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Contemporary debates in philosophy of biology / / edited by Francisco J. Ayala and Robert Arp
| Contemporary debates in philosophy of biology / / edited by Francisco J. Ayala and Robert Arp |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Disciplina |
570.1
574.01 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AyalaFrancisco J <1934-2023.> (Francisco José)
ArpRobert |
| Collana | Contemporary debates in philosophy |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy Biologia Filosofia Evolució (Biologia) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
| ISBN |
1-283-20471-1
9786613204714 1-119-97240-X 1-4443-1492-0 1-4443-1493-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""General Introduction""; ""References and Further Reading""; ""PART I IS IT POSSIBLE TOREDUCE BIOLOGICALEXPLANATIONS TOEXPLANATIONS INCHEMISTRY AND/ORPHYSICS?""; ""Introduction""; ""References and Further Reading""; ""CHAPTER ONE It Is Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics""; ""CHAPTER TWO It Is Not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics""
""PART II HAVE TRAITS EVOLVED TO FUNCTION THE WAY THEY DO BECAUSE OF A PAST ADVANTAGE?""""Introduction""; ""References and Further Reading""; ""CHAPTER THREE Traits Have Evolved to Function the Way They Do Because of a Past Advantage""; ""CHAPTER FOUR Traits Have Not Evolved to Function the Way They Do Because of a Past Advantage""; ""PART III ARE SPECIES REAL?""; ""Introduction""; ""References and Further Reading""; ""CHAPTER FIVE Species Are Real Biological Entities""; ""CHAPTER SIX Species Are Not Uniquely Real Biological Entities""; ""PART IV DOES SELECTION OPERATE PRIMARILY ON GENES?"" ""Introduction""""References and Further Reading""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN Selection Does Operate Primarily on Genes: In Defense of the Gene as the Unit of Selection""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT Selection Does Not Operate Primarily on Genes""; ""PART V ARE MICROEVOLUTION AND MACROEVOLUTION GOVERNED BY THE SAME PROCESSES?""; ""Introduction""; ""References and Further Reading""; ""CHAPTER NINE Microevolution and Macroevolution are Governed by the Same Processes""; ""CHAPTER TEN Microevolution and Macroevolution Are Not Governed by the Same Processes"" ""PART VI DOES EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY OFFER A SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGE TO THE NEO-DARWINIAN PARADIGM?""""Introduction""; ""References and Further Reading""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN Evolutionary Developmental Biology Offers a Significant Challenge to the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE Evolutionary Developmental Biology Does Not Offer a Significant Challenge to the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm""; ""PART VII WERE THE BASIC COMPONENTS OF THE HUMAN MIND SOLIDIFIED DURING THE PLEISTOCENE EPOCH?""; ""Introduction""; ""References and Further Reading"" ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Basic Components of the Human Mind Were Solidified During the Pleistocene Epoch""""CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Basic Components of the Human Mind Were Not Solidified During the Pleistocene Epoch""; ""PART VIII DOES MEMETICS PROVIDE A USEFUL WAY OF UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL EVOLUTION?""; ""Introduction""; ""References and Further Reading""; ""CHAPTER FIFTEEN Memetics Does Provide a Useful Way of Understanding Cultural Evolution""; ""CHAPTER SIXTEEN Memetics Does Not Provide a Useful Way of Understanding Cultural Evolution"" ""PART IX CAN THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ACT AS A GROUND FOR ETHICS?"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139967303321 |
| Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cooperation and its evolution [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kim Sterelny ... [et al.]
