Heidelberg; Dordrecht; New York, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2009. — 274 p. — ISBN13: 978-1402088650. This is a popular science book, designed as a sequel to "About Life", though readers need not be familiar with the earlier volume. Indeed, no specialist knowledge is required. The text briefly surveys the nature of science and its emergence in post-Renaissance Europe,...
Continuum, 2004. — 256 p. Animal Philosophy is the first text to look at the place and treatment of animals in Continental thought. A collection of essential primary and secondary readings on the animal question, it brings together contributions from the following key Continental thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Ferry,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. — 440 p. This collection of specially commissioned essays puts top scholars head to head to debate the central issues in the lively and fast growing field of philosophy of biology Brings together original essays on ten of the most hotly debated questions in philosophy of biology Lively head-to-head debate format sharply defines the issues and paves the...
Transaction Publishers, 2001. - 218 p. There is a revolution underway in biology. It is based on a new perception of bodies and genes, in which the former are the end product of the latter within the continuum of evolution. Twenty five years after Richard Dawkins helped revolutionize our thinking about "selfish genes," it is time to re-evaluate. Revolutionary Biology explains...
Cham: Springer, 2018. — 263 p. This volume reviews examples and notions of robustness at several levels of biological organization. It tackles many philosophical and conceptual issues and casts an outlook on the future challenges of robustness studies in the context of a practice-oriented philosophy of science. The focus of discussion is on concrete case studies. These...
Brill, 2019. — 278 p. In this volume, Andrea Borghini and Elena Casetta introduce a wide spectrum of key philosophical problems related to life sciences in a neat framework and an accessible style, with a special emphasis on metaphysical issues. The volume is divided into three parts. The first addresses the two main questions stemming from life sciences: what is life, and what...
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 498 p. Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of science. New emphasis has been given to complexity, networks, and patterns of organization, leading to a novel kind of systemic thinking. This volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 302 p. This book presents a history of animal rights. It brings a novel, sociological perspective to an area that has been addressed largely from a philosophical perspective, or from the entrenched positions of highly committed advocates of a particular position in the debate. This book is about the people who would speak for animals in...
N.V. Drukkerij Salland, 1962. — 923 p. Primary objective of this study was to assess the number, phylogenetic relationships and geographic distributions of evolutionary lineages of S. oleoides in North India-a first such phylogeographic assessment of a member of family Salvadoraceae throughout the world. We were especially motivated by the pithy dictum famously declared by...
London: Allen Lane, 2019. — 131 p. There are many books about what life does. This is a book about what life is. I'm fascinated by what makes organisms tick, what enables living matter to do such astounding things - things beyond the reach of non-living matter. Where does the difference come from? Even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so amazing, so dazzling, that no...
Wiley-ISTE, 2019. — 397 p. — ISBN10: 1786303655, 13 978-1786303653. Knowledge of Life Today presents the thoughts of Jean Gayon, a major philosopher of science in France who is recognized across the Atlantic, especially for his work in philosophy and the history of life sciences. The book is structured around Gayon's personal answers to questions put forward by Victor Petit....
London: Routledge, 2002 — 208 p. — ISBN10: 041525258X; ISBN13: 978-0415252584. 'It's all in the genes'. Is this true, and if so, what is all in the genes? Genes: A Philosophical Inquiry is a crystal clear and highly informative guide to a debate none of us can afford to ignore. Beginning with a much-needed overview of the relationship between science and technology, Gordon...
New York: Springer, 2017. — 273 p. The emergence of systems biology raises many fascinating questions: What does it mean to take a systems approach to problems in biology? To what extent is the use of mathematical and computational modeling changing the life sciences? How does the availability of big data influence research practices? What are the major challenges for...
Springer International Publishing AG, 2017. — 273 p. — ISBN: 3319469991 Do you want to know what scientists and philosophers really think? You will not find that in the typical journal paper or even conference talk. If you are lucky enough to be able to sit down with them at a pub, they may open up to you. But most of us are not so lucky. The intention with this volume is to...
Springer, 1992. — 276 p. — ISBN: 978-90-481-4153-1 The papers in this volume are a selection of those presented at the Philosophical Problems in Evolutionary Biology conference, held at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand in August 1990. The occasion for this conference was a visit to Otago by Elliott Sober. Sober's work has had a major influence on the philosophy of...
SUNY Press, 2011. — 245 p. — (SUNY series on Religion and the Environment). — ISBN10: 1438434286; ISBN13: 978-1438434285. Challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants. Plants are people too? No, but in this work of philosophical botany Matthew Hall challenges readers to reconsider the moral standing of plants, arguing that they are other-than-human persons....
Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 496 p. The philosophy of biology is one of the most exciting new areas in the field of philosophy and one that is attracting much attention from working scientists. This Companion, edited by two of the founders of the field, includes newly commissioned essays by senior scholars and by up-and- coming younger scholars who...
