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In Mendel's Mirror performs the valuable service of collecting together some of the finest essays in philosophy of biology written in the last two decades, and gives a fascinating insight into Kitcher's intellectual development over that period. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews What is most striking about the book is its uniformly high quality ... each essay is substantive, penetrating and authoritative. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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"What is most striking about the book is its uniformly high quality; although the volume runs to nearly four hundred pages, there are no space fillers here - each essay is substantive, penetrating, and authoritative.... In Mendel's Mirror performs the valuable service of collecting together some of the finest essays in philosophy of biology written in the past two decades, and gives a fascinating insight into Kitcher's intellectual development over that period."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Reading these papers together in one volume drives home just how impressive Kitcher's contribution to our field is. This volume will undoubtedly stimulate debate and provide fuel for new research programs in philosophy of biology."--Stephen M. Downes, Biology and Philosophy

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  • Paperback: 410 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; illustrated edition edition (March 27, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195151798
  • ISBN-13: 978-0195151794
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #527,872 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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discriminating altruists, heterozvgote superiority, allelic environment, classical genetic theory, expected duality, utopian eugenics, discriminating altruism, optional games, species distinctness, biogeographical questions, etiological conception, dialectical biology, explanatory extension, pop sociobiology, human behavioral ecology, ancillary theories, life ceiling, genealogical nexus, classical fitness, compulsory game, functional ascriptions, high defection, secondary matrix, biological practice, species taxa
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The method behind most of these essays is: pose a question, posit a set of answers that covers the space of possible answers, examine how the shape of (biological/evolutionary) outcomes can discriminate between them, then look at the data to see what fits.

The essays are succinct, clear and often use either approximate equations or the results of simulation runs to assist the analysis -- very little "armchair" stuff here.

The only essay that I found a bit gratuitous was the one on "Born Again Creationism" which was (thankfully) much more salient in 2003 than it is today.
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