The Metaphysics of Evolution: Naqshbandis in the Ottoman World, 1450-1700This critical collection of essays represents the best of the best when it comes to philosophy of biology. Many chapters treat evolution as a biological phenomenon, but the author is more generally concerned with science itself. Present-day science, particularly current views on systematics and biological evolution are investigated. The aspects of these sciences that are relevant to the general analysis of selection processes are presented, and they also serve to exemplify the general characteristics exhibited by science since its inception. |
Contents
On Human Nature | 11 |
Charles Darwin and NineteenthCentury Philosophies of Science | 27 |
Plancks Principles | 43 |
Darwin and the Nature of Science | 62 |
The Ontological Status of Species As Evolutionary Units | 79 |
Individuality and Selection | 89 |
Genealogical Actors in Ecological Roles | 110 |
Consistency and Monophyly | 129 |
Central Subjects and Historical Narratives | 181 |
In Defense of Presentism | 205 |
Conceptual Evolution and The Eye of the Octopus | 221 |
Altruism in Science A Sociobiological Model of Cooperative Behavior Among Scientists | 243 |
Sociobiology Scientific Bandwagon or Traveling Medicine Show? | 263 |
Sociobiology Another New Synthesis | 285 |
References | 299 |
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