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Philosophy & Biology Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Supplementary Volume 0229-7051 ; 14
author
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Matthen, Mohan.; Linsky, Bernard.
publisher
:
University of Calgary Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0919491146
print isbn13
:
9780919491144
ebook isbn13
:
9780585112848
language
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English
subject
Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.
publication date
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1988
lcc
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QH331.P55 1988eb
ddc
:
574/.01
subject
:
Biology--Philosophy--Congresses.
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Philosophy & Biology
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New Essays in Ethics and Public Policy Edited by Kai Nielsen and Steven C. Patten
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The University of Calgary Press Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Philosophy & Biology
Edited by Mohan Matthen & Bernard Linsky
1988 Canadian Journal of Philosophy
The University of Calgary Press Calgary, Alberta, Canada
ISSN 0229-7051
ISBN 0-919491-14-6
Page vii
Table of Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction
Mohan Matthen and Bernard Linsky
1
Evolutionary Ethics: Healthy Prospect or Last Infirmity?
Michael Ruse
27
What Is Evolutionary Altruism?
Elliott Sober
75
Hierarchical Approaches to Genome Evolution
W. Ford Doolittle
101
Galen Explains the Elephant
R.J. Hankinson
135
Networks and Teleology
Edwin Levy
159
Is the Theory of Natural Selection a Statistical Theory?
Alexander Rosenberg
187
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Supervenience and Reduction in Biological Hierarchies
John Collier
209
Conceptual and Logical Aspects of the 'New' Evolutionary Epistemology
Paul Thompson
235
Technology: The Driving Engine of Current Biological Advance
Thomas G. Wegmann
255
Index
263
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Preface
The diverse and numerous connections between philosophy and biology that have developed in the last few years persuaded the editors of the Canadian Journal of Philosophy to devote a supplementary volume to the intersection of the two subjects. As in past years, the plan was to solicit original articles for the supplementary volume, but it was decided, in addition, that the Journal would sponsor a conference at which the contributors could benefit from the presence of other contributors. The Conference was held in Edmonton on May 810, 1987.
Though the Conference was itself a lively and cheerful affair, it was preceded and followed by tragedy. Two months before, one of the invited contributors, Joan Kung, died suddenly and very prematurely. Her paper, 'From Plato's Biophysics to Aristotle's Organisms,' would have rounded out the Conference, and this volume, with a discussion of the greatest philosopher of biology in history. The paper could not be located among her posthumous effects, and it is missed. The editors wish to dedicate this volume to Joan.
The planning and organization of the Conference was supported by the Vice-President (Research) of the University of Alberta, J. Gordin Kaplan, a distinguished biochemist who had a deep and well-informed interest in philosophy. Gordin opened the conference with some methodological reflections from an experienced researcher in the field. Soon after the conference he was to have retired and taken up a University Professorship, getting at last a well-deserved rest from research administration, and a chance to get on with his own work. It did not happen that way: Gordin was taken ill with cancer
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