Entangled Life : Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences / / edited by Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, Trevor Pearce |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (277 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.1 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Evolution (Biology) Science - History Philosophy of Biology Evolutionary Biology History of Science |
ISBN | 94-007-7067-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Perspectives on Entangled Life; Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, and Trevor Pearce -- Part I. Historical Perspectives -- The Origins and Development of the Idea of Organism-Environment Interaction; Trevor Pearce -- James Mark Baldwin, the Baldwin Effect, Organic Selection, and the American “Immigrant Crisis” at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; Christopher D. Green -- The Tension between the Psychological and Ecological Sciences: Making Psychology More Ecological; Harry Heft -- New Perspectives on Organism-Environment Interaction in Anthropology; Emily A. Schultz -- Part II. Contested Models -- Adaptation, Adaptation to, and Interactive Causes; Bruce Glymour -- Environmental Grain, Organism Fitness, and Type Fitness; Marshall Abrams -- Models in Context: Biological and Epistemological Niches; Jessica A. Bolker -- Thinking Outside the Mouse: Organism-Environment Interaction and Human Immunology; Eric Desjardins, Gillian Barker, and Joaquin Madrenas -- Part III. Emerging Frameworks -- Integrating Ecology and Evolution: Niche Construction and Ecological Engineering; Gillian Barker and John Odling-Smee -- The Affordance Landscape: The Spatial Metaphors of Evolution; Denis M. Walsh -- Rethinking Behavioral Evolution; Rachael Brown. Constructing the Cooperative Niche; Kim Sterelny. |
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Epistemology of Decision : Rational Choice, Neuroscience and Biological Approaches / / by Mario Graziano |
Autore | Graziano Mario |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (103 p.) |
Disciplina | 153.83 |
Collana | SpringerBriefs in Philosophy |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Philosophy
Philosophy of mind Knowledge, Theory of Biology - Philosophy Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Mind Epistemology Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN |
1-283-63444-9
9786613946898 94-007-5428-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Introduction.- Part 1 Rationality and neuroeconomics -- 1. Neoclassical economics and utilities -- 2. Experimental economics -- 3. Neuroeconomics and causality -- 4. Doubts, feasibility and future of neuroeconomics.- Part 2 Biological approaches -- 1. The Biology and the economy -- 2. Economic progress and evolutionism -- 3. The computational methods and the engineering approach 4. Complexity.- Part 3 -- 1. Game theory and economic decisions -- 2. Game theory and neuroscience 3. The role of social cognition. |
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Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior : A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends / / by Rui Diogo |
Autore | Diogo Rui |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVIII, 252 p. 26 illus., 14 illus. in color.) |
Disciplina | 570 |
Soggetto topico |
Life sciences
Evolutionary biology Animal anatomy Physical anthropology Developmental biology Biology—Philosophy Popular Life Sciences Evolutionary Biology Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology Biological and Physical Anthropology Developmental Biology Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-47581-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to Organic Nonoptimal Constrained Evolution (ONCE) and Notes on Terminology -- Baldwin's Organic Selection and the Rising Awareness of the Evolutionary Importance of Behavioral Shifts -- Behavioral Choices and Shifts, Niche Construction, Natural Selection, Extinctions, and Asymmetry -- Evolutionary Trends, Sexual Selection, Novelties, Gene Loss, Mass Extinctions and 'Progress' -- Behavioral Leads in Evolution--Form, Function, Exaptations, Human Evolution and Lamarck -- Eco-morphological Mismatches, Human 'Exceptionalism', Hybridization, Trade-offs and Nonoptimality -- Internal Selection, Constraints, Contingency, Homology, Reversions, Atavisms, von Baer, Haeckel, and Alberch -- ONCE Links Internal Factors, Epigenetics, Matsuda, Waddington, Goldschmidt, and Macroevolution -- ONCE Things Are Put Together: Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology, Adaptationism, Systems Biology, and Interdisciplinary -- General Remarks and Bullet Points -- References -- Index. |
