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  • Challenging the Modern Synthesis

    Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance

    Edited by Philippe Huneman, Denis M. Walsh ...
    Since its origin in the early 20th century, the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution has grown to become the orthodox view on the process of organic evolution. Its central defining feature is the prominence it accords to genes in the explanation of evolutionary dynamics. Since the advent of the 21st century, however, the Modern Synthesis has been subject to repeated and sustained challenges. These ... Read more

    $86.39 USD

  • Why?

    The Philosophy Behind the Question

    by Philippe Huneman ...
    Translated by Adam Hocker ...
    Series series Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
    A philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why? Through an analysis of these questions and others, philosopher Philippe Huneman describes the different meanings of "why," and how those meanings can, and should (or should not), be conflated.As ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Death

    Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology

    by Philippe Huneman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book addresses several key issues in the biological study of death with the intent of capturing their genealogy, the assumptions and presuppositions they make, and the way that they open specific new research avenues. The book is divided into two sections: the first considers physiology and the second evolutionary biology. In the first part, Huneman reconstructs a conceptual genealogy of ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Handbook of Evolutionary Thinking in the Sciences

    Edited by Marc Silberstein, Thomas Heams, Philippe Huneman, Guillaume Lecointre ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The Darwinian theory of evolution is itself evolving and this book presents the details of the core of modern Darwinism and its latest developmental directions. The authors present current scientific work addressing theoretical problems and challenges in four sections, beginning with the concepts of evolution theory, its processes of variation, heredity, selection, adaptation and function, and its ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • 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 ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume aims to clarify the epistemic potential of applying evolutionary thinking outside biology, and provides a survey of the current state of the art in research on relevant topics in the life sciences, the philosophy of science, and the various areas of evolutionary research outside the life sciences. By bringing together chapters by evolutionary biologists, systematic biologists, ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • From Evolutionary Biology to Economics and Back

    Parallels and Crossings between Economics and Evolution

    by Jean-Baptiste André, Mikael Cozic, Silvia De Monte, Jean Gayon, Philippe Huneman, Johannes Martens, Bernard Walliser ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the viewpoint respectively of economics and of evolutionary biology –each followed by a short synthesis emphasizing major discrepancies and ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Time of Nature and the Nature of Time

    Philosophical Perspectives of Time in Natural Sciences

    Edited by Philippe Huneman, Christophe Bouton ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume addresses the question of time from the perspective of the time of nature. Its aim is to provide some insights about the nature of time on the basis of the different uses of the concept of time in natural sciences. Presenting a dialogue between philosophy and science, it features a collection of papers that investigate the representation, modeling and understanding of time as they ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Functions: selection and mechanisms

    Edited by Philippe Huneman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume handles in various perspectives the concept of function and the nature of functional explanations, topics much discussed since two major and conflicting accounts have been raised by Larry Wright and Robert Cummins’ papers in the 1970s. Here, both Wright’s ‘etiological theory of functions’ and Cummins’ ‘systemic’ conception of functions are refined and elaborated in the light of current ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Classification, Disease and Evidence

    New Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine

    Edited by Philippe Huneman, Gérard Lambert, Marc Silberstein ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This anthology of essays presents a sample of studies from recent philosophy of medicine addressing issues which attempt to answer very general (interdependent) questions: (a) what is a disease and what is health? (b) How do we (causally) explain diseases? (c) And how do we distinguish diseases, i.e. define classes of diseases and recognize that an instance X of disease belongs to a given class B? ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • When Metaphysics Meets Biology

    Kantian Approaches to the Concept of Organism

    by Philippe Huneman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    This book explains the background and meaning of Kant’s account of the life sciences in the Critique of the Power of Judgement by reading the development of Kant’s ideas on the living since his 1763 precritical essays, in parallel with analyzing several milestones in the constitution of the concept of organism as a self-organized totality, studied by biology.This parallel reading frames Kant’s ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Biology

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by Alex Rosenberg, Daniel W. McShea ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Is life a purely physical process? What is human nature? Which of our traits is essential to us? In this volume, Daniel McShea and Alex Rosenberg – a biologist and a philosopher, respectively – join forces to create a new gateway to the philosophy of biology; making the major issues accessible and relevant to biologists and philosophers alike.Exploring concepts such as supervenience; the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Evolution in Four Dimensions, revised edition

    Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life

    by Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb ...
    Series series Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
    Now updated with the latest research, this pioneering, accessible study argues for a more complex view of evolution—proposing there is more to heredity than just genes.In this revised edition the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions, Eva Jablonka and Marion Lamb propose that there are four “dimensions” in heredity. These four inheritance systems play a role in evolution which, they argue, can ... Read more

    $28.99 USD