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Author Sober, Elliott.

Title Philosophy of biology / Elliott Sober.

Publication Info. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1993.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  575.001 So12p 1993    ---  Available
Description xix, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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volume nc rdacarrier
Series Dimensions of philosophy series
Dimensions of philosophy series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
Contents 1. What Is Evolutionary Theory? -- 1.1. What Is Evolution? -- 1.2. The Place of Evolutionary Theory in Biology -- 1.3. Pattern and Process -- 1.4. Historical Particulars and General Laws -- 1.5. The Causes of Evolution -- 1.6. The Domains of Biology and Physics -- 1.7. Biological Explanations and Physical Explanations -- 2. Creationism -- 2.1. The Danger of Anachronism -- 2.2. Paley's Watch and the Likelihood Principle -- 2.3. Hume's Critique -- 2.4. Why Natural Selection Isn't a Random Process -- 2.5. Two Kinds of Similarity -- 2.6. The Problem of Predictive Equivalence -- 2.7. Is the Design Hypothesis Unscientific? -- 2.8. The Incompleteness of Science -- 3. Fitness -- 3.1. An Idealized Life Cycle -- 3.2. The Interpretation of Probability -- 3.3. Two Ways to Find Out About Fitness -- 3.4. The Tautology Problem -- 3.5. Supervenience -- 3.6. Advantageousness and Fitness -- 3.7. Teleology Naturalized -- 4. The Units of Selection Problem -- 4.1. Hierarchy -- 4.2. Adaptation and Fortuitous Benefit -- 4.3. Decoupling Parts and Wholes -- 4.4. Red Herrings -- 4.5. Examples -- 4.6. Correlation, Cost, and Benefit -- 5. Adaptationism -- 5.1. What Is Adaptationism? -- 5.2. How Genetics Can Get in the Way -- 5.3. Is Adaptationism Untestable? -- 5.4. The Argument from Complex Traits -- 5.5. If Optimality Models Are Too Easy to Produce, Let's Make Them Harder -- 5.6. Game Theory -- 6. Systematics -- 6.1. The Death of Essentialism -- 6.2. Individuality and the Species Problem -- 6.3. Three Systematic Philosophies -- 6.4. Internal Coherence -- 6.5. Phylogenetic Inference Based on Overall Similarity -- 6.6. Parsimony and Phylogenetic Inference -- 7. Sociobiology and the Extension of Evolutionary Theory -- 7.1. Biological Determinism -- 7.2. Does Sociobiology Have an Ideological Function? -- 7.3. Anthropomorphism Versus Linguistic Puritanism -- 7.4. Ethics -- 7.5. Models of Cultural Evolution.
Subject Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.
Creationism.
Natural selection -- Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Creationism. (OCoLC)fst00882407
Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst00917312
Evolution (Biology) -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. (OCoLC)fst00917318
Natural selection -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01034525
ISBN 0813307856 (alk. paper)
9780813307855 (alk. paper)
0813308240 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780813308241 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

 
    
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