Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume Series

 

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


CONTENTS

Mohan Matthen
and Robert Ware

Introduction
Kathleen Okruhlik
Gender and the Biological Sciences
Michael Ruse
Evolutionary Biology and Cultural Values: Is it Irremediably Corrupt?
Nancy Holmstrom
Humankind(s)
Andrew Levine
Individualisms
William Bechtel
Biological and Social Constraints on Cognitive Processes:
The Need for Dynamical Interactions Between Levels of Inquiry
John Dupré
Methodological Individualism and Reductionism in Biology
Ronald de Sousa
Individualism and Local Control
William C.Wimsatt
The Ontology of Complex Systems:
Levels of Organization, Perspectives, and Causal Thickets
Paul Thompson
Managing Complexity and Dynamics:
Is There a Difference Between Biology and Physics?

 

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