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Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology First Edition

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    University of Chicago Press
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“For most philosophers, reductionism is wrong because it denies the fact of multiple realizability. For most biologists, reductionism is wrong because it involves a commitment to genetic determinism. In this stimulating new book, Rosenberg reconfigures the problem. His Darwinian reductionism denies genetic determinism and it has no problem with multiple realizability. It captures what scientific materialism should have been after all along.” -- Elliot Sober, University of Wisconsin

“Over the last twenty years and more, philosophers and theoretical biologists have built an antireductionist consensus about biology. We have thought that biology is autonomous without being spooky. While biological systems are built from chemical ones, biological facts are not just physical facts, and biological explanations cannot be replaced by physical and chemical ones. The most consistent, articulate, informed, and lucid skeptic about this view has been Alex Rosenberg, and Darwinian Reductionism is the mature synthesis of his alternative vision. He argues that we can show the paradigm facts of biology—evolution and development—are built from the chemical and physical, and reduce to them. Moreover, he argues, unpleasantly plausibly, that defenders of the consensus must slip one way or the other: into spookiness about the biological, or into a reduction program for the biological. People like me have no middle way. Bugger.”

-- Kim Sterelny, author of Sex and Death


“Alex Rosenberg has been thinking about reductionism in biology for a quarter of a century. His latest discussion is many-sided, informed, and informative—and extremely challenging.”


-- Philip Kitcher, Columbia University

"Rosenberg provides an accessible review of current ideas on the 'wiring' of . . . gene complexes and why they help account for morphological evolution. He is one of the first philosophers to conside the implications of 'evo-devo' . . . and seizes the opportunity to promote a reductionist interpretation that was simply not possible with population genetics." -- Bruce H. Weber ― Nature

"Rosenberg's book tackles very difficult issues in the philosophy of biology in subtle and innovative ways." -- Edward M. Engelmann ― Review of Metaphysics

About the Author

Alex Rosenberg is the R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy and Biology at Duke University and the author of many books, including Economics—Mathematical Politics or Science of Diminishing Returns? and Instrumental Biology, or The Disunity of Science, both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; First Edition (September 15, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 263 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226727297
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226727295
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.12 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.1 x 6.3 x 0.82 inches
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Alex's new novel, "In the Shadow of Enigma" is a stand alone sequel to his best selling "The Girl From Krakow." It's a thriller that follows four characters from the end of the '40s to the height of the cold war, all in the shadow of the greatest undisclosed secret of the Second World War: Rita Feuerstahl, who learned that the German Enigma had been deciphered by the Poles just before she escaped a Polish ghetto, Gil Romero, her prewar lover whom Rita marries after the war, Stefan Sajac, the infant son Rita had smuggled out of the ghetto and lost track of, and Otto Schulke, the German Gestapo detective who apprehended Rita during the war and suspected that she knew the secret of the Enigma’s decoding.

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