03065nam 22006494a 450 991082386250332120200520144314.00-19-773056-697866107039991-280-70399-70-19-534855-910.1093/oso/9780195151787.001.0001(CKB)1000000000399295(EBL)422914(OCoLC)437109467(SSID)ssj0000299443(PQKBManifestationID)11229111(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000299443(PQKBWorkID)10242624(PQKB)10133773(Au-PeEL)EBL422914(CaPaEBR)ebr10272856(CaONFJC)MIL70399(MiAaPQ)EBC422914(OCoLC)1406788805(StDuBDS)9780197730560(EXLCZ)99100000000039929520020327d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn Mendel's mirror philosophical reflections on biology /Philip Kitcher1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20031 online resource (404 p.)Oxford scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2003.0-19-515178-X 0-19-515179-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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); IndexPhilip 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.Oxford scholarship online.BiologyPhilosophyBiologyPhilosophy.570/.1Kitcher Philip1947-66707MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823862503321In Mendel's mirror4125959UNINA