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

• Autore: Kitcher Philip <1947->
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Disciplina: 570/.1
• Soggetto topico: Biology - Philosophy
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: In Mendel's mirror
• ISBN: 0-19-773056-6; 9786610703999; 1-280-70399-7; 0-19-534855-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823862503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford scholarship online.