The philosophy of biology / edited by David L. Hull and Michael Ruse.
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1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Adaptation: current usages / Mary Jane West-Eberhard
- Universal Darwinism / Richard Dawkins
- The Leibnizian paradigm / Daniel C. Dennett
- Exaptation
- a missing term in the science of forum / Stephen Jay Gould and Elizabeth S. Vrba
- Six sayings about adaptationism / Elliott Sober
- Two concepts of constraint: adaptationism and the challenge from developmental biology / Ron Amundson
- Developmental systems and evolutionary explanation / P.E. Griffiths and R.D. Gray
- The return of the gene / Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher
- The levels of selection: a hierarchy of interactors / Robert N. Brandon
- A critical review of philosophical work on the units of selection problem / Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson
- Function without purpose: the uses of causal role function in evolutionary biology / Ron Amundson and George V. Lauder
- Function and design / Philip Kitcher
- Functions: consensus without unity / Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Individuality, pluralism, and the phylogenetic species concept / Brent D. Mishler and Robert N. Brandon
- Phylogenetic systematics and the species problem / Devin de Queiroz and Michael J. Donoghue
- Eliminative pluralism / Marc Ereshefsky
- Science and myth / John Maynard Smith
- On human nature / David L. Hull
- Gender and science: origin, history, and politics / Evelyn Fox Keller
- Essentialism, women, and war: protesting too much, protesting too little / Susan Oyama
- Essentialism and constructionism about sexual orientation / Edward Stein; Altruism: theoretical contexts / Alexander Rosenberg
- What is evolutionary altruism? / Elliott Sober
- On the relationship between evolutionary and psychological definitions of altruism and selfishness / David Sloan Wilson
- The human genome project: towards an analysis of the empirical, ethical, and conceptual issues involved / Marga Vicedo
- Who's afraid of the human genome project? / Philip Kitcher
- In human genetics disguised eugenics? / Diane B. Paul
- Normality and variation: the human genome project and the ideal human type / Elisabeth A. Lloyd
- The human genome project: research tactics and economic strategies / Alexander Rosenberg
- The moral foundations of the idea of evolutionary progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the Neo-Darwinians / Robert J. Richards
- Evolution and progress / Michael Ruse
- Complexity and evolution: what everybody knows / Daniel W. McShea
- On replacing the idea of progress with an operational notion of directionality / Stephen Jay Gould
- When faith and reason clash: evolution and the bible / Alvin Plantinga
- Evolution and special creation / Ernan McMullin
- Reply to McMullin / Alvin Plantinga.