Philosophy, Biology and LifeAnthony O'Hear Cambridge University Press, 2005 M11 28 - 327 páginas It has been claimed that following the decline of Marxism and Freudianism, Darwinism has become the dominant intellectual paradigm of our day. In the mass media there are many bitter disputes between today's new Darwinians and their opponents, often over religion. But the 'neo-Darwinian paradigm' is not as simple or as seamless as either its advocates or its opponents would sometimes have us believe. Biology is in a state of development which defies the standard stereotypes. The papers in this volume, written by some of the leading philosophers in the field, bring out many of the fascinating and complex issues which arise in current attempts to account for life and its development. |
Contenido
Other Histories Other Biologies | 21 |
The Ontogenesis of Human Identity | 49 |
Souls Minds Bodies and Planets | 83 |
A New Evolutionary Paradigm | 105 |
Is Drift a Serious Alternative to Natural Selection as | 125 |
Evolution and Aesthetics | 155 |
The Problems of Biological Design | 177 |
Are there Genes? | 193 |
Folk Psychology and the Biological Basis | 211 |
The Loss of Rational Design | 235 |
Under Darwins Cosh? NeoAristotelian Thinking | 259 |
The Cultural Origins of Cognitive Adaptations | 291 |
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Términos y frases comunes
ability adaptive advantageous aesthetic judgments alleles ancestors animals argument Aristotelian Baldwin Effect beauty behaviour biocentric individualism biological biologists biometry brain Cambridge cells claim cognitive common complex concepts context cultural Darwin Darwinian Descartes developmental discourse drift effect entity environment environmental ethics epigenetically evolution evolutionary example explain fact favour folk psychology function fur length gametes genes genetic control genetic takeover genome human identity idea immunologic independent moral status individual infer innate intelligent design interaction interpersonal understanding kind Lamarck Lysenkoism Lysenkoist means mechanism Mendelian Mendelism metaphor modus tollens natural selection natural state model neural object observed organism Oxford particular person phenotype philosophical physical population predicates problem properties proteins psychology question relevant scientific self-organization sense sequence simple social learning SPD hypothesis species structure suggest T. H. Huxley teleology theory things trait value University Press Weldon
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