In Mendel's mirror : philosophical reflections on biology / Philip Kitcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kitcher, Philip, 1947- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Philosophy.

Biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philip Kitcher is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of science today. Here he collects articles on the philosophy of biology from the mid-1980s to the present. The book's title refers to Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk who was one of the first scientists to develop an heredity theory.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1. 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences (1984); 2. The Hegemony of Molecular Biology (1999); 3. Darwin's Achievement (1985); 4. The Return of the Gene (1988; with Kim Sterelny); 5. Species (1984); 6. Some Puzzles about Species (1989); 7. Function and Design (1993); 8. The Evolution of Human Altruism (1993); 9. Evolution of Altruism in Optional and Compulsory Games (1995; with John Batali); 10. Infectious Ideas: Some Preliminary Explorations (2001); 11. Race, Ethnicity, Biology, Culture (1999); 12. Utopian Eugenics and Social Inequality (2000)

13. Battling the Undead: How (and How Not) to Resist Genetic Determinism (2000)14. Developmental Decomposition and the Future of Human Behavioral Ecology (1990); 15. Four Ways of ""Biologicizing"" Ethics (1993); 16. Pop Sociobiology Reborn: The Evolutionary Psychology of Sex and Violence (2002; with A. Leah Vickers); 17. Born-Again Creationism (2002); Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773056-6

9786610703999

1-280-70399-7

0-19-534855-9

OCLC:

437109467