In Mendel's mirror : philosophical reflections on biology

"Philip Kitcher is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of science today. Here he collects, for the first time, many of his published articles on the philosophy of biology, spanning from the mid-1980's to the present. The book's title refers to Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian mo...

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Auteur principal : Kitcher Philip (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : In Mendel's mirror : philosophical reflections on biology / Philip Kitcher
Publié : Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press , 2003
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-385 p.-[2] p. de pl.)
Sujets :
  • 1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences (1984)
  • The hegemony of molecular biology (1999)
  • Darwin's achievement (1985)
  • The return of the gene (1988) / with Kim Sterelny
  • Species (1984)
  • Some puzzles about species (1989)
  • Function and design (1993)
  • The evolution of human altruism (1993)
  • Evolution of altruism in optional and compulsory games (1995) / with John Batali
  • Infectious ideas : some preliminary explorations (2001)
  • Race, ethnicity, biology, culture (1999)
  • Utopian eugenics and social inequality (2000)
  • Battling the undead : how (and how not) to resist genetic determinism (2000)
  • Developmental decomposition and the future of human behavioral ecology (1990)
  • Four ways of "biologicizing" ethics (1993)
  • Pop sociobiology reborn : the evolutionary psychology of sex and violence (2002) / with A. Leah Vickers
  • Born-again creationism (2002)