1. History of the Philosophy of Biology ; 2. Natural Selection and the Structure of Evolutionary Theory ; 3. Population Thinking ; 4. Testing and Optimality Models ; 5. Teleology ; 6. Evolvability ; 7. Species and Taxonomy ; 8. Chance and Contingency ; 9. Macroevolution ; 10. Molecular Biology and Reduction ; 11. Origins of Life Studies ; 12. Evo-Devo ; 13. Philosophical Issues Arising from Genomics ; 14. Animal Behavior ; 15. Neuroscience ; 16. Teleological Theories of Mental Content ; 17. Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psych, and Cultural Evolution ; 18. Evolution of Moral Norms ; 19. Genes and Society ; 20. The Concept of Race in Medicine ; 21. Ecology and the Environment ; 22. Agriculture and Agricultural Biotechnology ; 23. Biology and Religion ; 24. Feminist Philosophy of Biology ; 25. Rhetoric in Biology
Michael Ruse is a historian and philosopher of science, and one of the world's experts on the life and thought of Charles Darwin. He is the author of about twenty books, including the Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw, Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction? and Darwinism and its Discontents. He teaches at Florida State University.
"Every department member responsible for library orders should have this volume on their list. Everyone who works in this field-biologists, sociologists, dare one say philosophers?-should have their own copy. Already, right now, I am digging into a coupleof articles pertinent to my own research." -- Michael Ruse, Program in History & Philosophy of Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, The Quarterly Review of Biology
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