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Evolution of Primate Social Cognition / / edited by Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Francesca De Petrillo |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (327 pages) |
Disciplina | 599.80451 |
Collana | Interdisciplinary Evolution Research |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Neural networks (Computer science) Archaeology Biology - Philosophy Evolutionary Biology Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-93776-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Part 1: Aspects of Primate Social Cognition -- 1. What did you get? What social learning, collaboration, prosocial behaviour, and inequity aversion tell us about primate social cognition -- 2. Affective stages, motivation, and prosocial behaviour in primates -- 3. Understanding empathy from the coordinative movement in humans and non-human primates -- 4. The cognitive implications of intentional communication: A multi-faceted mirror -- 5. A comparison of socio-communicative behaviour in chimpanzees and bonobos -- Part 2: Studying Primate Social Cognition: Theory, Observation, Experiments, and Modelling -- 6. Primate social cognition – evidence from primate field studies -- 7. Contribution of social network analysis and collective phenomena to understanding social complexity and cognition -- 8. Comparative economics: Using experimental economics paradigms to understand primate social decision-making -- 9. The special case of non-human primates in animal experimentation -- 10. Epigenetics and the evolution of human cognition -- 11. Neanderthals and Homo sapiens: Cognitively different kinds of human? -- Part 3: Cultural Artifacts and Transmission in Primates -- 12. Recognition culture in primate tool use -- 13. Culture and selective social learning in wild and captive primates -- 14. The zone of latent solutions concept and its relationship to the classics -- 15. Minimal cognitive preconditions on the ratchet -- 18. Emulation, (over)imitation and social creation of cultural information -- 19. The Acquisition of Biface Knapping Skill in the Acheulean -- 20. Visuospatial integration: Palaeoanthropological and archaeological perspectives. |
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Evolutionary Developmental Biology : A Reference Guide / / edited by Laura Nuño de la Rosa, Gerd B. Müller |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2021.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1,231 pages) |
Disciplina | 571.8 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Developmental biology Biology - Philosophy Evolutionary Biology Developmental Biology and Stem Cells Philosophy of Biology Biologia del desenvolupament Evolució (Biologia) |
Soggetto genere / forma | Llibres electrònics |
ISBN | 3-319-32979-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Key Concepts in evo-Devo/Theoretical Issues in evo-Devo -- Philosophy of evo-Devo -- History of evo-Devo -- Extensions of evo-Devo -- Evolution of Development -- Developmental Mechanisms of Evolution -- Populational Mechanisms of Developmental Evolution -- Methods in evo-Devo Biology -- Macroevolutionary Patterns -- Evo-Devo by Phenotype: evo-Devo of Organs and Body Parts -- Evo-Devo by Phenotype: evo-Devo of Tissues and Cell Types -- Plant evo-Devo -- Animal evo-Devo -- Vertebrate evo-Devo -- Invertebrate evo-Devo. |
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Evolutionary Thinking Across Disciplines : Problems and Perspectives in Generalized Darwinism / / edited by Agathe du Crest, Martina Valković, André Ariew, Hugh Desmond, Philippe Huneman, Thomas A. C. Reydon |
Autore | du Crest Agathe |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (524 pages) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ValkovićMartina
AriewAndré DesmondHugh HunemanPhilippe ReydonThomas A. C |
Collana | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Science—Philosophy
Evolution (Biology) Biology—Philosophy Philosophy and social sciences Philosophy of Science Evolutionary Biology Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of the Social Sciences |
