- Afhalen na 1 uur in een winkel met voorraad
- Gratis thuislevering in België vanaf € 30
- Ruim aanbod met 7 miljoen producten
- Afhalen na 1 uur in een winkel met voorraad
- Gratis thuislevering in België vanaf € 30
- Ruim aanbod met 7 miljoen producten
Reeksen: boeken uit de reeks Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
-
The Role of Mathematics in Evolutionary Theory
Jun Otsuka
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The central role of mathematical modeling in modern evolutionary theory has raised a concern as to why and how abstract formulae can say anything abou... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Human Nature
Grant Ramsey
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Human nature is frequently evoked to characterize our species and describe how it differs from others. But how should we understand this concept? What... Lees meer
€ 22,95Levering 1 à 2 weken€ 22,95Levering 1 à 2 weken -
Ecological Complexity
Alkistis Elliott-Graves
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Complexity has received substantial attention from scientists and philosophers alike. There are numerous, often conflicting, accounts of how complexit... Lees meer
€ 22,95Levering 1 à 2 weken€ 22,95Levering 1 à 2 weken -
The Missing Two-Thirds of Evolutionary Theory
Robert Brandon, Daniel W McShea
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- In this Element, we extend our earlier treatment of biology's first law. The law says that in any evolutionary system in which there is variation and ... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Adaptation
Elisabeth Lloyd
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Explores a variety of outcomes of the evolutionary process, including both adaptations and alternatives to adaptations. Also explores how the concept ... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Biological Individuality
Alison K McConwell
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element develops a view about biological individuality's value in two ways: while biological individuality matters for its theoretical and method... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
The Biology of Art
Richard A Richards
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Biological accounts of art typically start with evolutionary, psychological or neurobiological theories. These approaches might be able to explain man... Lees meer
€ 35,45Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 35,45Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Ecological Complexity
Alkistis Elliott-Graves
- Hardcover | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- Complexity has received substantial attention from scientists and philosophers alike. There are numerous, often conflicting, accounts of how complexit... Lees meer
€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Hylomorphism
William M R Simpson
- Hardcover | Engels | 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 ... Lees meer
€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection
Pierrick Bourrat
- Hardcover | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Facts, Conventions, and the Levels of Selection
Pierrick Bourrat
- Paperback | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology
Derek D Turner
- Paperback | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society
R Paul Thompson
- Hardcover | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
The Darwinian Revolution
Michael Ruse
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- What is the Darwinian revolution and why is it important for philosophers? These are the questions tackled in this Element. In four sections, the topi... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Structure and Function
Rose Novick
- Paperback | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 22,95Levering 1 à 2 weken€ 22,95Levering 1 à 2 weken -
The Metaphysics of Biology
John Dupré
- Paperback | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
The Challenge of Evolution to Religion
Johan de Smedt, Helen de Cruz
- Paperback | Engels | 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. We show how tension... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Units of Selection
Javier Suárez, Elisabeth A Lloyd
- Paperback | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Social Darwinism
Jeffrey O'Connell, Michael Ruse
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This Element is a philosophical history of Social Darwinism. It begins by discussing the meaning of the term, moving then to its origins, paying parti... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Games in the Philosophy of Biology
Cailin O'Connor
- Paperback | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- This is an Element surveying the most important literature using game theory and evolutionary game theory to shed light on questions in the philosophy... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Evolution and Development
Alan C Love
- Paperback | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Units of Selection
Javier Suárez, Elisabeth A Lloyd
- Hardcover | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Philosophy of Developmental Biology
Marcel Weber
- Hardcover | Engels | Elements in the Philosophy of Biology
- The history of developmental biology is interwoven with debates as to whether mechanistic explanations of development are possible or whether alternat... Lees meer
€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 104,95Levering 2 à 3 weken -
Stem Cells
Melinda Bonnie Fagan
- Paperback | Engels | 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... Lees meer
€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken€ 31,95Levering 2 à 3 weken