THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY

Abstract

Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Adaptation / Tim Lewens -- 2. Population genetics / Roberta L. Millstein and Robert A. Skipper Jr. -- 3. Units and levels of selection / Elisabeth A. Lloyd -- 4. What's wrong with the emergentist statistical interpretation of natural selection and random drift? / Robert N. Brandon and Grant Ramsey -- 5. Gene / Paul E. Griffiths and Karola Stotz -- 6. Information in biology / Peter Godfrey-Smite -- 7. Reductionism (and antireductionism) in biology / Alexander Rosenberg -- 8. Mechanisms and models / Lindley Darden -- 9. Teleology / Andr?? Ariew -- 10. Macroevolution, minimalism, and the radiation of the animals / Kim Sterelny -- 11. Philosophy and phylogenetics: historical and current connections / Maureen Kearney -- 12. Human evolution: the three grand challenges of human biology / Francisco J. Ayala -- 13. Varieties of evolutionary psychology / David J. Buller -- 14. Neurobiology / Valerie Gray Hardcastle -- 15. Biological explanations of human sexuality: the genetic basis of sexual orientation / Christopher Horvath -- 16. Game theory in evolutionary biology / Zachary Ernst -- 17. What is an 'embryo' and how do we know? / Jane Maienschein -- 18. Evolutionary developmental biology / Manfred D. Laubichler -- 19. Molecular and systems biology and bioethics / Jason Scott Robert -- 20. Ecology / Gregory M. Mikkelson -- 21. From ecological diversity to biodiversity / Sahotra Sarkar -- 22. Biology and religion / Robert T. Pennock -- 23. The moral grammar of narratives in history of biology: the case of Haeckel and Nazi biology / Robert J. Richards -- Reference list -- Index