Biology & Society
Reflections
on Methodology
Mohan Matthen and R.X. Ware, editors
ISBN 0919491200
ISSN 0229-7051
5.5 x 8.5 in.
$30.00 paper
April 1995
vi + 308 pages
Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume XX (1994)
About the Book
The papers in this volume explore methodological issues in biology and
the social sciences.
Table of Contents
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CONTENTS
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Mohan Matthen |
Introduction |
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Kathleen
Okruhlik
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Gender and the Biological Sciences |
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Michael
Ruse
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Evolutionary Biology and Cultural Values: Is it Irremediably Corrupt? |
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Nancy
Holmstrom
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Humankind(s) |
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Andrew
Levine
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Individualisms |
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William
Bechtel
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Biological
and Social Constraints on Cognitive Processes: The Need for Dynamical Interactions Between Levels of Inquiry |
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John
Dupré
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Methodological Individualism and Reductionism in Biology |
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Ronald
de Sousa
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Individualism and Local Control |
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William
C.Wimsatt
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The
Ontology of Complex Systems: Levels of Organization, Perspectives, and Causal Thickets |
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Paul
Thompson
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Managing
Complexity and Dynamics: Is There a Difference Between Biology and Physics? |
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