| Cooperation and its evolution [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kim Sterelny ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : MIT Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (587 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SterelnyKim |
| Collana | Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Evolutionary psychology Cooperation |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-299-22073-8
0-262-31303-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; I Agents and Environments; 1 The Evolution of Individualistic Norms; 2 Timescales, Symmetry, and Uncertainty Reduction in the Origins of Hierarchy in Biological Systems; 3 On Depending on Fish for a Living, and Other Difficulties of Living Sustainably; 4 Life in Interesting Times: Cooperation and Collective Action in the Holocene; 5 The Birth of Hierarchy; 6 Territoriality and Loss Aversion: The Evolutionary Roots of Property Rights; 7 Cooperation and Biological Markets: The Power of Partner Choice
8 False Advertising in Biological Markets: Partner Choice and the Problem of Reliability9 MHC-Mediated Benefits of Trade: A Biomolecular Approach to Cooperation in the Marketplace; 10 What We Don ' t Know about the Evolution of Cooperation in Animals; 11 Task Partitioning: Is It a Useful Concept?; 12 Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Toward a Richer Conceptual Framework; II Agents and Mechanisms; 13 Why the Proximate-Ultimate Distinction Is Misleading; 14 Emergence of a Signaling Network with Probe and Adjust 15 Bacterial Social Life: Information Processing Characteristics and Cooperation Coevolve16 Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission; 17 What Can Imitation Do for Cooperation?; 18 The Role of Learning in Punishment, Prosociality, and Human Uniqueness; 19 Our Pigheaded Core: How We Became Smarter to Be Influenced by Other People; 20 Altruistic Behaviors from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective; 21 Culture-Gene Coevolution, Large-Scale Cooperation, and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology; 22 Suicide Bombers, Weddings, and Prison Tattoos 23 Communicative Functions of Shame and Guilt24 Moral Disgust and the Tribal Instincts Hypothesis; 25 Evolution, Motivation, and Moral Beliefs; 26 The Many Moral Nativisms; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465483603321 |
| Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, : MIT Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cooperation and its evolution / / edited by Kim Sterelny [and others]
| Cooperation and its evolution / / edited by Kim Sterelny [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, Eng., : MIT Press, ©2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (587 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SterelnyKim |
| Collana | Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Cooperation Evolutionary psychology Cooperativeness |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology |
| ISBN |
0-262-31304-9
1-299-22073-8 0-262-31303-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; I Agents and Environments; 1 The Evolution of Individualistic Norms; 2 Timescales, Symmetry, and Uncertainty Reduction in the Origins of Hierarchy in Biological Systems; 3 On Depending on Fish for a Living, and Other Difficulties of Living Sustainably; 4 Life in Interesting Times: Cooperation and Collective Action in the Holocene; 5 The Birth of Hierarchy; 6 Territoriality and Loss Aversion: The Evolutionary Roots of Property Rights; 7 Cooperation and Biological Markets: The Power of Partner Choice
8 False Advertising in Biological Markets: Partner Choice and the Problem of Reliability9 MHC-Mediated Benefits of Trade: A Biomolecular Approach to Cooperation in the Marketplace; 10 What We Don ' t Know about the Evolution of Cooperation in Animals; 11 Task Partitioning: Is It a Useful Concept?; 12 Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Toward a Richer Conceptual Framework; II Agents and Mechanisms; 13 Why the Proximate-Ultimate Distinction Is Misleading; 14 Emergence of a Signaling Network with Probe and Adjust 15 Bacterial Social Life: Information Processing Characteristics and Cooperation Coevolve16 Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission; 17 What Can Imitation Do for Cooperation?; 18 The Role of Learning in Punishment, Prosociality, and Human Uniqueness; 19 Our Pigheaded Core: How We Became Smarter to Be Influenced by Other People; 20 Altruistic Behaviors from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective; 21 Culture-Gene Coevolution, Large-Scale Cooperation, and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology; 22 Suicide Bombers, Weddings, and Prison Tattoos 23 Communicative Functions of Shame and Guilt24 Moral Disgust and the Tribal Instincts Hypothesis; 25 Evolution, Motivation, and Moral Beliefs; 26 The Many Moral Nativisms; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792079003321 |
| Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, Eng., : MIT Press, ©2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Cooperation and its evolution / / edited by Kim Sterelny [and others]
| Cooperation and its evolution / / edited by Kim Sterelny [and others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, Eng., : MIT Press, ©2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (587 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SterelnyKim |
| Collana | Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Cooperation Evolutionary psychology Cooperativeness |
| Soggetto non controllato |
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Science & Technology
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology |
| ISBN |
0-262-31304-9
1-299-22073-8 0-262-31303-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Introduction; I Agents and Environments; 1 The Evolution of Individualistic Norms; 2 Timescales, Symmetry, and Uncertainty Reduction in the Origins of Hierarchy in Biological Systems; 3 On Depending on Fish for a Living, and Other Difficulties of Living Sustainably; 4 Life in Interesting Times: Cooperation and Collective Action in the Holocene; 5 The Birth of Hierarchy; 6 Territoriality and Loss Aversion: The Evolutionary Roots of Property Rights; 7 Cooperation and Biological Markets: The Power of Partner Choice