ISBN | 3-031-33358-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Generalizing Darwinism as a Topic for Multidisciplinary Debate -- Part I: How Can Disciplines Benefit from, or Contribute to, Evolutionary Frameworks?. 2. Is a Non-Evolutionary Psychology Possible? -- 3. Evolutionary Economics and the Theory of Cultural Evolution -- 4. Repetition Without Replication: Notes Towards a Theory of Cultural Adaptation -- 5. The Epistemological and Ideological Stakes of Literary Darwinism -- 6. Evolutionary Aspects of Language Change -- 7. A Community Science Model for Inter-Disciplinary Evolution Education and School Improvement -- 8. Teaching for the Interdisciplinary Understanding of Evolutionary Concepts -- Part II: Generalizations of Evolutionary Theory: Common Principles or Explanatory Structures?. 9. From Games to Graphs. Evolving Networks in Cultural Evolution -- 10. Metaphysics of Evolution: Ontology and Justification of Generalized Evolution Theory -- 11. Human Social Evolution via Four Coevolutionary Levels -- Part III: Why Should We Be Skeptical of Generalizations of Darwinism?. 12. Is Natural Selection Physical? -- 13. The Risks of Evolutionary Explanation -- 14. Evolution and Ecology of Organizations and Markets -- 15. Pluralism and Epistemic Goals: Why the Social Sciences Will (Probably) not be Synthesised by Evolutionary Theory -- 16. Equations at an Exhibition: on the Cultural Price Equation -- 17. Unlike Agents: The Role of Correlation in Economics and Biology -- Part IV: How Can Evolutionary Approaches or the Target Field be Amended?. 18. From the Modern Synthesis to the Inclusive Evolutionary Synthesis: An Einsteinian Revolution in Evolution -- 19. Darwinian/Hennigian Systematics and Evo-Devo: the Missed Rendez-vous -- 20. The Generalized Selective Environment -- 21. Adding Agency to Tinbergen’s Four Questions -- 22. Cultural Evolution Research Needs to Include Human Behavioural Ecology. |
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Experience and Beyond : The Outline of A Darwinian Metaphysics / / by Jan Faye |
Autore | Faye Jan |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XV, 350 p.) |
Disciplina | 120 |
Soggetto topico |
Epistemology
Philosophy of nature Biology—Philosophy Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Biology |
ISBN | 3-319-31077-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface and Introduction -- 1 Evolutionary Naturalism -- The manifest image -- The scientific image -- Kant’s metaphysical dualism -- Evolutionary epistemology -- 2 Evolution and Human Cognition -- The Darwinian legacy. Setting the legacy straight -- A fallacy of naturalization -- Intention and innate dispositions -- 3 Sensation, Perception, and Observation -- Perception as belief acquisition -- From perception to observation -- Theory-ladenness -- Instrumental observation -- Observability -- 4 Theory and Reality -- Forms of realism -- Conceptual frameworks and external commitments -- Theory realism -- The success argument -- Constructive empiricism -- Structural realism -- The failure of representationalism -- 5 Truth, Language, and Objectivity -- What is truth? -- Truth and meaning -- Non-realism concerning Truth -- A naturalized notion of truth -- Semantics and ontology -- 6 Abstraction and Reification -- Common sense and externality -- What makes an entity abstract? -- Abstract objects versus abstracted concepts -- Why did abstracted concepts evolve? -- 7 In Defence of Nominalism -- Concrete, artificial, and nominal particulars -- Particulars and universals -- Conceptualism -- 8 Space, Time, and Space-time -- The existence of Space -- The existence of Time -- Space-time substantivalism -- Space-time relationism -- Space-time as an abstracted concept -- Are space and time invented or discovered? -- 9 Causality and Counterfactuality -- The concept -- Regularity -- Modality -- 10 Human Evolution and Mathematical Physics -- Mathematics and representational knowledge -- Mathematics – the language of quantities -- Possible worlds, many worlds and multiverses -- The Copenhagen interpretation: a non-representational view -- 11 Conclusion -- Bibliography. |
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Explaining Photosynthesis : Models of Biochemical Mechanisms, 1840-1960 / / by Kärin Nickelsen |
Autore | Nickelsen Kärin |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
Disciplina | 572.4609 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Botanical chemistry Science - History Philosophy of Biology Plant Biochemistry History of Science |
ISBN | 94-017-9582-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- 1. In Pursuit of a Pathway (1843-1918) -- 2. Otto Warburg and the Turn to Manometry (1912-25) -- 3. Struggling with the Standard Model (1930-41) -- 4. The Maximum Quantum Yield Controversy (1937-55) -- 5. The Path of Carbon in Photosynthesis (1937-1954) -- 6. Elucidating the Light Reactions (1950-1961) -- Epilogue. |
