A collection of essays on the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology which put the theory of knowledge and of moral behaviour on a philosophical basis informed by contemporary evolutionary biological theory.
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'A readable and forthright presentation ... on the relevance of evolution to philosophy ... a useful introduction for students' - Nature
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Michael Ruse is Professor of Philosophy and Zoology at the University of Guelph, Canada.
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My concern in this paper will be with Darwin's discovery of his theory of evolution, particularly the part centred on its mechanisms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relativistic progress, analogy from the domestic world, punctuated equilibria controversy, evolutionary epistemologist, evolutionary ethicist, punctuated equilibria theory, evolutionary ethics, sociobiology controversy, evolutionary epistemology, epigenetic rules, adaptive landscape, societal progress, biological progress, biological illustration, human sociobiology, epistemic values, philosophical naturalist, internal realism, objective ethics, evolutionary thought, normative ethics, landscape metaphor, synthetic theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Sewall Wright, Origin of Species, Stephen Jay Gould, David Hull, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Henry Huxley, Citation Index, David Hume, Karl Popper, The New Synthesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Erasmus Darwin, John Foster Dulles, Julian Huxley, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William Whewell, Social Contract, The Descent of Man, Thomas Kuhn, William Hamilton, Biological Reviews, George Williams, Hilary Putnam New!
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My concern in this paper will be with Darwin's discovery of his theory of evolution, particularly the part centred on its mechanisms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
relativistic progress, analogy from the domestic world, punctuated equilibria controversy, evolutionary epistemologist, evolutionary ethicist, punctuated equilibria theory, evolutionary ethics, sociobiology controversy, evolutionary epistemology, epigenetic rules, adaptive landscape, societal progress, biological progress, biological illustration, human sociobiology, epistemic values, philosophical naturalist, internal realism, objective ethics, evolutionary thought, normative ethics, landscape metaphor, synthetic theory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Sewall Wright, Origin of Species, Stephen Jay Gould, David Hull, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Henry Huxley, Citation Index, David Hume, Karl Popper, The New Synthesis, Alfred Russel Wallace, Erasmus Darwin, John Foster Dulles, Julian Huxley, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William Whewell, Social Contract, The Descent of Man, Thomas Kuhn, William Hamilton, Biological Reviews, George Williams, Hilary Putnam New!
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- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin on 9 pages
- On the Origin of Species (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 9 pages
- The Descent of Man (Penguin Classics) by Charles Darwin on 7 pages
- Ontogeny and Phylogeny by Stephen Jay Gould on 7 pages
- Natural Selection (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Charles Darwin on 7 pages
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- A Historical Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (OPUS) by John Losee on page 277, and Back Matter
- Religion In The Liberal Polity by Terence Cuneo in Front Matter, and page 74
- Biology and the Foundations of Ethics (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology) by Jane Maienschein on page 224
- Evolution and Ethics: Human Morality in Biological and Religious Perspective by Philip Clayton on page 49
- Evolutionary Approaches in the Behavioral Sciences (Research In Biopolitics) (Research In Biopolitics) (Advances in Cognition and Educational Practice) by A. Somit on page 159
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