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Philosophy of Biology: A Contemporary Introduction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415315920)
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xIs life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg - a biologist and a philosopher, respectively - join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike.
Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the controversies about genocentrism and genetic determinism; and the debate about major transitions central to contemporary thinking about macroevolution; the authors lay out the broad terms in which we should assess the impact of biology on human capacities, social institutions and ethical values.
Author: Alex Rosenberg, Daniel W. McShea
ISBN-10: 0415315921
ISBN-13: 9780415315920
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2007
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.43h x 6.47w x 0.72d
By Alex Rosenberg
xAlex Rosenberg is R. Taylor Cole Professor of Philosophy at Duke University. He is the author of Philosophy of Science: a Contemporary Introduction (2nd edition, 2005) and co-editor with Yuri Balashov of Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (2002).
Daniel W. McShea is Associate Professor of Biology at Duke University.
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