In Mendel's Mirror
Philosophical Reflections on Biology
1st Edition
Published on 27. March 2003
404 pages
978-0-19-534855-2 (ISBN)
Description
Philip Kitcher is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of science today. Here he collects, for the first time, many of his published articles on the philosophy of biology, spanning from the mid-1980's to the present.
The book's title refers to Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian monk who was one of the first scientists to develop a theory of heredity. Mendel's work has been deeply influential to our understanding of our selves and our world, just as the study of genetics today will have a profound and long-term impact on future scientific research. Kitcher's articles cover a broad range of topics with similar philosophical and social significance: sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, species, race, altrusim, genetic determinism, and the rebirth of creationism in Intelligent Design.
Kitcher's work on the intersection of biology and the philosophy of science is both unprecedented and wide-ranging, and will appeal not only to philosophers of science, but to scholars and students across disciplines.
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Philip Kitcher is Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University and author of The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge(OUP, 1983); The Advancement of Science (OUP, 1993); and Science, Truth, and Democracy (OUP, 2001).
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. 1953 and All That: A Tale of Two Sciences (1984)
- 2. The Hegemony of Molecular Biology (1999)
- 3. Darwin's Achievement (1985)
- 4. The Return of the Gene (1988
- with Kim Sterelny)
- 5. Species (1984)
- 6. Some Puzzles about Species (1989)
- 7. Function and Design (1993)
- 8. The Evolution of Human Altruism (1993)
- 9. Evolution of Altruism in Optional and Compulsory Games (1995
- with John Batali)
- 10. Infectious Ideas: Some Preliminary Explorations (2001)
- 11. Race, Ethnicity, Biology, Culture (1999)
- 12. Utopian Eugenics and Social Inequality (2000)
- 13. Battling the Undead: How (and How Not) to Resist Genetic Determinism (2000)
- 14. Developmental Decomposition and the Future of Human Behavioral Ecology (1990)
- 15. Four Ways of "Biologicizing" Ethics (1993)
- 16. Pop Sociobiology Reborn: The Evolutionary Psychology of Sex and Violence (2002
- with A. Leah Vickers)
- 17. Born-Again Creationism (2002)
- Index
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