| Description |
xv, 385 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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) |
| Summary |
Philip Kitcher is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of science today. Here he collects, for the first time, many of his published articles on the philosophy of biology, spanning from the mid-1980's to the present. The book's title refers to Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk who was one of the first scientists to develop a theory of heredity. Mendel's work has been deeply influential to our understanding of our selves and our world, just as the study of genetics today will have a profound and long-term impact on future scientific research. Kitcher's articles cover a broad range of t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Biology -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
ebrary, Inc.
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| LC no. |
2002025759 |
| ISBN |
019515178X alkaline paper |
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0195151798 paperback alkaline paper |
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