Routledge, 2017. — 464 p. In recent years, the relation between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory has become ever more active, multifaceted, and productive. The connection is a bustling two-way street. In one direction, philosophers of biology make significant contributions to theoretical discussions about the nature of evolution (such as "What is a...
Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. — 505 p. — (American Studies - A Monograph Series). — ISBN: 3825368602, 9783825368609. 'Material Bodies' is a book about the multiple connections, exchanges, interfaces, between biology and culture. It explores how Americans, past and present, have been empowered or constrained by biological factors (real or imagined), how the biology of human...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. — 283 p. In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in the biological and biomedical fields, leading to a data-intensive approach to research that uses innovative methods to produce, store, distribute,...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. — 228 p. Genesis of the Gene. The Rhetoric of Life and the Life of Rhetoric. A Critique of Pure (Genetic) Information. Dialectics of Disorder: Normalization and Pathology as Process. After the Gene.
Springer, 1983. — 326 p. Introduction: An Editorial Dialogue. The Influence of Darwinism on English Literature and Literary Ideas (by William Leatherdale). Evolution and Educational Theory in the Nineteenth Century (by Walter Humes). Darwin and the Descent of Women (by Evelleen Richards). Darwinism and Feminism: The 'Woman Question' in the Life and Work of Olive Schreiner and...
New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990. — 156 p. The Living Form and the Seeing Eye should be of interest not only to philosophers but also to marine biologists (Emperor Hirohito, a marine biologist, was a reader of Portmann), students of natural history, those involved in the life sciences, zoologists, zoo managers, wildlife preservationists, and ethicists. The essays are...
University of Chicago Press, 2007. — 389 p. Since antiquity, philosophers and engineers have tried to take life’s measure by reproducing it. Aiming to reenact Creation, at least in part, these experimenters have hoped to understand the links between body and spirit, matter and mind, mechanism and consciousness. Genesis Redux examines moments from this centuries-long...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 310 p. The Darwinian Revolution — the change in thinking sparked by Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species , which argued that all organisms including humans are the end product of a long, slow, natural process of evolution rather than the miraculous creation of an all-powerful God — is one of the truly momentous cultural events in Western...
Blackwell Publishing, 2008. — 603 p. Notes on Contributors Sahotra Sarkar and Anya Plutynski Molecular Biology and Genetics Gene Concepts Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille Biological Information Stefan Artmann Heredity and Heritability Richard C. Lewontin Genomics, Proteomics, and Beyond Sahotra Sarkar Evolution Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism James G. Lennox...
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 358 p. This book explores the cultures of philosophy and the law as they interact with neuroscience and biology, through the perspective of American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Jr., and the pragmatist tradition of John Dewey. Schulkin proposes that human problem solving and the law are tied to a naturalistic, realistic and an...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 352 p. How Biology Shapes Philosophy is a seminal contribution to the emerging field of biophilosophy. It brings together work by philosophers who draw on biology to address traditional and not so traditional philosophical questions and concerns. Thirteen essays by leading figures in the field explore the biological dimensions of ethics,...
Lexington Books, 2003. — 196 p. In this provocative work, David N. Stamos tackles the problem of determining exactly what a biological species is: in short, whether species are real and the nature of their reality. Although many have written on this topic, The Species Problem is the only comprehensive single-authored book on this central concern of biology. Stamos critically...
Introduction by Slavoj Žižek. — London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1350012017; ISBN13: 978-1350012011 Oxana Timofeeva's The History of Animals: A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the "animal question". While philosophers have always made distinctions between human beings and animals, Timofeeva imagines a world free of such walls and...
Springer, 2014. — 207 p. This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle’s Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological works of Aristotle and revisits the detailed natural history observations that inform, and in many ways penetrate, the philosophical argument. It raises the question of how easy it is to clearly distinguish between...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 516 p. Recent advances suggest that the concept of information might hold the key to unravelling the mystery of life's nature and origin. Fresh insights from a broad and authoritative range of articulate and respected experts focus on the transition from matter to life, and hence reconcile the deep conceptual schism between the way...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 184 p. What, if anything, does biological evolution tell us about the nature of religion, ethical values, or even the meaning and purpose of life? The Moral Meaning of Nature sheds new light on these enduring questions by examining the significance of an earlier — and unjustly neglected — discussion of Darwin in late nineteenth-century...
Greystone Books, 2017. — 288 p. What happens when you try to recreate a woolly mammoth - fascinating science, or conservation catastrophe? In Rise of the Necrofauna, Wray takes us deep into the minds and labs of some of the world's most progressive thinkers to find out. She introduces us to renowned futurists like Stewart Brand and scientists like George Church, who are...
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