Darwinism & Philosophy

by Hosle, Vittorio; Illies, Christian

• ISBN13: 9780268030735
• ISBN10: 0268030731
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(10)
Vittorio Hosle
Christian Illies
PART I What Kind of Science Is Darwinian Biology, and What Are Its Ontological Presuppositions?	11	(106)
Materialism, Actualism, and Science: What's Modern about Modern Science?	15	(15)
Peter McLaughlin
Evolution, Paleontology, and Metaphysics	30	(28)
David Oldroyd
Darwin's A Priori Insight: The Structure and Status of the Principle of Natural Selection	58	(25)
Christian Illies
Darwinism and Naturalism: Identical Twins or Just Good Friends?	83	(9)
Michael Ruse
Darwinism's Multiple Ontologies	92	(25)
David Depew
PART II Is a Non-Naturalistic Interpretation of Darwinism Possible?	117	(126)
A Systems Theory of Evolution	121	(22)
Rupert Riedl
``It Might Be Called Reverence''	143	(23)
Phillip R. Sloan
Darwin's Metaphysics of Mind	166	(15)
Robert J. Richards
Are There Metaphysical Implications of Darwinian Evolutionary Biology?	181	(15)
Jean Gayon
On the Problem of Direction and Goal in Biological Evolution	196	(20)
Dieter Wandschneider
Objective Idealism and Darwinism	216	(27)
Vittorio Hosle
PART III What Is the Epistemological Relevance of Darwinism?	243	(56)
The New Evolutionary Ontology and Its Implications for Epistemology	245	(14)
Michael T. Ghiselin
How Is It That We Can Know This World? New Arguments in Evolutionary Epistemology	259	(16)
Gerhard Vollmer
Darwinism as a Theory for Finite Beings	275	(24)
Marcel Weber
PART IV Darwinism and the Place of the Human	299	(82)
Evolutionary Selection and the Nature of Humanity	301	(48)
Richard D. Alexander
Darwinism, Dualism, and Biological Agency	349	(15)
Lenny Moss
Darwinism: Neither Biologistic nor Metaphysical	364	(17)
Bernd Graefrath
Index	381