Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / / edited by Elliott Sober

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006
• Edizione: 3rd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (641 p.)
• Disciplina: 576.8
• Soggetto topico: Evolution (Biology); Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy; Biology - Philosophy
• Altri autori: SoberElliott
• Note generali: "Bradford books."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- I Fitness -- 1 The Propensity Interpretation of Fitness -- 2 The Two Faces of Fitness -- II Units of Selection -- 3 Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection -- 4 Levels of Selection: An Alternative to Individualism in Biology and the Human Sciences -- III Adaptationism -- 5 The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: A Critique of the Adaptationist Programme -- 6 Optimization Theory in Evolution -- IV Women in the Evolutionary Process -- 7 Empathy, Polyandry, and the Myth of the Coy Female -- 8 Pre-theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality -- V Evolutionary Psychology -- 9 Toward Mapping the Evolved Functional Organization of Mind and Brain -- 10 Evolutionary Psychology: A Critique -- VI Laws in Evolutionary Theory -- 11 The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis -- 12 Two Outbreaks of Lawlessness in Recent Philosophy of Biology -- VII Reductionism -- 13 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences -- 14 Why the Antireductionist Consensus Won't Survive the Case of Classical Mendelian Genetics -- 15 The Multiple Realizability Argument Against Reductionism -- VIII Essentialism and Population Thinking -- 16 Typological versus Population Thinking -- 17 Evolution, Population Thinking, and Essentialism -- IX Species -- 18 A Matter of Individuality -- 19 Choosing Among Alternative ''Phylogenetic'' Species Concepts -- X Phylogenetic Inference -- 20 Cases in Which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods Will Be Positively Misleading -- 21 The Logical Basis of Phylogenetic Analysis -- XI Race-Social Construction or Biological Reality? -- 22 Why There Are No Human Races -- 23 A New Perspective on the Race Debate -- XII Cultural Evolution -- 24 Does Culture Evolve? -- 25 Models of Cultural Evolution -- XIII Evolutionary Ethics -- 26 Moral Philosophy as Applied Science. ; 27 Four Ways of ''Biologicizing'' Ethics -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Essays by philosophers and scientists address conceptual issues in evolutionary biology; a new edition substantially updated, with new sections on women in the evolutionary process, evolutionary psychology, laws in evolutionary theory, and race.
• Titolo autorizzato: Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology
• ISBN: 0-262-29995-X; 1-282-09813-6; 9786612098130; 0-262-28400-6; 1-4294-7768-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824962803321
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