Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. The authors take a fresh look at the life sciences and the philosophy of biology from a strictly realist and emergentist-naturalist perspective. They outline a unified and science-oriented philosophical framework that enables the clarification of many foundational and philosophical issues in biology. This book will be of interest both to life scientists and philosophers.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I Philosophical Fundamentals. - 1 Ontological Fundamentals. - 2 Semantical and Logical Fundamentals. - 3 Epistemological Fundamentals. - II Fundamental Issues in Biophilosophy. - 4 Life. - 5 Ecology. - 6 Psychobiology. - 7 Systematics. - 8 Developmental Biology. - 9 Evolutionary Theory. - 10 Teleology. - 11 Concluding Remarks. - References. - Name Index.
