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2008
Sandra Mitchell, Philosophy of Biology
Lectures in Philosophy of Biology
- Darwinian Foundations
- The Origin of Species Chapters 1-4 BACKGROUND
- E. Sober ‘Evolution, Population Thinking and Essentialism’ (CIEB, p. 161-89)
- Adaptation and Function
- Mitchell “On function” from Biological Complexity and Integrative Pluralism
- Bigelow and Pargetter. “Functions”. Journal of Philosophy, 1987; 84: 181-196.BACKGROUND
- R.C. Lewontin, "Adaptation," Scientific American 293 (1978): 212-228. BACKGROUND
- Molecules, Reduction and Emergence
- Lindley Darden and James Tabery (2005), Molecular Biology, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy BACKGROUND
- Ingo Brigandt (2008) Reductionism in Biology, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Evolution and Development – Constraints and Causes
- Amundson, Ronald “Two Concepts of Constraint: Adaptationism and the Challenge from Developmental Biology” 1994 Philosophy of Science:61:556-578.
- Laws: How is Biology Different from Physics?
- Beatty, John. 1995. "The Evolutionary Contingency Thesis." In Gereon Wolters and James G. Lennox (eds.), Concepts, Theories, and Rationality in the Biological Sciences, The Second Pittsburgh-Konstanz Colloquium in the Philosophy of Science. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. BACKGROUND
- Mitchell, Sandra D. 2000 “Dimensions of Scientific Law” Philosophy of Science Vol. 67, No. 2 pp. 242-265
- Beatty, John. 2006. "Replaying Life's Tape. Journal of Philosophy 103: 336-362. BACKGROUND
