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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “thomas reydon0”
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  • The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking

    by Thomas A. C. Reydon ...
    Series series Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
    Evolutionary theory has found its way into a staggeringly large diversity of fields outside the biological sciences. This Element examines how crossovers of evolutionary theory from biology into other fields occur, and in what ways such fields can be meaningfully considered evolutionary fields of research. Cases of crossover of evolutionary theory have so far not been examined systematically by ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Cultural Evolution and Social Ontology

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Martina Valković, Thomas A.C. Reydon ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This volume explores connections between two growing and complementary fields of research: cultural evolutionary theory and social ontology. It sheds light on the ontological aspects of cultural evolution that so far have been largely neglected and raises questions for social ontology regarding the relevance of evolutionary aspects of social phenomena.This volume shows that cultural evolutionary ... Read more

    $61.99 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

  • National Novel Writing Month 2014: A Collection of Excerpts from Writers In Corvallis, Oregon

    by Elizabeth Halvorsen, Alison Heninger, Lois Jean Bousquet, Heidi Boyer Cavalier, Sky Evans, Arianna Frankum, Michael Frankum, Jessica Hayward, Kalilah Hy, Athena Janssen, Alexandra Keister, Victoria Priscilla Pitman, Andy Purviance, Amethyst Reyes, Lisa Sarter, S0rceress0, Laurence Taoman, Patricia Thomas, Melissa R. Weintraub ...
    A collection of excerpts of writing done during the month of November 2014 in celebration of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) by Corvallis, Oregon area writers. Genres presented include science fiction, fantasy, mystery, adventure, and even comics. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Artefact Kinds

    Ontology and the Human-Made World

    Edited by Maarten Franssen, Peter Kroes, Thomas A.C. Reydon, Pieter E. Vermaas ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book is concerned with two intimately related topics of metaphysics: the identity of entities and the foundations of classification. What it adds to previous discussions of these topics is that it addresses them with respect to human-made entities, that is, artefacts. As the chapters in the book show, questions of identity and classification require other treatments and lead to other answers ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Philosophy of Behavioral Biology

    Edited by Kathryn S. Plaisance, Thomas A.C. Reydon ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume provides a broad overview of issues in the philosophy of behavioral biology, covering four main themes: genetic, developmental, evolutionary, and neurobiological explanations of behavior. It is both interdisciplinary and empirically informed in its approach, addressing philosophical issues that arise from recent scientific findings in biological research on human and non-human animal ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Philosophy of Social Science

    by Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable for social scientists because the choices they make in answering ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Persons and their Minds

    Towards an Integrative Theory of the Mediated Mind

    by Svend Brinkmann ...
    Series series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
    Today’s approaches to the study of the human mind are divided into seemingly opposed camps. On one side we find the neurosciences, with their more or less reductionist research programs, and on the other side we find the cultural and discursive approaches, with their frequent neglect of the material sides of human life. Persons and their Minds seeks to develop an integrative theory of the mind ... Read more

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  • Society

    by Walter Buckely ...
    First published in 1998. Society-A Complex Adaptive System aims to re-establish a firm scientific foundation for contemporary sociology, incorporating current extensions to a systems approach, such as complex adaptive systems and aspects of contemporary dynamic systems theory. The essays brought together to form this volume address general problem areas in basic theory and methodology. The work ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Beyond the Meme

    Development and Structure in Cultural Evolution

    Edited by Alan C. Love, William Wimsatt ...
    Series series Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    Interdisciplinary perspectives on cultural evolution that reject meme theory in favor of a complex understanding of dynamic change over timeHow do cultures change? In recent decades, the concept of the meme, posited as a basic unit of culture analogous to the gene, has been central to debates about cultural transformation. Despite the appeal of meme theory, its simplification of complex ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Philosophy of Complex Systems

    by John Woods, Cliff A. Hooker, Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard ...
    Series Book 10 - Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    The domain of nonlinear dynamical systems and its mathematical underpinnings has been developing exponentially for a century, the last 35 years seeing an outpouring of new ideas and applications and a concomitant confluence with ideas of complex systems and their applications from irreversible thermodynamics. A few examples are in meteorology, ecological dynamics, and social and economic dynamics. ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Evolution, Order and Complexity

    by Kenneth Boulding, Elias Khalil ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
    Evolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cutting edge of current thinking which challenges the natural/social dichotomy thesis by showing how the application of ideas which derive from biology can be applied and offer insight into the social realm. This is done by introducing the general system theory to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD