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9780521678452

Philosophy, Biology and Life

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521678452

  • ISBN10:

    0521678455

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-11-28
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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It has been claimed that following the decline of Marxism and Freudianism, Darwinism has become the dominant intellectual paradigm of our day. In the mass media there are many bitter disputes between today's new Darwinians and their opponents, often over religion. But the 'neo-Darwinian paradigm' is not as simple or as seamless as either its advocates or its opponents would sometimes have us believe. Biology is in a state of development which defies the standard stereotypes. The papers in this volume, written by some of the leading philosophers in the field, bring out many of the fascinating and complex issues which arise in current attempts to account for life and its development.

Table of Contents

Transcending the emergence/reduction distinction : the case of biologyp. 1
Other histories, other biologiesp. 21
The ontogenesis of human identityp. 49
Souls, minds, bodies and planetsp. 83
Evo-devo : a new evolutionary paradigmp. 105
Is drift a serious alternative to natural selection as an explanation of complex adaptive traits?p. 125
Evolution and aestheticsp. 155
The problems of biological designp. 177
Are there genes?p. 193
Folk psychology and the biological basis of intersubjectivityp. 211
The loss of rational designp. 235
Under Darwin's cosh? : neo-Aristotelian thinking in environmental ethicsp. 259
The cultural origins of cognitive adaptationsp. 291
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