Darwinism & philosophy / edited by Vittorio Hösle and Christian Illies.

Other author Hösle, Vittorio, 1960-
Other author Illies, Christian.
Format Book
Publication InfoNotre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2005.
Descriptionvii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882--Influence.
Evolution.
Evolution (Biology)--Philosophy.

Variant title Darwinism and philosophy
Contents What kind of science is Darwinian biology, and what are its ontological presuppositions? -- Materialism, actualism, and science : what's modern about modern science? / Peter McLaughlin -- Evolution, paleontology, and metaphysics / David Oldroyd -- Darwin's a priori insight : the structure and status of the principle of natural selection / Christian Illies -- Darwinism and naturalism : identical twins or just good friends? / Michael Ruse -- Darwinism's multiple ontologies / David Depew -- Is a non-naturalistic interpretation of Darwinism possible? -- A systems theory of evolution / Rupert Riedl -- "It might be called reverence" / Phillip R. Sloan -- Darwin's metaphysics of mind / Robert J. Richards -- Are there metaphysical implications of Darwinian evolutionary biology? / Jean Gayon -- On the problem of direction and goal in biological evolution / Dieter Wandschneider -- Objective idealism and Darwinism / Vittorio Hosle -- What is the epistemological relevance of Darwinism? -- The new evolutionary ontology and its implications for epistemology / Michael T. Ghiselin -- How is it that we can know this world? : new arguments in evolutionary epistemology / Gerhard Vollmer -- Darwinism as a theory for finite beings / Marcel Weber -- Darwinism and the place of the human -- Evolutionary selection and the nature of humanity / Richard D. Alexander -- Darwinism, dualism, and biological agency / Lenny Moss -- Darwinism : neither biologistic nor metaphysical / Bernd Graefrath.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005016191
ISBN0268030723 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0268030731 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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