Philosophy of Biology An Anthology

By combining excerpts from key historical writings with editors' introductions and further reading material, Philosophy of Biology: An Anthology offers a comprehensive, accessible, and up-to-date collection of the field's most significant works. Addresses central questions such as 'What is life?' and 'How did it begin?', and the most current research and arguments on evolution and developmental biology Editorial notes throughout the text define, clarify, and qualify ideas, concepts and arguments Includes material on evolutionary psychology and evolutionary developmental biology not found in other standard philosophy of biology anthologies Further reading material assists novices in delving deeper into research in philosophy of biology

Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Biology and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Biology at Duke University. He has published 11 books on the philosophy of science including The Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction (2007) with Daniel McShea. In 1993, he won the Lakatos Prize in the Philosophy of Science and in 2007 was the National Phi Beta Kappa Rommell lecturer in philosophy.

Robert Arp is Research Associate with the National Center for Biomedical Ontology at the University of Buffalo and works with the Ontology Research Group at the New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences in Buffalo, New York. A PhD in Philosophy from Saint Louis University, he has published in the areas of philosophy of biology, philosophy of mind, and biomedical ontology.

Personal Acknowledgments	p. viii
Source Acknowledgments	p. ix
General Introduction: A Short History of Philosophy of Biology	p. 1
Basic Principles and Proofs of Darwinism	p. 15
Introduction	p. 17
Struggle for Existence and Natural Selection	p. 19
Evolution	p. 25
Evolution and Chance	p. 45
Introduction	p. 47
Beyond the Reach of Chance	p. 49
Accumulating Small Change	p. 60
Chance and Natural Selection	p. 65
The Principle of Drift: Biology's First Law	p. 84
The Tautology Problem	p. 95
Introduction	p. 97
Darwin's Untimely Burial	p. 99
Adaptation and Evolutionary Theory	p. 103
Adaptationism	p. 121
Introduction	p. 123
The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme	p. 125
How to Carry Out the Adaptationist Program?	p. 137
Biological Function and Teleology	p. 145
Introduction	p. 147
The Modern Philosophical Resurrection of Teleology	p. 149
Neo-Teleology	p. 164
A Modern History Theory of Functions	p. 175
Evolutionary Developmental Biology	p. 189
Introduction	p. 191
Endless Forms: The Evolution of Gene Regulation and Morphological Diversity	p. 193
Functional Evo-devo	p. 198
Reductionism and the Biological Sciences	p. 207
Introduction	p. 209
1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences	p. 213
The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism	p. 235
Species and Classification Problems	p. 251
Introduction	p. 253
Species, Taxonomy, and Systematics	p. 255
Speciation: A Catalogue and Critique of Species Concepts	p. 272
The Units of Selection Debate	p. 293
Introduction	p. 295
Artifact, Cause and Genic Selection	p. 297
The Return of the Gene	p. 313
The Levels of Selection Debate: Philosophical Issues	p. 327
Sociobiology and Ethics	p. 335
Introduction	p. 337
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis	p. 339
The Evolution of Cooperation	p. 347
Darwinism in Contemporary Moral Philosophy and Social Theory	p. 358
Evolutionary Psychology	p. 371
Introduction	p. 373
Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology	p. 375
The Environments of Our Hominin Ancestors, Tool-usage, and Scenario Visualization	p. 387
Design and Creationism	p. 403
Introduction	p. 405
Science and Creationism	p. 407
Irreducible Complexity: Obstacle to Darwinian Evolution	p. 427
The Flagellum Unspun: The Collapse of "Irreducible Complexity"	p. 439
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