Book

Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology / edited by Elliott Sober.

2nd ed.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1994.

xx, 506 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Twenty-three selections take up fitness, function and teleology, adaptationism, units of selection, essentialism and population thinking, species, systematic philosophies, phylogenetic inference, reduction of Mendelian genetics to molecular biology, ethics and sociobiology, and cultural evolution and evolutionary epistemology.

Evolution (Biology)

Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy.

Biology -- Philosophy.

Biology.

Philosophy.

Sober, Elliott.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The propensity interpretation of fitness / Susan K. Mills and John H. Beatty -- Functions / Larry Wright -- Functional analysis / Robert Cummins -- The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm : a critique of the adaptationist programme / Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin -- Optimization theory in evolution / John Maynard Smith -- Excerpts from Adaptation and natural selection / George C. Williams -- Levels of selection : an alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences / David Sloan Wilson -- Typological versus population thinking / Ernst Mayr -- Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism / Elliott Sober.

(cont.) A matter of individuality / David L. Hull -- Species concepts : a case for pluralism / Brent D. Mishler and Michael J. Donoghue -- The continuing search for order / Robert R. Sokal -- Phylogenetic systematics / Willi Hennig -- Biological classification : toward a synthesis of opposing methodologies / Ernst Mayr -- Contemporary systematic philosophies / David L. Hull -- The logical basis of phylogenetic analysis / James Farris -- The detection of phylogeny / Joseph Felsenstein -- 1953 and all that : a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher -- Why the antireductionist consensus won't survive the case of classical Mendelian genetics / C. Kenneth Waters -- Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson -- Four ways of "biologicizing" ethics / Philip Kitcher -- Epistemology from an evolutionary point of view / Michael Bradie -- Models of cultural evolution / Elliott Sober.

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