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Autore |
Kitcher Philip <1947-> |
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Titolo |
In Mendel's mirror : philosophical reflections on biology / / Philip Kitcher |
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New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-773056-6 |
9786610703999 |
1-280-70399-7 |
0-19-534855-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (404 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biology - Philosophy |
Science |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 2003. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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