of philosophy and one that is attracting much attention from working scientists. This Companion, edited by two of the founders of the field, includes newly commissioned essays by senior scholars and up-and-coming younger scholars who collectively examine the main areas of the subject - the nature of evolutionary theory, classification, teleology and function, ecology, and the problematic relationship between biology and religion, among other topics. Up-to-date and comprehensive in its coverage, this unique volume will be of interest not only to professional philosophers but also to students in the humanities and researchers in the life sciences and related areas of inquiry.

Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xix
Adaptation	p. 1
Population Genetics	p. 22
Units and Levels of Selection	p. 44
What's Wrong with the Emergentist Statistical Interpretation of Natural Selection and Random Drift?	p. 66
Gene	p. 85
Information in Biology	p. 103
Reductionism (and Antireductionism) in Biology	p. 120
Mechanisms and Models	p. 139
Teleology	p. 160
Macroevolution, Minimalism, and the Radiation of the Animals	p. 182
Philosophy and Phylogenetics: Historical and Current Connections	p. 211
Human Evolution: The Three Grand Challenges of Human Biology	p. 233
Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology	p. 255
Neurobiology	p. 275
Biological Explanations of Human Sexuality: The Genetic Basis of Sexual Orientation	p. 291
Game Theory in Evolutionary Biology	p. 304
What Is an 'Embryo' and How Do We Know?	p. 324
Evolutionary Developmental Biology	p. 342
Molecular and Systems Biology and Bioethics	p. 361
Ecology	p. 372
From Ecological Diversity to Biodiversity	p. 388
Biology and Religion	p. 410
The Moral Grammar of Narratives in History of Biology: The Case of Haeckel and Nazi Biology	p. 429
Reference List	p. 453
Index	p. 497
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