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Explanation in Biology : An Enquiry into the Diversity of Explanatory Patterns in the Life Sciences / / by Pierre-Alain Braillard, Christophe Malaterre |
Autore | Braillard Pierre-Alain |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (434 p.) |
Disciplina |
10
501 519 570.1 |
Collana | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences |
Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Science - Philosophy Neural networks (Computer science) Philosophy of Biology Philosophy of Science Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks |
ISBN | 94-017-9822-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1. “Explanation in Biology: An Introduction” -- PART I – EXPLORING EXPLANATORY PLURALISM IN BIOLOGY -- Chapter 2. “Is There an Explanation for the Diversity of Explanations in Biological Sciences?” -- Chapter 3. “Explanation in Systems Biology: Is It All About Mechanisms?” -- Chapter 4. “Historical Contingency and the Explanation of Evolutionary Trends” -- Chapter 5. “Developmental Noise: Explaining the Specific Heterogeneity of Individual Organisms” -- PART II – MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION: APPLICATIONS AND EMENDATIONS -- Chapter 6. “Explaining in Contemporary Molecular Biology: Beyond Mechanisms” -- Chapter 7. “Evolutionary Developmental Biology and the Limits of Philosophical Accounts of Mechanistic Explanation” -- Chapter 8. “The Relevance of Irrelevance: Explanation in Systems Biology” -- Chapter 9. “Graph-Theoretic Perspectives on Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation” -- PART III – THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS -- Chapter 10. “Mathematical Explanation in Biology” -- Chapter 11. “Explanation and Organizing Principles in Systems Biology” -- Chapter 12. “Are dynamic mechanistic explanations still mechanistic?” -- PART IV – THE ROLE OF HEURISTICS IN BIOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS -- Chapter 13. “Heuristics, Descriptions, and the Scope of Mechanistic Explanation” -- Chapter 14. “Prospect and Limits of Explaining Biological Systems in Engineering Terms” -- Chapter 15. “From Mechanisms to Mathematical Models and Back to Mechanisms: Quantitative Mechanistic Explanations” -- PART V – NEW THEORIES OF EXPLANATION IN BIOLOGY AND ELSEWHERE -- Chapter 16. “Biological Explanations as Cursory Covering Law Explanations” -- Chapter 17. “Explaining Cell Development: Stem Cells and Reprogramming” -- Chapter 18. “Explaining Causal Selection with Explanatory Causal Economy : Biology and Beyond”. |
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Explanation in the Special Sciences : The Case of Biology and History / / edited by Marie I. Kaiser, Oliver R. Scholz, Daniel Plenge, Andreas Hüttemann |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (365 p.) |
Disciplina | 501 |
Collana | Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science |
Soggetto topico |
Biology—Philosophy
History Philosophy and science Philosophy of Biology History of Science Philosophy of Science |
ISBN | 94-007-7563-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction – Points of Contact between Biology and History; Marie I. Kaiser and Daniel Plenge -- Part I. General Issues on Explanation -- 2. The Ontic Account of Scientific Explanation; Carl F. Craver -- Part II Explanation in the Biological Sciences -- 3. Causal Graphs and Biological Mechanisms; Alexander Gebharter and Marie I. Kaiser -- 4. Semiotic Explanation in the Biological Sciences; Ulrich Krohs -- 5. Mechanisms, Pathomechanisms, and Disease in Scientific Clinical Medicine; Gerhard Müller-Strahl -- 6. The Generalizations of Biology: Historical and Contingent?; Alexander Reutlinger -- 7. Evolutionary Explanations and the Role of Mechanisms; Gerhard Schurz -- Part III Explanation in the Historical Sciences -- 8. Explaining Roman History – A Case Study; Stephan Berry -- 9. Causal Explanation and Historical Meaning: How to Solve the Problem of the Specific Historical Relation between Events; Doris Gerber -- 10. Do Historians Study the Mechanisms of History? A Sketch; Daniel Plenge -- 11. Philosophy of History – Metaphysics and Epistemology; Oliver R. Scholz -- 12. Causal Explanations of Historical Trends; Derek D. Turner -- Part IV Bridging the Two Disciplines -- 13. Aspects of Human Historiographic Explanation: A View from the Philosophy of Science; Stuart Glennan -- 14. History and the Sciences; Philip Kitcher and Daniel Immerwahr -- 15 Explanation and Intervention in Coupled Human and Natural Systems; Daniel Steel -- 16. Biology and Natural History: What Makes the Difference; Aviezer Tucker. |
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