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Entangled Life : Organism and Environment in the Biological and Social Sciences / / edited by Gillian Barker, Eric Desjardins, Trevor Pearce
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
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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Graziano Mario  
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Evolution Driven by Organismal Behavior : A Unifying View of Life, Function, Form, Mismatches and Trends / / by Rui Diogo
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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Diogo Rui  
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Evolution of Primate Social Cognition / / edited by Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Francesca De Petrillo
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
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
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
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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Faye Jan  
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Explaining Photosynthesis : Models of Biochemical Mechanisms, 1840-1960 / / by Kärin Nickelsen
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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Nickelsen Kärin  
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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
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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Braillard Pierre-Alain  
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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
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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