Table of Contents

David L. Hull and Michael Ruse: Introduction
Part I: Adaptation
Introduction to Part I
1: Mary Jane West-Eberhard: Adaptation: Current Usages
2: Richard Dawkins: Universal Darwinism
3: D. C. Dennett: The Leibnizian Paradigm
4: Stephen Jay Gould and Elisabeth S. Vrba: . Exaptation - A Missing Term in the Science of Form
5: Elliott Sober: Six Sayings About Adaptationism
Part II: Development
Introduction to Part II
6: Ron Amundson: Two Concepts of Constraint: Adaptationism and the Challenge from Developmental Biology
7: P. E. Griffiths and R. D. Gray: Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanation
Part III: Units of Selection
8: Kim Sterelny and Philip Kitcher: The Return of the Gene
9: Robert N. Brandon: The Levels of Selection: A Hierarchy of Interactors
10: Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson: A Critical Review of Philosophical Work on the Units of Selection Problem
Part IV: Function
Introduction to Part IV
11: Ron Amundson: Function Without Purpose: The Uses of Causal Role Function in Evolutionary Biology
12: Philip Kitcher: Function and Design
13: Peter Godfrey-Smith: Functions: Consensus Without Unity
Part V: Species
Introduction to Part V
14: Brent D. Mishler and Robert N. Brandon: Individuality, Pluralism, and the Phylogenetic Species Concept
15: Kevin de Queiroz and Michael J. Donoghue: Phylogenetic Systematics and the Species Problem
16: Marc Ereshefsky: Eliminative Pluralism
Part VI: Human Nature
Introduction to Part VI
17: John Maynard Smith: Science and Myth
18: David L. Hull: On Human Nature
19: Evelyn Fox Keller: Gender and Science: Origin, History, and Politics
20: Susan Oyama: Essentialism, Women, and War: Protesting Too Much, Protesting Too Little
21: Edward Stein: Essentialism and Constructionism about Sexual Orientation
Part VII: Altruism
Introduction to Part VII
22: Alexander Rosenberg: Altruism: Theoretical Contexts
23: Elliott Sober: What Is Evolutionary Altruism?
24: David Sloan Wilson: On the Relationship Between Evolutionary and Psychological Definitions of Altruism and Selfishness
Part VIII: Human Genome Project
Introduction to Part VIII
25: Marga Vicedo: The Human Genome Project: Towards an Analysis of the Empirical, Ethical, and Conceptual Issues Involved
26: Philip Kitcher: Who's Afraid of the Human Genome Project?
27: Diane B. Paul: Is Human Genetics Disguised Eugenics?
28: Elisabeth A. Lloyd: Normality and Variation: The Human Genome Project and the Ideal Human Type
29: Alexander Rosenberg: The Human Genome Project: Research Tactics and Economic Strategies
Part IX: Progress
Introduction to Part IX
30: Robert J. Richards: The Moral Foundations of the Idea of Evolutionary Progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the Neo-Darwinians
31: Michael Ruse: Evolution and Progress
32: Daniel W. McShea: Complexity and Evolution: What Everybody Knows
33: Stephen Jay Gould: On Replacing the Idea of Progress with an Operational Notion of Directionality
Part X: Creationism
Introduction to Part X
34: Alvin Plantinga: When Faith and Reason Clash: Evolution and the Bible
35: Ernan McMullin: Evolution and Special Creation
36: Alvin Plantinga: Reply to McMullin
Notes on the Contributors
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

David L. Hull is Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. His publications include Darwin and His Critics (1983), The Metaphysics of Evolution (1989), and Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science (1991).

Michael Ruse is Professor of Philosophy and Zoology at the University of Guelph. He is founder and editor of the journal Biology and Philosophy and on the editorial board of a number of scientific journals. His publications include The Philosophy of Biology (1989), The Darwinian Paradigm (1989), Evolution Naturalism (1994), and Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology (1996).