8 False Advertising in Biological Markets: Partner Choice and the Problem of Reliability9 MHC-Mediated Benefits of Trade: A Biomolecular Approach to Cooperation in the Marketplace; 10 What We Don ' t Know about the Evolution of Cooperation in Animals; 11 Task Partitioning: Is It a Useful Concept?; 12 Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Toward a Richer Conceptual Framework; II Agents and Mechanisms; 13 Why the Proximate-Ultimate Distinction Is Misleading; 14 Emergence of a Signaling Network with Probe and Adjust 15 Bacterial Social Life: Information Processing Characteristics and Cooperation Coevolve16 Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission; 17 What Can Imitation Do for Cooperation?; 18 The Role of Learning in Punishment, Prosociality, and Human Uniqueness; 19 Our Pigheaded Core: How We Became Smarter to Be Influenced by Other People; 20 Altruistic Behaviors from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective; 21 Culture-Gene Coevolution, Large-Scale Cooperation, and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology; 22 Suicide Bombers, Weddings, and Prison Tattoos 23 Communicative Functions of Shame and Guilt24 Moral Disgust and the Tribal Instincts Hypothesis; 25 Evolution, Motivation, and Moral Beliefs; 26 The Many Moral Nativisms; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807494603321 |
| Cambridge, Mass. ; ; London, Eng., : MIT Press, ©2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin and design [[electronic resource] ] : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse
| Darwin and design [[electronic resource] ] : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse |
| Autore | Ruse Michael |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 371 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 576.801 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Teleology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-674-04301-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface Introduction 1. Two Thousand Years of Design 2. Paley and Kant Fight Back 3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 4. A Plurality of Problems 5. Charles Darwin 6. A Subject Too Profound 7. Darwinian against Darwinian 8. The Century of Evolutionism 9. Adaptation in Action 10. Theory and Test 11. Formalism Redux 12. From Function to Design 13. Design as Metaphor 14. Natural Theology Evolves 15. Turning Back the Clock Sources and Suggested Reading Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455133403321 |
Ruse Michael
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| Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin and design [[electronic resource] ] : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse
| Darwin and design [[electronic resource] ] : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse |
| Autore | Ruse Michael |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 371 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 576.801 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Teleology |
| ISBN |
0-674-26690-0
0-674-04301-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface Introduction 1. Two Thousand Years of Design 2. Paley and Kant Fight Back 3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 4. A Plurality of Problems 5. Charles Darwin 6. A Subject Too Profound 7. Darwinian against Darwinian 8. The Century of Evolutionism 9. Adaptation in Action 10. Theory and Test 11. Formalism Redux 12. From Function to Design 13. Design as Metaphor 14. Natural Theology Evolves 15. Turning Back the Clock Sources and Suggested Reading Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778454303321 |
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Ruse Michael
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| Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse
| Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse |
| Autore | Ruse Michael |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 371 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 576.801 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Teleology |
| ISBN |
0-674-26690-0
0-674-04301-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface Introduction 1. Two Thousand Years of Design 2. Paley and Kant Fight Back 3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 4. A Plurality of Problems 5. Charles Darwin 6. A Subject Too Profound 7. Darwinian against Darwinian 8. The Century of Evolutionism 9. Adaptation in Action 10. Theory and Test 11. Formalism Redux 12. From Function to Design 13. Design as Metaphor 14. Natural Theology Evolves 15. Turning Back the Clock Sources and Suggested Reading Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820611003321 |
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Ruse Michael
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| Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? / Michael Ruse
| Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? / Michael Ruse |
| Autore | Ruse, Michael |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 371 p. ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina | 576.801 |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Teleology |
| ISBN | 067401023X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002226049707536 |
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Ruse, Michael
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| Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Darwin's incomplete idea : Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment / / Gunnar Odhner
| Darwin's incomplete idea : Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment / / Gunnar Odhner |
| Autore | Odhner Gunnar |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (156 pages) |
| Disciplina | 576.801 |
| Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-62273-144-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136032003321 |
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Odhner Gunnar
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| Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin's incomplete idea : Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment / / Gunnar Odhner
| Darwin's incomplete idea : Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment / / Gunnar Odhner |
| Autore | Odhner Gunnar |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (156 pages) |
| Disciplina | 576.801 |
| Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
| ISBN | 1-62273-144-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798999003321 |
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Odhner Gunnar
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| Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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