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Séries : livres de la série Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
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What Is Life? Revisited
Daniel J Nicholson
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Erwin Schrödinger's What Is Life? is one of the most celebrated scientific works of the twentieth century. However, like most classics, it is far more... Savoir plus
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Organic Progress and Evolutionary Theory
Silvia de Cesare
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Progress is defined as change towards the better. This definition, comprising both a descriptive and a normative element, can be applied in the organi... Savoir plus
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Units of Selection
Javier Suárez, Elisabeth A Lloyd
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element introduces the Disambiguating Project (DP) about the units of selection. By DP, the authors mean the thesis that the expression 'units of... Savoir plus
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Temporal Cognition in Animals
Angelica Kaufmann
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Humans and non-human animals alike rely on temporal cues to coordinate behaviour. This Element investigates whether non-human animals possess genuine ... Savoir plus
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Human Cognitive Diversity
Ingo Brigandt
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- We humans are diverse. But how to understand human diversity in the case of cognitive diversity? This Element discusses how to properly investigate hu... Savoir plus
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Biological Organization
Leonardo Bich
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Living systems are complex systems made of components that tend to degrade, but nonetheless they maintain themselves far from equilibrium. This requir... Savoir plus
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Inclusive Fitness and Kin Selection
Hannah Rubin
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The biological world is full of phenomena that seem to run counter to Darwin's insight that natural selection can lead to the appearance of design. Fo... Savoir plus
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The Challenge of Evolution to Religion
Johan de Smedt, Helen de Cruz
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element focuses on three challenges of evolution to religion: teleology, human origins, and the evolution of religion itself. First, religious wo... Savoir plus
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Human Cognitive Diversity
Ingo Brigandt
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- We humans are diverse. But how to understand human diversity in the case of cognitive diversity? This Element discusses how to properly investigate hu... Savoir plus
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Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society
R Paul Thompson
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Recent interest in the evolution of the social contract is extended by providing a throughly naturalistic, evolutionary account of the biological unde... Savoir plus
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Stem Cells
Melinda Bonnie Fagan
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- What is a stem cell? The answer is seemingly obvious: a cell that is also a stem, or point of origin, for something else. Upon closer examination, how... Savoir plus
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The Scope of Evolutionary Thinking
Thomas A C Reydon
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Evolutionary theory has found its way into a staggeringly large diversity of fields outside the biological sciences. This Element examines how crossov... Savoir plus
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Hylomorphism
William M R Simpson
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element introduces Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which provides an account of substances in terms of their 'matter' and 'form', adapting ... Savoir plus
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Structure and Function
Rose Novick
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The history of biology is mottled with disputes between two distinct approaches to the organic world: structuralism and functionalism. Their persisten... Savoir plus
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What Is Life? Revisited
Daniel J Nicholson
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Erwin Schrödinger's What Is Life? is one of the most celebrated scientific works of the twentieth century. However, like most classics, it is far more... Savoir plus
124,45 €124,45 € -
Hylomorphism
William M R Simpson
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element introduces Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which provides an account of substances in terms of their 'matter' and 'form', adapting ... Savoir plus
124,45 €124,45 € -
Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection
Pierrick Bourrat
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Debates concerning the units and levels of selection have persisted for over fifty years. One major question in this literature is whether units and l... Savoir plus
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Philosophy of Immunology
Thomas Pradeu
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Immunology is central to contemporary biology and medicine, but it also provides novel philosophical insights. Its most significant contribution to ph... Savoir plus
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Evolution and Development
Alan C Love
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The intersection of development and evolution has always harbored conceptual issues, but many of these are on display in contemporary evolutionary dev... Savoir plus
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Temporal Cognition in Animals
Angelica Kaufmann
- Livre relié | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Humans and non-human animals alike rely on temporal cues to coordinate behaviour. This Element investigates whether non-human animals possess genuine ... Savoir plus
112,95 €112,95 € -
Mechanisms in Molecular Biology
Tudor Baetu
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The new mechanistic philosophy is divided into two largely disconnected projects. One deals with a metaphysical inquiry into how mechanisms relate to ... Savoir plus
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Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology
Derek D Turner
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The practice of paleontology has an aesthetic as well as an epistemic dimension. Paleontology has distinctively aesthetic aims, such as cultivating se... Savoir plus
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The Metaphysics of Biology
John Dupré
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element is an introduction to the metaphysics of biology, a very general account of the nature of the living world. The first part of the Element... Savoir plus
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Health and Disease
Somogy Varga, Andrew James Latham, Edouard Machery
- Livre broché | Anglais | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The concepts of health and disease are fundamental to medical research, healthcare, and public health, and philosophers have long sought to clarify th... Savoir plus
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