Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology

Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / edited by Elliott Sober.

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Other Authors: Sober, Elliott
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology)
Evolution (Biology) > Philosophy.
Biology > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • The propensity interpretation of fitness / Susan K. Mills and John H. Beatty
  • The two faces of fitness / Elliott Sober
  • Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection / George C. Williams
  • Levels of selection: an alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences / David Sloan Wilson
  • The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme / Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin
  • Optimization theory in evolution / John Maynard Smith
  • Empathy, polyandry, and the myth of the coy female / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
  • Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality / Elisabeth Lloyd
  • Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides
  • Evolutionary psychology: a critique / David J. Buller
  • The evolutionary contingency thesis / John H. Beatty
  • Two outbreaks of lawlessness in recent philosophy of biology / Elliott Sober
  • 1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher
  • Why the antireductionist consensus won't survive the case of classical mendelian genetics / Kenneth Waters
  • The multiple realizability argument against reductionism / Elliott Sober
  • Typological versus population thinking / Ernst Mayr
  • Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism / Elliott Sober
  • A matter of individuality / David L. Hull
  • Choosing among alternative "phylogenetic" species concepts / David A. Baum and Michael J. Donoghue
  • Cases in which parsimony and compatibility methods will be positively misleading / Joseph Felsenstein
  • The logical basis of phylogenetic analysis / James Farris
  • Why there are no human races / Kwame Anthony Appiah
  • A new perspective on the race debate / Robin O. Andreasen
  • Does culture evolve? / Joseph Fracchia and Richard C. Lewontin
  • Models of cultural evolution / Elliott Sober
  • Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson
  • Four ways of "biologicizing" ethics / Philip Kitcher.

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